COLAN, a parish in the hundred of PYDER, county
of CORNWALL, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from St. Columb-
Major, containing 259 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, anddiocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £6.13.4.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Exeter. The
church is dedicated to St. Golan. There is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here is a charity
school. In this parish is a celebrated spring, called
Our Lady of Nantz' well.