Lank, Cornwall
Historical Description
Lank, a hamlet on the Lank rivulet, in Cornwall, near the rivulet's mouth, 6 miles NNE of Bodmin. Lank Down and the Lank Rocks are in the vicinity, and on these are two granite cairns, locally called the King's and the Queen's houses.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Lank are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cornwall papers online:
- Royal Cornwall Gazette
- Cornishman
- West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser
- Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
Visitations Heraldic
We have a copy of The Visitations of Cornwall, by Lieut.-Col. J.L. Vivian online.