Description
Mewan, St, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands 1 1/2 mile SW by W of St Austell and half a mile from Burngullow station on the G.W.R., and is a considerable but primitive place. Post town, St Austell. The parish contains also the hamlet of Trewoon. Acreage, 2653; population, 1092. St Mewan's Beacon is a hill of greenstone rock, rising 385 feet above sea-level. Copper and tin are found, and there are traces of silver and gold. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; value, £230 with residence. The church has lost the uppermost stage of its tower. There are a Methodist chapel and a reading-room.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
