What is Egloshayle?
[[Image:Egloshayle Church.jpg|thumb|right|Egloshayle Church]] '''Egloshayle''' is a [[parish]] and [[village]] in north [[Cornwall]], [[United Kingdom]]. The village is beside the [[River Camel]] immediately southeast of [[Wadebridge]].<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|9780319229385}}</ref> The civil parish includes '''[[Washaway]]''' and Sladesbridge. ==History== Egloshayle was a [[medieval]] river [[port]], rivalling [[Padstow]] five miles downriver. Egloshayle is now a residential [[suburb]] of Wadebridge. The town of Wadebridge developed in the parishes of Egloshayle and [[St Breock]]. A [[vicar]] of Egloshayle named Thomas Lovibond was responsible for the building of the first bridge across the River Camel to replace a dangerous ford which was begun in 1468 and completed in 1485.<ref>[http://www.cornishlight.co.uk/wadebridge.htm Wadebridge and the Bridge on Wool at cornishlight.co.uk]</ref> ==Churches== [[File:Pencarrow House, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 - geograph.org.uk - 1108891.jpg|thumb|Pencarrow House]] The parish church, named after [[St Petroc]], is built almost entirely in the [[Perpendicular]] style. It has a [[Norman]] font, a stone [[pulpit]] dating from the [[15th century]], and a [[Peal of bells|peal]] of eight bells. The [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] chapel at Washaway, dating from 1882, has a font which is one of the earliest in the county. ==Forts and houses == Pencarrow House, seat of the [[Molesworth|Molesworths]] (18th century), and Croan House (17th century) are fine examples of smaller [[Country house|country houses]]. Kelly Rounds (or Castle Killibury) is an [[Iron Age]] fort on the border of the parish and has been associated with the legend of [[King Arthur]].<ref>Pevsner, N. (1970), ''Cornwall'', 2nd ed. Penguin Books</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Villages in Cornwall]] [[Category:Civil parishes in Cornwall]]