The parish of

SALTASH

	The Parish Church	Tamar Street c.1904	Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge
	The railway bridge, a different view	The bridge and ferry  c.1910	The chain-guided vehicle and passenger ferry
	Saltash Fore Street (1)	Saltash Fore Street (2) c. 1950
All postcards pre-date the building of the suspension road bridge, completed in 1961. Click thumbnails to enlarge.

The Online Parish Clerk for Saltash is Maggie Watkinson, who can be contacted by Email.

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Information can be found at COCP - the 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, and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

For information, see the Cornwall Towns & Parishes link on GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directory website.

OTHER:

Information about the Industrial Training Ships for Homeless and Destitute Boys (the Mount Edgcumbe and her sister ship the Gashawke, which were anchored off Saltash from 1877 until 1920), can be found here. The names of boys from the ships often appear in Saltash baptism registers.

The obituary for Sir William Wenmoth PRYN, 1859-1942. He was born in this parish and two of his children were baptised in the Parish Church.

For more information regarding history, population, etc., visit GenUKI.

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Saltash can be located at coordinates K - 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 PARISH:

St Stephens by Saltash