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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Helland like this:
HELLAND, a village and a parish in Bodmin district, Cornwall. The village stands on the river Camel, near the Wadebridge railway, 2½ miles N of Bodmin, and 5 NW of Bodmin Road r station; was known, at Domesday, as Henland; and has a fair on 10 Jan. The parish comprises 2, 475 acres. Post town, Bodmin. ...
Real property, £1, 716. Pop., 324. Houses, 49. Brodes here was the seat of the Glynn family, and the birthplace of Dr. R. Glynn Clobury, physician and poet. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £196. * Patron, W. Morshead, Esq. The church is ancient, and contains an old monument to a Calwodley.
Helland is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Helland itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Helland in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1625
Date accessed: 07th December 2025
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