The number of acres in each of the hundreds, according to Mr.
Hitchins’s measurement, and the population from the last Parliamentary
Statements, including Voltersholm, and the other small pieces of
Cornwall artificially placed in Devonshire and the Islands of Scilly.
Acres. Population.
Powder 128,115 Penwith 74,867
East 112,647 Powder 61,911
Pyder 92,713 Kerrier 56,074
Penwith 90,957 East 35,086
Kerrier 89,051 Pyder 25,689
West 81,558 West 18,254
Lesnewth 61,132 Trigg 13,057
Trigg 54,574 Stratton 8,815
Stratton 48,934 Lesnewth 8,277
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759,681 302,030
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The three south-western hundreds, Penwith, Kerrier, and Powder contain
nearly two-thirds of the whole population.
And of the two divisions of Cornwall, the East division is in round
numbers about twice as large as the West division, while the West
division has twice the population of the East.