CRANTOCK, a parish in the hundred of PYDER,
county of CORNWALL, 7 miles (N. W. by W.) from St.
Michael, containing 389 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and
diocese of Exeter, endowed with £800 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of Mr. Buller and others. The
church is dedicated to St. Cadock, a corruption of St.
Carantocus: in the time of Edward the Confessor it
was made collegiate for Secular canons, who continued
till the dissolution, when its annual revenue of
£89. 15. 8. was divided amongst the dean, nine prebendaries,
and four vicars choral. This parish is
bounded on the north by the Bristol channel, and
has a small harbour at the mouth of the river
Gannel.