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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"DULOE, a parish in the hundred of West, in the county of Cornwall, 4 miles N.W. of Looe, and 5 S.W. of Liskeard, its post town and railway station. Mining operations are carried on, mostly in lead-ore. The parish, which is of large extent, contains several small hamlets The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Exeter, value £529, in the patronage of Balliol College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Cuby, is an ancient structure, with castellated tower. It contains an effigy of a knight, and tombs of the Arundels, in slate. There is also a district church at Herodsfoot, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, value £70, in the gift of the rector. Here is a free school, having a small endowment. The remains of a Roman camp and a Druidical circle are to be seen in the neighbourhood."