Description
Budock or St Budock, a parish in Cornwall. It adjoins Falmouth on the SW, extends thence to Falmouth Bay, includes Pendennis Castle, and has ready communication with Falmouth railway station. Post town, Falmouth. Acreage, 3734; population of the civil parish, 2414; of the ecclesiastical, 1397. Granite abounds. A college was founded in 1270 at Glasenay by Bishop Bronescombe. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro. The church contains monuments of the Killigrews, and is good. It is the mother parish and church of Falmouth and Penwaris, and in the 13th century was the mother church of St Gluvias also. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
