LIBRARY
Local Museums and Historical Societies
Local Museums and Historical Societies
Significant buildings and monuments in Lostwithiel
Restormel Castle (English Heritage site)
Methodist Chapels in Lostwithiel (Also information about WW1 Memorials)
Lostwithiel Bridge History - Original text by Barbara Fraser
Detailed photographs showing Lostwithiel War Memorial and Garden of Remembrance
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.
Glyn cinema celebration - May 2016 (Lost In Film Website http://bit.ly/glyncinema )
"My Lostwithiel" Archived webpage with series of articles about Lostwithiel buildings. (Originally published in Lostwithiel Newsletter c2018.)
Genealogical Information (includes links to on-line census data from 1841 to 1891)
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
Extensive list of Family history websites for Cornwall including Lostwithiel
Family History websites with a Lostwithiel connection
Family History websites with a Lostwithiel connection
Works of Reference relating to Lostwithiel's History
Lostwithiel Neighbourhood Plan. (Published Dec 2018 - includes considerable amount of historical information)
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- 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
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
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: 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.
Complete Kelly's Directory of Devonshire & Cornwall for 1893
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
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. https://bit.ly/ncoulson (15Mb File size)
Photographs recording Lostwithiel's history
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) (http://bit.ly/stbarts2 )
Over 900 photographs relating to Lostwithiel from Cornish Memory website
Photographs of old Lostwithiel from Francis Frith Collection
Interactive "Then and now" Photographs of Lostwithiel by Mat Connolley
St.Austell Area In The Old Days Album 43, Lostwithiel, Volume 1
St.Austell Area In The Old Days Album 74, Lostwithiel, Volume 2
Podcasts
Shooting of Joseph Burnett (From The Back Tracker History Show)
Restormel Castle and the Duchy of Cornwall (English Heritage Podcast)
Videos
Shooting of Joseph Burnett (From The Back Tracker History Show)
Restormel Castle and the Duchy of Cornwall (English Heritage Podcast)
Videos
In the late 1980'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)