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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Carnon like this:
CARNON, a stream and a village in Cornwall. The stream runs 4 miles south-eastward, down a valley, to the head of a creek of Falmouth harbour, 4 miles N of Falmouth. Great tin stream works were carried on at its mouth, over a space 300 yards wide, upwards of a mile long, some distance into the bed of the estuary, and banked round to keep off the water; but have been abandoned. The village stands a short way up the stream; and has extensive works for preparing arsenic from arsenical pyrites.
Carnon is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Carnon itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Carnon in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24220
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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