GENNYS (St.), a parish in Stratton district, Cornwall; on the coast of the Bristol channel, 10 miles NNE of Camelford, and 15 NW of Launceston r. station. Post town, Boscastle, Cornwall. Acres, 5, 516; of which 30 are water. Real property, £2, 501. Pop., 572. Houses, 122. The property is much subdivided. The surface is diversified with pleasant vale and bold hills. The rocks include slate and copper ore. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £146.* Patron, the Earl of St. Germans. The church is ancient, but good; and there are a U. Free Methodist chapel, and a national school.

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