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Lostwithiel is a civil parish and small town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at the head of the estuary of the River Fowey. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,739, increasing to 2,899 at the 2011 census. The Lostwithiel electoral ward had a population of 4,639 at the 2011 census. The name Lostwithiel comes from the Cornish "lostwydhyel" which means "tail of a wooded area".
Lostwithiel was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1304 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
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Cornwall played a significant role in the English Civil War, being a Royalist enclave in the generally Parliamentarian south-west.
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- ↑ "CURTEYS (COURTEYS), John II, of Lostwithiel, Cornw. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
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