North Petherwin was stolen from Cornwall sometime in the eleventh century. The theft occurred despite both parishes being on the Cornish side of the Tamar, which Athelstan in the tenth century had determined would be the boundary between the English and Cornish. They weren’t returned to their rightful owners until 1966 and the perpetrators have … Continue reading North Petherwin: the theft of a parish
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Life stories from Kilkhampton
Kilkhampton is a farming parish situated in the far north of Cornwall, about as far as you can go and still be in Cornwall in fact. Not that the border between Cornwall and Devon acted as much of a barrier in those parts, The majority of the Kilkhampton children in our database who married chose … Continue reading Life stories from Kilkhampton