DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. .:MITHIAN. !J3l leaving an only daughter, who married Sir Robert Hunger- Letters through Boscastle R.~.O. The nearest money ford: in 1812 some portions of the fabric were dug out of order & telegraph office is at Boscastle the site of the castle. Miss Hellyar is lady of the manor, and w. s. Hawker esq. and the trustees of the late Richard Spry The place is include~ in the United School Board district of esq. are chief landowners. The soil is dark loam; the sub- Boscastle, fonned ID I875 soil is rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Boa1·d School was erected in I 879 at a cost of £6oo & the The area is 3,322 acres; rateable value, £2,7II; and the [ old National school is also used; (boys), James Merrick population in r88r was 451. master; (girls & infants) Miss SuahJane .Minchin,mistres~ D'Aeth Henry William, Mount Pleasant Dunstone James, farmer, Holwill Stephens John, farmer, Trebilow Jennings Thomos Haskin, Fern cottage Everitt Hi ram, mason Tucker John, farmer, Polrunney Rickard James, Trehane house Hawkin ~'illiam, farmer, Trekeek ' Uglow William, farmer, Tregatherall Hoskin Grace (Mrs.),frmr. Horragutter Venning Elizabeth & Salome (Misses), COMMERCIAL. Matthews John, farmer, Vendown shopkeepers Baker Digory, frmr. Lower 'Worthyvale Mill Thomas, farmer, New farm Wallis Sampson & Son,farmers,Tredorn Chubb John, farmer, Tresuck Pearce Edwin, frmr. HigherWorthyvale Wickett William, farmer, Trelay Cobbledick William, farmer, Condolin Pethick William, farmer, Trevilla park I ST. MINVER is a village and parish, in the Eastern the \'illage of Rock, and consists of chancel, na,·e, sontb division of the county, hundred of Trigg, Bodmin union transept, vestry and a turret over the south porch containing and county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry I bell : there are two piscinre, and a font of sandstone: the ·Of Bodmin and diocese of Truro, 3 miles north-east from east window is a memorial to An ne and Lucy Sandys, erected Padstow, 12 north-west from Bodmin and 15 miles from by the parish of St. Minver in 1867, and a cross on the Bodmin road station. The church of St. Minifreda, restored south gable, erected by Mary P. Brune, also commemorates in 1872, is a building of stone, in the Early English style, the same: there is a monument to \'\'"illiam Rounsevall gent. consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower with spire I659, and Jane his wife, 1679 : opposite the porch is the -containing 5 bells: there is an elaborate marble monument round head of an ancient cross: the church was well restored to John Roe, who died in 1657, and others to Thomas in r867: afternoon service is held in each alternately. Darrell, I697; Thomas Hamet, I6I4; Thomas Stone gent. There are Wesleyan, Bible Christian and Free Methodist 1604, and Elizabeth his w1fe, 1636; a brass with effigies to chapels. The charities amount to£ 11 yearly. In that part Roger Opy, and Elizabeth (Carminow) his wife, I5I7, besides of St. Minver called" The Lowlands," is Jesus' well, a rec­ uumerous memorials of more recent date: the east window tangula-r structure with a truncated gable roof and an is a memorial to Mrs. Ann Sanrlys and her daughter Lucy, arched entrance; at the back of the well is a niche, in which .and there is another to William Sandys Sandys esq. I846, a crucifix may have been placed. At the village of Rock is .and l\Iary Anne Sandys, his sister, I849. The register of a ferry across the Camel to Padstow, for foot passengers baptisms and burials dates from the year 1558; marriages, only. H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall is lord of the manor. 1559. The living is a vicarage: the tithes are commuted The principallandowners are the Rev. Edward Sandford lll.A. at £360, net yearly income £350, with residence and 45 Robert Stephens esq. Capt. Cyril Dudley Fortescue, Lord acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of the late Mrs. Robartes, Col. Arthur Tremayne D.L., J.P. J. Tremayne esq. Stephens and held since I87I by the Rev. Septimus Rolleston. J.P.,D.L. Captain Potter, William Teague esq. and Miss Arun­ There are two chapPls of ease in this parish, both near the dell Yeo. The soil is sandy; subsoil, rock. The chief crops estuary of the Camel, and opposite Padstow-St. Enodock are wheat, barley and roots. The parillh is divided into and St. Michael, or Porthilly; the former, surrounded with Highlands, containing the mother church, and Lowlands, drifts of sand, which sometimes has been known to rise as containing the two chapels. The united area is 8,683 acres high as the roof, was first built in 1430, and consists of (including I,I05 of W.lter); rat~ble value of Highlands, chancel, nave, south aisle, north transept and a tower of £6,432; and of Lowlands, £2,504; the population. in x88I two stages with octagonal broach spire, attached to the was-Highlands, 537; Lowlands, transept and containing I bell: there is a Norman font, and Sexton, John Burton. one window is stained : the structure, at one time unroofed and dismantled, was effectively restored in t863 : in the PosT OFFICE.-Tom Huller, receiver, Rock. Letters receh·ed churchyard is an ancient granite cross, about 5 feet high: through Wadehridge R.S.O. arrive at IO a.m.; dispatched the drifting sands are now becoming permanently fixed by at 2.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office the rapid growth of the arundo arenaria, or sand rush. St. is at Wadebridge Michael's chapel is a building of Perpendicular date, situated School, supported by a voluntary rate; William Rowe, on the margin of a small creek of Padstow Harbour, near master; Mrs. Lucy Jackson, mistress Colman Mrs. Rock hill Gummow William, blacksmith & Mably Thomas, farmer, Keiro (Means) Dnrraut John James, Tredizzick bridge farmer, Pittimee Mably Wm. Hy. farmer, Treglyn down Martin John, Rock Hawken Joseph Burt, farmer, Carruan Male John Guy, farmer & boot & shoe Martyn Miss, Treglines Hawken Roger Gill, frmr.Treguarmona maker, Tredizzick Mear Waiter, Rock Hawkey Geach, farmer, Trelines Male William, butcher, Tredizzick Rolleston Rev. Septimus, Vicarage Hawkey Thomas, farmer, Trelines Martyn John, carpenter Rowe James, Park cottage Hicks Thomas, farmer, Treneens Mills William, farmer, Great Keiro Trevanthan Miss, Rock Hitchings John, carpenter, Rock hill Pascoe Joseph, boot maker coliMERCB.L. Hoskin Robert, farmer, Treverra Pascoe Thomas, farmer, Trenant Beswetherick Thomas, farmer & miller lvey John, farmer, Little Porthilly Pengelly Richard, farmer, Cant (water), TrevelvPr Ivey William, boot & shoe maker Philips Ann (Miss), shopkeeper Biddick John, farmer, Mesmear Ivey William, farmer & seedsman, Philp Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Blake David, farmer, Tregena Tredizzick bridge Tredizzick Blake David, jnn. farmer, TI"edower James George, carpenter Profitt Charles, farmer, Penmaine Blake Francis, farmer. Dinham Johns Thos. shopkeeper, Pittimee lane Profitt John, farmer, Highe-r Penmaine Blake Henry, farmer, Shalders Kent Joseph, farmer, Withels tenement Profitt Francis, farmer, Cock's Mo:rles Bosancoe John, mason Keat John, farm bailiff to William Prout Harriett (Mrs.), frmr.Porthillock Brickwood John, mason & farmer Teague esq. Trelawder Randall Henry, fanner, Trewint Bnller Sarah (:\fiss), shopkpr.Tredizzick ' Keat Saml. miller (water), Shilla mills Randall John Lynham,farmer,Stopatide Huller Tom, shopkpr. & post off. Rock Ley John, farm bailiff to Thomas Read Henry, farmer, Trestire Burton Wm. & Jhn. farmers, Porthilly lireen wood esq Rosevear Henry, farmer, Treroman Cann Jas. farmer, Sparnall Stich Liddell Thomas, farmer, Treglines Rowe Richard, farmer, Pentire glaze C'oleman Francis, farmer, Treranger l\Iably 'William, fa.rmer, Trewiston Rowse James, Ne1o inn Collings John, farmPr, Portquin ~!ably Gregory Barker,farmer,Pittimee Symons Edward, farmer, Rosesorow Emery Sarah Ann& Alice ptisses),Rock Mably John, farmer, Little Trevigo Tremain Thomas, farmer, Trefreesa hotel, Rock 1\lably John, farmer, Trebetherick Tummon \\'illiam, farmer, Trevigo Goodman John, farmer, Rosewin 1\lably John, jun. farmer, Trebetherick Williams Thomas, blacksmith Greenwood William, farmer, Porteath Mably John, jun. farmer, Trewint Wills John, farmer, Trebetherick Good man William, carpenter , Mably Robt. farmer & shopkeeper, Rock Wills Wm. Anthony, farmer, Carlyn MITHIAN is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1846 district, rural deanery of Powder, Cornwall archdeaconry and from the civil parishes of St. Agnes, Kea, Kenwyn, and Per- diocese of Truro. The church, in the centre of the parish, ranzabuloe, in the Western division of the county, west is 5~ miles north-west from Trnro, 3! north-by-east from dirision of Powder bun lred, Truro union and county court Redruth, and 2 north from Chacewater station on the West ()l .