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Ludgvan (/ ˈ l ʌ dʒ ən / LUJ-ən; Cornish: Lujuan) [1] is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, UK, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) northeast of Penzance. Ludgvan village is split between Churchtown, on the hill, and Lower Quarter to the east, adjoining Crowlas . [ 2 ]
Cornwall portal; People who were born or raised in the parish of Ludgvan, Cornwall. Pages in category "People from Ludgvan, Cornwall"
William Borlase (2 February 1696 [1] – 31 August 1772), Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist.From 1722, he was Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall, where he died.He is remembered for his works The Antiquities of Cornwall (1754; 2nd ed., 1769) and The Natural History of Cornwall (1758), although his plans for a parish-by-parish county history were abandoned.
Robert Trewhella II was born in Cornwall, in the parish of Ludgvan (3 miles north-east of Penzance) and was christened there on 30 May 1830. [2] He was a son of Robert Trewheela I (1792/6-1846) [3] of Cockwells [4] in the parish of Ludgvan, a miner [5] and farmer, by his first wife Mary Repper (d.1831), whom he married in 1815 at Ludgvan.
Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and Their Houses is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995. [1] A second edition was published in 2011 (ISBN 978-0-85704-083-1).
William Oliver (14 August [O.S. 4 August] 1695 – 17 March 1764) was a British physician and philanthropist, and inventor of the Bath Oliver.He was born at Ludgvan, Cornwall, and baptised on 27 August 1695, described as the son of John Oliver the owner of the Trevarno Estate. [1]
Arthur Townshend Boscawen was born in Hanover Square, London, the ninth of twelve children of the Rev Hon John Townshend Boscawen (1820–1889) and Mary Tremayne (died 25 November 1895), the daughter of John Hearle Tremayne MP for Cornwall and owner of the Heligan estate, near Mevagissey.
the Basset family, landowners and tin mining entrepreneurs who owned Tehidy Country Park; Tom Bawcock, legendary [citation needed] fisherman from Mousehole; Robert Beheathland, born before 1587 in St Endellion, Cornwall, was an English gentleman who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, USA in 1607. John Betjeman (1906–1984), British Poet Laureate