64 CHARLESTOWN. . [ KELLY'S

Truro alternately, and held since 1894 by the Rev. 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Volunteer Artillery, Alfred Phillips Willway B.A. of London University. Western Division, Royal Artillery (No. 4 Battery), There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1827, with 320 Hon. Major William T. Lovering; Surgeon-Capt. W. aittings. A foundry is carried on here by the Charles­ Mason, medical officer; Rev. A. H. Ferris M.A. acting town Foundry and Iron Works Co. Limited. H.R.H. chaplain the Duke of Cornwall K.G. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late Edward HOLMBUSH, a mining village, is about 1! miles east John Sartoris; Augustus George Crowder, of 8 Monta­ from St. Austell, on the road to St. Blazey, and close gue square, London W; Lieut.-Col. A. S. Hext, of to the Wheal Eliza tin mines, now closed. Trenarren ; Mr. I. W. Kelley ; Richard Carlyon Coo de Post Office. - John Palmer, sub-postmaster. Letters esq. of Moor cottage; Henry Edward Lambe esq. of through Par Station R.S.O. arrive at 8.5 a.m. & 4·45 Rugby; George Richard Gwavas Carlyon esq. of Tre­ p.m. ; dispatched at 8.20 a.m. & 4·So p.m. Charles­ grehan, Par, and the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe P.C., town is the nearest money order &; telegraph office. L.L. The acreage is about 1,6oo; the population in Postal orders are issued here, but not paid 1891 was 2,8o8. SCHOOLS. Sexton, John Pascoe. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. &; Annuity & Insurance St. Austell Board, Charlestown (mixed & infants), erected Office.-Mrs. Eliza Melhuish, sub-postmistress. Let­ 1895, for 130 children; average attendance, 104; Mrs. ters arrive from St. Austell at 8.25 a.m. & 2.35 &; Mary Moore, mistress 8.20 p.m. ; dispatched at 4·45 &; n.so a.m. & 4·45 Boscoppa (mixed & infants), erected 1889, for r4o p.m. ; sundays, arrive 8.25 a.m. ; dispatched, 5 p.m children CHARLESTOWN. Custom House (Frank Rogers, prin- Phillips Rebecca (Mrs.), lodging house cipal officer) &; grocer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Daw Richard, farmer, Merthen Phillips William, farmer, Trenowah Bulteel Henry Jameg, Edwards Charles B. manager of the Rickard William, grocer, Trenowah Endean William CharleSJtown Foundry & Iron Works Robins Eli7!h. (Mrs.), farmer,Boscoppa. Foster 0:>1. Charles, Crinnis house Co. Limited Rowett Rd.fl'!lllr.& carrier, Phernysick HitchinSI Mi">ses Ellery William Henry, dairyman Rowett Robt. Merritt,farmer &; carrier, Knight John, Laurel cottage Heath William, boot maker Sandybottom Lechenic'h Antoine, Marine villa Hill Charles, farmer, Campdown South Cornwall China Clay & China Lovering William Thomas, The Grove Hockin Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Stone Co. ; china clay of all descrip­ Luke William Henry Hockin John, shipwright tions ; rsamples &; prices sent on ap­ Moss Samuel, Boscundle Hocking Thomas, master mariner plication Mutton William Hodge John, butcher Thriscutt & Bale, china clay producers Parnall John J.P Hore Philip, farmer, Trethurgy & merchants Truscott Mrs Hare William, farmer, Grey Trevail '\Yilliam Hy. farmer, Menear •Trusrott Simon Hunkin Sampson, mason, Slades Truscott Simon, ship owner Williams Richard Harris C.E. Cuddra Joliffe John Henry, butcher & farmer Treffry Clunes & Co. tiinber &; gen.mers Willway Rev. ·Alfred Phillips B.A. Jones Wm. gen. shopkeeper,Quay row Tucker Frank, Carlyon inn, Sandy- Vicarage Kingdon James, farmer & carrier, bottom COMMERCIAL. Trethurgy Turner William Jenkin, farmer, Bold­ Alien Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Boscoppa Knight John, cooper &; farmer, The venture Annear Richard, farmer Cooperage Uren James, grocer, Boscoppa. :Bassett Charles, farmer, Pohnear Knight Thos. dairyman,High. Burlawn Warrick .Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Tre- Best Frederick, wheelwright, Tre- Knuckey Isaac, shopkeeper, Brays pl leaven's Cross lane leaven's Cross lane Lee Thomas, boot maker Werry Nicholas, posting establishment :Bettison Thos. cattle dealer, BrayS! pl Luke William Henry, insurance, com­ Werry Thomas, confectioner Ereen Jn. Edwd. wheelwright & smith mission & general agent Wi1liams Richard Harris C.E. mining Brooks Joseph, daaryman Medlin Richard, wheelwright, Trego- engineer, Cuddra :Bulteel Henry J ames, land agent & mi ssey Lane end Wood Geo. chief officer coast guards manager of Charlestown estate & MelhuiSh Eliza (Mrs.), general dra- harbour office pery, m:i11inery, family grocer & HOLMBUSH. Burnard Isaiah, school board attend- dealer in all kinds of paints, oils &c. Abbott John, farmer ance officer, Slades The Post Office Curtis John, boot maker Charlestown Estate &; Harbour Offices Moore John C. dock master Daniel Richard King, farmer & auc- (Henry James :Bulteel, manager) Morcom Wm.frmr.& carrier,Trethurgy tioneer, Trelawney (Jharlestown Foundry &; Iron ·works Mutton Wm. grocer & ship's chandler Hill Charles, farmer Co. Limited (A. E. Gaved, sec. ; Nicholls E. E. & Co. china clay mer- Joliffe Richard, farmer Charles B. Edwards, manager) chants; cb:ina clay of all descrip- Mallalue George, butcher Coade John, Rashleigh Arms hotel tions ; samples & prices sent on ap- Martin Charles, tea dealer Olast Guard (Geo. Food, chief officer) plication Northcote James, butcher & dairyman Cornwall (1st) (Duke of Cornwall's) Opie William, farmer, Cuddra Palmer John, shopkeeper, Post office Volunteer Artillery,Western Division Osbo"rne Christr. farmer, Trenowah Pascoe Arthur, travelling draper Royal Artillery (No. 4 Battery) (Hon. Pascoe Andw. shopkpr. Sandybottom Thomas George, Hohnbush Jnn, & coal Major W. T. Lovering, commander) Pascoe Philip, posting- establishment merchant ; good stabling & every Creba John, blacksmith, Treleaven's Pearce Joseph, shopkeeper, Trenowah accommodation for travellers Cross lane Penhall Isaac, grocer, Trenowah Turner Joseph, linen draper • 'ST. CLEER is a village and parish, 2~ miles north roofed, the windows l'eproduced in Polyphant stone and 'from , in the South Eastern division of the the Norman doorway restored ; the carved pulpit, by -county, hundred and petty sessional division of West, Hems, of Exeter, was presented in 18g6 by the Misses Liskeard union and county court district, Tural deanery Norris, of this p!lrish: there are 550 sittings. The re­ of West, archdeaconry of and diocese of . gister dates from the year 1678. The living is a vicar­ Part of this parish was included within the borough of age, net yearly value £183, with residence and 5 acres Liskeard, under the charter granted to that borough in of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held 15 86, and was transferred to the civil parish of Lis­ since 1896 by the Rev. Thomas Studden Lanyon. There keard, March 24, 1884, by Local Government Board are Bible Christian and Free Methodist chapels. The "Order, 16,548. The Liskeard and Caradon railway for Cemetery, nearly an acre in extent, with a mortuary -the conveyance of minerals "passes through. The church chapel, but unconsecrated, is the property of a private of St. Cleer is a building of stone in the late Perpen­ company. The Police Station was built in 1859. A short dicular ~tyle, consisting of chancel, 'nave, aisles, south distance east of the church, on the descent of the road, ·porch and a western tower of granite in three stages, are the remains of the ancient well or baptistery of St. '97 feet high, with pjnnacles at the angles and two but­ Cleer, formerly inclosed within a small chapel, part of tresses at each angle, also terminating with pinnacles the entrance of which, with other portions, remains : on rising above the parapet: the tower contains 6 bells, one side of the well stands an ancient cross, about 7 all cast in 1789 : in the north wall of the chancel is a feet 2 inches high, with a cross in Telief on lboth sides hagioscope; a piscina also remains : the font is Early of it ; the cross has been restored in memory of the English: on the north side is a Norman doorway, with Rev. John Jope, 68 years vicar, from 1776; and the zigzag mouldings : there are memorials to the families well by the Rogers family. In a pathway field between of Jape, 1844-54; Oonnock, 1757·1804, and :t..angford, Redgate and St. Cleer are two ancient stone monuments, 161 4• with a curious and lengthy inscription: the cliurch one of which, about 7 feet high, is sculptured on one was repairM about 1870, when the chancel was new side, and seems to have been part of the shaft of a •