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WELCOME Welcome
to the website of the North Hill Local History Group. We are
delighted you’ve come to look at our history and to learn something about our
heritage. |
What’s new? July 2017 - Silver Jubilee people identified; the story
of “The Guild of Treasure Seekers” June 2017 - “The Buckingham Family History & Record” of John
& William who emigrated to Canada in the 1850s |
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The parish nestles into the eastern side of the Tamar
Valley, between Launceston
and Liskeard, ·
The western edges are on the upland granite of Bodmin Moor. ·
The central part, which includes North Hill Churchtown, lies in the valley of the River Lynher which flows into the River Tamar. ·
The eastern side forms part of the rolling hills of
the beautiful Tamar Valley and the main centre of population in this area is Coad’s Green
with its own identity.
This is in part due to the Methodist Church (shown here) which over the years has attracted a congregation to Coad’s Green from an area wider than the bounds of the civil parish. |
Venning’s directory shows the parish in 1887, 1901
and 1907. Click on
the date to see an extract from the appropriate directory. |
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There is evidence of prehistoric settlement across the
parish, mostly up on the open moorland. In the Lynher valley there are places
which are mentioned in The Domesday Book of 1086 AD. Trebartha Hall
has been the seat of the titled families in the parish for about 1000 years. The eastern edge of Bodmin Moor
is bounded by the River Lynher in North Hill
parish. This is an area rich in minerals and stone and the source for the
once prosperous mining and quarrying industries in the parish. In 1851 at The
Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London there was an exhibit sent by
the local Rodd family that showed some of the wonderful porphyry found on the
Trebartha Estate. The parish church, shown at the top of this page, is
dedicated to St
Torney and has parts which are 13th
century; the font is even earlier. The church registers date back into the 1500s.
Many of the buildings around the parish can trace their origins back for
hundreds of years. |
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The Fallen of North Hill Parish A Book From The
North Hill Local History Group This
book was launched on 3rd August 2014 to mark the 100th
anniversary of the start of World War One. It has
36 pages packed with biographical details of the fallen showing you their
life stories, images and connections with North Hill, Coad’s Green and other
places in and around the parish. It has been researched and written by local
people about local people. For more details of the book, click here or of the book launch, click here. |
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Stories, photos, documents and objects Our group
aims to build up our knowledge of our parish by contributing and collecting stories
of life in North Hill, photos of a bygone age and objects which help to tell
us the story of our village. You can view a wonderful collection of images from
around the parish across the website and in our Gallery.
Many of these images have been supplied by people in the parish. You can also
see some parish related newspaper cuttings on the Timeline.
See our Resources
section which could help you to conduct your own research. |
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