SAMPSON'S (ST.), a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of POWDER, county of CORNWALL, 4
miles (S. S. E.) from Lostwithiel, containing 248 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to
the vicarage of Tywardreth, in the archdeaconry of
Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty. W. Rashleigh,
Esq. was patron in 1815. The river Fowey is
navigable on the east of this parish. Here was anciently
a castle of the Earls of Salisbury, the site of
which is called Castle-Dore.