St Sampson, Cornwall

Historical Description

Sampson, St, or Golant, a parish in Cornwall, on the river Fowey, and 3½ miles from Par station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under St Austell; money order and telegraph office, Par station. Acreage, 1483; population, 261. A castle of the Earls of Salisbury stood at Castle Dore. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Tmro; net value, £68 with residence. The church is old and interesting. A holy well is close to the porch. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Pen-quite and Torfrey are handsome residences in the 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 Sampson from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of St Sampson 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.