Morval, Cornwall

Historical Description

Morval, a parish, with a village, in Cornwall, on the Looe navigation, 2 miles N of East Looe, and 4 SSW of Menheniot station on the G.W.R, It has a post office under Liskeard; money order and telegraph office, Looe. Acreage, 3568; population, 622. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The manor belonged formerly to the Glyns, the Coades, and Sir Hugh de Morville, one of the murderers of Thomas a Becket; and, with Morval House, belongs now to the Tremayne family. Morval House is ancient, and was the birthplace of Judge Buller. Polgover and Lydcott are ancient mansions converted into farmhouses. Tregarland Tor commands a fine view of the winding vale of Morval, backed in the distance by Bindon Hill, rising to an altitude of about 600 feet. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good, and contains monuments of the Mayows, the Coades, and others. There are an endowed school, almshouses, and a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Morval from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Morval 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.