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Trewan Hall


Coordinates: 50°26′41″N 4°56′35″W / 50.4447°N 4.9431°W / 50.4447; -4.9431

Trewan Hall (pronounced Trew-an) is a historic manor and campsite, in the parish of St Columb Major, Cornwall, England, UK. The surviving Jacobean style manor house is located one mile north of the town. The house with its campsite grounds and garden has been privately owned by its current owners since 1960. Although the site is not open to the public, it holds annual open days as part of the National Gardens Scheme. It was the ancestral home of the Vivian family until it was sold in 1920.

Several generations of the Vivian family lived here. John Vivian of Trewan, was Sheriff of Cornwall from 1680–1681

In 1697, Mary Vivian, of Trewan Hall, St Columb Major, married a distant cousin Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet of Colan, Cornwall. This uniting two branches of the family which had been separated for three centuries Some members of the Vivian family of Trewan also becames members of parliament: Thomas Vivian (1617–91), Francis Vivian (1649–90), and John Vivian (1647–91),

He was the brother of Prior Vivian of Bodmin

Purchased Trenoweth manor from the Denzell family. He married Alice Tresaster.

Lived at Trenoweth at the time John Norden wrote his 'Survey of Cornwall'. He was married to Anne Lower. He was buried in the North isle of St Columb Church, where there is a mural tablet in memory of Thomas Vivian and Ann, for forty years his wife. He died 18 May 1616. She died 25 March 1635.


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