Lewannick, Cornwall

Historical Description

Lewannick, a village and parish in Cornwall. The village stands on the river Inny, 5 miles SW of Launceston station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Launceston. Acreage of parish, 4065; population, 531. Trelaske House is the seat of the Archer family. Good building stone, a very hard slate stone, and a fine vari-coloured freestone, for mantelpieces and ornamental work, are quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £132 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Early English, not in good condition, has a lofty pinnacled tower, and contains monuments of the Lowers and the Archers. A chapel to Minster Priory was formerly at Pollyfont. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels. The remains of a Danish encampment are in this parish, and several wells and springs.

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.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Lewannick 1675-1812, Cornwall is available to browse online.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lewannick from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Lewannick 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.