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JULIOT (ST.), a parish in Camelford district, Cornwall; on the coast, 5½ miles N by E of Camelford, and 14 WNW of Launceston r. station. Post town, Camelford. Acres, 2, 699; of which 25 are water. Real property, £962. Pop., 226. Houses, 46. The property is much subdivided. A Benedictine or Cluniac priory, a cell to Montacute in Somerset, was here as early as the time of Richard I.; and went, at the dissolution, to Laurence Courtney. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £125.* Patrons, the Dowager Lady Molesworth and the Rev. R. Rawle. The church is a fine ancient structnre; consists of nave, chancel, N transept, and S aisle, with S porch and W tower; was, for years, in very bad condition; and, in 1865, was about to be restored. There are a Bryanite chapel and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | St Juliot AP/CP Camelford RegD/PLU Cornwall AncC |
Place names: | JULIOT ST | ST JULIOT |
Place: | St Juliot |
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