In Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, the churchtown is the settlement in a parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 where the church stands, for example,

• Churchtown Mullion
  Mullion, Cornwall
  Mullion is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Lizard Peninsula approximately five miles south of Helston....
  
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• Churchtown Redruth
  Redruth
  Redruth is a town and civil parish traditionally in the Penwith Hundred in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a population of 12,352. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road , and is approximately west of...
  
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• Churchtown St Hilary
  St Hilary, Cornwall
  St Hilary is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately five miles east of Penzance and four miles south of Hayle.Chynoweth is an area immediately north of St Hilary....
  
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• Churchtown St Merryn
  St Merryn
  St Merryn is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom approximately three and a half miles south of the fishing port of Padstow and approximately 11 miles northeast of the coastal resort of Newquay....
  
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• Churchtown St Minver
  St Minver
  St Minver is the name of an ecclesiastical parish, a civil parish and a village in north Cornwall, United Kingdom.The civil parish of St Minver is in Bodmin Registration District and is nominally divided into St Minver Highlands and St Minver Lowlands .The combined parish is bounded on the south...
  
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• Gorran
  St Goran
  St. Goran is a coastal civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The church town, Gorran Churchtown, is situated approximately six miles south-southwest of St Austell. However, the largest settlement in the parish is the coastal village of Gorran Haven, a mile to the east.The parish is bounded by...
  
   Churchtown,
• Gulval
  Gulval
  Gulval is a village in the former Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. Although historically a parish in its own right, Gulval was incorporated into the parishes of Penzance, Madron and Ludgvan in 1934, and like Heamoor, is now considered to be a suburb of Penzance...
  
   Churchtown,

• Illogan
  Illogan
  Illogan is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated two miles northwest of Redruth.Originally a rural area supporting itself by farming and agriculture, Illogan shared in the general leap into prosperity brought about by the mining boom, which was experienced by the...
  
   Churchtown,
• Mylor Churchtown,
• St Breward
  St Breward
  St Breward is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the western side of Bodmin Moor approximately 6 miles north of Bodmin.The parish name derives from Saint Branwalader...
  
   Churchtown,
• St Kew Churchtown,
• St Levan
  St Levan
  St Levan is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately eight miles south west of Penzance....
  
   Churchtown,
• St Stephen Churchtown
  St Stephen-in-Brannel
  St Stephen-in-Brannel is a civil parish and village in central Cornwall, United Kingdom. St Stephen village is four miles west of St Austell on the southern edge of Cornwall's china clay district.In medieval times the parish lay within the royal manor of Brannel...
  
  
• Zennor
  Zennor
  Zennor is a village and civil parish in Cornwall in England. The parish includes the villages of Zennor, Boswednack and Porthmeor and the hamlet of Treen. It is located on the north coast, about north of Penzance. Alphabetically, the parish is the last in Britain—its name comes from the Cornish...
  
   Churchtown.

The Cornish for "churchtown" is Treneglos

Treneglos

Treneglos is a hamlet and a civil parish in north-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in the Registration District of Launceston.The civil parish is bounded to the north by Warbstow parish, to the east by Tremaine and Tresmere parishes, and to the west by Davidstow parish...

, although only one settlement kept the Cornish name, the rest converting to the English, or not being a settlement before English overtook Cornish and became the main language of that part of Cornwall. The churchtown will not necessarily be the main settlement in the parish.

External links

For other examples in Cornwall, see:

• Cornovia: An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall (A Cornish Sourcebook)