Gunwalloe (sometimes called Winninton) is a parish on the coast, north-west of the Lizard, 12 miles south-west of Falmouth, and four miles south of Helston. Gunwalloe is a small rural parish, with no major towns, and a few smaller villages and hamlets, including Chyanvounder, Chyvarloe, Berepper and Winnianton. The village school was at Berepper where an average of 20 pupils attended in the 1880s. There were only a few commercial premises, at Berepper and Chyanvounder, namely a shop, the Ship Inn, and a Blacksmith. The other commercial ventures revolved mainly around farming.
The church of St Wynwallow is set behind a small headland, and is of a most unusual design with a detached tower set into the solid rock of the headland. The Church is located just to the south of Winnianton, and to the west of The Towans, an area of sandy plains. The Parish is bordered on the north-west by the Looe pool, which backs up behind the Looe Bar, and when the bar is breached it is said to be a most spectacular event as the fresh water mixes with the sea water.
A number of shipwrecks have occurred around Gunwalloe's coast, principally near Poldhu Cove, including the HMS Anson, a ship of 40 guns which founded in 1807 with the loss of the Captain and several crew.
[Source: Post Office directories of Cornwall of 1883 and 1889]
The Online Parish Clerk for Gunwalloe is Ken Oates, who may be reached via Email.
I do not have a website, but I hold transcriptions of many Parish
records including:
Baptisms 1713-1901
Marriages 1608-1838
Burials 1813-1903
Please check below for links to the data on this website, or feel
free to contact me with questions.
Ken
Information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is almost complete for 1841 to 1891 and has been verified, FreeCen 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.
Transcriptions on this website: -
Baptisms
1717 - 1787
; 1788 -
1812 ;
1813 - 1901
Marriages
1608
- 1837
Burials
1716
-1903
For further information, see our searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently.
For information, see GenUKI. Link below, or visit the University of Leicester website, which has directories online for free.
Gunwalloe Clergy, from 1208 AD to today.
For information regarding History, Population, and much more, visit GenUKI.
For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Gunwalloe can be located at coordinates D - 1.
For further map information, please visit GenUKI (Genealogy - United Kingdom & Ireland).
To see a current, zoomable Ordnance Survey map, please visit
MultiMap, or for maps and satellite
images use
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