page_title: Luxulyan
section_title: History and antiquities
hierarchical_section_title: Luxulyan / History and antiquities
caption_attribution_description: English: Colour digital photograph of small granite dome in Luxulyan, Cornwall
context_page_description: Luxulyan, also spelt Luxullian or Luxulian, is a village and civil parish in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village lies four miles northeast of St Austell and six miles south of Bodmin. The population of the parish was 1,371 in the 2001 census. This had risen to 1,381 at the 2011 census.
context_section_description: St Sulien, or Sulian, was abbot here during the sixth century.  The church in the village may have been dedicated to him originally, but it is now dedicated to Saints Ciricius (Cyr, Cyriacus, Quiricus) and Julitta.
  There are roads in Luxulyan named after all three saints. Sulien is a Welsh variant of the given name "Julian," but has also been interpreted as being derived from the Welsh sul, meaning "sun" + geni, meaning "born," Sulien being the name of a Celtic solar deity.
  In the early 1980s Luxulyan was the site of a six-month occupation of farmland by much of the village population, with many groups and individuals from across Cornwall helping, to prevent test drilling by the Central Electricity Generating Board investigating the area as a potential nuclear power station site.
  Luxulyan has benefited from increased tourism since the nearby Eden Project opened.
caption: A small granite dome near Luxulyan
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