In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described St Clether like this:

CLETHER (St.), a parish in Camelford district, Cornwall; on the river Inny, 7 miles E by N of Camelford, and 7½ W of Launceston r. station. Post town, Altarnun, under Launceston. Acres, 2, 960. Real property, £2, 414. Pop., 229. Houses, 42. The property is much subdivided. The rocks include granite and hornblende. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £165.* Patron, not reported. The church is good. Remains of a small chapel are over a spring, called Basil's well.

St Clether through time

St Clether is now part of CORNWALL Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CORNWALL has changed over two centuries. For statistics about St Clether itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of St Clether in Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5108

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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