Pencoys, Cornwall

Historical Description

Pencoys, an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1881 from the civil parish of Wendron, in Cornwall. It has a post office under Redruth; money order and telegraph office, Redruth. The Church of St Andrew was erected in 1880, and is a stone edifice in the Decorated style. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; gross value, £140. There is a Methodist chapel. On Carthew Downs are nine large upright granite stones, locally called the " Nine Maidens."

Maps

Online maps of Pencoys 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.