Philleigh
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Philleigh is a civil parish and village in Cornwall
Cornwall
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, England
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, in the United Kingdom
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, one of the four in the Roseland Peninsula.

History

The Manor of Eglosrose is mentioned in the Domesday Book
Domesday Book
Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

and the remainder of the parish was in the episcopal Manor of Tregear. The parish church is dedicated to St Fili or Filius. The remains of themansion of the Arundells are at Talverne: associated with it were two medieval chapels, mentioned in 1384.

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