Lawhitton
Lawhitton
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A terrace of cottages in Lawhitton | |
Location within Cornwall | |
Population | 232 (Civil Parish, 2011) |
OS grid reference | SX355824 |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LAUNCESTON |
Postcode district | PL15 |
Dialling code | 01566 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Cornwall |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Lawhitton (
Governance
The civil parish of Lawhitton was abolished in 1894 and the parishes of Lawhitton Urban and Lawhitton Rural were created. On 1 April 1922 Lawhitton Urban was abolished into
History
At the time of Domesday Book (1086) the manor was held by the bishop and had 11 hides of land and land for 40 ploughs. The lord had land for 2 ploughs with 7 serfs, and 27 villeins and 20 smallholders had land for 29 ploughs. There was 8 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture and 10 acres of underwood. The value of the manor was £17 though it had formerly been worth only £8.[6]
Until 1261 the benefice of Lawhitton consisted of a vicarage and a sinecure rectory; they were then combined as a rectory. From then until 1924 there were 60 rectors, of whom probably only 19 were resident.[7] The last of these rectors was Henry Du Boulay who was concurrently Archdeacon of Bodmin from 1892 to 1924[8][9] Du Boulay was ordained in 1864 and died in 1925;[10] he was the son of an earlier rector of Lawhitton.
There is a Cornish cross at Treniffle; it was found built into an old barn at Tregada Farm about 1883 and then placed in her garden by Mrs. Morshead.[11]
Parish church
The parish church of St Michael is in Lawhitton village at SX 355 825; it is of various periods of English Gothic architecture. The plan is unusual and the tower stands in the position of a south transept. The tower is 13th century in date and there is a north aisle. The font is Norman, of the Altarnun type. Features of interest include the Jacobean pulpit, 1665, and two monuments, to R. Bennet (d. 1683) and in Coade stone to Richard Bennet-Coffin (d. 1796).[12]
Bennett-Coffin family
Richard Bennet (d.1619), a Councillor at Law, built Hexworthy House as his seat within the parish. The Bennet family originated in Sussex and settled at Hexworthy during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).
Richard's heir was Rev. John Pine-Coffin (1735–1824), eldest surviving grandson of Dorothy Coffin (1651–1690), eldest daughter of Richard Coffin (1623–1700), who in 1672 married Edward Pyne (1648–1675) of
Famous inhabitant
James Ruse 1759–1837 from the area was aboard the first fleet of convicts into Sydney cove in 1788. He went on to become a celebrated farming pioneer.
References
- ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
- ^ "Launceston Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
- ^ "Population Statistics Lawhitton CP/AP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ GENUKI website; Lawhitton page; retrieved April 2010
- ^ "parish population 2011". Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ Thorn, C. et al., ed. (1979) Cornwall. Chichester: Phillimore; entry 2,9
- ^ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 139–40
- ^ Prussia Cove houses Archived 26 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine ("Cornwall" is a mistake here)
- ^ "Cornwall Record Office; du Boulay". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ Brown, H. M. (1976) A Century for Cornwall. Truro: Blackford; p. 89
- ^ Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; p. 186
- ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., rev. by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 99
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.208-11, pedigree of Coffin, p.208 arms given with 9 crosses crosslet. 8 as surviving monument of James Coffin (d.1566) in Monkleigh Church
- ^ a b "Hexworthy House – Launceston Then!". Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J. L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.210, pedigree of Coffin
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; 15th edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.442, pedigree of "Pine-Coffin of Portledge". 1766, death of Richard Coffin
- ^ Vivian, p. 210
- ^ Pevsner, p.349