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Mabe Burnthouse at a glance

Mabe Burnthouse: the hilltop village of Mabe, one mile west of Penryn

Mabe (Lannvab in Cornish) is a village and civil parish about a mile west of Penryn. The settlement is known locally as Mabe Burnthouse, and it sits on a hill overlooking Penryn. The parish had 2,936 residents at the 2021 census and is twinned with Primelin in Brittany.

The parish stands on the eastern edge of the Carnmenellis granite, and several working and former quarries, some dating back to the 1800s, surround the village. The Argal and College reservoirs, managed by the South West Lakes Trust, lie to the south.

The parish church is dedicated to St Laud, and stands south west of the settlement. Its 15th-century tower and porch survived a lightning strike, and the rest was rebuilt from 1866 by Piers St Aubyn. The churchyard contains an ancient menhir and a Celtic cross.

Near the Antron Hill crossroads are the New Inn and a post office general store. The village also has a children's playground, two community halls and a primary school, and Mabe Ladies' Choir has been going since 1931. The shared Penryn Campus of Falmouth University and the University of Exeter, which opened in 2004, is within the parish.