Description
Grid reference: SW 37 31
Ecclesiastical parish. Archdeaconry of Cornwall. Deanery of Penwith.
Hundred of Penwith, West Division. St Just civil parish.
Chronological Sequence
Sancti Justi, 1291; Seynt Iuste, Seynt Iuyste, 1469-70; St Just in Penwith, 1595; St Just, 1602; St Ewste, c.1602; St Iuste, 1607; St Uste, 1609; St Just in Penwith, 1613; St Just, 1620; St Just, St Just in Penwith, 1640; St Just in Penwith, 1665, 1676; St Just, c.1680; St Just West, 1699; St Just Penwith, 1701; St Just, 1720; St Just in Penwith, 1723; St Iust, 1743; St Just, 1761, 1819; St Just in Penwith, 1884, 1899, 1979
Forms by Earliest Occurrence
Sancti Justi : 1291
Seynt/St Iuste : 1469-70, 1607
Seynt Iuyste : 1469-70
St Just in Penwith : 1595, 1613, 1640, 1665, 1676, 1701, 1723, 1884, 1899, 1979
St Just : 1602, 1620, 1640, c.1680, 1720, 1761, 1819
St Ewste : c.1602
St Uste : 1609
St Iust : 1743
References
Ecclesia Sancti Justi
In the Decanatus de Penwithe.
Hingeston-Randolph, 1889, p470, citing from 1291
Seynt Iuste
Seynt Iuyste
CRO, AR/2/99, 1469-70
St Just in Penwith
CRO, BU/435, 1595 (*)
St Just
CRO, AP/W/11/1, 1602 (*)
St Ewste
CRO, AP/W/11/2, c.1602 (*)
St Iuste
CRO, RH/7/14/3/1/1, 1607 (*)
St Uste
CRO, AP/T/2/6, 1609 (*)
St Just in Penwith
CRO, ARD/TER/49, 1613 (*)
St Just
CRO, CF/1367, 1620 (*)
St Just
St Just in Penwith
CRO, SA/25, 1640 (*)
St Just in Penwith
CRO, CF/1365, 1665 (*)
Population, not including children under 16, is about 700.
CRO, AD592/29/8, 1676 (*)
St Just
CRO, CN/1665/2, c.1680 (*)
St Just west
Gascoyne, 1699, gazetteer
St Just Penwith
CRO, CF/1368/1, 1701 (*)
St Just
RIC, HZ/2/1, 1720 (*)
St Just in Penwith
CRO, BRA2355/159, 1723 (*)
RIC, HW/18, 1723 (*)
St Iust
Cowley, 1743, map
St Just
CRO, AR/15/152-153, 1761 (*)
6984 acres, 606 houses and, in 1811, 3057 inhabitants.
Penaluna, 1819, p133
St Just in Penwith
Symons, 1884
St Just-in-Penwith
Hingeston-Randolph, 1899, p1626
St Just in Penwith
The modern parish of Pendeen was taken out of this parish in 1849.
Peskett, 1979, p3
Place Names in the Parish of St Just in Penwith
Settlements
Topographical Place Names
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