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MORWENSTOW The Middle English Morewynstouwe originates from the church of St. Morwenna (Maerwynn). The parish in Cornwall on the boundary with Devonshire is 15 miles from Holsworthy station and half way is Stratton. The parish contains hamlets of Moorwiustow, Coombe, Crosstown, Eastcot, Gooseham, Woodford, and Woolley.
NORTHUMBRIA The Kingdom of the East Angles, formed about the yeare 520 by the merging of the North and the South Folk, was one of the seven Anglo-Saxon heptarchy kingdoms as defined by the River Humber, a kingdom extended from the Humber to the Forth in the 12th century writings of Henry of Huntingdon. For a brief period following a victory over the rival kingdom of Northumbria around the yeare 616, East Anglia was the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England, and its king Raedwald was Bretwalda. The city of Newcastle was founded by the Normans in 1080 to control the region by holding the strategically important crossing point of the river Tyne.William the Conqueror became king of England in 1066. He soon realised he needed to control Northumbria, which had remained virtually independent of the Kings of England, to protect his kingdom from Scottish invasion.
PENEWITH The Penwith Hundred was the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall. The main settlements within the area were Penzance, St Ives, Hayle, St Just in Penwith, Camborne and Marazion. The institutions of the Penwith hundred were orginally centred in the parish of Gwithian and were moved to Penzance in 1771 (or earlier). Associated with Cornwall are spelled many ways in other regions and Old French: hundred of WEST WIVELSHIRE, EAST WIVELSHIRE, parish of LISKEARD, SOUTHILL, ST. IVES.. Perkin Warbeck from Ireland and the Duke of Monmouth from Holland each landed at St. Ives on their ill-fated ventures. The Britons referred to a Persian bishop whose magistrate represented a Norman chapel.
PENSTOWE / PADSTOW The port of Padstow (ancient name "petrockstow") is a charming fishing town that has the advantage of being about a half mile inland of open sea and thus is well sheltered in the mouth of the camel estuary. The register of baptisms dates from the yeare 1611; marriages and burials, 1599. The monks of Tewkesbury Abbey are believed to have built the parish church of St James the Great.
PLYMOUTH, is the most eastern of the "three towns" and occupies an important maritime situation at the head of Plymouth Sound, which here extends its expansive waters into the noble harbours of Catwater, Mill Bay, Sutton Pool, Stonehouse Pool, and Hamoaze, and receives on the east and west the broad estuaries of the Plym and the Tamar. In the Saxon era, the site of Plymouth was called Tameorwerth, but after the Conquest, it acquired the name of Suttton, or South Town, in reference to its more ancient neighbour Plympton.
PLYMOUTH & STONEHOUSE; PARISH CHURCH OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR is a large fabric, of mixed architecture, in the eastern part of the town, and was erected under the powers of an act of parliament passed in 1640, but owing to the troubles of the civil wars, it was not completed till 1658, nor consecrated till the Restoration. The parish of Charles comprises a great part of the town, the village of Lipson, and the tithing or chapelry of Compton Giford. The Borough Charities, vested with the Corporation, and now managed by the Borough Charity Trustees, (see page 652,) comprise the following, and also the Orphans Aid, and the Old Church Almshouses, already noticed.
PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, and STONEHOUSE, are commonly called "The Three Towns," though they adjoin each other, and form one of the largest sea ports and principal naval and military stations in England, situated at the south west corner of Devon. ST. NICHOLAS' or DRAKE'S ISLAND, is near the middle of Plymouth Sound, and comprises only about three acres, strongly fortified, and connected with the south western shore by a range of rocks, which is uncovered at low water, and is commonly called the Bridge of Rocks.
PLYMOUTH ST. ANDREW'S St. Andrew's Parish Church is a spacious and venerable structure, which is mentioned in a survey made in 1291, but was evidently mostly rebuilt in the 15th century, which contains a peal of eight deep toned bells, and was built about 1440, by a merchant of Plymouth, named Yogge.
PLYMPTON There were many Celtic settlements in the area in prehistoric times, as can be found all over Dartmoor, which still has the highest concentration of ancient sites in Europe. One of these sites, Bury Down, (meaning "Earth Work on the Hill") gave it's name to Boringdon. The priors of Plympton were very powerful Abbots, who lived in the Priory which was situated behind the present St Mary's Church. They were great Land Owners, and were dated back to the 9th century, when the Saxons established the Monastery.
POUNDSTOCK is where the parish church of St Winwaloc and the 14th Century medieval Guild house which stands close by.
STONEHOUSE was a roman villa on the peninsula land when to Plympton, old ships could probably stow upriver. During the Middle Ages Plymouth continued to grow as a port and the town was fortified with a wall in 1404 and shortly afterwards a castle was built. In the mid 1800's a string of fortifications were built through Plymouth.
STRATTON / CORNWALL The history of Cornwall begins with the pre-Roman inhabitants, including speakers of a Celtic language that would develop into Brythonic and Cornish. During the time of Roman dominance in Britain, Cornwall was rather remote from the main centres of Romanization. Major Roman roads extended no further west than Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter). A place within the lands of the Dumnonii by Ptolemy called DVROCORNAVIVM. Bodmin seems to have flourished during the Anglo-Saxon period, and in the yeare 938 A.D.
STRATTON HUNDRED The parishes in each Cornish Hundred or Shire:
STRATTON / ST. AGNES St. Agnes in Cornwall showed itself as the wonderful mining county that it was, with the remains of engine houses to be seen in many places, but also with so many villages named for Saints of the past – Teath, Tudy, Kew, Minver, Wenn, Eval, Mawgan, Columb.. St Agnes is a village, within a parish of the same name, in Carrick on the north coast of Cornwall. The hundred of Trigg was in the north of Cornwall, and covered Wadebridge and Bodmin, along with Bodmin Moor.
STRATTON / ST. ANDREW The manor of Trelawny (Parish of Alternon, or Altarnun) was the original seate of the ancient family of that name. The tithes of this parish, commuted at L1298, belong, like those of St. Germans, to the lessee of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, to whom, with the patronage of the vicarage, they were given by the Black Prince.
STRATTON / ST. COLUMB MAJOR The Parish of St. Columb Major, Truro- St Columb, the large parish of St Columb Major is situated in the deanery and Hundred of Pydar. It is bounded on the north by Little Petherick and St Issey, on the east by St Wenn, Roche and St Dennis, on the south by St Enoder and Colan, and on the west by St Columb Minor, Mawgan-in-Pydar and St Ervan. A whole area of North Cornwall bears the name of St Columb.
STRATTON / ST. DENNIS PARISH The parish lies to the north-west of St Austell and is bounded to its north-west by the River Fal and the countryside consists of a number of small villages and hamlets. The parish of St Dennis is situated in the deanery and Hundred of Powder. It is bounded on the north by the parish of Roche, on the east by Roche and St Stephen-in-Brannel, on the south by St Stephen-in-Brannel, and on the west by St Enoder and St Columb Major. In the reign of Henry VIII, St Denys was the only parish in Cornwall with the prefix 'Saint'.
STRATTON / ST. GERMANS In times before Domesday, the bishopric at St. Germans lasts until 1042 when the see is united with Credition and removed later to Exeter and then to Cornwall.
SYDENHAM DAMEREL is a small parish on the western border of Devon, lying approximately midway between the north and south coasts and bounded to the south-west by Cornwall and the river Tamar. The small village of Sydenham Damerel lies near the centre of the parish of which south of the parish lies Kit Hill, a granite mass rising 334 metres above the Tamar, which is tidal to nearby Gunnislake, at the northern tip, Tavistock to Launceston route. Farther along are Collacombe Down and Tavistock, Gunnislake where Launceston road meets a railroad, down the Tamar to Plymouth. Stoke Dameral parish in the hundred of Roborough near Huntingdon adjoins the borough of Plymouth and Egg Buckland.
WESTMORELAND & CUMBERLAND (Lake District) The view from the summit of some of the neighbouring mountains, the view from the summit which unfold themselves in the ascent of Skiddaw, overlooking the lake and vale of Derwent, with the Borrowdale and Newland mountains.WICKHAM & UVEDALE The parish of Wickham, containing 2,446 acres, of which 18 are covered by water, is situated in the south of the county west from Portsmouth. In the east the soil is light, black, and somewhat stony; in the west it is heavy, with a certain amount of clay. There are 796˝ acres of arable land, 931˝ of grass, and 332 of wood. There are two bridges over the Meon, with a water-mill attached to each, the upper one of which was built from the timbers of the Chesapeake. The advowson of the church at Wickham followed the descent of the manor until 1764.