Lawhitton, Cornwall

Historical Description

Lawhitton, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands near the river Tamar, which divides Cornwall from Devonshire, 3 miles SE of the Launceston stations on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. It was once a market-town, and has a post office under Lannceston; money order and telegraph office, Lannceston. Acreage, 2648; population, 361. A palace of the bishops of Exeter was here, but has disappeared. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; value, £330 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Truro. The church is ancient, and has a tower. There is a parish council for that portion of the parish which lies outside the municipal borough of Launceston.

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.

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 Lawhitton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Lawhitton 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.