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Crantock, Cornwall

Historical Description

Crantock, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, at the mouth of the river Gannel, 9 miles WSW of St Columb-Major, and 2 from Newquay station on a branch of the G.W.R. Post town, Grampound Road; money order and telegraph office, Newquay. Acreage, 2552, of which 95 are water; population, 321. Treago and Tregonell were old seats of respectively the Mynorses and the Tregonells. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £71 with residence. Patron, Lord Churston. The church belonged to a college, founded here by the Bishops of Bodmin before the Conquest, and is good.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyCornwall 
Ecclesiastical parishCrantock St. Cadock 
HundredPyder 
Poor Law unionSt. Columb Major 

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

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CountyCornwall
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtTR8
Post TownNewquay

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