The streets of Camelford with be ringing with the sound of music on the evening of Wednesday, May 23rd when the town's Library hosts "Music By The Library" with the renowned Triggshire Wind Orchestra.
The members of the Triggshire Wind Orchestra come from the old Shires of Trigg: Bude, Camelford, Tintagel and Boscastle.
The Orchestra has around 30 members and is a part of the County Music Orchestra's giving children the chance to play in an orchestral setting.
The parishes of Triggshire consisted of Bodmin, Blisland, St Breward, Egloshayle, St Endellion, Helland, St Kew, St Mabyn, St Minver, St Teath, Temple, St Tudy.
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As mentioned in Theory One, this land district called Trigg Hundred presently consists of 12 parishes and is located in northeast Cornwall.
As Padel states, "a confirmation of the ancient status of the north Cornish hundreds as a single unit subdivided into three parts." In the seventh-century Life of Samson is the following 'pagum quem tricurium vocant' which would essentially mean 'greater triggshire'.
Perhaps our family took on the surname of 'Trigg' originally because we lived in the Trigg Hundred land district.
There are some other factors which also need to be born in mind in that Cornwall is a notable exception to the 'shire' rule when considering the adjacent plethora of shire-suffixed English counties.
Also the fact that within the Earldom of Cornwall there existed six divisions of land, now called hundreds, which in some mediaeval records are identified as 'Triggshire', 'Wivelshire', 'Poudershire', 'Pidershire', 'Penwith' and 'Kerrier'.
This leads me to present the only too obvious argument that Cornwall was a country in miniature with an administrative structure to match.
www.kernowtgg.co.uk /county1.html (3388 words)
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Perhaps the proper counties are the 'shires' so that excludes Kent and Middlesex and Cornwall.
I will mention shires just once more - Triggshire was once part of north east Cornwall.
Someone has asked me this in the pub and I am trying to collate enough evidence to come down on one answer.
