Author:   Lorigan, Catherine
Publisher:  The History Press
ISBN 978-1-83705-040-6
Format:  294 pages, illustrations (some coloured), bibliography, index.
Description:  Padstow is one of the most popular of Cornwall visitor destinations and here is a properly researched account of all that has made it the town it is today.  It is a remarkably varied and fascinating story, presented here under 5 principal headings – The Monastery and the Church, The Town, The Sea, Visitors to and Inhabitants of Padstow , and Law and Order.  These sections are subdivided into wide-ranging headings, a random selection of which might be: The Origins of Padstow – Sixth Century; The Poor Law – Seventeenth Century; The Prideaux Family – Sixteenth Century; , The Railway – Nineteenth Century; The Black Rock Ferry – Fourteenth Century; Wrecks and Wreck of the Sea – Seventeenth Century; Malachy Marten and the East India Company – Seventeenth Century; John Brett – Pre-Raphaelite Artist – Nineteenth Century; The Tudor Conquest of Ireland – Seventeenth Century; Corn Riots -Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries;  and so much more besides.