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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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St Austell, market town and par. with ry. sta., Cornwall, 1½ mile W. of St Austell Bay, 14½ miles NE. of Truro, and 285 SW. of London - par., 12,125 ac., pop. 11,286; town, pop. 3582; P.O., T.O., 4 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-day, Friday. St Austell has some mfrs. of iron, machinery, and woollen cloth, and a pilchard fishery; but it owes its importance to the china-clay works and tin and copper mines in its vicinity. Great quantities of china-clay and china-stone are exported from the neighbouring harbours of Charlestown and Pentewan. About 2 miles NE. of the town is the Carclaze Mine, a vast excavation, of unknown antiquity, which long yielded tin but now yields china-clay. The church of St Austell (restored 1870) is one of the finest in Cornwall. St Austl Bay, 4 miles wide, penetrates 5 miles, and is separated from Mevagissey Bay on the S. by Black Head.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "market town and parish with railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | St Austell CP Cornwall AncC |
| Place: | St Austell |
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