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The parish ofBRIDGERULEThe village of Bridgerule lies
adjacent to the Cornish border, near to Holsworthy in the County of
Devon, and Bude in Cornwall. It lies on both sides of the Tamar Valley.
The western side lies close to the Bude Canal and was in Cornwall until
1844 when the county boundary was adjusted to bring both Western and
Eastern Bridgerule into Devon. The Online Parish Clerk for Bridgerule is Judith Upton who can be contacted by Email PARISH INFORMATIONCENSUS:Please visit COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project), which is complete for 1841 to 1891 and validated, FreeCens at Rootsweb - both are free, searchable databases - or check GenUKI for other alternatives. REGISTERS:For Parish Register information, please see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently.
Parish Registers dating back to 1702 are held in the Devon Record Office. They
cover: DIRECTORIES:For information, see GenUKI (link below) or visit the University of Leicester's Directories website, which has many directories online to view for free. OTHER:Information about, and photographs of, present day Bridgerule can be found on this website. For a transcription of Hearth Tax Returns for Bridgerule, 1662 - 1674, click here. For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI. MAPS:For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Bridgerule can be located at coordinates J - 9. For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland). To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, visit MultiMap, or for maps and satellite images use Google Maps. ADJACENT PARISHES:Launcells, Marhamchurch, Whitstone and, in Devon, Pancrasweek and Pyworthy. ONLINE BOOKS:Bridgerule is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume I by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page n172). Also downloadable as a pdf. |