St Eval, Cornwall
Historical Description
Eval, St, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, 4½ miles N by NW of St Columb Major, and 8 from St Columb Road station on the G.W.R. Post town, Stissey. Acreage, 2916; population, 245. Trethewell was the seat of the Nanfans. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £155. Patron, the Bishop of Truro. The church is a very ancient one, the north wall of the nave having a window of the Saxon period. The chancel was lengthened in 1324. In the 16th century the church was restored and enlarged by the addition of a S aisle. The old tower fell in 1700, and was rebuilt in 1727, the British merchants contributing liberally towards the restoration, it being a valuable landmark ' to mariners. There is a dissenting chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cornwall | |
Ecclesiastical parish | St. Eval St. Eval | |
Hundred | Pyder | |
Poor Law union | St. Columb Major |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for St Eval from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Eval, St. (St. Eval))
Maps
Online maps of St Eval 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.