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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Jacobstow like this:
JACOBSTOW, popularly JEWSTOW, a parish, with a village, in Stratton district, Cornwall; 3 miles SE of Widemouth bay, 7½ S by W of Stratton, and 11½ NW of Launceston r. station. Post town, Week-St. Mary, under Stratton. Acres, 4, 554. Real property, £2, 402. Pop., 462. Houses, 97. ...
The property is subdivided. Two barrows are at Headon. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £243. * Patron, the Earl of St. Germains. The church is ancient, has a granite tower, and was repaired in 1831. There are chapels for Primitive Methodists, Bryanites, and Thornites, and a national school. Digory Wheare, author of a Life of Camden and other works, was a native.
Jacobstow is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Jacobstow itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Jacobstow in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3154
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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