Tuckingmill, Cornwall
Historical Description
Tuckingmill, an ecclesiastical parish in Camborne and Illogan parishes, Cornwall, 1 mile NNE of Camborne station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Camborne; telegraph office, Camborne. It was constituted in 1844. Population, 4149. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £240 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is a building of stone in the Norman style. There are Wesleyan, Free Methodist, and Primitive Methodist chapels. A large manufactory for " Bickford's " safety fuse is in the parish.
Maps
Online maps of Tuckingmill 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.