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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"TOWEDNACK, a parish in the W. division of Penwith hundred, county Cornwall, 2½ miles S.W. of St. Ives, its post town, and 6 N. E. of Penzance. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in mining and agriculture. In this parish are the Wheal Durla and Wreath Consol's mines. The living is a vicarage annexed to that of Lelant-Ewing, in the diocese of Exeter. The interior of the church contains some mural monuments. The Wesleyans have four chapels, and the Teetotal Methodists one. The Duke of Cleveland and W. B. Praed, Esq., are lords of the manor and principal landowners. A fair for the sale of cattle is held on the 26th of September."