Description
Helland, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands on the river Camel, 3 miles from Bodmin station on the G.W.R. It was known at Domesday as Henland, and in Camden's " Britannia," 1695, in the map of Cornwall it is marked as Helolan. There is a post office under Bodmin; money order and telegraph office, Bodmin. Acreage, 2493; population, 199. Brodes was the seat of the Glynn family, and the birthplace of Dr R. Glynn Clobury, physician and poet. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; value, £130 with residence. The church is ancient, and contains an old monument to a Calwodley. It was restored in 1888. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and some ancient earthworks in the parish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
