Place:St. Ives, Cornwall, England

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NameSt. Ives
Alt namesPorthiasource: Wikipedia
Saint Ivessource: Getty Vocabulary Program
St. Ivessource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeParish, Town, Borough (municipal)
Coordinates50.2°N 5.483°W
Located inCornwall, England
See alsoPenwith Hundred, Cornwall, Englandhundred in which it was located
Penzance Registration District, Cornwall, Englandregistration district of which it was part 1837-2007

NOTE: St. Ives should not be confused with St. Ive, a village and civil parish in southeast Cornwall, or with St. Ives, formerly in Huntingdonshire and now in Cambridgeshire.


the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

St. Ives (meaning St Ia's cove) is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea.

In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis and the town is now primarily a popular holiday resort, notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. St Ives was incorporated as a borough by Royal Charter in 1639. St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by the Guardian newspaper.

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Politics and administration

Before 1974, St Ives [Municipal] Borough Council was the principal local authority for what now forms the civil parish of St Ives. Since the reform of English local government in 1974, St Ives has an elected town council. The parish area overseen by St Ives Town Council includes Lelant, Carbis Bay, Halsetown and St Ives. From 1974 the principal local authority functions for St Ives were undertaken by Penwith District Council and the Cornwall County Council. From 1 April 2009 Penwith and the other five Cornish district councils were replaced by a unified council, Cornwall Council.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article St Ives, Cornwall.


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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.

  • 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

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