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RESTOKATION OF JACOBSTOW OHUECH.]«

... Jacobstow church was reopened on Wednesday week I by the Bishop of Truro. The church which is dedicated I to St. James has an interesting history. Before the Conquest, the neighbourhood of Jacobstow may have been densely populated, for barrows and earthworks of the Britons are numerous along the coast. Davies Gilbert' citing Hals, says that when Domesday Book was compiled, 1085-6, Jacobstow ...