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navigation, search Trelawny in Jamaica.svg Location latitude
18°15'N, longitude 77°46'W Capital town Falmouth Major towns
Clarks Town, Duncans, Wakefield, Wait-a-Bit, Albert Town
Bordering Parishes Saint James, Saint Elizabeth, Manchester,
Saint Ann County Cornwall Area 874 square km Rank Jamaica's
fifth largest parish Population 74,000 in 2001 Commerce
Agriculture, Manufacturing  Trelawny (Jamaican Patois: Trilaani)
is a parish in Cornwall County in northwest Jamaica. Its capital
is Falmouth. It is bordered by the parishes of Saint Ann in the
east, Saint James in the west, and Saint Elizabeth and
Manchester in the south.   In 1770, the wealthy planters in St
James and St Ann succeeded in having sections of those parishes
become the parish of Trelawny as they were too far from
administrative centres. Trelawny was named after William
Trelawny, the then Governor of Jamaica. The first capital was
Martha B