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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mount Hawke like this:
MOUNT-HAWKE, a chapelry in the parishes of St. Agnes and Illogan, Cornwall; near the coast, 2½ miles N by W of Scorrier-Gate r. station, and 4¼ NNE of Redruth. It was constituted in 1846; and it has a postoffice under Scorrier. Pop. in 1861,2,226. Houses, 465. Pop. of the St. Agnes portion, 2,024. Houses, 424. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £130. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.
Mount Hawke is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mount Hawke itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mount Hawke in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24439
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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