Description
Grid Reference: SW 64 40
Ecclesiastical parish. Archdeaconry of Cornwall. Deanery of Penwith to 1875; Deanery of Carnmarth, 1875-1915; Deanery of Carnmarth North, 1915-present. Part of the parish was taken to create part of the parish of Tuckingmill in 1844; parts of the parish were taken to create the parishes of Treslothan in 1845 and Penponds in 1847.
Hundred of Penwith, East Division. Camborne civil parish.
Chronological Sequence
Camberon, 1182; Cambron, c.1214-33, c.1230; Kameron, 1252; Cambron, 1291, 1331, 1334-5, 1361, 1362, 1365, 1429; Camborne, 1431; Kambron, Kambronn, 1469-70; Camborn, 1516; Cambron, 1524; Cambourne, 1545; Cambron, 1560; Camborn, 1563; Camborne, 1567; Cambron, 1571; Camborne, Cambron, 1575; Camborne, 1581; Cambron, 1583; Camborne, 1586, c.1600; Cambron, 1600, 1601; Camborne, Cambron, 1603; Camborne, 1614, 1625, c.1630, 1657; Camburne, 1672; Camborne, 1676; Camborn, Camborne, 1678; Cambourne, 1680; Camborne, 1698; Cambron, 1700; Cambrone, 1720; Camborne, 1748; Camborn, Cambron, 1749; Camborn, 1768, 1769; Cambron, 1784; Camborne, 1787; Camborn, 1795; Camborne, 1798; Camborn, 1802; Camborne, 1804, 1814, 1819, 1827; Camborn, Camborne, 1842; Camborne, 1884, 1899, 1979, 1988, 1997, 2009
Forms by Earliest Occurrence
Camberon : 1182
Cambron : c.1214-33, c.1230, 1291, 1331, 1334-5, 1361, 1362, 1365, 1429, 1524, 1560, 1571, 1575, 1583, 1600, 1601, 1603, 1700, 1749, 1784
Kameron : 1252
Camborne : 1431, 1567, 1575, 1581, 1586, c.1600, 1603, 1614, 1625, c.1630, 1657, 1676, 1678, 1698, 1748, 1787, 1798, 1804, 1814, 1819, 1827, 1842, 1884, 1899, 1979, 1988, 1997, 2009
Kambron : 1469-70
Kambronn : 1469-70
Camborn : 1516, 1563, 1678, 1749, 1768, 1769, 1795, 1802, 1842
Cambourne : 1545, 1680
Camburne : 1672
Cambrone : 1720
References
Camberon
Given in the personal name Balcherus de Camberon.
Padel, 1988, p63, citing from 1182
Cambron
Hull, 1962, §80, p53, citing from HH, CP 315, f53r, late 14th century, citing from c.1214-33
Padel, 1988, p63, citing from c.1230
Kameron
Hull, 1962, §84, p55, citing from HH, CP 315, f54-55r, late 14th century, citing from 1252
Ecclesia de Cambron
In the Decanatus de Penwithe.
Hingeston-Randolph, 1889, p470, citing from 1291
Cambron
Hingeston-Randolph, 1899, p1286, citing from 1331
Hingeston-Randolph, 1899, p1306, citing from 1334-5
Hingeston-Randolph, 1899, pp1461, 1462, citing from 1361
Hull, 1962, §11, p11, citing from HH, CP 315, f9r-11v, late 14th century, citing from 1362
Hull, 1962, §9, p9, citing from HH, CP 315, f36, late 14th century, citing from 1365
CRO, G/1194, 1429 (*)
Camborne
Padel, 1988, citing from 1431
Kambron
Kambronn
CRO, AR/2/99, 1469-70
Camborn
CRO, PD/5/2, 1516 (*)
Cambron
Stoate, 1985, p3, citing from 1524
Cambourne
Stoate, 1985, p3, citing from 1545
Cambron
CRO, PD/1/2, 1560 (*)
Camborn
RIC, HendCal 8, c.1920s, §1803, citing from HB/19/21, 1563 (*)
Camborne
CRO, PD/5/6, 1567 (*)
Cambron
CRO, PD/8/2, 1571 (*)
Camborne alias Cambron
CRO, PD/2/2, 1575 (*)
Camborne
CRO, PD/8/3, 1581 (*)
Cambron
CRO, PD/5/8, 1583 (*)
Camborne
CRO, PD/2/4, 1586 (*)
RIC, HB/5/115a, c.1600 (*)
Cambron
RIC, HendCal 8, c.1920s, §1671, citing from HB/9/1, 1600 (*)
CRO, ARD/TER/164, 1601 (*)
Camborne alias Cambron
CRO, V/TT/9, 1603
Camborne
RIC, HC/4/52, 1614 (*)
CRO, PD/1/3, 1625 (*)
CRO, ARD/TER/230, c.1630 (*)
CRO, P197/1/1, 1657 (*)
Camburne
Donaldson, 1902, p376, citing from 1672
Camborne
CRO, AD592/29/1, 1676 (*)
Camborn
Market and Fayear granted to Richard Williams and Christopher Pryear for a terem of Seven yeares.
CRO, X510, 1678 (*)
Camborne
CRO, X510, 1678 (*)
Cambourne
CRO, X510, 1680 (*)
Camborne
CRO, BRA833/383, 1698 (*)
Cambron
Lhwyd, 1700, f2r
Cambrone
CRO, TEM/145, 1720
Camborne
Martyn, 1748, map
Camborn
Borlase, 1749, p133
Cambron
Borlase, 1749, p129
Camborn
Population is 2494.
CRO, AD55/24, 1768 (*)
Borlase, 1769, p232
Cambron
Given in letter from Matthew Boulton to Thomas Wilson.
CRO, AD1583/1/36, 1784 (*)
Camborne
RIC, HC/39/17, 1787 (*)
Camborn
Draft Chancery affidavit of Edward Rogers of Feock and William Murdoch of Redruth regarding Richard Trevithick the younger.
CRO, AD1583/8/40, 1795 (*)
Camborne
Given in letter from Richard Trevithick to Thomas Wilson.
CRO, AD1583/10/66, 1798 (*)
Camborn
Given in letter from Simon Vivian to Thomas Wilson.
CRO, AD1583/11/59, 1802 (*)
Camborne
CRO, GHW/13/4/3/1/4, 1804 (*)
In the deanery of Penwith, the benefice is in the patronage of Lord de Dunstanville.
Lysons and Lysons, 1814, p54-5
5933 acres, 887 houses and, in 1811, about 5000 inhabitants.
Penaluna, 1819, p23
CRO, AD1751/1, 1827 (*)
Camborn
Redding, 1842, p57
Camborne
All tithes, by an annual Rent Charge of £920, are owned by the Reverend Hugh Rogers, Rector of the parish of Camborne, excepting the tithes of two thirds of Pencobben and Hellow, by a Rent Charge of £8, which belongs to the Right Honourable Lady Bassett, public roads, rivers and mines are exempt from tithes, and amount to 120 acres, glebe is 55 acres.
CRO, TA/27, p1, 1842 (*)
The whole parish is 6744 acres and 20 perches.
CRO, TA/27, p68, 1842 (*)
Symons, 1884
Hingeston-Randolph, 1899, p1623
Parishes formed by sub-division of Camborne are Treslothan, in 1841, Tuckingmill, with part from Illogan, in 1845, and Penponds, in 1854.
Peskett, 1979, p1
Padel, 1988, p63
Population in 1989 was 10,175. 900 acres. In the Deanery of Carnmarth North.
TDD, 1997, p19
Population 11,390.
TDD, 2009, p42
Place Names in the Parish of Camborne
Manors in the Parish of Camborne
Tithings in the Parish of Camborne
Related Pages
Further Reading
- Bond, C (ed). 2008. Historical Descriptions of Camborne. The Cornovia Press.
- Thomas, C. 1967. Christian Antiquities of Camborne. H E Warne.
- Lysons, D and Lysons, S. 1814. Magna Britannia; Being a Concise Topographical Account of The Several Counties of Great Britain - Volume the Third, containing Cornwall. T Cadell and W Davies. pp54-55.
- Penaluna, W. 1819. The Circle or Historical Survey of Sixty Parishes & Towns in Cornwall. William Penaluna. pp23-31.
- Penaluna, W. 1838. An Historical Survey of Cornwall; to which is added The Borough Boundaries, an Account of The Scilly Islands, Mines and Fisheries, and a Cornish-English Vocabulary. William Penaluna. Vol I, pp97-102.
- Peter, T C. 1906. A Compendium of the History and Geography of Cornwall, by the Rev. J. J. Daniell. Netherton & Worth and Houlston & Sons (4th Edition). pp427-428.
- Polsue, J (ed). 1867. A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, Compiled from the Best Authorities & Corrected and Improved from Actual Survey - Vol I. William Lake and John Camden Hotton. pp182-190.