Surrounded by open countryside and high hills, here you’ll find the highest church in Cornwall at about 700ft and nearby are two of Cornwall’s best known natural landmarks, the peaks of Roughtor and Brown Willy. St Breward is well known for its granite and china clay quarries and stone from the De Lank Quarry has been the material of choice for famous landmarks such as The Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth, Beachy Head Lighthouse near the Sussex coastline and London’s Tower Bridge. From the village there are spectacular walks out over the moor and St Breward is a stop off point on the famous Camel Cycle Trail. The local shop doubles as fIn the 17th century St. Breward was two separate villages, Churchtown (higher) and St. Breward (lower). More houses were built and slowly the villages merged into one. There are several main parts to the village: Churchtown, Rylands, Row, Limehead, Wenford, Penvorder, Higher Penquite and Lower Penquite. The church is situated at the northern end of the village and is dedicated to St Branwalader (or Brueredus). It is a substantial building of the Norman period to which a south aisle and western tower were added in the 15th century (these additions are of granite). It was restored in the 19th century, and only parts of the Norman north arcade remain.
