Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for POLRUAN

POLRUAN, a village in Llanteglos-by-Fowey parish, Cornwall; at the month of the Fowey estuary, opposite Fowey. It was once a borough; it sent members to parliament in the time of Edward III.; it contains vestiges of Hall House, which was garrisoned in the civil wars of Charles I.; it contains also a stone cross and ruins of an ancient chapel; and it has a post-office under Parstation, Cornwall, and a coast-guard station. Pop.,


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Cornwall AncC
Place: Polruan

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