St Minver, Cornwall

Historical Description

Minver, St, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, 3½ miles NW by N of Wadebridge station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. It is cut into two divisions, Highlands and Lowlands, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office, under Wadebridge. Acreage of the Highlands portion, 5335; of the Lowlands, 2286; population of the former, 515; of the latter, 352; of the ecclesiastical parish, 867. The manor was known at Domesday as Rosminver, and belonged to Bodmin Priory. St Minver House and Trewoman are chief residences. A creek comes up the SE boundary, and has a quay. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £280 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Minefreda, stands in the Highland division, has a tower with a lofty spire, and contains some good monuments and brasses. Two chapels of ease, called St Michael's and St Enodoc's, are in the Lowland division. There are Wesleyan, Bible Christian, and Methodist chapels.

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 St Minver from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of St Minver 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.