Description
Stephens-in-BranneI, St, a parish in Cornwall, 2 miles NW of Burngullow station on the G.W.R., and 4 1/2 W by N of St Austell. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Grampound Road. Acreage, 9292; population, 3590. There is a parish council consisting of fifteen members. The manor was known at Domesday as Brennel, and belonged then to the Earl of Mortaigne. Large quantities of fine china stone and porcelain earth are sent hence to Staffordshire. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; net value, £300 with residence. The church is partly Norman, and was well restored in 1893. There are Wesleyan, Bible Christian, and Free Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
