Roche, Cornwall

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Roche is a village in Cornwall

Other current and historical names

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

Roche in historic gazetteers

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

Roche, par. and vil., Cornwall, near Victoria sta. and 5 miles NW. of St Austell, 6471 ac., pop. 1681; P.O., T.O.; stream tin and porcelain clay are worked; the Roche Rocks, with ruins of ancient hermitage chapel, are 680 ft. high; St Roche's Well, adjacent, was a "wishing well".

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