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DUNDAGELL, OR TINTAGEL.

changes have heen ascribed to combinations and arrangements which were materially varied in the last year.

This parish contains 5,051 statute acres.

Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 £.
5094
s.
0
d.
0
Poor Rate in 1831 901 5 0
Population,— in 1801,
704
in 1811,
821
in 1821,
779
in 1831,
928

giving an increase of about 31 per cent. in 30 years.

GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.

The structure of this parish is not well explored; where-ever the rocks make their appearance, they are found to belong to the calcareous series.


DUNDAGELL, ALIAS DYNDAGELL, ALIAS

BOSITHNEY.

HALS.

Is situate in the hundred of Lesnewith, and hath upon the north, the Irish sea; east, Trevalga; south, Lantegles; west, St. Teth. For the etymology of the first compound word, it signifies the safe, secure, or impregnable fort or fortress; for the second, safe, secure, impregnable, or invincible man; or a man so fortified, magnified, or fenced, by art or nature, that he was not liable to hurt or danger, referring perhaps to the King or Earl of Cornwall, whose fort or castle it was; as also the manor of Dundagell, contiguous therewith, privileged with the jurisdiction of a court leet, and other marks of grandeur over the adjacent country, still pertaining to the Duke of Cornwall.

In the Domesday Roll, 20 William I. (1087), this place was taxed under the name of Dune-cheine. In the Inquisition