The parish of
LUDGVAN
is located in the Hundred of Penwith, and is neighbours with
Towednack, Lelant, St. Erth and St. Hilary, as well as the sea. The Davy and Borlase families are prominent in the history of the
parish. The parents of Sir Humphrey Davy, President of the Royal
Society, etc., are memorialized in the church, and the following
tablet may also be found: In memory of John POOLEY of this parish, sometimes Captain of the
Coobre mine in San Domingo, and afterwards of the Lucencia mine in
Spain, who died 2 May, 1864 aged 54 years. This monument is erected
by a friend.
One of the more interesting sites in the parish is Castle-an-Dinas,
an ancient double-walled circular fort, which has fallen into ruin.
It is estimated that one wall was 5 feet thick, and stood 4 feet
high. From the top of the hill, the spires of 27 churches may be
seen.
The principal villages, besides the Churchtown, are Crowlas, Lower
Quarter, Cockwells, Whitecross, Canonstown, and Manwinion. Wesleyan
chapels were at Crowlas, Whitecross (b. 1858), Trenewin, Newtown,
and Canonstown. The Primitive Methodists had chapels at Lower
Quarter, Cockwells, and Boswase. The Bible Christians had a chapel
at Batreva.
The Online Parish Clerk for Ludgvan is Bill Curnow,
who can be contacted by
Email.
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 and other resources, 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:
Bastardy/Filiation Documents:
- Transcriptions of 77 entries from a Bastardy Bonds
Register (1760 - 1820) are available
here.
Wills:
-
dated 28 Apr 1741, William TREVORIAN
For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.
MAPS:
For a Parish Locator map, please click
here.
Ludgvan can be located at coordinates B - 2/3
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:
Gulval,
Towednack,
Lelant, St Erth,
St Hilary and
Marazion (post-1813).
ONLINE BOOKS:
Ludgvan is included in
The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert,
William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in
1838. Also downloadable as a pdf from here.
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