St Allen, Cornwall

Historical Description

Allen, St, a parish in Cornwall, on the Allen rivulet, 4½ miles N by W of Truro station on the G.W.R. Post town, Truro, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Newlyn East. Acreage, 3506; population, 468. Many of the inhabitants are miners. An old edifice, now a farmhouse, was the seat of the Bevills. An ancient camp, with triple ditch, occurs at Gwaraike. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; net value, £174. Patron, the Bishop of Truro. The church is good. The township of Zelah is about 2 miles from St Allen, on the main road to Truro; it consists of a straggling village extending a distance of 1½ mile. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels here, and a mission church was erected in 1883.

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for St Allen from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of St Allen 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.