St Just in Roseland is a civil parish and village in Cornwall

Cornwall

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, England

England

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, United Kingdom

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. The village is situated six miles (10 km) south of Truro

Truro

Truro is a city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The city is the centre for administration, leisure and retail in Cornwall, with a population recorded in the 2001 census of 17,431. Truro urban statistical area, which includes parts of surrounding parishes, has a 2001 census...

 and two miles (3 km) north of St Mawes

St Mawes

St Mawes is a small town opposite Falmouth, on the Roseland Peninsula on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to...

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St Just in Roseland is famous for its 13th century church set in riverside gardens luxuriantly planted with semitropical shrubs and trees, many of which are species rare in England. The church perches on the edge of a tidal creek beside the Carrick Roads on the Fal Estuary just outside the main village. The path from the road to the church is lined with granite blocks carved with quotations and verses taken from the Bible

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. There is also a Methodist church which is Grade II listed: it dates from the first half of the 19th century.

Notable people

The ornithologist Edward Hearle Rodd

Edward Hearle Rodd

Edward Hearle Rodd , ornithologist, born at the vicarage of St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, on 17 March 1810, was third son of Edward Rodd, D.D. , by his wife Harriet, daughter of Charles Rashleigh, esq., of Duporth, Cornwall.-Life:...

 was born here. The cricketer Michael Harris

Pasty Harris

Michael John Harris is an English cricketer who played for various first class cricket teams. He played from 1964 until 1982 in a 344-game career which took him to South Africa and New Zealand...

(known as "Pasty" Harris) also came from the parish.

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