Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for St Keyne (or St Kean)

St Keyne (or St Kean), par. and vil., Cornwall - par., 944 ac., pop. 162; vil., on river Looe, 2 miles S. of Liskeard; P.O.; near the vil. is the famous Well of St Keyne, which Southey has made the subject of a ballad.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: St Keyne Parish       Cornwall Ancient County
Place names: ST KEAN     |     ST KEYNE     |     ST KEYNE OR ST KEAN
Place: St Keyne

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