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{{Infobox UK place
|country =                 England
|map_type=                 Cornwall
|coordinates = {{coord|50.379|-5.117|display=inline,title}}
|static_image=             Cubert - geograph.org.uk - 904446.jpg
|static_image_width=             240px
|static_image_caption=     Cottages and pub of Cubert
|official_name=            Cubert
|cornish_name=             Egloskubert
|population=               1,327
|population_ref=           (United Kingdom Census 2011 including Ellenglaze , Gunmow's Shop and Holywell)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122520&c=Cubert&d=16&e=62&g=6409587&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1488796952384&enc=1 |title= Civil Parish 2011 |access-date= 6 March 2017 |publisher= Office for National Statistics |work= Neighbourhood Statististics}}</ref>
|civil_parish=             Cubert
|unitary_england=          [[Cornwall Council|Cornwall]]
|lieutenancy_england =     [[Cornwall]]
|region=                   South West England
|constituency_westminster= [[Truro and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)|Truro and Falmouth]]
|post_town=                NEWQUAY
|postcode_district =       TR8
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|dial_code=                01637
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'''Cubert''' ({{langx|kw|Egloskubert}})<ref name=maga>[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/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 |date=May 15, 2013 }}. [[Cornish Language Partnership]].</ref> is a village in [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom. It is three miles (5&nbsp;km) south-southwest of [[Newquay]]<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-22938-5}}</ref> and is in the [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] of Cubert ({{langx|kw|Lannowyn}}).<ref name=maga/>
Once known as St Cubert, the village is dominated by the spire of its 14th-century church which was enlarged by the addition of a south aisle a century later.
The village is named after the Welsh missionary [[Cubert (saint)|St Cubert]] who, as a companion of [[Carantoc|St Carantoc]], brought the Christian faith to this part of Cornwall, and to whom the church is dedicated. Unlike his companion St Carantoc—who travelled on to [[Brittany]]—St Cubert returned to [[Wales]] becoming abbot of his monastery and, according to the [[Welsh chronicles]], dying in 775. The feast of St Cubert is celebrated on the Sunday following 4 October.<ref>''The Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 14</ref> [[Gilbert H. Doble]] included translations of the "Vita Carantoci" and extracts from the "Léon Breviary" in his account of St Carantoc. After reviewing all the evidence he could find he concluded that Carantoc had been the leader of a band of Welsh missionaries who came to the Crantock district to evangelize it; Cubert was among his followers, and after their work in Cornwall was done they went on to Brittany where a district around Léon has place-names and dedications related to these missionary saints.<ref>[[Doble, G. H.]] (1965) ''The Saints of Cornwall; Part four: Saints of the Newquay, Padstow and Bodmin district''. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 31-52</ref> St Cubert's holy well is in a cave accessible only at low tide towards the north end of Holywell Bay.<ref>Ellis, P. B. (1992) ''The Cornish Saints''. Penryn: Tor Mark Press, pp. 9-10</ref>
The hamlets of [[Tresean]], [[Treveal]], [[Trevemper]], Treworgans and [[Ellenglaze]] are in the parish.<ref>[http://www.explorebritain.info/browse/cornwall/ Cornwall]; Explore Britain</ref>
==History and antiquities==
The village has been without its prefix 'St' since the 16th/17th century when it was abandoned at the same time as the churchwardens whitewashed over the figure of St Cubert dressed as an [[abbot]] on the inside wall of the church. On early maps it often appears as [[St Kibberd]]—possibly indicating what the visiting cartographer heard when a local inhabitant was asked the name of the village.
To the west of the village, halfway between the village and the coast, is the medieval [[holy well]] dedicated to St Cubert, from which the coastal bay takes its name. At the north end of the beach, only accessible two hours before and after low-tide, is a natural well in the rock that 19th century [[romanticists]] like to think was the origin of the name [[Holywell, Cornwall|Holywell]].
A mile to the east of the village near the Newquay crossroads, where the four parishes of St Cubert, [[Crantock]], [[St Newlyn East]] and [[Perranzabuloe]] meet, was the chapel of [[St Nectan]] (the foundations of which were uncovered when the road was widened and straightened in 1970), where on certain feasts during the year the relics of the Patron Saints of the four parishes were carried in procession for their veneration by the faithful.
An inscribed stone, dated from the sixth to eighth centuries, was found imbedded in the walls of the fifteenth-century church. [[Elisabeth Okasha]] suggests that it bears the name of "Cenet[o]cus, son of Tege[r]nomalus".<ref>See the discussion and bibliography in Elisabeth Okasha, ''Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain'' (Leicester: University Press, 1993), pp. 97-99.</ref>
A [[Stone crosses in Cornwall|Cornish cross]] stands against the wall of the north transept of the church. The small cross head was brought to the churchyard about 1860 from Ellenglaze Lane and mounted on a shaft brought from outside the churchyard.<ref>Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; p. 96</ref>
==Cornish wrestling==
The champion [[Cornish wrestling|Cornish wrestler]], Thomas Hosken, was from Cubert. He defeated the champion Cornish wrestler of England (Lyttelton Weynorth) and was described as "the strongest man in the county."<ref name="TA09101928">''CORNISH WRESTLING'', The Advertiser (Adelaide) 9 October 1928, p14.</ref><ref name="CG30071936">''Cornish wrestling'', Cornish Guardian, 30 July 1936, p14.</ref><ref name="Polwhele History">Rev Polwhele, R:  ''History of Cornwall'', Michell & Co (Truro) 1816, p67-68.</ref><ref name="Whetter18thC">Dr Whetter, James:  ''Cornish People in the 18th Century'', Lyfrow Trelyspen, The Roseland Institute, Gorran 2000, p50-56.</ref>
==Gallery==
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File:Cubert Church and War Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 1013761.jpg|Cubert Church and War Memorial
File:Lych gate at Cubert Church - geograph.org.uk - 1013769.jpg|Lych gate at Cubert Church
File:Cubert School - geograph.org.uk - 1013720.jpg|Cubert School
File:Cubert Post Office - geograph.org.uk - 904440.jpg|Cubert Post Office
</gallery>
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