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THOMAS (St.) The Apostle, a parish, with St. Thomas-Street hamlet, in Launceston district, Cornwall: within Launceston borough. Post town, Launceston. Acres, 1,817. Real property, £2,473. Pop. in 1851. 1,005; in 1861, 887. Houses, 199. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £110. Patrons, the Rate-payers. The church occupies the site of a canonry founded, in 1126, by Bishop Warlewast; and is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Launceston RegD/PLU Cornwall AncC |
Place: | St Thomas the Apostle |
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