In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rame like this:
RAME, a parish in St. Germans district, Cornwall; on the coast, 5 miles S W by S of Plymouth r. station. Post-town, Cawsand, under Devonport Acres, 1, 231; of which 45 are water. Real property, £2, 140. Pop., 792. Houses, 160. The property is divided among a few. Rame Head projects into the English channelfrom Maker heights; terminates a semicircular range ofcliffs, coming eastward from Looe; is the nearest land to Eddystone lighthouse; commands a view of the Cornish coast, away to the Lizard; is crowned with the ruin of a chapel; and is the Kriou Metopon or Ram's Head of Ptolemy. ...
Penlee Point, 2 miles E by N of that headland, flanks the W end of the entrance of Plymouthsound, and is crowned by a beacon. There is a coast-guard station. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £214.* Patron, the Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe. The church is good; and there are charities £12.
Rame through time
Rame is now part of Caradon district. Click here for graphs and data of how Caradon has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Rame itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rame, in Caradon and Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4650
Date accessed: 04th May 2024
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