Description
Wadebridge, a small seaport town in Egloshayle and St Breock parishes, Cornwall, on the river Camel, with stations on the G.W.R. & L. & S.W.R., 279 miles from London, and 6 NW by W of Bodmin. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, three banks, two chief inns, a seventeen-arched bridge, a masonic hall, and a literary institution. A handsome town-hall was erected in 1888, and is a building of local stone with granite dressings. The market days are Tuesday and Friday, a fair is held on 22 June, and a cattle market is held on the second Tuesday in every month. The nearest churches are those of the parishes of St Breock and Egloshayle. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Bible Christian, and Free Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
