Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MITHIAN

MITHIAN, a chapelry in St. Agnes, Kea, Kenwyn, and Perranzabuloe parishes, Cornwall; near the coast, 6½ miles NW of Truro r. station. It was constituted in 1846; and its Post town is Truro. Pop. in 1861,2,085. Houses, 449. Pop. of the St. Agnes portion, 1,158; of the Kea portion, 131; of the Kenwyn portion, 486. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £160.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1862; and is in the decorated English style, cruciform, with W tower and spire.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Perranzabuloe AP/CP       Cornwall AncC
Place: Mithian

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