St Michael Caerhays

{{Short description|Village in Cornwall, England}}

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St Michael Caerhays ({{langx|kw|Lannvighal}})[http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 |date=2013-05-15 }} : [http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515071635/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 |date=2013-05-15 }}. Cornish Language Partnership. is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about {{convert|7|mi|km|spell=in}} south-southwest of St Austell.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth {{ISBN|978-0-319-23149-4}} The population as of the 2011 census was 96{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/StMichaelCaerhays/index.html|title=Parish population 2011 census|accessdate= 9 February 2015}}

St Michael Caerhays lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

The ecclesiastical parish was a chapelry of St Stephen in Brannel until 1832. From the 16th century the Rectors of St Stephen resided here so the church of St Michael came to be regarded as the mother church. The church is Norman but the Lady Chapel was added in the 15th century by the Trevanions and it contains their monuments. Their home was on the site of Caerhayes Castle.Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 68-69

Caerhays Castle, a picturesque castellated mansion, is situated half-a-mile south of the village and was built by John Nash for J. B. Trevanion in 1808.Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed. Penguin; p. 192