Description
Grid reference: SW 58 41
Ecclesiastical parish; originally a chapelry in Phillack. Archdeaconry of Cornwall. Deanery of Penwith. The parish was united with Phillack to form the parish of Phillack with Gwithian.
Hundred of Penwith. Gwinear-Gwithian civil parish.
Chronological Sequence
Gwythyen, 1566; Gwithyan, c.1600; Gwythian, c.1600s, 1604, 1636, Gwithian, 1672, 1703, 1736; Gwythian, 1748, 1769; Gwithian, 1819, 1884, 1979, 1980
Forms by Earliest Occurrence
Gwythyen : 1566
Gwithyan : c.1600
Gwythian : c.1600s, 1604, 1636, 1748, 1769
Gwithian : 1672, 1703, 1736, 1819, 1884, 1979, 1980
References
Gwythyen
RIC, HendCal 5, c.1920s, §4, citing from HB/19/24, 1566 (*)
Gwithyan
RIC, HB/5/115a, c.1600 (*)
Gwythian
CRO, ARD/TER/15, c.1600s (*)
CRO, AR/2/1345, 1604 (*)
RIC, HendCal 5, c.1920s, §160, citing from HB/19/34, 1636 (*)
Gwithian
CRO, AR/4/278, 1675 (*)
CRO, AR/4/299, 1703 (*)
CRO, AR/4/301, 1736 (*)
Gwythian
Martyn, 1748, map
Borlase, 1769, opp p208
Gwithian
2249 acres, 72 houses and, in 1811, 372 inhabitants.
Penaluna, 1819, p99
Symons, 1884
Peskett, 1979, p2
Youngs, 1980, p61