St. Neot is situate in the hundred of West, and is bounded to the west
by Cardinham and Warleggon, to the north by Alternun, to the east by
St. Clair, and to the south by St. Pinnock and Leskeard.
This parish takes its name from, and is dedicated to, the famous St.
Neot, whose fabulous miracles are painted in one of the windows of
this church.
It is a vicarage, valued in the King’s Book at £9. 11_s._ The
patronage in Mr. John Pomeroy, the widow of Mr. John Robins, and Mr.
Jonathan Randill, for one turn, and in Mr. Christopher Grylls, for the
other; all in right of the manor of St. Neot, to which the great
tithes are annexed. The incumbent Mr. John Parsons.
In 1291, the 20th Edward I. on the taxation of Pope Nicholas, this
church is valued at £10, being then, or since, appropriated to the
priory of Montacute, in Somersetshire; and the vicarage at twenty
shillings.