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Herodsfoot

Herodsfoot, (Cornish: Nanshiryarth), is in the Hundred of East. The meaning of the name is 'the foot of the stream at Heriard'. The name 'Heriard' was changed to Heriod in the 17th century and then to Herod in the 18th century. It is an attractive little village about three miles south west of Liskeard, situated in a place where four or five valleys meet, and where two tributaries of the West Looe river conjoin. Herodsfoot became quite a populous mining village in the early 19th century.

The parish was created from parts of Lanreath, St Pinnock and Duloe parishes in 1851. However, this civil parish no longer exists; its responsibilities are spread back again between the parishes from which it was created. A History of Herodsfoot, with relation to its mining, is available.

Cemeteries

No monumental inscriptions for this parish have yet been recorded.

Census

Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the Cornwall Record Office. The Cornwall Family History Society offers a census search service for its members. The Cornwall Family History Society have also published on-line census detail by surname on the FamilyHistoryonLine site.

Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:

• 1841. In the 1841 Census, Herodsfoot was enumerated as part of Duloe, St Pinnock and Lanreath parishes.
• 1851. In the 1851 Census, Herodsfoot was enumerated at part of Duloe, St Pinnock and Lanreath parishes. The 1851 Census of Herodsfoot is included in (HO107/1903) for Duloe, Enumeration Districts 2a, and for St Pinnock Enumeration Districts 5b, which are available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1861. The 1861 Census of Herodsfoot (RG9/1531) was enumerated as part of Duloe civil parish. The 1861 Census of Duloe, Enumeration Districts 1 [including Herodsfoot], 2 and 3 [including Herodsfoot], is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project.
• 1871. The 1871 Census of Herodsfoot was enumerated as part of Duloe and Lanreath civil parishes. It is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG10/2240 - St Pinnock. Enumeration District 16.
  • RG10/2241 - Duloe. Enumeration Districts 1 [including Herodsfoot], 2 and 3 [including Herodsfoot]).
  • RG10/2244 - Lanreath. Enumeration District 3 [Herodsfoot].
• 1881. The 1881 Census of Herodsfoot is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG11/2286. Enumeration District 17.
  • RG11/2287. Enumeration Districts 1 [including Duloe] and 3 [including Duloe].
• 1891. The 1891 Census of Herodsfoot is available on-line from the Cornwall Online Census project as follows:
  • RG12/1812. Enumeration District 3.
  • RG12/1813. Enumeration District 4 and Schools.

Church History

• Anglican. The parish was created in 1851. The parish church is located in OS Grid Square SX2160, and was dedicated to All Saints. It was built in 1850 and is a substantial structure, well-buttressed, with a high-pitched roof, and western bell turret containing one bell. There is a chancel, nave, good south porch and a priest's door. In 1880 a new organ was installed.
  In 1936, St Cuby's at Duloe, and All Saints re-joined to become the united benefice of Duloe-with-Herodsfoot although both Parishes were still to be independent. Since then they have shared rectors and Priests-in-Charge and very often, in the early days of the United Benefice, a Curate who would live in the All Saints' Vicarage and have particular responsibility for the village.
• Non-Conformist. The Bible Christians had a chapel here.

Church Records

The Cornwall Record Office holdings: Baptisms 1851 - 1968, Marriages 1851 - 1968.

Civil Registration

The civil parish of Herodsfoot was in the Liskeard Registration District. There were sub-districts at Callington, Lerrin, Liskeard and Looe, but these closed in the 1930s. Parishes within the district were: Boconnoc, Broadoak, Callington, Calstock (1837-60), Duloe, East Looe, Lanreath, Lansallos, Lanteglos, Linkinhorne, Liskeard, Liskeard Borough, Menheniot, Morval, Pelynt, St. Cleer, St. Dominick, St. Ive, St. Keyne, St. Martin's, St. Neot, St. Pinnock, St. Veep, Southill, Talland and West Looe. The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: Graylands, Dean Street, Liskeard, PL14 4AH. Tel: 01579 343442.

Description & Travel

• ePodunk's Cornwall page - providing general, plus some historical and genealogical information, about Cornwall and its parishes, together with links (mainly relating to general sites and services, rather than ones that are specific to Cornwall or particular parishes).
• More information about the history of the village and its modern description is available on-line.

Genealogy

OPC Assistance. The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) scheme operates a service to help family historians; the OPC page for this parish is available on-line, from where the OPC can be contacted by email.

Maps

• Map of the Liskeard Registration District in which the parish lies.
• An old map of the parish of Herodsfoot in the 19th century is also available.

Occupations

• Information about the Caradon and Liskeard Mines is available on-line.

Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

Herodsfoot parish became part of the Liskeard Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief once it was created.

Population

Population figures for Herodsfoot parish are generally enumerated with Lanreath.

Statistics

The parish comprised 1600 acres of land.

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