Rame-OPC

Welcome to the internet home of the Online Parish Clerk for the parishes of Maker and Rame, Cornwall

I am Gillian Kempster volunteer (OPC) for Maker and Rame. As an OPC I am making my small but growing collection of genealogical resources for these parishes available to help with your research. You may to contact the me by e-mail with your research queries or to share your research with others interested in these parish.

The parish of Rame is in the extreme south-east of Cornwall, on a peninsula to the west of Plymouth Sound. It is situated in the deanery of East, and in the southern division of the Hundred of East. It is bounded on the north by the parishes of St Johns and Maker, and on the east, south and west by the sea. The church, situated on high ground, has long served as a navigational aid to mariners. There is also a ruined chapel dedicated to St Michael and traces of ancient defensive works. Polhawn Battery was a strong fortress on the southern cliffs of the parish, effectively commanding Whitsand Bay and the surrounding land approaches. There are four miles of sandy beach on the west coast of the headland, which in the past have witnessed many shipwrecks and are now sprinkled with shacks and bungalows.

Rame was united with Maker parish in 1943 to form Maker-with-Rame parish.