Talland

Talland is a diminutive Cornish hamlet on the county’s south coast, sitting between Looe and Polperro. Today the settlement is part of the parish of Polperro and retains a deliberately simple footprint: a church, the Old Vicarage and a handful of houses. Its identity has shifted through the 20th century—when in 1931 the parish recorded a population of 768, and on 1 April 1934 the civil parish was abolished, merged with Lansallos and with part contributing to the formation of Looe. Once an ecclesiastical parish and a civil parish in its own right, Talland’s quiet cluster of buildings offers a clear sense of place rooted in Cornwall’s south-coast landscape. Visitors passing between the better-known neighbours of Looe and Polperro will find Talland’s modest composition a reminder of the county’s small, enduring communities: a church at its heart, an Old Vicarage beside it, and a few houses that together mark this hamlet’s discreet presence on the Cornish map.