In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Kerrier like this:
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.
Kerrier through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kerrier in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/17296
Date accessed: 02nd October 2023
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