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Grown up about a monastery -- S. Petrock -- Theft of his / relics -- Ivory reliquary -- "Lord's measures" -- The Allan / rivers -- Pencarrow -- S. Breock -- Padstow -- The Hobby-horse -- The / neighbourhood -- The Towans -- Pentyre -- Porth Isaac -- A cemetery.
A town that has grown up about a monastery. The name is a contraction of Bod-minachau, "the habitation of monks"; and it owes its origin to S. Petrock. Petrock is Peter or Pedr, with the diminutive _oc_ added to the name. He was a son of Glwys, king of Gwent or Monmouthshire, according to one account, but according to another his father's name was Clement. Anyhow, he formed one of the great migration from Gwent to North-east Cornwall. He found a hermit occupying a cell at Bodmin whose name was Guron, and this man surrendered to him his humble habitation. S. Guron's Well is in the churchyard near the west end of the church.