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The ParishThe parish of Breage lies in southwestern Cornwall, indeed it forms a substantial part of Cornwall's English Channel coast. Breage is located about 3 miles west of the market town of Helston and sits on and mostly north of the A394 road which connects Helston with Penzance. Breage is a large and compact village with most properties clustered around the central grouping of church & inn. Breage's economy was dominated by the local mining & quarrying industries, mining for tin, copper, lead, manganese & zinc all took place as well as extensive quarrying of granite on nearby Tregonning Hill, in addition agriculture was present on good alkaline soils and despite the coast being many rugged cliffs some fish & shellfish harvesting took place. The parish's population once stood as high as almost 6,200 folk, a figure scarcely credible given the reduced population today. Most of the mining has ceased and the area has become much more dependent upon tourism for its living. Those rugged cliffs are a challenging part of the South West Coastal Trail, one of England's toughest treks. Small streams, deeply incised into the landscape, drain quickly to the nearby Channel coast mostly through Porthleven. Breage village is sited at around 90 metres above the sea, a level which forms a peneplane broken by deeply incised valleys and the granite outcrop of Tregonning Hill which rises to 194 metres and dominates this part of the coast. Breage parish was extensive but so are many in this area of Cornwall, it covered almost 7,100 acres and, as stated, the population once stood at almost 6,200 parishioners. There is no specific mention of Breage in Domesday Book albeit the manor of Rinsey, once part of the personal estates of King Harold and in the hands of William the Conqueror, is mentioned as having 36 ploughs as well as meadows, pastures & woodland |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 20th April 1754 - 22nd March 1794 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P18/1/7 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 27th February 1794 - 21st December 1812 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P18/1/8 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 1st January 1813 - 6th December 1830 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P18/1/9 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 12th December 1830 - 24th June 1837 | Cornwall Record Office - Reference - P18/1/15 | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is nonstandard in not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
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