Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRADDON

FRADDON, a hamlet 4¼ miles S of St. Columb-Major, in Cornwall. It has a fair on 3 July. Calliquoiter Rock, about ½ a mile E of it, rises 690 feet above sea-level, and contains mixtures of schorl and granite.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Cornwall AncC
Place: Fraddon

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