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WADEBRIDGE, a small sea-port town in Egloshayle and St. Breock parishes, Cornwall; on the river Camel, 6 miles NW by W of Bodmin. It is connected by a tram railway with Bodmin; and it has a head post-office‡ designated Wadebridge, Cornwall, a banking office, two chief inns, a seventeen-arched bridge, a small dock, three dissenting chapels, a weekly market on Friday, cattle-markets eight times a year, and four annual fairs. Pop., 777.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a small sea-port town" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
Administrative units: | Cornwall AncC |
Place: | Wadebridge |
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