Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NIGHTON (St.)

NIGHTON (St.), a chapelry in St. Winnow parish, Cornwall; 2 miles E S E of Lostwithiel r. station. Post-town, Lostwithiel. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of St. Winnow, in the diocese of Exeter. The church is dedicated to St. Necton.


(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: Cornwall AncC
Place names: NIGHTON ST     |     ST NIGHTON
Place: St Nighton

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