Helford, Cornwall

Historical Description

Helford, a river and a small seaport in Cornwall. The river rises about 4½ miles W of Penryn, runs about 5 miles southward, deflects suddenly to the left, and goes about 5 miles eastward to the English Channel. It branches throughout its eastward reach into picturesque creeks, is there all estuarial, and at the mouth about 1 mile wide, and is said by Carew to have in former times been much frequented by pirates. The small seaport stands on its S side, near the mouth, 5½ miles SSW of Falmouth, is in Manaccan parish, and carries on a small coasting trade and fishing. A Roman earthwork is near.

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Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient County	Cornwall
Civil parish	Manaccan
Hundred	Kerrier
Poor Law union	Helston

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Helford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848 (Helford)

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Maps

Online maps of Helford are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• 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)