Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENWERRIS

PENWERRIS, a chapelry in Budock parish, Cornwall; near the Falmouth railway, 2 miles S W of Falmouth. It was constituted in 1848; and its post town is Penryn. Pop., 882. Houses, 164. The living is a p.curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, not reported. Patron, the Vicar of St. Gluvias.


(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: Budock CP       Cornwall AncC
Place: Penwerris

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