churchtown

See also: Churchtown

English

Etymology

church +‎ town

Noun

churchtown (plural churchtowns)

(UK) In the southwest of England, a hamlet or village distinguished by being the location of a parish church.
Zennor Churchtown
- 1872, Joseph Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall:
  Attached to a house in the churchtown is a tablet inscribed thus:— […]
- 1791, Peter Barfoot, John Wilkes (of Milland House, Sussex), The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture (volume 2, page 539)
  About half a mile Southwest of the churchtown is Tredrea, the seat of the Rev. Edward Giddy.
- 2015, Kirsty Fergusson, Cornwall (Slow Travel), page 163:
  Like many Cornish fishing villages, Gorran is in two parts: a cluster of cottages and houses built around the harbour, and higher inland a 'churchtown', where the streets are broader, the houses bigger and the smell of fish (in the past) less invasive.

Derived terms

Mylor Churchtown

References

“church town”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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