The village is situated on the Rame Peninsula about three miles west of Torpoint[3] and has a shop, a pub and a garage. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 438.
Toponymy
There are two possible etymologies of Antony: the first is that it is named in honour of St Anthony; the second is that it comes from the Anglicisation of the Cornish Tre- (“farmstead”) and -Anta (personal name)[4]
Geography
Antony parish is bounded to the north by the tidal River Lynher (also known as the St Germans River) and to the south by the English Channel coast. To the east, the parish is bordered by Torpoint and St John parishes and to the west by Sheviock parish.[5]
At the time of Domesday Book (1086) the manor of Antony was held by Ermenhald from Tavistock Abbey.[6]
Torpoint was historically part of the parish of Antony. Torpoint became a separate ecclesiastical parish from Antony in 1873 and a separate civil parish in 1904.[7][8]
Parish church
The medieval parish church, dedicated to St James in 1259,[9] includes structural elements from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.[10] The church houses memorials to members of the Carew family of Antony (18th century) and a large monumental brass to Margery Arundell, 1420.[11]
Notable residents
Antony war memorial
Richard Carew (1555–1620), antiquary, historian and writer
Sir Alexander Carew (1609–1644), soldier and politician executed for treason
↑ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
↑ Wallis, John (1847). The Cornwall Register; Containing Collections Relative to the Past and Present State of the 209 Parishes, Forming the County, Archdeaconry, Parliamentary Divisions, and Poor Law Unions of Cornwall; to which is Added a Brief View of the Adjoining Towns and Parishes in Devon, from Hartland to Plymouth. Bodmin: Liddell and Son. p.309.
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