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Lezant, Cornwall

Historical Description

Lezant, a parish in Cornwall, between the rivers Inny and Tamar, 5 miles S of Launceston station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. It contains the villages of Trebollet, Trekenna, and Rezare, and the hamlet of Trewarlet. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Launceston. Acreage, 4841; population, 680. Landew, formerly the seat of the Herles, is a chief residence. Trecarrell, now an ivied ruin, was a mansion partly built by Sir John Trecarrell but never finished. A lead mine is near Landew. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; value, £328 with residence. The church is ancient, has a pinnacled tower, and contains monuments of the Herles, the Trecarrells, and the Trefusises. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Free Methodist chapels.

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 parishLezant St. Breock 
HundredEast 
Poor Law unionLaunceston 

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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Maps

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Visitations Heraldic

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CountyCornwall
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPL15
Post TownLaunceston

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