Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARNMENELLIS, or Carn-Menelez

CARNMENELLIS, or Carn-Menelez, a chapelry in Wendron parish, Cornwall; on the river Kennal, near the Cornwall railway, 3 miles S of Redruth. It was constituted in 1846. Post Town, Redruth. Pop., 3,094. Houses, 589. Carn-Menelez hill here is 822 feet high. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £184.* Patron, Mrs. Broadley.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wendron AP/CP       Cornwall AncC
Place names: CARN MENELEZ     |     CARNMENELLIS     |     CARNMENELLIS OR CARN MENELEZ
Place: Carnmenellis

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