Perranporth, Cornwall
Historical Description
Perranporth, a village in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, on the coast, at a sandy cove, 9 miles NW of Truro. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Truro, a chapel of ease erected in 1872, and is a small bathing-place.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Perranporth 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.