JUST (ST.), a parish in the hundred of PENWITH,
county of CORNWALL, 7 miles (W. by N.) from
Penzance, containing 3666 inhabitants. The living is
a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £11.11.0%., and
in the patronage of the Crown. There is a school with
a small endowment. Mines were worked here at a very
early period; and near the spot about one hundred
copper coins were found, in. the early part of the last
century. On. the Botallock estate is a famous tin and
copper mine, which extends a considerable distance
under the sea. Here are the ruins of Chapel Carne Ere,
built on a very large cairn, or tumulus; and on the
plain above Cape Cornwall, which is the extreme western
point, are those of an ancient chapel, called Parken
chapel, with a cemetery. The parish is bounded on the
west by the Western ocean. Dr. William Borlase, the
Cornish antiquary and naturalist, was a native of
Pendeen, in this parish, where his family resided.