A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
HELLAND, a village and a parish in Bodmin district, Cornwall. The village stands on the river Camel, near the Wadebridge railway, 2½ miles N of Bodmin, and 5 NW of Bodmin Road r station; was known, at Domesday, as Henland; and has a fair on 10 Jan. The parish comprises 2, 475 acres. Post town, Bodmin. Real property, £1, 716. Pop., 324. Houses, 49. Brodes here was the seat of the Glynn family, and the birthplace of Dr. R. Glynn Clobury, physician and poet. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £196. * Patron, W. Morshead, Esq. The church is ancient, and contains an old monument to a Calwodley.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Helland CP/AP Bodmin RegD/PLU Cornwall AncC |
| Place names: | HELLAND | HENLAND |
| Place: | Helland |
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