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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pool like this:
POOL, a village in the S W of Cornwall; adjacent to the West Cornwall railway, 2 miles S W of Redruth. It has a post-office under Camborne, Cornwall.
Pool is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Pool itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Pool in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26416
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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