Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KERRIER

KERRIER, a hundred in the SW of Cornwall; extending, on the coast, north-westward and north-eastward from the Lizard; bounded, landward, by the hundreds of Penwith and Powder; containing twenty-eight parishes; and cut into two divisions, E and W. Acres, of the E div., 38, 397; of the W div., 65, 041. Pop. of the E div., in 1851, 25, 990; of the W div., in 1851, 21, 065; of both, in 1861, 49, 033. Houses, 9, 913.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Cornwall AncC
Place: Kerrier

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