CHASEWATER, or Chacewater, a village in Kenwyn parish, and a chapelry in Kenwyn and Kea parishes, Cornwall. The village stands adjacent to the Cornwall railway, 5 ½ miles WSW of Truro; is inhabited chiefly by miners; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Scorrier, Cornwall, and fairs on 24 April and 27 Sept. The chapelry was constituted in 1837. Pop., 4,629. Houses, 962. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Kenwyn. There are two Independent and two Baptist chapels.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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