NEOTS, St., a town of the county of Cornwall, in the hundred of West, distant 226 miles from London. It is said to have been built by a relation of King Alfred, who died here in 899, and was buried at the place of the same name in Huntingdonshire. The population amounted in 1801 to 906, in 1811 to 1041, in 1821 to 1255, and in 1831 to 1424.