Place:Week St. Mary, Cornwall, England

NameWeek St. Mary
Alt namesWeek-St. Marysource: hyphenated
TypeVillage, Civil parish
Coordinates50.747°N 4.5°W
Located inCornwall, England
See alsoStratton Hundred, Cornwall, Englandhundred in which it was located
Stratton Rural, Cornwall, Englandrural district 1894-1974
source: Family History Library Catalog
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Week St. Mary (Cornish: Gwig Sen Maria) is a civil parish and village in northeast Cornwall, England. It is situated south of Bude close to the River Tamar and the border between Cornwall and Devon in the Hundred of Stratton.

Week St. Mary has a 14th-15th century parish church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and the tower contains a ring of six bells. The parish is in the diocese of Truro.

The parish covers an area of 6,123 acres (24.78 km2) or 9.6 square miles (24.8 km2), and has a population of 550, according to the 2001 census. Week St. Mary was part of the Stratton Hundred of Cornwall and in Stratton 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.

  • 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.

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