Maker [near Digland], Cornwall, but DIGLAND not yet found....

[markheal]

I have found Maker Heights but no trace of DIGLAND,
Any ideas?
https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=243477&y=51362&z=115&sv=243477,51362&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=631&ax=243477&ay=51362&lm=0

[cath151]

Hi,
Probably not relevant but does your source definitely read Digland ? I have found a couple of references for Maker Heights , Kingsand.
Hopefully someone else might have a better idea 

Cathy

[PaulineJ]

I'd want to know the date and the source/document which gives "Digland" as an address.

at least , I assume it's an address, or is it a surname?

https://www.archiuk.com/archi/archi_maps.htm

[markheal]

Many thanks for these ideas.
Possibly a spelling/mis-heard for nearby Cawsand/Kingsand.
That old maps website looks like a valuable resource.  Thanks

[athel_cb]

Kingsand-Cawsand is an interesting place, and I don't know of another similar example in England. It is for practical purposes one village, but before the county boundaries were revised in the 19th century the border went through the middle, with Kingsand in Devon and Cawsand in Cornwall. (Now it's all in Cornwall.) It was once a very violent place. My great-great-great grandfather was captain of a revenue cutter based in Cawsand and was very active in suppressing smuggling, and survived several attempts on his life.

[markheal]

Athel,
Thank you for sharing that very interesting story,
I shall now pour over my old maps again.

Most of my adult life has been in North Devon and I have always been very interested in how the Devon/Cornish border was agreed upon especially where it deviates from the wonderful River Tamar, the big border bulge North of North Tamerton and skirting Affaland Wood, and again West of Bridgerule, and from Moreton Mill to Tamar Lake.  Before the last lap to Marsland Mouth it just touches the head of the River Torridge near Brimford Cross just South of Meddon.
https://www.bing.com/maps?&cp=50.933425~-4.456656&lvl=16&style=s&osid=59b96bfa-0e19-4bbe-ac3d-62f1511daa85&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

[[Ray]]

markheal
I am now the third to ask upon what source reference(s)/documents do you base your quest?
Please respect the researchers and their times/efforts to assist?
Thanks and regards

[markheal]

Greetings Ray,
Thank you for your care.
I am afraid that I have mislaid the source of this line but it was printed exactly
"Maker [near Digland], Cornwall".
As previously suggested it may well be a mis-transcription for the nearby Cawsand/Kingsand villages.

[athel_cb]

Athel,
Thank you for sharing that very interesting story,

Let me expand it a little by quoting what Ambrose Bowden wrote to the Collector and Comptroller of Customs at Plymouth in 1818 when asking for a pension:

On the 26th December 1799, I fell in with an armed smuggling cutter near Penlee, which immediately opened fire upon me; notwithstanding which, I persevered in my attempt to board her, with my boat’s crew; although the boat was full of men, I captured her. In this action one of my men (Humphrey Glynn) was killed, and one of the smugglers was afterwards tried, convicted and executed for this murder.

My residence at this period was at Cawsand. The smugglers there have fired at me through their doors, and I have often been very severely injured when forcing my way into their cellars and concealments.

In one instance, they succeeded in getting me jammed between two doors, in which situation they endeavoured to deprive me of my life through pressure, and so I received such serious injury in my shoulders and arms as to prevent my having the use of them for some time.

Exclusive of this, I have repeatedly suffered from severe beatings with oars, sticks, etc., also my life threatened to be taken away before a given period.

If you go to Cawsand today you'll find that it isn't like that!