CARDINHAM, a parish in the hundred of WEST, county of CORNWALL, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Bodmin, containing 775 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £24. 17. 8., and in the alternate patronage of E. J. Glynn, Esq. and the Rev. Thomas Grylls. The church is dedicated to St. Mewbred. At a copious spring called Holy Well are vestiges of an old chapel. The manorial custom of free bench formerly prevailed here: the river Fowey passes through the parish. Here was anciently a castle, of which only the circular intrenchment is remaining; and on some high ground there is a similar intrenchment, comprehending an area of two acres, called Berry Castle. At the northeast extremity of the parish are two large tors, or rocks of granite, one called St. Bellarmine's Tor, and the other Cornet Quoit stone.