St Germans

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The village of St Germans is on the River Tiddy, part of the beautiful estuary of the Lynher which joins the River Tamar close to Saltash. St Germans’ Quay was busy in the last century with cargoes of minerals, coal, timber and limestone. Road stone was transported from here until the Second World War. There are 16th century almshouses in the village. St Germans became officially a market town around 1600. However, the Domesday Book states that there was a Sun market in 1086, but that it was reduced to nothing on account of the Count of Mortain’s market, which was very close by at Trematon. There is also a record of a market held by the parish of St Germans in 1302. Queen Elizabeth I created it a parliamentary borough and, from 1563 to 1832, it returned two members to the House of Commons. In 1815 John Eliot was created Earl of St Germans. In 1905 the first sufragan bishop of Truro was consecrated bishop of St Germans.