The parish of

LANREATH

 
The church was dedicated to St. Sancredus in 1321; there are still some very ancient remnants existing of earlier times in the current church, including a few original bench ends. The Grylls and Buller families have existed in the parish since before the church was dedicated. Court, long the seat of the Grylls family, and barton of the manor of Lanreath, is situated near the church; while the manor of Botelett is equally historic. Fursdon, Trewen, and Trecan are also located in the parish, along with the only village, the Churchtown, which has 3 fairs each year. A National School was established in the Churchtown in 1868.

Herodsfoot was created from the Northern portion of the parish in 1851. There was a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Mount Pleasant, and a Bible Christian chapel at Burze.

The remains of a Roman road still exist; a large barrow extends from Tregarrick in Pelynt, past Tresawson and Pelventon in this parish, 7 miles in all, to Looe . It once stood seven feet high, and twenty feet wide at a medium. This gave rise to a popular local saying "A giant, having nothing to do, Made a great hedge from Leerin to Looe." It's commonly called "Giant's Hedge".
 

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP (Cornwall Online Census Project) which is 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.

REGISTERS:

For Parish Register information, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently. The parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directories website.

OTHER:

Voters Lists:

1. 1851/52
2. 1852/53
3. 1856/57

For more information regarding History, Population, and much more, visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Lanreath can be located at coordinates I - 5.

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 Google Maps.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

St Veep, Boconnoc, St Pinnock, Herodsfoot (post-1851), Duloe and Pelynt.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Lanreath is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume II by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838 (page 392). Also downloadable as a pdf.