1259-Bishop Bronescombe set out from Exeter on a prolonged tour of parts of his diocese on the 2nd of September this year. On September 27th consecrated the church on the west side of the valley of the river Kenwyn (Truro Cornwall) belonging to the Dominican Order (apparently under the patronage of the Reskymer family). On the 28th of September he dedicated the chapel of St Mary, which was to become the parish church that later would form the nucleus of the Victorian Cathedral in Truro. On the 29th September he dedicated the church of the Dominican Friars in Truro. All together he dedicated some 27 churches or chapels, mostly in Cornwall, during this tour, these cannot all have been newly constructed or considerably enlarged, the bishop must have been energetically making good the omissions of his immediate predecessors. Bronescombe stayed the night at the manor of Bodrugan as guest of Philip de Bodrugan
1269-Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, purchased the Manor of Cargoll from Roger de Valletort and with it the advowson of St.Allen Church in Cornwall. This same year Philip de Bodrugan granted Bronescombe the advowson of St Goran which was then appropriated to Glasney College.
This great bishop, known as "Walter the Good" founded Glasney College in response to a vision of St.Thomas a Beckett who commanded him thus to do.
As Lord of the Manor of Cargoll he fixed his capital at Lanner Barton in the parish of St. Allen and planted Bishop's Wood. St Allen had suddenly become an important place.
1280-Buried close to his new lady chapel at Exeter Cathedral.