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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described St Thomas the Apostle like this:
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.
St Thomas the Apostle is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about St Thomas the Apostle itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of St Thomas the Apostle in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1354
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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