Mylor & Flushing in Cornwall

News - November 2004
I've just received my copy of Mylor Local History Group's "The Book of Mylor" published by Halsgrove Ltd , £19.95. I've not yet had time to read it but on first glance I'm sure that I'll be able to rate it as HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. If this book had been published a couple of years back there is no way that I'd have started this web site. The book is book seems to be well researched and to include lots of local knowledge that can only have come from long standing residents. My only grip is that there is no index. If your interested in the history of Mylor this book is essential reading - Go and buy it - its available online direct from the publishers and, I guess, from the usual online bookshops. [Note, Nov 2007 - Seems to be back in Halsgrove's catalogue again]

News - Dec2003
I have just heard that a book on the history of Mylor, written by the present inhabitants, is due to be published October 2004, price £25. No more details at the moment but I'll post any more information when I can.

A good map of West Cornwall dated 1885 can be found on the London Ancestors site

Achieve info on Mylor inhabitants - Look at Access 2 Archives, search for Mylor, The records of Whitfords and Sons (also known as Paynter and Whitford), St Columb Major, solicitors, who seem to have administered the Lemon family estates (WH1/1 - WH1/2152 & WH1/2153 - WH1/3452) are now indexed. As the Lemon family owned a vast part of Mylor this is a really important source! There are about 600 references to Mylor! Lots of names are mentioned in the index.

Mylor's Literary Associations

Katherine Mansfield & John Middleton Murry had a cottage at Mylor 1916, apparently with a kitchen garden running down to the water's edge. Claire Tomalin in "Katherine Mansfield, a Secret Life" identifies this as "Sunnyside Cottage".

Howard Spring lived in a bungalow "Hooper's Hill" from 1939 to 1947. His funeral service was at Mylor church and his ashes scattered in the churchyard. In the second volume of his autobiography "In the Meantime" he describes Mylor Creek and the Church, "My acre adjoins this Churchyard, looking eastward to St Just-in-Roseland, northward to the open water of the roads where the prospect ends in rising land adorned with a great house." However only a paragraph or two of this book concerns Mylor directly. Apparantly his book "All the Day Long" is about the family of a fictional vicar of Mylor. Another book is "A Sunset Touch" - Set in a Cornish village a Mr Menheniot fulfills his dreams and inherits a considerable property and fortune in Cornwall.... I've not read this, was the village Mylor?

Kate Crombie tells me that her late mother, Rita Tregellas Pope, who was a Cornish bard, Tregellas an Bluven, Tregellas the Pen, also lived in Mylor. Amongst other things she wrote a Visitors Guide To Cornwall, which is still in print, published by Lakeland. [Look in the Truro Bookshop or one of the other on-line bookshops - search for author "Tregellas"]

Why did I set up this web site? I was born and bred in London and seldom able to visit Cornwall. The reason is mainly that there was, before this, no site giving anything of Mylor's history. This site is targeted to those people who, like me, discover that their ancestors lived and worked at Mylor (or Flushing) in centuries past.

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Last Updated 19 October 2009