is located on the road from Launceston to Camelford and Wadebridge, in the hundred of Lesnewth. It is rolling farmland, with light soil over rock. The chief crops are wheat, oats, and root crops. St. Kitt's hill, on the western side of the parish, is 985 feet above sea level. The rivers Camel and Inney arise here. Davidstow Moor adjoins Bodmin moor, and has an airfield, in use by small planes and a flying club. (to contact them, see link below) The village hall, near the creamery, was once the gymnasium for the airfield. The airfield ambulance station and mortuary has been a private workshop for a number of years. Today, "Dairy Crest" are the largest employers in the area.
There were Bible Christian and United Methodist Free chapels at Tremail and Trewassa; Tremail Chapel is still operational. The Church of England's St. David, which was rebuilt in the Early English style over the ruins of an older church, was paid for by Miss Pearse, of Launceston, in the late 1800's. It holds approximately 250 people. She also donated stained-glass.windows, in honour of her parents and their families, which had owned land in the area for centuries. In 1890, the lay rector, Michael Williams, Esq., contributed three stained glass windows to honour his father and sisters. The Vicarage residence and 26 acres of glebe was a gift of H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall.
The parish register dates from 1709. In 1891, the population was 393.
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The airfield (1);) |
The airfield (2);) |
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St. David's Church (1);) |
St. David's Church (2);) |
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The East Window;) |
The War Memorial;) |
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| War Memorial Inscription (1) ;) |
War Memorial Inscription (2) ;) |
War Memorial Inscription (3) ;) |
School Memorial ;) |
The Online Parish Clerk for Davidstow is Mike Gabriel, who may be reached via Email.
I do not have a website; instead, please contact me at the above address for
information.
Information can be found at COCP - the Cornwall Online Census Project - which is regularly updated and has been verified, FreeCens at Rootsweb, which has a very good search engine and information from COCP, as well as GenUKI, which has more reference information and alternate resources.
For further Parish Register information, please see GenUKI - link below. A copy of transcriptions to 1900 is available to search at Camelford Library, closed Monday and Wednesday. Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, transcribed by the OPC, are also available in our searchable database, see the coverage page.
For information, see GenUKI. Link below.
The local Flying Club has a website, at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/davidstowfc.
For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.
For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Davidstow can be located at coordinates I - 8.
For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).
To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit
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