Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Cornwall 1856

MORVAH is a parish, 6 miles north-west from Penzance, and 4 from St. Just, in the western division of Cornwall, Penwith Hundred, Penzance Union, Penwith deanery, Cornwall archdeaconry, and Exeter bishopric. The church is a stone building, in the Gothic style; has nave, aisle, chancel, transept, several monuments, font and a square tower containing 3 bells. The living is a vicarage annexed to Madron, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter; the Rev. Michael M. Peters M.A., of Madron, is the incumbent, and the Rev. John Pope Vibert, M.A., is the curate. There are chapels for Methodists and Bryonites, a school for boys and girls, and a Sunday school held at the church. The population, in 1851, was 367, and the acreage is 1,226. The soil is killas; the subsoil is rock. John Quick, Esq., and Dennis Lory, Esq., are chief landowners. The chief crops are wheat and potatoes.

Roseworthy, Trevella, Trevevan, Trigaminnion, Trevean, Trevorian, Calartha, Carn, Chypraze, and Chywoon are places here.