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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.
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