In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Penponds like this:
PENPONDS, a chapelry, with a village, in Camborne parish, Cornwall; on the West Cornwall railway, near Gwinear-Road r. station, and 4 miles W S W of Camborne. It was constituted in 1849; and its post town is Camborne, Cornwall. Pop., 2,012. Houses, 393. Penponds Bottom is crossed by a viaduct of the railway, and presents a pretty scene. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is modern.
Additional information about this locality is available for Camborne
Penponds through time
Penponds is now part of Kerrier district. Click here for graphs and data of how Kerrier has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Penponds itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Penponds, in Kerrier and Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24240
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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