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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"CUBERT, (or Cuthbert), a parish in the hundred of Pyder, in the county of Cornwall, 8 miles S. W. of St. Columb Major, and 9 N.W. of Truro, its post town and railway station. It is situated on the coast, and is a small mining village. Kelsey Point is celebrated for its small breed of sheep. Near the village is a petrifying spring. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Exeter, value £180, in the patronage of the Rev. C. H. Hosken. The church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert, and contains monuments to the Hosken family and others; also a wall painting of the saint to whom it is dedicated. The Wesleyans have a chapel. Here is a parochial school for boys and girls, and a Sunday-school. James Theodore Hosken, Esq., is lord of the manor. At Holywell Beach a fair is held annually.