Philleighcivil parish and village in the Carrickdistrict of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... Disambiguation: Carrick is also the name of a town in Tasmania, Australia, and the name of a former part of Ayrshire in Scotland. ... Local government areas called districts are used, or have been used, in several countries. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county at the extreme South-West of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ...
The parish of Philleigh or Filly was anciently called Eglos Ross or Heath Church; it is situated in the Deanery and Hundred of Powder.
Fily, a saint about whom little is known, Philleigh is situated on the beautiful rural Roseland peninsula, which is almost an island in the south of Cornwall, bounded by the sea on two sides and the Fal river on the third.
The parish consists of 2403 acres of land, 20 acres of tidal water and 107 acres of foreshore.
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