In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Baldhu like this:
BALDHU, a chapelry in Kea and Kenwyn parishes, Cornwall; in the northern vicinity of Truro r. station Post Town, Truro. Rated property, £2,000. Pop. 2,070. Houses, 427. The property is not much divided The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £200.* Patron, Viscount Falmouth. The church is very good. The chapelry was constituted in 1846.
Additional information about this locality is available for Truro
Baldhu through time
A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics for administrative units. For the best overall sense of how the area containing Baldhu has changed, please see our redistricted information for the modern district of Carrick. More detailed statistical data are available under Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units covering Baldhu and units named after it.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Baldhu, in Carrick and Cornwall | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23961
Date accessed: 22nd March 2015
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