CORNWALL ONLINE PARISH
CLERKS -
helping bring the past alive
CORNWALL is on the extreme southwestern corner of the United Kingdom.
Originally inhabited by Celtic peoples, it has become an amalgam of ethnicities, but strong Cornish traditions
live on in place names, surnames, and customs. Because of its location, its people have long been involved with the sea.
Open to strong winds, but tempered by varying currents, it can be a place of barren moors,
or of towering palm trees growing in a churchyard.
Due to a wealth of natural resources, mining has always been an important industry.
Indeed, Phoenician records show connections to the tin mines of Cornwall. After the secret of producing
fine quality china was discovered in the West, large deposits of china clay became very important to the County's
revenue. In 1839, the world-famous School of Mines was established. Because of their expertise,
Cornish miners were recruited to work in mines world-wide.
For a complete county map, showing all current parishes, please click here
for a .pdf file (300
KB).
To see the location of
parishes,
please click on the drop down menu. The dots indicate the
approximate location of each parish.
If you would like to see a current map, please select the off-site
Multimap
(where you can choose the area in which you'd like to search, and
enlarge the map to very fine detail) or
Google Maps,
where aerial photographs are also available.
