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CHASEWATER, or CHACEWATER, a village in Kenwyn parish, and a chapelry in Kenwyn and Kea parishes, Cornwall. The village stands adjacent to the Cornwall railway, 5½ miles WSW of Truro; is inhabited chiefly by miners; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Scorrier, Cornwall, and fairs on 24 April and 27 Sept. The chapelry was coustituted in 1837. Pop., 4, 629. Houses, 962. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Kenwyn. There are two Independent and two Baptist chapels.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Kea Ch/CP/AP Cornwall AncC |
Place names: | CHACEWATER | CHASEWATER | CHASEWATER OR CHACEWATER |
Place: | Chacewater |
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