This
page is about my Cornwall
and Devon origins,
based around the village of Callington
On
a thundery June night in 1947, I was born in the ancient Cornish town
of Callington,
in the south-east of the lovely county of Cornwall, and lived
there from 1947 to 1965, until my family became part of the modern-day
"economic
migration"..... Beautiful County, shame about the
jobs and pay - but I hear it's getting better in places ! I
live in
Dorset
now, happily still with Cornish connections, and
probably exactly the same can be said about jobs and pay in
Dorset......
Anyway, back to
Callington,
Cornwall, plus a little bit of south-west Devon -
To
quote from cornovia.org.uk
, "Callington – parish, hundred of East, Middle
Division (*CRO, GHW/10/1/1, c.1830s, after 1759), contains 218 houses
and 1321 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is a
curacy to the rectory of Southill (Moule, 1838, p282) (CRO, TA/25,
1842) (Symons, 1884); Caluuitona, Calwetone, 1086; Calwinton, 1187;
Calyton, 1306; Callington, 1759; Callington, Kellington, 1838;
Callington, 1842, 1884."
Wesleyan
Church, Callington, 1909
This building still exists (or it did last
time I looked !) as "West End Chapel", and I spent much time in this
building in my youth, for various 'activities'. As
well as being the a Methodist Chapel, it was also used as a
'teaching annexe' by local schools I attended, by the community for
various events, and by some of my ancestors - who lived very close by
in the 1800's up to the early 1900's - right back to it's very first
origins.
Valentine's Series (?60416). Courtesy of David
Thomas.
There
are so many excellent links to pages about the area, with loads of
photos, that I've listed a few below -
( just
click on the underlined
text , below )
On the right is an
oratory Well and Chapel, built by monks in the 15th century, at Dupath,
near Callington. A spring rises under the chapel. It is
renowned as a place to cure Whooping Cough !
Also said to be
where a duel took place between Sir Colam and Gottlieb for the hand of
a lady - both suitors died.......
....... these links are
very much "in progress", always ongoing - but all with some interesting
content .......
