St. Columb Major

Columb Major

You may wonder why so short a write-up for St. Columb. Well, there's not much to say. It's a long thin town with residential sprawl at one end, industrial at the other. The main street is so narrow that stage coaches must have had great difficulty getting through - and today's buses avoid the challenge. Shops are drab and uninteresting and, except in a couple of side streets, there are few attractive buildings. The old toll house, at the southern end, cries out for restoration. All I could find to enjoy, apart from the church which I found locked, were the two things pictured here.

The above was written in late 2006. I revisited in August 2016 during an outing that also included St.Columb Minor and Colan. In St. Columb Major, as in the others, I was primarily interested in visiting the church which dominates the northern end of the town. Unusually its two lych gate entrances are both on the church's eastern side. For a full report on St. Columba's church, go to my Churches page. For a walk to St.Mawgan and Mawgan Porth set off on Victoria Road, just south of the church. This becomes Halveor Lane, at the end of which a footpath continues in woods to St. Mawgan., from where you can continue to Mawgan Porth.

Glebe House - dated 1638

Signed from A39 8 miles SW of Wadebridge

The town pump

St. Columb