Lansallos, Cornwall
Historical Description
Lansallos, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, at Lantivet Bay, 4 miles E of Fowey station on the G.W.R. It contains part of the village of Polperro, which has a post, money order, and telegraph office, and contains also the hamlets of Crum-plehom and Ternewan. Acreage, 3068; population of the civil parish, 691; of the ecclesiastical, 296. The manor belonged to the Earl of Mortaigne, passed to the Boliths, the Kelliows, the Speccots, the Longs, and others, and belongs now to the Howell family. Small quantities of copper ore are found. The fossils, formerly called Cornish ichthyolites, but now called Polperro sponges, occur along the coast. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro, annexed to Polperro; gross value,, £380 with residence. The church is good, stands on a hill which was a station in the Trigono-metrical survey, and is a landmark to mariners; it was restored in 1883-84. Kemains of an ancient chapel are above Polperro. There are Wesleyan Methodist and Bible Christian chapels. A fair is held on the 10 July.
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 | Lansalloes St. Alwys | |
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 Lansallos from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lansalloes (St. Alwys))
Maps
Online maps of Lansallos 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.