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80 CRANTOCK. -CORNWALL. [ KELLY's Rowe -, farmer, Trethellan Sleeman Salat-hiel, farmer, Trewothiel Stephens Mary (Mrs.), apartments Rowe Thomas, farmer, West Pentire Stephens James, miller (water), corn Thomas Charles, farmer, Trevella Salmon J onathan, miller (water) & & flour merchant, Treago mill Trebikock J'oseph, blacksmith farmer, Trevemper (letters through Cubert, Gram- Yelland John, farmer, Plains Sleeman Minnie (Miss), mess maker pound Road) CREED, with Grampound chapelry, is a parish and of glebe, with hou-se, in the gift of C. H. T. Hawkins township, 3 miles south from Grampound Road station esq. and held since I895 by the Rev. Charles Baker M.A. on the Great Western railway, 6 south-west from St. of Exeter College, Oxford. Garlenick, the propel"ty of Austell and 9 east from Truro, in the Mid division of John Gwennap Dennis Moon~ esq. J.P. of Trewithen, the county, west division of Powder hundred, petty ses- Probus, was rebuilt early in the present century, and sional division of Powder South, St. Austell union and is pleasantly situated in a wooded valley, it is now (r9or) county court district, rural deanery of Powder, arch- unoccupied. Christopher Henry Thoma.s iHawkins esq. deaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Truro. The river of ro Portland place, London W. is lord of the manor. Fal, which separates this parish from Probus, is crossed The principal landowners are the Earl of Mount Edg at Grampound by a substantial stone bridge of two cumbE} P.C., L.L. Viscount Falmouth, Viscount Glifden, arches. The church of St. Orida. is a building of stone, George R. G. Carlyon esq. John C. L. Tremayne esq. in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of Heligan, St. Austell, John Charle>~ Williams esq. of of five bays, south aisle, north transept, south porch and Caerhays Castle, St. Michael Caerhaye-s, :Michael Henry an embattled western tower, built in I733· with four Williams esq. of Pencalenick, the trustees of the late pinnacles and containing 3 bells, of which the treble is Rev. John Daubnz B. A. and John Hwennap Dennis undated; the second has an inscription to St. Thomas, Moore esq. of Trewithen. The soil is a rich loam: in Old English letters; the tenor was cast in r633: in subsoil, marl and clay. The chief crops are wheat, the transept is a stoup, with a Norman shaft and De- barley, oat~ and root·s. This is purely an agricultural eo rated hood moulding: the rood loft stairs and part district. The area is 2,66r acres of land and 5 of water; of the screen remain: there are memorials to Thomas rateable value, £3,050; and the population (exclusive of Denys gent. I$8g, and Marion, his wife, I57o, and Henry Grampound) in rgor was 232. Denys B.C.L. their son, r6o2, with others of a later Parish Clerk, John Richards. date: the church has 200 sittings. The register, in- Letters through Grampound Road, arrive at 8 a.m. eorporating Grampound, dates from the year I653· The Grampound is the nearest money order & telegraph living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Grampound office, about one mile dist.ant annexed, joint net yearly value £285, including 30 acres The school for this parish is in Grampound Baker Rev. Charles M.A. Rectory Daddow Josiah, farmer, Trewinnow Reynolds Samuel, farmer, Treswallan Dundee Col. Robert H. Quarry pare Filkins Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Pengilly Richards W. & C. farmers Grigg Joseph, farmer, Nantellan Richards J. P. farmer, Tregonjohn COMMEllCllL. Hawken Jsph. & Jn. farmers, Nancor Roherts Samuel, farmer, Tregidgio Arthur Margt. (Mrs. ),farmr. Trevillack Kent John, miller (water), Baileys ml Smith Hy. Danl. buwher,Hewas water Brood Wm. Hy. farmer, Trewarmenna Lane John, farmer, Oorwinnick Stephens Edwin, farmer & asst. over- Olark Richard, farmer, Trencreek Magor John, farmer, Pennans seer & rate collector, Garlenick Dnngey Frances ('1rs. ), farmer, Michell Richard, farmer, Pencoyse Stephens John, farmer, Polglaze Ventonwan Nettle Richard, farmer, Trekain Tretheway Samuel, farmer CROWAN is a township and parish, near the road branches of the river Hayle and surrounded by a high from Camborne to Helston, 4 miles south from Cam wall about 4 miles in circumference: the mansion was borne station on the West Cornwall section of the Great twice burnt down within 6 years (I837 and I843), but Western railway, and near the Praze and Nancegollan has been rebuilt: it contains a collection of pictures by stations on the Helston branch of the same line, in the eminent 'Illasters. The Rev. St. Aubyn H. Molesworth North Western division of the county, Penwith hundred, St. Aubyn M.A. who is lord of the manor, the Duke ot petty sessional division of Penwith East, Helston union Leeds and Lord Churston are the chief landowners. The and county court district, rural deanery of Kirrier, arch soil is loam; subsoil, principally granite. The rhief crops deaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Truro. The church are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 7•478 of St. Crewenna, restored and re-pewed in 1872 at a acres of lan<1 and r·B of water; rateable value, £8,758; cost of upwards of £2,ooo (exclusive of the chancel, the population in I·8gr was 2,468. restored by the patron), is a building of granite, in the CROW\AN BEACON rises to an altitude of 721 feet; Gothic style, with some incongruous Classic additions, near it is a large mass of stone called " Black Rock": consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled here i8 a Wesleyan chapel. western tower, 70 feet high, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, re-hung in rB-gt) at a cost of nearly £roo: the BENNERTON, 3 miles west; BOLITHO, 2~ miles north aisle contains several monuments to the St. Aubyn east; CARN TREMAYNE, I~ miles north-east; and family, and alsa the ancient brasses of the St. Aubyns DRYM, 2 miles west-south-west, with the remains of (r4oo-1599), of which engravings are given in Polwhele's an ancient encampment, are all hamlets. ·" History of Cornwall" ; these were in r893 bedded in KERTHEN is a hamlet 4~ miles south-by-west from slate and replaced in the aisle: the existing memorials Crowan Church. range from I629 to 1839: in the south aisle is a window ;to Henry Jenkin of Kerthen, 186o; the stained east NA.c~CEGOLLAN is a hamlet r~ miles west-by-south on the road from Camborne to Helston, with a station on ·..window was given by Mrs. H. J. Molesworth-St. Aubyn, the Helston branch of the Great Western railway. There in memory of her husband; another at the end of the is a Wesleyan chapel with a cemetery attached. south aisle is a memorial to the wife of George Hickman Jolms esq. of the India civil service and son of the late RALEATH hamlet is I~ miles south-east, and has a vicar, who died at Poonah, India, in r876, and J. Tre Wesleyan chapel. ·menheere J ohns, his brother, who was drowned at TO'WNSHEND is a village 4 miles west-south-west, Oxford in r835 : on the exterior east wall is a memorial and has a W esleyan chapel. ·to ,Richard Tregeare, with a quaint inscription, r668 : in r8<J2 a vestry and organ chamber were lmilt by the LEEDS TOWN, so named after tbe Duke of Leeds, is "Patron of the living, an organ erected by Mrs. Moles a village on the road from Hayle to Helston, 3 miles west worth-St. Aubyn, in memory of her father and mother, from Orowan church, and 4 miles south-east of Hayle. -and a south porch built as a memorial to the Rev. John The mission church of St. James, opened in August, r882, White Johns M.A. vicar, I884-9: there are sittings for by Dr. Benson, sometime Bishop of Trnro, and late Arch about 400 persons. The register of baptisms dates from bishop of Canterbury, is a building of stone in the Early the year r6g2; marriages, r696 ; burials, r697. The English style, and consists of chancel, nave, north porch living is a vicarage, net income £294• with residence and and a bell turret containing one bell: the church was built 45 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Rev. St. Aubyn by subscription at a cost of £soo, the font being given Render Molesworth-St. Aubyn M.A. and held since r88g by the builder, Mr. William Carah, of Praze, and has by the Rev. Charle-s Rowland Wynne de Cerjat, rural sittings for roo persons. Here is also a '\Vesleyan chapel dean of Kerrier. Here are reservoirs for the supply of and a Bible Christian chapel. the parishes of Crowan, Ca-mborne and Illogan, and hnld PRAZE, or Praze-an-beeble, is a village I mile north ing about 26,ooo,ooo gallons. The inhabitants are chiefly west, with a station on the Helston branch of the Great occupied in mining and agriculture. Clowance, the seat Western railway. There are Wesleyan and Free Metho of the Rev. St. Aubyn Render Mol66worth-St. Aubyn dist chapels. A yearly cattle and pleasure fair is held here M.A., J.P. is a mansion of granite, situated in a well on the rsth July, and a feast is also held on the nearest wooded park containing a lake formed by one of the Snnday to Candlemas (2nd February). .

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