A Parish in the hundred of Kerrier.
The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconery of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter. The Rev. James Pascoe was patron in 1817. (Pictures
of Parish church are from the Truscott
Family Home Page). There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A school was founded and endowed, in 1698, by Sampson Sandys for teaching
and apprenticing poor children, which has received subsequent augmentations,
and there are 6 reading schools in the Parish, with small salaries for
the teachers.
In this Parish also there are three fishing Coves, named Coverack, Porthallow
and Porthoustock, at the first of which is a good pier for small vessels.
The English Channel bounds the Parish on the East and South, and there
is a signal station at the extreme south called, Blackhead.
Here was formerly a college of Secular Canons, dedicated to St. Achelran,
and subsequently a cell of Cistercian monks, subordinate to Beaulieu Abbey
in Hampshire....................Topographical Dictionery
of England, 1831 (courtsey of Archive
CD Books)
