Bake, Cornwall

Bake () is a hamlet in the civil parish of Deviock, in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is west of St Germans at , south-west of the A38/A374 Trerulefoot roundabout.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston

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.British History.ac.uk website. Retrieved March 2010.

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

There is also a place called Bake in the civil parish of Pelynt.Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 20

See also

Bake Fishing Lakes

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