Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ROCHE

ROCHE, a village and a parish in St. Austell district, Cornwall. The village stands 2 miles N N W of Hens-barrow Beacon, and 5 N N W of St. Austell r. station; was known, at Domesday, as Treroache; and has a post-office under St. Austell; and fairs on 24 May, 18 July, and 10 Oct. The parish comprises 6, 440 acres. Real property, £5, 143; of which £1, 189 are in quarries, and £60 in mines. Pop., 1,882. Houses, 379. The property is divided among a few. The manor was ancientlyheld by the De Rapes. Roche Rocks, ½ a mile S of the village, rise to an altitude of 680 feet above sea-level; consist of quartz and friable schorl; terminate in greatmasses, piled confusedly together; and enclose, on thesummit, remains of an ancient hermitage chapel, in decorated English architecture. St. Roche's well is in thevicinity of the Rocks; and is superstitiously visited, by some of the peasantry, as "a wishing well." Hensbarrow Beacon is on the S boundary, and rises to an altitude of 1,034 feet. Stream tin and porcelain clay are worked; and the latter is sent, by way of Liverpool, to Staffordshire. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £413.* Patrons, the Trustees of the late J. Thornton, Esq., and J. Rashleigh, Esq. The church was re-built in 1822. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Bible Christians, and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Roche AP/CP       St Austell RegD/PLU       Cornwall AncC
Place names: ROCHE     |     TREROACHE
Place: Roche

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