Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BOLVENTOR

BOLVENTOR, a chapelry in Alternon and St. Neot parishes, Cornwall; 7 miles N of Liskeard r. station, and 9 SW of Launceston. Post Town, Alternon, under Launceston. Pop., 344. Houses, 67. It was constituted in 1849. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £75.* Patron, Francis Rodd, Esq. The church is very good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Altarnun AP/CP       St Neot CP/AP       Cornwall AncC
Place: Bolventor

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