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Old Cornwall Societ
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List of Museums in Cornwall (Wikipedia)
Previous version of Lostwithiel Museum Website
Significant buildings and monuments in Lostwithiel
Restormel Castle
(English Heritage site)
Methodist Chapels in Lostwithiel
(Also information about WW1 Memorials)
Friends of St Bartholomew's Church
Lostwithiel Bridge History - Original text by Barbara Fraser
Lostwithiel Peace Memorial (War Memorials Trust website)
Detailed photographs showing Lostwithiel War Memorial and Garden of Remembrance
Lostwithiel War Memorial - Roll of Honour
History of Edgcumbe House from Cornwall Buildings Group
Norway House
Peregrine Hall
(from current owner's website)
Peregrine Hall
( Early history as St Faith's House of Mercy)
Pelyn House.
Grade II* listed property built in 1601.
Historic England page.
Sold for £2,150,000 in July 2017
Property details from Estate Agent.
Restormel Royal Iron Mine (Trinity Mine)
Glyn Cinema
Glyn cinema celebration - May 2016 (Lost In Film Website
"My Lostwithiel"
Archived webpage with series of articles about Lostwithiel buildings. (Originally published in Lostwithiel Newsletter c2018
.)
Lostwithiel Lime Kilns (1)
Lostwithiel Lime Kilns (2)
Walking tour of Lostwithiel for smartphones
Lostwithiel Town Trail
The principal trail is the Heritage Highlights Trail that leads you through 20 of the key points of interest in the town centre and takes you out to Restormel in the north and to Shirehall Moor in the south. Also there is a Nature Trail for Young Explorers, especially for young people and those who are young at heart. This introduces the flora and fauna of the Fowey Valley. Alongside these you will find the Brass Plaque Trail and the Pub Trail.
Genealogical Information (includes links to on-line census data from 1841 to 1891)
GEN UKI Page for Lostwithiel
Family Search page for Lostwithiel
Webpage of the Online Parish Clerk (Genealogy) for Lostwithiel Ann Tumser
Lostwithiel Cornwall Family History Guide from Parish Mouse.
Monumental & Memorial Inscriptions within St Bartholomew’s Church, Lostwithiel
Memorial Inscriptions in the Churchyard of St Bartholomew’s Church, Lostwithiel
Memorials in Restormel Road Cemetery Lostwithiel
Memorials in Castle Hill Cemetery Lostwithiel
Extensive list of Family history websites for Cornwall including Lostwithiel
Family History websites with a Lostwithiel connection
Beswetherick Family
Staniforth Family (FM Hext)
Tearle Family
Works of Reference relating to Lostwithiel's History
Lostwithiel Neighbourhood Plan.
(Published Dec 2018 - includes considerable amount of historical information)
Cornwall Council's Historic Characterisation Study of Lostwithiel
County Churches. Cornwall by J. Charles Cox, published in 1912
(Information about Lostwithiel on pages 158 to 163)
The Duchy Palace, Lostwithiel, historic building record and archaeological watching brief 2012
Duchy Palace Analysis of Oak Timbers (English Heritage)
Duchy Palace- Information plaques (Princes Regeneration Trust)
Details of Members of Parliament for Lostwithiel from 1820 to 1832
(Information about MPs from 1529 onwards also available
Battle of Lostwithiel
(Battlefields Trust Website - Includes links to English Heritage Battlefield Register)
Battle of Lostwithiel
(British Battles Website)
Article about presentation of medals to Lostwithiel residents who served in Boer War
The Murder of Joseph Burnett - Article by Cornish Historian Francis Edwards
Tom Matthews (1887-1962) – 'Lusitania' survivor from Lostwithiel
The History of Cornwall: From the Earliest Records and Traditions, to the Present Time
Volume 2 Published 1824 (Lostwithiel info page 395)
The Cornwall Register by John Wallis, A.M. F.S.S. Vicar of Bodmin, printed 1847
(Lostwithiel features in section 119 - pages 392 to 396)
The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume III by Davies Gilbert and others.
Published in 1838 (Lostwithiel information Pages 24 to 29)
Article about Lostwithiel from 1837
(Source SDUK Penny Cyclopedia)
Snapshot of Lostwithiel in 1844 - From Pigot & Co's Directory of Cornwall 1844
Report of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales 1835 (Lostwithiel section)
Lostwithiel Bridge and its Memories by the Rev'd. Canon Edmund Boger, MA From a book published in 1887
History of Royal Oak Public House (Originally published in "Lostwithiel Past and Present" )
History of Lostwithiel Fire Station
(Cornwall Council web page)
Lostwithiel's Crucifixion Figure
(BBC Website)
Memorials of Lostwithiel [and of Restormell]: F. M. Hext. Published: 189
1 (British Library Website)
Alternative local download for Memorials of Lostwithiel by FM Hext
(File size 24MB)
Town Band History (Cornish National Music Archive)
Map of Lostwithiel in 1905
. (Credit National Library of Scotland)
Map of Lostwithiel in 1888
. (Credit National Library of Scotland)
Old Victorian Ordnance Survey 6 inch to 1 mile Map of Lostwithiel (1888-1913)
(Also shows current road layout)
Detailed statisics about history of Lostwithiel from University of Portsmouth (A Vision of Britain through Time.)
The University of Leicester website contains many
Historical Directories of England & Wales
including some from Cornwall.
Lostwithiel section of Pigot's Directory of Cornwall, 1830
available here
The Lostwithiel section from Kelly's 1897 Cornwall Directory may be read
via this link
The 1906 version of Kelly's Cornwall Directory for Lostwithiel may be
read here.
Complete Kelly's Directory of Devonshire & Cornwall for 1893
Lostwithiel entry starts page 1179. (Viewable on flip book as pages 192-193)
Various extracts from "Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall" published between 1866 and 1873 from the following areas available
via this link
Boconnoc,
Braddock, Lanlivery, Lanteglos, Lostwithiel, St. Veep, St Winnow
Lostwithiel entry in 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
The bells shall ring; an account of the chime bells of Grace cathedral, San Francisco, and how the boyhood dreams of Dr. Nathaniel T. Coulson at last came true, by Rosa Lee Baldwin.
(15Mb File size)
Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall: Volume 3 - Joseph Polsue · 1870
Lostwithiel section starts on page 169
Newspapers in the US Library of Congress featuring articles about Lostwithiel
Guide to Lostwithiel history, plus "See and Do" and "Eat and Drink" from Cornwall.co.uk
Photographs recording Lostwithiel's history
Selection of images of St Bartholomew's Church taken by Wendy Harris (March 2018
Selection of images of St Bartholomew's Church taken by Rex Harris (April 2019)
Over 900 photographs relating to Lostwithiel from Cornish Memory website
Photographs of old Lostwithiel from Francis Frith Collection
360 degree Panorama of St Bartholomew’s Church by Roy Reed
Lostwithiel Bridge Exhibition December 2014
Copy of Rotating Images as displayed in Museum
"Then and now" Photographs of Lostwithiel by Mat Connolley
St.Austell Area In The Old Days - Lostwithiel Albums 43 and 74
and
Selection of historic images hosted on Lostwithiel Forum Website
Over 1500 photos of Lostwithiel taken in 2007 in support of Cornwall Council's Historic Characterisation Study
ictures of Lostwithiel including Royal Visits, Renovation of Fire Engine, St Barts, Railway, People of Lostwithiel (inc Town Band, Fire Brigade and Mayors) Streets and Buildings
Historic Photos of Lostwithiel from various flickr pages
Approx 400 photos of Lostwithiel from Royal Cornwall Museum
Old Photographs of Lostwithiel Station #1
Old Photographs of Lostwithiel Station #2
Podcasts
Shooting of Joseph Burnett
(From The Back Tracker History Show)
Restormel Castle and the Duchy of Cornwall
(English Heritage Podcast)
BBC Radio 4 Any Questions 1st September 2023 Political debate from Lostwithiel Community Centre
Videos
Lostwithiel Railway Station in 1976 (BFI Player)
In the late 19
0's thousands of people tried to avoid paying poll tax by becoming Cornish tinners and investing in a tin mine owned by Fred Trull of Lostwithiel
BBC Spotlight Feature
from Tuesday 6th March 1990
News items and Publicity about Lostwithiel Museum
Museum Fund Raising
(Midsummer 2015)
Conservation of 18th Century Fire Engine
(April 2012)
Lostwithiel Museum celebrates 40th birthday
(August 2011)
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