MINVER-HIGHLANDS (ST.), a parish in the
hundred of TRIGG, county of CORNWALL, 3 miles
(E.N.E.) from Padstow, containing, with St. Minver Lowlands,
1028 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated
in the king's books at£ 13.10.2., and in the patronage of
William Sandys, Esq., who, in 1810, presented the beautiful
window of stained glass erected in the chancel of the
church. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists,
also a disused meeting-house, with a cemetery,
belonging to the Society of Friends. Trewornan bridge
was built, through the exertions of Mr. Sandys, about
1721, across a dangerous and frequently impassable
ford at high tides, on the road between St. Minver and
Egloshayle, and has since been made a county bridge.
The stream separates these two parishes, and, by the
flowing of the tide, it is rendered navigable up to Amblebridge
in the parish of St. Kew.