"churchtown" meaning in English

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          "text": "Attached to a house in the churchtown is a tablet inscribed thus:— […]",
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          "ref": "1791, Peter Barfoot, John Wilkes (of Milland House, Sussex), The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture (volume 2, page 539)",
          "text": "About half a mile Southwest of the churchtown is Tredrea, the seat of the Rev. Edward Giddy."
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          "text": "Like many Cornish fishing villages, Gorran is in two parts: a cluster of cottages and houses built around the harbour, and higher inland a 'churchtown', where the streets are broader, the houses bigger and the smell of fish (in the past) less invasive.",
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