CARNMENELLIS

Created in 1846

The Old Church at Carnmenellis, circa 1900. It was destroyed by fire in the 1970's. From an old postcard, donated by Sandra Pritchard.

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If you are trying to contact the local council then search the Cornwall County Council website at https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/people-and-communities/

Contact details for the local church can be found by searching https://www.achurchnearyou.com/

PARISH INFORMATION

CENSUS:

Transcriptions can be found at COCP - the Cornwall Online Census Project - which is complete for 1841 to 1891.
These COCP transcriptions can be searched using FreeCen.

GenUKI has more reference information and alternative resources.

REGISTERS:

For Parish Register transcriptions and other resources, please see our online searchable database (C-PROP) which is updated frequently.  The C-PROP coverage page can be found here.

Images of many Cornwall Parish Registers can be viewed free of charge at FamilySearch.

Coroners' Inquests: (newspaper reports)

Trade Directories &c:

For other information and links to trade directories see GenUKI and the University of Leicester's website.

OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

For further information regarding History, Population, and much more, visit GenUKI.

Maps:

For a zoomable and printable map of Cornwall please visit Cornwall Council’s mapping website. To see the Parish boundaries, click on the Layers Tab for Government Boundaries.

For maps and satellite images use Google Maps.

The Ordnance Survey Maps for Great Britain from the 1840s are online at the 'National Library of Scotland' Map Images page https://maps.nls.uk/. Click on 'Find By Place' and type in the parish or town you are looking for.

A large number of old O.S. Maps of many areas of Cornwall (various scales) are also available, the index is here.

The ecclesiastical (church) parish boundaries can be found by searching here on the Church of England website.

Photos:

	Once a Chapel photo by Sandra Pritchard, 2006	The site of the original church, and the graveyard.
	The Grave of the Rev. Broadley, first vicar of the church. His grave is located in the centre of the photo above right, near where the altar once stood in the heart of the church.

ADJACENT PARISHES:

Crowan, Pencoys (post-1881), Stithians, Constantine and Wendron.