Kerrier Hundred
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The hundred  of Kerrier was the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall

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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...

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. Kerrier (sometimes Kirrier) is thought by Charles Thomas to be derived from an obsolete name (ker hyr = long fort) of Castle Pencaire on Tregonning Hill, Breage. It is likely that an even earlier name for the district was Predannack which has been displaced by the Lizard Peninsula as a geographical name.

Parishes in Kerrier hundred

St Anthony-in-Meneage

St Anthony-in-Meneage

St Anthony-in-Meneage is a coastal civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish is in the Meneage district of The Lizard peninsula...

, Breage

Breage, Cornwall

Breage is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated three miles west of Helston....

, Budock, Constantine

Constantine, Kerrier

Constantine is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately five miles west-southwest of Falmouth....

, Cury

Cury

Cury is a civil parish and village in southwest Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately four miles south of Helston on The Lizard peninsula. The parish is named for St Corentin and is recorded in the Domesday Book as Chori....

, Falmouth

Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....

, Germoe

Germoe

Germoe is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Germoe village, the parish's principal settlement and church town, is situated approximately five miles west of Helston and seven miles east of Penzance. The A394 Penzance to Helston road runs along the southern boundary of the...

, St Gluvias

St Gluvias

St Gluvias is a civil parish and settlement in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is now a suburb on the northern edge of Penryn which is situated two miles northwest of Falmouth.-Church history:...

, Grade

Grade-Ruan

Grade–Ruan is a civil parish on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom approximately ten miles south of Falmouth....

, Gunwalloe

Gunwalloe

Gunwalloe is a coastal civil parish and a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Lizard Peninsula three miles south of Helston and partly contains The Loe, the largest natural freshwater lake in Cornwall.-History:...

 alias Winnington, Gwennap

Gwennap

Gwennap is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately five miles southeast of Redruth....

 with St Day

St Day

St Day is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated between the village of Chacewater and the town of Redruth.St Day is located in a former mining area and St Day accrued considerable wealth from mining...

, Helston

Helston

Helston is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately 12 miles east of Penzance and nine miles southwest of Falmouth. Helston is the most southerly town in the UK and is around further south than...

, St Keverne

St Keverne

St Keverne is a civil parish and village on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 started in St Keverne. The leader of the rebellion Michael An Gof was a blacksmith from St Keverne and is commemorated by a statue in the village...

, Landewednack

Landewednack

Landewednack is a civil parish and a hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated approximately ten miles south of Helston.Landewednack is the most southerly parish on the British mainland...

, Mabe

Mabe, Cornwall

Mabe is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated one mile west of Penryn....

, Manaccan

Manaccan

Manaccan is a civil parish and village on the Lizard peninsula in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately five miles south-southwest of Falmouth....

, St Martin-in-Meneage

St Martin-in-Meneage

St Martin-in-Meneage is a civil parish and village in the Meneage district of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The village is five miles south-southeast of Helston....

, Mawgan-in-Meneage

Mawgan-in-Meneage

Mawgan-in-Meneage is a civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in the Meneage district of The Lizard peninsula south of Helston in the former administrative district of Kerrier....

, Mawnan

Mawnan

Mawnan is a civil parish in south Cornwall, United Kingdom . It is situated in the former administrative district of Kerrier and is bounded to the south by the Helford River, to the east by the sea, and to the west by Constantine parish...

, 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....

, Mylor, Perranarworthal

Perranarworthal

Perranarworthal is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately four miles northwest of Falmouth and five miles southwest of Truro....

, Ruan Minor, and Ruan Major

Grade-Ruan

Grade–Ruan is a civil parish on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom approximately ten miles south of Falmouth....

, Sithney

Sithney

Sithney is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is named for Saint Sithney, the patron saint of the parish church....

, St Stithians

Stithians

Stithians is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It lies in the centre of the triangle bounded by Redruth, Helston and Falmouth. Its population is 2,004....

, Wendron

Wendron

Wendron is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles north of Helston.The Revd G. H. Doble served for almost twenty years as the Vicar of Wendron . Langdon recorded the existence of eight stone crosses in the parish, including two at Merther Uny...

External links

• Thomas Moule
  Thomas Moule
  Thomas Moule was an English antiquarian, writer on heraldry, and map-maker. He is best known for his popular and highly decorated county maps of England, steel-engraved and first published separately between 1830 and 1832....
  
  , The Hundred of Kerrier, 1838