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The parish of St Dennis, (Cornish: Dinas), is situated in the Deanery and Hundred of Powder. It is bounded on
the north by the parish of Roche, on the east by Roche and St
Stephen-in-Brannel, on the south by St Stephen-in-Brannel, and on the west by
St Enoder and St Columb Major. It is named after St Denys the Martyr, although
as the Church is on a hill top, the name may be a corruption of the Cornish
word Dinas, meaning 'Hill Fort'. Dimilioc represents a smaller
hillfort inland 20 miles south of Tintagel now occupied by the parish Church of
St Dennis - it is within an estate listed as Dimelihoc in the Doomsday Book of
1086. In the reign of Henry VIII, St Denys was the only parish in Cornwall with
the prefix 'Saint'.
The parish lies to the north-west of St Austell and is bounded to its
north-west by the River Fal and the countryside consists of a number of small
villages and hamlets. The main industry is china clay extraction in the south
of the parish and farming in the north; most of the farmland is pasture. There
is an area of moorland called Goss Moor to the north. The Churchtown was built
up for miners and comrises numerous cottages. The villages are Hendra,
Whitebait, Treleaver, and Ennis-Cavan.
The Cornwall Family History Society have published on-line Monumental Inscriptions for the Parish Church - 935 entries.
Census information for this parish (1841 - 1901) is held in the
Cornwall
Record Office. The Cornwall Family
History Society offers a census search service for its members. The Cornwall Family History Society have also published on-line census detail by surname on the FamilyHistoryonLine site.
Specific census information for this parish is available as follows:
The parish of St Dennis has been in the Registration District of St Austell continuously from 1st July 1837. There were sub-districts at Fowey, Grampound, Mevagissey and St Austell, but these have now been abolished. Parishes within the district are: Creed, Fowey, Gorran, Grampound, Mevagissey, Roche, St. Austell, St. Blazey, St. Dennis, St. Ewe, St. Mewan, St. Michael Carhays, St. Sampson, St. Stephen in Brannel, Tywardreath. The Superintendant Registrar can be contacted at: 12 Carlyon Road, St Austell, PL25 4LD. Tel: 01726 68974. Fax: 01726 68974.
The On-line Parish Clerk (OPC) scheme operates a service to help family historians; the OPC page for this parish is available on-line, from where the OPC can be contacted by email.
St Dennis parish was part of the St Austell Union for Poor Law administration and parish relief.
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The St Denys & District Old Cornwall Society News Page is on-line.
The parish comprised 3231 acres of land and 9 acres of water.
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