Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LANNARTH, or LANNER

LANNARTH, or LANNER, a village and a chapelry in Gwennap parish, Cornwall. The village stands 1¾ mile SE of Redruth r. station; and has a post-office, of the name of Lanner, under Redruth.—The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Rated property, £7,874. Pop., 2,615. Houses, 569. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £183. Patron, the Rev. John Tucker. The church was reported in 1859 as not good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Gwennap CP/AP       Cornwall AncC
Place names: LANNARTH     |     LANNARTH OR LANNER     |     LANNER
Place: Lanner

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