Pillaton, Cornwall

Historical Description

Pillaton, a parish in Cornwall, on the river Lynher, 6 miles NNE of St Germans station on the G.W.R. It has a fair on Whit-Tuesday, and its post town is St Mellion, Cornwall. Acreage, 2407; population, 416. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. The manor was known at Domesday as Pileton; was held by the Earl of Mortaigne, and passed to the Inkpens, the Dillingtons, the Corytons, and others. Pentillie Castle is a seat in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; net value, £170 with residence. The church is modern, was restored in 1878, and has an embattled tower. There is 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.

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 Pillaton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Pillaton 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.