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From Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, 1893:
Withiel is a parish and village, watered by a small tributary of the River Camel, 8 miles west from Bodmin Road station on the Great Western Railway and 5 west from Bodmin, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Pydar, Bodmin Union and county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bodmin and Diocese of Truro. The church of St Uvell is a building of stone and granite, in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing five bells: there are 300 sittings.
The register of baptisms dates from the year 1567; marriages and burials, 1568. Here are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels. The Rev Sir Vyell Donnithorne Vyvyan, Bart., of Trelowarren, Mawgan-in-Meneage, is lord of the manor.
The soil is clay and marl; subsoil, stone, intermixed with iron. The chielf crops are cereals. The area is 3,005 acres; rateable value, £2,520; the population in 1891 was 338. National School (mixed), built in 1827 and enlarged in 1837, for 109 children; average attendance, 38; Alfred Roskilling, master.
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