Pillaton, in the hundred of East, joins to the west with Quethiock and
Lanrake, to the north with St. Mellyn, to the east with St. Dominick
and Landulph, to the south with Botusfleming.
This church is a rectory, valued in the King’s Book at £16. 15_s._
6_d._; the patronage in Sir John Coryton, Bart. In 1291, 12 Edw. I.
this church was valued (Tax. Benef.) at xlvi_s._ viii_d._ having never
been appropriated.
The manor is called in Domesday Book “Pileton,” being one of the
manors which William the Conqueror gave to Robert Earl of Morton, when
he made him Earl of Cornwall.