Philleigh is situated in the Deanery and Hundred of Powder. Philleigh is situated on the Roseland peninsula, which is almost an island in the South of Cornwall, bounded by the ocean on two sides and the River Fal on the third. On the East, it is bounded by Ruan Lanihorne and Veryan and on the South by Gerrans and St Just-in-Roseland. Philleigh is listed in the Domesday Survey of 1086. Villages in the parish are the Churchtown, White Lanes and Treworthall.