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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyCornwall 
Ecclesiastical parishLansalloes St. Alwys 
HundredWest 
Poor Law unionLiskeard 

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Visitations Heraldic

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CountyCornwall
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPL13
Post TownLooe

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