Pelynt, Cornwall
Historical Description
Pelynt or Plynt, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands 4 miles WNW of Looe station on the Looe and Caradon railway, and 9½ SSW of Liskeard, It has a post office under Duloe; money order office, Duloe; telegraph office, Polperro. The parish comprises 4676 acres; population, 662. The manor was known at Domesday as Plewent, and belonged then to the Earl of Mortaigne. Trelawny House belongs to the Trelawny family, was the birthplace of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, one of the seven bishops committed to the Tower by James II., and contains a noble hall and many valuable pictures. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £227 with residence. The church contains the monuments, effigies, and armour of the Achyms, the Bullers, and the Trelawnys. A chapel is at Trelawny House, and a small Roman Catholic one is about a mile from it. There are Wesleyan and Methodist chapels. Cattle fairs are held annually on the first Tuesday in Feb. and 24 June. There are small barrows in the neighbourhood. The parish has a council of ten members.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cornwall | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Pelynt St. Nunn | |
Hundred | West | |
Poor Law union | Liskeard |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Pelynt from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pelynt (St. Nunn))
Maps
Online maps of Pelynt 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.