Place:St. Austell Rural (parish), Cornwall, England

The civil parish of St. Austell Rural was established in 1894 in Cornwall, England and became part of St. Austell Rural District. It covered a large area to the north of the town of St. Austell. In 1925 a portion of the rural parish was transferred to St. Austell Urban Parish, and in 1934 the whole of the Rural parish was abolished and the remaining area transferred to St. Austell Parish which, at this point, dropped the word "Urban" from its name.

The china clay mines were chiefly located in this parish. Co-ordinates given are approximate.

Prior to its establishment the area covered by St. Austell Rural Parish would have been part of the Powder Hundred of Cornwall.

Reference

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