A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
RAME, a parish in St. Germans district, Cornwall; on the coast, 5 miles S W by S of Plymouth r. station. Post-town, Cawsand, under Devonport Acres, 1, 231; of which 45 are water. Real property, £2, 140. Pop., 792. Houses, 160. The property is divided among a few. Rame Head projects into the English channelfrom Maker heights; terminates a semicircular range ofcliffs, coming eastward from Looe; is the nearest land to Eddystone lighthouse; commands a view of the Cornish coast, away to the Lizard; is crowned with the ruin of a chapel; and is the Kriou Metopon or Ram's Head of Ptolemy. Penlee Point, 2 miles E by N of that headland, flanks the W end of the entrance of Plymouthsound, and is crowned by a beacon. There is a coast-guard station. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £214.* Patron, the Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe. The church is good; and there are charities £12.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Rame CP/AP St Germans RegD/PLU Cornwall AncC |
| Place: | Rame |
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