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 (Lostwithiel Town Council website)
• Detailed photographs showing Lostwithiel War Memorial  and Garden of Remembrance
• Lostwithiel Peace Memorial (War Memorials Trust website)
• Restormel Royal Iron Mine (Trinity Mine)
• Articles about Raglan House from Lostwithiel Newsletter April / May 2017
• Article about 23 North Street (Lowena House) from Lostwithiel Newsletter June 2017
• Article about 32 Fore Street from Lostwithiel Newsletter July 2017
• Article about 15 Fore Street from Lostwithiel Newsletter August 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
• 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
  
  

Works of Reference relating to Lostwithiel's History


• Cornwall Council's Historic Characterisation Study of Lostwithiel
• The Duchy Palace, Lostwithiel, historic building record and archaeological watching brief 2012
• 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)
  
• 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
• Map of Lostwithiel in 1905.  (Credit  National Library of Scotland )
• Map of Lostwithiel in 1888.  (Credit  National Library of Scotland )
  
  

The University of Leicester website contains many Historical Directories of England & Wales including some from Cornwall. As an example the Lostwithiel section from Kelly's 1897 Cornwall Directory  may be read via this link





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
  
• Over 900 photographs relating to Lostwithiel from Cornish Memory website
• Photographs of old Lostwithiel from Francis Frith Collection
  




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)