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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"ST. ERME, a parish in the hundred of West Powder, county Cornwall, 3 miles N.E. of Truro, its post town. It includes the hamlet of Trespan, and part of that of Tresillian. It formerly belonged to the Killigrews, who had a seat here. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Exeter, value £473. The church is a modern stone structure, built on the site of the old one. It is dedicated to St. Erme, and contains some monuments with quaint inscriptions. The parochial charities produce about £8 per annum. There are some ancient British burial-places in the neighbourhood.