Manaccan, Cornwall

Historical Description

Manaccan, a village and parish in Cornwall. The village stands near the coast, 6½ miles SSW of Falmouth station on the G.W.R., and has a post and telegraph office under Helston; money order office, St Keverne. Acreage of parish, 1746 of land and 120 of water; population, 379. The metal titanium was first found here in the stream of Tregonwell Mill by the Rev W. Gregor, and the mineral containing it is a titanifer-ous iron, and has been called manaccanite or gregorite. An ancient double-entrenched camp is at Resmorden, and Roman coins have been found near it. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Truro. The church is ancient, was enlarged in 1824, and restored in 1888. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Vestiges of an ancient chapel are at Tregonwell. The Rev R. Polewhele, author of a history of Cornwall, was vicar.

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 Manaccan from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Manaccan, or Monathon (St. Menaacus and St. Dunstan))

Maps

Online maps of Manaccan 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.