Place:


Mount Hawke  Cornwall

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mount Hawke like this:

MOUNT-HAWKE, a chapelry in the parishes of St. Agnes and Illogan, Cornwall; near the coast, 2½ miles N by W of Scorrier-Gate r. station, and 4¼ NNE of Redruth. It was constituted in 1846; and it has a postoffice under Scorrier. Pop. in 1861,2,226. Houses, 465. Pop. of the St. Agnes portion, 2,024. Houses, 424. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £130. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.

Additional information about this locality is available for St Agnes

Mount Hawke through time

Mount Hawke is now part of Carrick district. Click here for graphs and data of how Carrick has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mount Hawke itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mount Hawke, in Carrick and Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24439

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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