RAME, a parish in the southern division of the
hundred of EAST, county of CORNWALL, 4 miles
(S. S. W.) from Devonport, containing 807 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£12. 7 6., and in the patronage of the Earl of Mount-
Edgecumbe. The church is dedicated to St. German.
In this parish is the noted promontory on the shore
of the English channel, called Rarne Head, the nearest
point of land to the Eddystone lighthouse, and on
which are slight remains of the ancient chapel of St.
Michael. Cawsand bay is partly in this parish, at the
entrance of which is a beacon, on Penlee point.