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for a short time but left on account of ill-health. For this reason he was frequently sent home from school for rest, and spent a large amount of his time walking over Cornwall and studying Cornish monuments and history. He collected a large number of documents from all over the county.
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and M. I. Henderson (his wife) 1935 – Contents include: essays on Truro, the origin of towns, Fowey, Lostwithiel, Restormel Castle, Mitchell, Luxulyan, Helston, St Ives, the Deanery of Buryan, the Hundreds of Pydar and Powder, Twelve Men's Moor, Black-more, woodlands, and shorter
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In 1928 Henderson published a book on Cornish bridges in collaboration with Henry Coates. Whenever he was able he would return to Cornwall and continue his historical research which in the early years was concerned very largely with the four western
868: 156:, where he was elected to an official fellowship as tutor in modern history in 1929. He had settled down at Oxford, and was showing great promise as a teacher and lecturer. 858: 848: 290:. The collection includes 16,000 ancient documents, many hundreds of transcripts in Henderson's hand, and his own writings either in published form or in manuscript. 204:; at the end of August, he set out with her for southern Italy. He had been troubled for some months with pains in his chest and they attacked him severely at 121:. Both, however, were born and bred in Cornwall, and a portion of Cornish ancestry came to him through his mother's mother, one of the Willyamses of 873: 675: 833: 259:, in 1925; three books on Cornish churches; and another on Cornish coasts, moors, and valleys with notes on antiquities. In 1928 he was made a 878: 17: 314: 205: 117:
His father, Major J. S. Henderson, was half Scottish and half of the Irish family of Newenham: his mother was a Carus-Wilson from
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After completing his book on Cornish bridges, Henderson prepared notes for a similar book on the bridges of
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on the Gargano, where he was visiting the shrine of the Cornish patron
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The 109 Ancient Parishes of the Four Western Hundreds of Cornwall
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Four Saints of the Fal: St Gluvias, St. Kea, St. Fili, St Rumon
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Saint Nectan, S. Keyne and the Children of Brychan in Cornwall
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Records of the Church and Priory of St. Germans in Cornwall
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The Cornish Church Guide and Parochial History of Cornwall
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Some Notes on the Parish of Goran, otherwise St. Goronus
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A History of the Parish and Church of Saint Euny-Lelant
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Cornwall: a Survey of its Coast, Moors, and Valleys
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Wheaton & Co. 1938. 409:... with explanations of place-names 450:, to which illustrations are added) 251:Henderson's publications included 18:Charles Henderson (disambiguation) 14: 309:(only in part by Henderson) 1925 793:"Topography of St Keverne, 1931" 761: 874:20th-century British historians 330:(co-authored with Henry Coates) 326:Old Cornish Bridges and Streams 600:, King and Monk, and St Mervyn 507:Saint Gerent, Gerendus, Gerens 154:Corpus Christi College, Oxford 148:in 1922. 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Henderson 736:Article written by 349:Church & Parish 190:(Mary) Isobel Munro 142:New College, Oxford 73:New College, Oxford 750:published in 1935. 714:Henderson, Charles 194:Somerville College 140:Henderson went to 134:Wellington College 718:Old Devon Bridges 420:Old Devon Bridges 253:Cornwall; A Guide 206:Monte Sant'Angelo 100: 99: 96:Mary Isobel Munro 52:24 September 1933 886: 808: 803:. Archived from 796: 788: 787:on 15 June 2006. 783:. Archived from 771: 766: 765: 764: 743:, 2 October 1933 722: 721: 710: 704: 697: 691: 690: 688: 686: 681:. Gorsedh Kernow 680: 672: 666: 659: 653: 646: 640: 633: 627: 620: 423: 347:St. Columb Major 329: 280:Courtney Library 257:J. C. Tregarthen 200:, the Rector of 196:and daughter of 55: 25: 894: 893: 889: 888: 887: 885: 884: 883: 814: 813: 799: 791: 779: 769:Cornwall portal 767: 762: 760: 757: 726: 725: 712: 711: 707: 698: 694: 684: 682: 678: 674: 673: 669: 660: 656: 647: 643: 634: 630: 621: 614: 609: 598:St. Constantine 457: 418: 413:R. 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Charles Henderson (disambiguation)
Jamaica
Wellington College, Berkshire
New College, Oxford
Historian
antiquarian
antiquarian
Westmorland
Carnanton
Mawgan-in-Pydar
Wellington College
New College, Oxford
modern history
University College, Exeter
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
hundreds
Penwith
Kerrier
Pydar
Powder
(Mary) Isobel Munro
Somerville College
J. A. R. Munro
Lincoln College, Oxford
Monte Sant'Angelo
St Michael
pleurisy
Protestant Cemetery, Rome
Porta San Paolo
Monte Testaccio

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