Uny Lelant

History

The name is derived from the Cornish lann and Anta, meaning church-site of Anta. The earliest attested spelling is Lananta in about 1170. Nothing is known about Anta, and Lelant parish church is dedicated to St Uny. However, Carbis Bay church is dedicated to St Anta. Arthur Langdon (1896) records eight stone crosses in the parish, of which four are in the churchyard; the other crosses are at Brunian Cairn, Lelant Lane, Sea Lane and the churchtown. At one time Lelant was an important town and seaport having a market and a custom-house. A parish terrier of 1727 describing the bounds of the glebe land states that about 50 acres of land, and the vicarage, were overwhelmed by sand. The terrier does not give a date but does say that it was not in the living memory of man. In the spring of 1875, during the building of the railway line between St Erth railway station and St Ives, several human skeletons, graves and a building were found by a gang of navvies. Observers of the building thought it was of an ecclesiastical nature, and it is possible that it is the site of a pre-Norman church, burial ground and the former Lelant town. The parish church of St Uny's Church, Lelant is at the eastern end of the village on the edge of the towans and overlooking the West Cornwall Golf Club. File:Lelant Church - geograph.org.uk - 580391.jpg|Lelant Church File:In St. Uny graveyard. - panoramio.jpg|One of the crosses in the churchyard File:Stone Cross in Lelant Churchyard - geograph.org.uk - 580451.jpg|Another cross in the churchyard File:Woodlands Cross. - panoramio.jpg|Woodlands cross At Lower Lelant is a house called The Abbey which was built in the 16th century and renovated in the 18th. In 1831 it was reported that much granite was quarried here, and that there were several tin…

Most-observed species

• Herring Gull

  Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763 · Aves
  12,482
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  9,050
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  8,943
• Western Jackdaw

  Coloeus monedula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  8,728
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  8,255
• Eurasian Wren

  Troglodytes troglodytes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7,834
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,796
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7,481

Most recent

• M 2.8 — 2008-03-23
  38 km NW of St Just, United Kingdom
• M 2.6 — 2007-12-02
  46 km SSE of Mullion, United Kingdom
• M 2.8 — 2006-12-19
  1 km NNE of Polperro, United Kingdom
• M 3.6 — 2005-08-24
  48 km SSW of Newton Ferrers, United Kingdom