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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Moorswater like this:
MOORSWATER, a village in the E of Cornwall; 4 miles W of Liskeard. It stands among orchards, in a wooded valley, at a nexus of canal and railway, communicating between the Caradon copper mines and the Cheesewring granite quarries on the one hand and the Port of Looe on the other; and it has paper mills. The valley is spanned by a very long railway viaduct, 150 feet high, supported on tapering piers of stone, and extending from hill to hill.
Moorswater is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Moorswater itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Moorswater in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24238
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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