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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"GORRAN, a parish in the E. division of the hundred of Powder, county Cornwall, 5 miles S.E. of Tregony, and 7 S. of Austell, its post town. It is situated to the S.W. of Mevagissey Bay, on the English Channel, and includes the hamlets of Menegwins, Treninick, Trevear, and Trevarrick. Gorran Haven is a small ancient village in the south-eastern part of the parish, the inhabitants of which are mostly engaged in the pilchard fishery; some few, however, are employed in the coal trade. In early times the Bodrigan family had a castle here. The lands are chiefly arable and the surface hilly. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Exeter, value £258, in the patronage of the bishop. The church is a fine structure, about three centuries old, standing on an eminence from which there is an extensive prospect. It has a handsome tower, surmounted by four pinnacles, and is dedicated to St. Gorranus. There are monuments of the Brannell and other families. The charities are about £1 per annum. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have chapels, and there is a National school for both sexes. Penare and Trevenion are the principal residences. On the high grounds above Dodman's Point are traces of a circular encampment."

"MENEGWINS, a hamlet in the parish of Gorran, county Cornwall, 5 miles S.E. of Tregony."

"PORT-EAST, (or Chapel Point), a hamlet in the parish of Gorran, county Cornwall, 8 miles S. of St. Austell. There was formerly a chapel, now in ruins.

"TRENINICK, a hamlet in the parish of Gorran, county Cornwall, 6 miles S.E. of St. Austell."

"TREVARRICK, a hamlet in the parish of Gorran, county Cornwall, 3 miles S. E. of Tregony."

"TREVEAR, a hamlet in the parish of Gorran, county Cornwall, 5 miles S. of St. Austell."