Looe

coastal town and civil parish in south-east Cornwall

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coastal town and civil parish in south-east Cornwall^;

Looe is 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth and seven miles (11 km) south of Liskeard,^[4] divided in two by the River Looe, East Looe (Cornish: Logh^[1]) and West Looe (Cornish: Porthbyhan,^[1]lit. "little cove") being connected by a bridge.^[5] Looe developed as two separate towns each with MPs and its own mayor.

Some time before 1144, the Order of Saint Benedict occupied Looe Island, building a chapel there, and the monks established a rudimentary lighthouse service using beacons. Another chapel was founded on an opposite hillside just outside West Looe; both are now marked only by ruins.

Between 1154 and 1189 Henry II granted a charter in favour of Sir Henry Bodrugan as Mayor of East Looe. West Looe was given free borough status sometime after this (the first known historical mention of the town dates from 1327) and in the 1230s East Looe secured the right to hold a weekly market and a Michaelmas fair.

Looe brief information on the origin of the town and current plans for their growth [Cornish studies resources]

Journal No. 1: 1973 | Trevithick Society Journal

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Journal No. 1: 1973

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Trevithick Society Journal

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Contains: Hodge: Richard Trevithick; Clinker: The Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway; Tucker & Tucker: The Story of Wheal Guskus in the Parish of St Hilary; Philbrick: The Redruth to Penzance Turnpike Roads; Messenger: The Liskeard and Looe Canal; Stephens & Stengelhofen: Tin Streams Works at Tuckingmill.

95 pages. Quarto; Paperback.

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fl – flourished: typically linked to specific documented sources/events, when aren't in themselves providing evidence of birth and death, but do show a year/s when person alive
d.s.p. – decessit sine prole: died without issue; cf
d.s.p.m. – died without male issue
d.s.p. legit – died without legitimate offspring
dvp: – died during father`s lifetime
s and h – son and heir
o.b.s.p.legil: – died without legitimate offspring
uxor – wife (Latin, found in older parish registers): wife (Latin, found in older parish registers)'
fils – son (Latin)
Relict – widow of …

pr – (will) proved (probate)
Admon – letters of administration applied for when a person dies intestate (without leaving a Will)

BTs – bishops’ transcripts

DNB – Dictionary of National Biography
CRO – County Record Office
GRO – General Register Office

RD – Registration District (Civil Registration)
RDC – Rural District Council (after 1894)
RSD – Rural Sanitary District (1872 before 1894)

PRO – Public Record Office

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