MORVAH, a parish in the hundred of PENWITH,
county of CORNWALL, 6 miles (N. W.) from Penzance,
containing 325 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Madron, in the archdeaconry
of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter. The
church has lately received an addition of two hundred
and ninety-two free sittings, the Incorporated Society
for the enlargement of churches and chapels having
granted £250 towards defraying the expense. There
is a place of worship forWesleyan Methodists. The
parish is bounded on the north by St. George's channel.
At Tregaminian are the remains of an ancient chapel;
and Castle Clum, in the neighbourhood, is the most regular
Danish fortification in the county.