St Tudy, Cornwall
Historical Description
Tudy, St, a parish, with a village, in Cornwall, 7 miles N by W of Bodmin Road station on the G.W.R., and 3 from South Kew Highway on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post and money order office under South Breward; telegraph office, South Breward. Acreage, 3283; population, 520. Hengar House is a seat of the baronet family of Onslow The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; net value, £415 with residence. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, has been well restored at various times, and contains some interesting monuments. There is a Free Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cornwall | |
Hundred | Trigg | |
Poor Law union | Bodmin |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at St Tudy 1560-1812, Cornwall is available to browse online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for St Tudy from the following:
Maps
Online maps of St Tudy 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.