Cubert or Cuthbert, Cornwall
Historical Description
Cubert or Cuthbert, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, near Holywell Bay, 5½ miles WNW of St Michael, and 5 from Newquay station on a branch of the G.W.R. It has a post office under Grampound Road; money order office, St NewlynEast; telegraph office, Newquay. Acreage, 2511 of land and 86 of tidal water and foreshore; population, 311. Some mining is carried on, and there is a petrifying spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £135 with residence. The church stands on a hill, contains monuments of the Hoskens and others, and is good.
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 | Cubert St. Cuthbert | |
Hundred | Pyder | |
Poor Law union | St. Columb Major |
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 Cubert or Cuthbert from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cubert (St. Cuthbert))
Maps
Online maps of Cubert or Cuthbert 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.