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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PERRANZABULOE, a parish in Truro district, Cornwall; 1¾ mile from the coast, and 5½ N W of Truro r.station. It has a fair on 16 March; it contains the village of Perranporth, which has a post-office under Truro; it includes part of the chapelry of Mithian; it extends3 miles along the coast; and it takes its name, signifying" St. Piran-in-the-Sands, " from devastating sand-drifts. Acres, 11, 340; of which 385 are water. Real property, £7, 992; of which £1, 882 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 3, 114; in 1861, 2, 959. Houses, 603. The property is much subdivided. Lambourn belonged to the Arundells; Penwortha, to the Vyvians; Tywarnhaile, to the Tyeses. Chiverton is a chief residence. Copper, lead, and tinare mined. Perran-Round, which we have separatelynoticed, is a chief antiquity; and there are a barrow and three camps, severally British, Roman, and Saxon. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £415. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The church was rebuilt in 1805. Two previous churcheswere overwhelmed by the sands; and one of them, afterhaving been lost to view for ages, was discovered in 1835. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Perranzabuloe AP/CP Cornwall AncC |
| Place: | Perranzabuloe |
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