Charlestown, Cornwall

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Charlestown is a village in St Austell, Cornwall

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Charlestown within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Charlestown in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Charlestown.-- eccl. dist. and seaport vil., St Austell par., E. Cornwall, pop. 2749. The vil. is 2 miles SE. of St Austell; P.O., T.O.; has harb., docks, and shipbuilding yards; also pilchard fisheries, and a large export trade in porcelain clay.

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