St Stephen

St Stephen-in-Brannel is a quietly proud village and civil parish set in mid Cornwall, lying four miles west of St Austell on the southern edge of Cornwall’s china clay district. Its parish is a cluster of communities — the villages of Foxhole, Nanpean, Treviscoe and Whitemoor, and the smaller hamlets of Carpalla, Coombe, Currian Vale, High Street, Hornick, Lanjeth, Stepaside and Terras — each contributing to a strong local character. At the 2011 census the civil parish recorded a population of 7,119, while the electoral ward of St. Stephen counted 4,772. Visitors and newcomers will find a place rooted in community and landscape: a village at the heart of a wider parish, close to the bustle of St Austell yet firmly connected to the quieter rhythms of Cornwall’s clay country. For practicalities, St Stephen sits in postcode district PL26 within the county of Cornwall in England’s South West region.