Description

Blisland a parish in Cornwall, on the border of the moors, 4 miles NNE of Bodmin, and 5 1/2 N of Bodmin Road station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Bodmin; telegraph office, St Breward; money order office, St Tudy (R.S.O.) Acreage, 6445; population, 510. Granite, schist, stream-tin, and other minerals are found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; gross value, £495 with residence. The church has a fine brass of 1410, and is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel. A fair is held on the Monday after Sept. 11.