Bake, Cornwall

{{Short description|Hamlet in Cornwall, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |map_type= Cornwall |label_position= top |coordinates = {{coord|50.4011|-4.3657|display=inline,title}} |official_name= Bake |cornish_name= Pobas |population= |population_ref= |civil_parish= Deviock |unitary_england= Cornwall |lieutenancy_england = Cornwall |region= South West England |constituency_westminster= South East Cornwall |post_town= SALTASH |postcode_district = PL12 |postcode_area= PL |dial_code= 01503 |os_grid_reference= SX 321 585 |static_image_name = Entrance to Bake Lakes - geograph.org.uk - 3775409.jpg }}

'''Bake''' ({{langx|kw|Pobas}}) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Deviock, in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is {{convert|5|km}} west of St Germans at {{gbmapping|SX 321 585}}, {{convert|1|km}} south-west of the A38/A374 Trerulefoot roundabout.<ref name="autogenerated1">Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23146-3}}</ref>

Bake is the seat of the Moyle family (although Bake itself is in the civil parish of Deviock) and St German's Priory has a mortuary chapel for the Moyle family of Bake.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51805 British History.ac.uk website. Retrieved March 2010.]</ref>

West of the manor house, a steep tree-lined valley called Bake Wood runs down to the River Seaton.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> At the top of the valley, seven artificial lakes are commercially operated as Bake Fishing Lakes providing coarse fishing and fly fishing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bakelakes.co.uk/mapdir.htm |title=Bake Fishing Lakes website. Retrieved March 2010. |access-date=2010-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316222354/http://www.bakelakes.co.uk/mapdir.htm |archive-date=2010-03-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

There is also a place called Bake in the civil parish of Pelynt.<ref>Weatherhill, Craig (2009) ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names''. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 20</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Cornwall}} * Bake Fishing Lakes

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Category:Hamlets in Cornwall