COLUMB-MINOR (ST.), a parish in the hundred
of PYDER, county of CORNWALL, 5 miles (W. by S.)
from St. Columb Major, containing 1297 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, endowed with £ 200
private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £1000
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of James
Buller, Esq. and others. The church is dedicated to St.
Columb. John Francis Buller gave £5 per annum for
teaching four children of this parish and two of Crantock;
and -in 1782, John Martyn gave £5 per annum for
the like purpose. This parish is bounded on the west by
Towan and Watergate bays and the small harbour of
Forth on the Bristol channel. A fair is held annually
on the 9th of June: there are considerable remains of
a religious house, formerly a cell to the priory of
Bodmin.