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From: John Symons <>
Subject: Re: Kingsand - Parish or Town!!
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:44:02 -0500


Chris Burgoyne wrote

>Kingsand is now in Cornwall, but is on the promontory that sticks out to
the South West of Plymouth Sound, which I think is part of Maker Parish,
which was part of Devon until ...? I suppose when boat travel was the
norm it would almost have been a suburb of Plymouth, but now it is quite a
long car journey to get from one to the other.

I am not sure when Maker was transferred from being a detached part of
Devon to being part of Cornwall - perhaps others can help/correct what I
have said.<

A large part of Maker was in Devon until 1844 when it was transferred to
Cornwall (but still appears under Devon in the 1851 Census and is thus on
the LDS CD-Rom).

John Symons
Ruislip, Middx
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