Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Powder Hundred

Powder Hundred, Cornwall, consisting of 3 divisions - East Division, 54,768 ac., pop. 24,209; South Division, 32,184 ac., pop. 6989; West Division, 50,967 ac., pop. 17,566; the entire hundred contains St Austell and 37 other pars.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Cornwall Ancient County
Place: Powder

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