Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Charlestown

Charlestown.-- eccl. dist. and seaport vil., St Austell par., E. Cornwall, pop. 2749. The vil. is 2 miles SE. of St Austell; P.O., T.O.; has harb., docks, and shipbuilding yards; also pilchard fisheries, and a large export trade in porcelain clay.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district and seaport village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: St Austell CP       Cornwall AncC
Place: Charlestown

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