The parish of

STOKE CLIMSLAND

Photographs of the Parish Church by Donna M Faull  Click thumbnails to enlarge
	Front stained glass window	Side stained glass window	The Church interior
	View from the street	The church and graveyard

The Online Parish Clerk for Stoke Climsland is Di Gibbs, 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:

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers from 1538 have survived, but unfortunately the earliest are in very poor condition. Look ups are available. For further Parish Register information and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP), which is updated frequently, and GenUKI. The C-PROP parish coverage page is here.

DIRECTORIES:

I have various dates available, which I am happy to search on request. For other information, see the Cornwall Towns & Parishes link on GenUKI or visit the University of Leicester's Historical Directory website.

OTHER:

Indentures and Other Legal Documents:

1. dated 10 Mar 1639, involving Samuell SMITH of Stoke Climsland, click here.

Tax Returns:

various C16 and C17 lists available, which I am happy to search on request.

Wills:

1. dated 11 Apr 1748, Martha BURN

The Parish Church website has a section on history, including a plan of the burial ground and an alphabetical list of grave records, see this link.

The North Cornwall District Council has a document online concerning the current Conservation Area status of Stoke Climsland. It contains some interesting historical details too.

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

MAPS:

For a Parish Locator map, please click here. Stoke Climsland can be located at coordinates K - 6.

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:

Lezant, Linkinhorne, South Hill, Callington, Calstock and parishes across the Tamar in Devon.

ONLINE BOOKS:

Stoke Climsland is included in The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume IV by Davies Gilbert, William Hals, Thomas Tonkin, Henry Samuel Boase, originally published in 1838. Also downloadable as a pdf.