Helland, Cornwall

Historical Description

Helland, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands on the river Camel, 3 miles from Bodmin station on the G.W.R. It was known at Domesday as Henland, and in Camden's " Britannia," 1695, in the map of Cornwall it is marked as Helolan. There is a post office under Bodmin; money order and telegraph office, Bodmin. Acreage, 2493; population, 199. Brodes was the seat of the Glynn family, and the birthplace of Dr R. Glynn Clobury, physician and poet. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; value, £130 with residence. The church is ancient, and contains an old monument to a Calwodley. It was restored in 1888. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and some ancient earthworks in the parish.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Helland from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Helland (St. Helena))

Maps

Online maps of Helland 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.