St Endellion, Cornwall

Historical Description

Endellion or St Endellion, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, 5½ miles N by E of Wadebridge station on the G.W.R. Post town, Wadebridge. Acreage, 3777; population, 1136. Roscarrock House, formerly the seat of the ancient family of Roscarrock, stands on a hill, is now a ruin, was castellated and loop - holed, had a massive granite archway entrance, and retains much of a formidable aspect. Slaty quartz, mandelstone, copper ore, lead ore, manganese, and antimony are found; a.n export trade in slates and pilchards is carried on, and a fair is held on 12 Sept. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro, and there are attached three prebends-Bodmin or Kings, Tre-haverock, and Mornays; value of the rectory, £240; of Bodmin prebend, £130; of Trehaverock, £135; of Mornays, £130. Patron of the rectory, the Lord Chancellor. The church stands on a hill, dates from the time of Henry VI., has a lofty tower, and is weather-stained, but good. There are Wesleyan, United Free Methodist, and Bible Christian chapels. Port Quin, Port Isaac, and Port Gaverne are hamlets in this parish.

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 St Endellion from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of St Endellion 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.