St Just in Penwith (Parish)
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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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