Place:Lesnewth, Cornwall, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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Lesnewth (Cornish: Lysnowyth) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England. It is about six miles east of Tintagel Head and two miles east of Boscastle.

The parish is bounded on the north by St. Juliot, on the east by St. Juliot and Davidstow, on the south by Davidstow, and on the west by the parish of Minster. Lesnewth is a small sparsely populated parish set in farmland with only a few houses, farms and a church. The manor is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, as Lisniwen.

Lesnewth was part of the Lesnewth Hundred of Cornwall and in Camelford Rural District between 1894 and 1974.

Research Tips

One of the many maps available on A Vision of Britain through Time is one from the Ordnance Survey Series of 1900 illustrating the parish boundaries of Cornwall at the turn of the 20th century. This map blows up to show all the parishes and many of the small villages and hamlets.

The following websites have pages explaining their provisions in WeRelate's Repository Section. Some provide free online databases.

• Repository:Cornwall Record Office
• Repository:Cornish Studies Library
• Repository:Cornwall Family History Society
• Repository:Cornwall Online Parish Clerks
• Repository:Cornwall Online Census Project
• Repository:West Briton Transcripts Database (Transcriptions from a Cornish newspaper of 1836-1887)

• GENUKI makes a great many suggestions as to other websites with worthwhile information about Cornwall as well as providing 19th century descriptions of each of the ecclesiastical parishes.
• FamilySearch Wiki provides a similar information service to GENUKI which may be more up-to-date.
• A Vision of Britain through Time has

1. organization charts of the hierarchies of parishes within hundreds, registration districts and rural and urban districts of the 20th century
2. excerpts from a gazetteer of circa 1870 outlining individual towns and parishes
3. reviews of population through the time period 1800-1960

• More local sources can often be found by referring to "What Links Here" in the column on the left.

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CON/Jacobstow