A page featuring links to hundreds of freely downloadable pdf books relating to Cornwall, archives, history, mining, genealogy, topography etc. The pdfs are all hosted on either Google Books or the Internet Archive, though I may add a few of my own later on.

As Yahoo Photos has not closed down I am slowly transferring my public domain photos to A Cornish Sourcebook. As there are almost 600 of these it may take me some time to complete the transfer.

The following have recently been added to the index:

Carte de la Manche faitepar ordre du Roy pour le service de ses Armées de la Mer by Hubert Jaillot, 1692
Plan of the Manor of Trebarwith in Tentagell by William Doidge, 1735 (Sheffield Archives - Wh M/Maps/68)
Particulars of the Tenement of Roscarnon, St Keverne, 1766 (Cornwall Record Office - AD1807/5)
Sale Poster, various parishes, 1799 (Royal Institution of Cornwall - HB/18/7)
Poor Rate, Mawnan, 1802 (Cornwall Record Office - V/BO/32/2)
Tithe Apportionment, Saint Just in Roseland, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/96)
Map and Reference to Lands in Tintagel and Lanteglos by Camelford, 1871 (Sheffield Archives - Wh M/Maps/52)

Postcards added to pages for Isles of Scilly, West Penwith, Penzance Area, St Ives and Lelant and North East Cornwall.

The following have recently been added to the index:

Tithe Apportionment, Saint Blazey, 1846 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/10)
Tithe Apportionment, Lawhitton, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/119)
Tithe Apportionment, Merther, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/146)
Tithe Apportionment, Mevagissey, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/147)
Tithe Apportionment, Saint Mewan, 1841 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/148)
Enys Estate sales, tenements and tin bounds, various parishes, 1853 (Royal Institution of Cornwall - HB/18/10)

Lithograph and plan of Minster Church in North Cornwall and taken from The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor by Sir John Maclean, Part VI, Forrabury and Minster, published by Liddell & Son, Bodmin and Nichols & Sons, London, 1873.

Lithograph and plan of Forrabury Church in North Cornwall and taken from The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor by Sir John Maclean, Part VI, Forrabury and Minster, published by Liddell & Son, Bodmin and Nichols & Sons, London, 1873.

The following have recently been added to the index:

Particulars of the Manors of Pengersick and Trezela Mulfra, Breage, Germoe, Gulval and Madron, 1830 (Cornwall Record Office - WH/1/3766)
Tithe Apportionment, Forrabury, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/65)
Tithe Apportionment, Saint Juliott, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/94)
Tithe Apportionment, Saint Keyne, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/101)
Tithe Apportionment, Kilkhampton, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/102)
Tithe Apportionment, Lamorran, 1841 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/104)
Tithe Apportionment, St Martin's otherwise St Kaynne near Looe, 1840 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/138)
Tithe Apportionment, Michaelstow, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/151)
Tithe Apportionment, Roche, 1841 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/198)
Tithe Apportionment, Ruan Lanyhorne, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/199)
Tithe Apportionment, Golant otherwise Saint Sampsons, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/204)
Tithe Apportionment, Talland, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/218)
Tithe Apportionment, Temple, 1841 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/220)
Tithe Apportionment, Tremayne, 1840 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/229)
Tithe Apportionment, Tresmeer, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/232)
Tithe Apportionment, Trevalga, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/233)
Tithe Apportionment, Warleggan, 1840 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/247)

An account of the early history of Methodism in Cornwall, and, in particular, of The Reverend George Thomson of St. Gennys.

The transcript of a lecture given to the London Cornish Association.

A list of anglicised field names in Cornwall with Jago's interpretation of their original Cornish meanings.

Showing tin, copper, cobalt, antimony, lead and silver mines, also adits, cross-courses and the Stannary Towns.

Taken from Curiosities of Great Britain, England and Wales Delineated, Historical, Entertaining & Commercial, Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas Dugdale, published by J Tallis, 1840.

The following have recently been added to the index:

Tithe Apportionment, South Petherwin, 1843 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/211)
Tithe Apportionment, Quethiock, 1842 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/195)
Tithe Apportionment, Trewen, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/235)
Tithe Apportionment, Werrington, 1844 (Cornwall Record Office - TA/251)

Taken from Cary's New and Correct English Atlas. Published by J Cary, Arundell Street, Strand, London, September 1st 1787.

The third section to be uploaded from John Thomas Blight's Ancient Crosses of Cornwall of 1872, featuring the Latin Crosses of the West of Cornwall. The rest of the engravings from the book will be uploaded over the following weeks.

Taken from Chorographica Britanniæ, or, A Set of Maps of all the Counties of England and Wales, engraved and published by W H Toms, 1741 (Third impression 1742).

Taken from Walpoole's New and Complete British Traveller, published by Alexander Hogg at the King's Arms, Paternoster Row, London, 1784.

Taken from A Topographical Dictionary by Samuel Lewis, published by Samuel Lewis, 1835, and engraved by J & C Walker.

The second section to be uploaded from John Thomas Blight's Ancient Crosses of Cornwall of 1872, featuring the Transitional Crosses of the West of Cornwall. The rest of the engravings from the book will be uploaded over the following weeks.

The first section to be uploaded from John Thomas Blight's Ancient Crosses of Cornwall of 1872, featuring the Greek Crosses of the West of Cornwall. The rest of the engravings from the book will be uploaded over the following weeks.

The Roll of the Bards of the Gorsedd of Cornwall for 1947, and listing all bards initiated in previous years. Gives bardic names and the English translations for these.

Charles Henderson's account of the true story behind Cornwall's legendary tale of The Three Bad Men of Dry Tree.

A further essay from The Western Antiquary periodical relating to the origins and historical variations of the name Eddystone.

An account of John Knill, his monument near St Ives, and of the peculiar custom attached to it.

Engraved by Samuel John Neele and taken from the Atlas to the Reverend Clement Cruttwell's New Universal Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary, published by G G & J Robinson, Paternoster Row, London, March 1st 1799.

Taken from A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled from Parliamentary, and other authentic documents and authorities, containing geographical, topographical, & statistical accounts of every district, object, and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the various small islands dependant on the British Empire. Accompanied by forty-six maps, drawn purposely for this work, on an original plan by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.

This is a new section devoted to historical engravings and illustrations of Cornwall. With engravings of the Merry Maidens stone circle, Lanyon Cromlech and the Cheesewring, Plan of Truro Castle, Chun, Lanyon and Zennor cromlechs, St Ives Board Schools and Cardinham Cross.