St Pol de Léon, a decayed town in the Breton department of Finistère, near the English Channel, 13 miles NNW. of Morlaix. It has a 13th-century cathedral, dedicated to St Pol, who came hither from Cornwall in the 6th century, and also the Kreizker church, with a beautiful spire 263 feet high. Pop. 3914.
St Pol de Léon
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 97
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