FORRABURY, a parish in the hundred of LESNEWTH,
county of CORNWALL, 2 miles (N.E.) from
Bossiney, containing 223 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's hooks at
£4. 12. 8., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and.m
the patronage of Thomas John Phillips, Esq. The
church is dedicated to St. Simphorian. This was formerly
a place of some importance, its decay being attributed
to the destruction of Tintagel and Botreaux
castles, on which it was dependent. The parish is
bounded on the north-west by the Bristol channel.