churchtown

All visitors to Newquay make their way to Crantock "churchtown", situated on the western side of the Gannel, a small tidal stream which is crossed by means of a plank bridge.

The Cornish Riviera Sidney Heath 1907

They had told the one who came to the farm that Mr. Somers had driven to town, and Mrs. Somers they had seen going across the fields to churchtown.

Kangaroo 2004

It was a rainy afternoon in January, and a boisterous north-wester blew the Atlantic weather in our teeth as we mounted the rise over Vellingey churchtown.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

It was a wild but singularly attractive view from Peter Churchtown, for the simple Cornish folk did not trouble themselves to say "Saint," but invariably added to every village that boasted a church the name of churchtown.

Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870

It was especially applied to the ` cluster of houses adjoining the church, 'in full the churchtown.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 1981