Landulph, Cornwall

Historical Description

Landulph or Landilip, a parish, with a village, in Cornwall, on the river Tamar, at the boundary with Devonshire, opposite the influx of the Tavy, 2 miles N of Saltash station on the G.WE. Post town, Hatt; money order and telegraph office, Saltash. Acreage, 2203 of land and 484 of water and foreshore; population, 441. A considerable extent of marsh land has been reclaimed. A mineral spring, formerly in much repute, is near the village, and a small port is at C; ir-green. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; value, , £240 with residence. Patron, the Prince of Wales. The church is ancient, has a lofty embattled tower, and contains the tomb of Theodore Palaaologus, a descendant of the Com-neni, emperors of Constantinople. There are Wesleyan, Baptist, and Bible Christian chapels.

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 Landulph from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Landulph 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.