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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.
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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Camborne CP/AP Cornwall AncC |
| Place: | Penponds |
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