Phillack, Cornwall

Description
Phillack, a parish in Cornwall, on St Ives Bay and the river Hayle, 1 mile from Hayle station on the G.W.R., and 4 miles SE by E of St Ives. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Hayle. It contains the hamlets of Angarrack, Guilford, Logans, and Venton League, and also part of the seaport town of Hayle. Acreage, 2938; population of the civil parish, 4673; of the ecclesiastical, 244. The portion of the civil parish of Phillack formerly under the Phillack Local Board has now an urban district council consisting of fifteen members. The other portion of the parish formerly under the Hayle Local Board, with part of the parish of St Erth, has also an urban district council. Drifting sand has largely encroached on the land from the shore, and forms menacing towans. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Gwithian, in the diocese of Truro; net value, £140 with residence. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1856. There is a Wesleyan chapel.