{"id":3765,"date":"2016-10-18T09:58:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T08:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=3765"},"modified":"2021-01-04T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T14:31:43","slug":"lawhitton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-parishes\/lawhitton\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawhitton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lawhitton is a civil parish and village in east Cornwall. The village is situated two miles southwest of Launceston and half-a-mile west of Cornwall’s border with Devon at the River Tamar<\/a>. The parish of Lawhitton is in the Launceston registration district. It is a comparatively small parish and Lawhitton village is the principal settlement. The border with Devon forms the parish’s eastern boundary; to the north, it is bounded by St Thomas by Launceston<\/a> parish; to the west by Launceston parish; and to the south by Lezant<\/a> parish.<\/p>\n

This parish derives its appellation from an appearance which its church probably formerly suggested; Lawhitton in the ancient Cornish dialect signifying the white church. The manor of Lawhitton was, with two others, all bearing the name of Lanwithau, given by Edward the elder about the year 905, to the Bishop of Kirton, from whom, on the union of sees, it passed to the Bishop of Exeter. There was formerly a Wednesday market at Lawhitton, granted, in 1312, to the Bishop of Exeter, with a fair at the festival of St. Michael, both long ago discontinued. Rev. Charles Marshall, built the parsonage house at Lawhitton, in 1801.\u00a0In the church is a memorial for Richard Bennet<\/a>, Esq. dated 1619, and a monument of artificial stone to the memory of Richard Coffin, who died in 1786. This gentleman, who was the last male heir of the Bennet family, took the name of Coffin from his mother, who was heiress of the Coffins of Portlege.<\/p>\n

Within the parish lay three separate non-conformist chapels. The first is at Southern Comfort, Tregada (the hamlet is split between Lawhitton, Lezant and South Petherwin<\/em>) which was built as a Wesleyan chapel and dates back to the 1850’s. It was enlarged in 1875 to a design by Launceston architect Charles Wise. It became known as Tregada Methodist Church from 1932. It had its own burial ground from at least the 1850s. It closed in 1993 and the building was sold. It was part of Launceston Methodist Circuit.<\/p>\n

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The second chapel was for the Baptist’s\u00a0 at Greystone built in 1861 and a third at Carzantic from around the same date.<\/p>\n