RUAN-LANYHORNE, a parish in the western division
of the hundred of POWDER, county of CORNWALL,
2 miles (S. W.) from Tregoney, containing 376
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the
king's books at £12, and in the patronage of the President
and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
The church is dedicated to St. Rumon. There is a
place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Tre-
goney river is navigable on the north-west. The petty
sessions for the division are held here, on the first Monday
in every month. John Whitaker, B. D., the learned
historian and antiquary, was for thirty years- rector
of this parish; he died in 1808, and was buried in the
church.