USEFUL LINKS

Local Museums and Historical Societies

• Lostwithiel Old Cornwall Society
• Cornwall Association of Local Historians (CALH)  - Site has many useful links
• Details of over 50 Museums in Cornwall 

Significant buildings and monuments in Lostwithiel

• Restormel Castle (English Heritage site)
  
• Duchy Palace (Prince's Regeneration Trust website)
• Methodist Chapels in Lostwithiel (Also information about WW1 Memorials)
• Friends of St Bartholomew's Church
  
• Taprell House (My Methodist History  website)
• Lostwithiel Peace Memorial (War Memorials Trust website)
• Lostwithiel War Memorial (Article from Lostwithiel Newsletter November 2017)
•  Detailed photographs showing Lostwithiel War Memorial  and Garden of Remembrance
• Old Grammar School (Article in Lostwithiel Newsletter September 2017)
•  Perigrine Hall (from current owner's website)
• Perigrine Hall ( Early history as St Faith's House of Mercy)
  
• Restormel Royal Iron Mine (Trinity Mine)
• Cattle Market - Article from Lostwithiel Newsletter February 2018
  
•  Raglan House  - Article from Lostwithiel Newsletter April / May 2017
• 10 Fore Street - Article from Lostwithiel Newsletter October 2017
• 15 Fore Street  - Article from Lostwithiel Newsletter August 2017
• 23 North Street (Lowena House) - Article from Lostwithiel Newsletter June 2017
• 32 Fore Street - Article from Lostwithiel Newsletter July 2017
• Glyn Cinema
• Lostwithiel Lime Kilns (1)
• Lostwithiel Lime Kilns (2)
• Walking tour of Lostwithiel for smartphones
  

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
• 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
  
  

Works of Reference relating to Lostwithiel's History


• Cornwall Council's Historic Characterisation Study of Lostwithiel
• Lostwithiel Neighbourhood Plan. (Published Dec 2018 - includes considerable amount of historical information)
  
• 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   
  (  http://bit.ly/duchypalace )
  
• 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 on this website)
  
• Battle of Lostwithiel (Battlefields Trust Website - Includes links to English Heritage Battlefield Register)
• Battle of Lostwithiel (British Battles Website )
• 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 infomation Pages 24 to 29)
  
• Snapshot of Lostwithiel in 1844  - From Pigot & Co's Directory of Cornwall 1844
• 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)
• Memorials of Lostwithiel [and of Restormell]: F. M. Hext. Published: 1891 (British Library Website)
  
• Alternative local download  for Memorials of  Lostwithiel by FM Hext  (File  size 24MB)
  
• 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)
  

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.




Various extracts from "Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall" published between 1866 and 1873

• Boconnoc
• Braddock
• Lanlivery
• Lanteglos
  
• Lostwithiel
• St. Veep
• St Winnow
  







Photographs recording Lostwithiel's history

• Interactive "Then and now" Photographs of Lostwithiel by Mat Connolley  
• 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)   (http://bit.ly/stbarts2 )
  
• 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


News items and Publicity about Lostwithiel Museum

• Museum Fund Raising Event  (Midsummer 2015)
• Conservation of 18th Century Fire Engine  (April 2012)
• Lostwithiel Museum  celebrates 40th birthday (August 2011)