Bake, Cornwall

Human settlement in England

Bake

Location within Cornwall

OS grid referenceSX 321 585Civil parish

Deviock

Unitary authority

Cornwall

Ceremonial county

Cornwall

Region

South West

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSALTASHPostcode districtPL12Dialling code01503Police Devon and Cornwall Fire Cornwall Ambulance South Western UK Parliament

South East Cornwall

List of places: UK; England; Cornwall

50°24′04″N 4°21′57″W / 50.4011°N 4.3657°W / 50.4011; -4.3657

Bake (Cornish: Pobas) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Deviock, in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of St Germans at grid reference SX 321 585, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south-west of the A38/A374 Trerulefoot roundabout.^[1]

Bake is the seat of the Moyle family (although Bake itself is in the civil parish of Deviock) and St German's Priory has a mortuary chapel for the Moyle family of Bake.^[2]

West of the manor house, a steep tree-lined valley called Bake Wood runs down to the River Seaton.^[1] At the top of the valley, seven artificial lakes are commercially operated as Bake Fishing Lakes providing coarse fishing and fly fishing.^[3]

There is also a place called Bake in the civil parish of Pelynt.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
^ British History.ac.uk website. Retrieved March 2010.
^ "Bake Fishing Lakes website. Retrieved March 2010". Archived from the original on 16 March 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
^ Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 20