7 1070 CLETHER. CORN\VALL. [KELLY S watered by the river lnney, over which there is a stone Letters through Launceston arrive at II.I$a.m. every week bridge of three arches : on the banks o1 the river is a granite day. is the nearest money order & telegraph cros~, nearly 7 feet in height, and there are three others on office the barton, which is 827 acres in extent. H. Carlyon esq. is lord of the manor, and Graham White esq. Richard and A School Board of 5 members was formed August 16, 1875; John Northey are chief landowners. The soil is of a C. Venning, Cairo, Otterham, clerk to the board mixed nature; the subsoil is slate and rock. The chief of Board School (mixed), built in 1876, for 55 children; a\·er­ the land is in pasture. The acreage is 2,960 ; rateable value, age atte.J.dance, 45 ; Thomas Clogg, master £2,II9; the population in 1891 was 197. •

Partridge Rev. Francis, Vicarage Hill George, farmer, Treg~;.lland Sleep James, farm bailiff to Tboma. CO:MlUJRCIAL. Ktte Joseph, farmer Pearce esq. New park Bray Thomas, farm bailiff to Ephraim N orthey John, farmer Snow Francis, farmer, Cold Northcote Gimblett esq Northey Richard, farmer, Treboy Taylor Sampson, farmer, Trem~er Burnard Thos. farmer, Up. Woolgarden L'e:trse Henry, farmer, Old park Veale William, farm bailiff to Edward Chambers William, farm bailiff to Pearse Hugh, farmer, Higher B!1sil Kittow esq. Ven park William Tink esq. Glebe Pearse Hugh, jun. farmer, Tamill Venning Edward, farmer, Lower B11sil Gregory John, farmer, Abovelanes Rickard Jane (Mrs.), farmer Venning George, farmer, Tremeer Ha wkelsaac, frm. bailiff toJn. Kit~ow esq Rickard Richard, farmer, New house Venning James, farmer, Trefrank Heard Alfred, blacksmith Rowe John, farm b'liliff to Alfred J. Venning John, farmer, Abovelanes Herring Thomas, farm bailiff to Henry Hender esq Vosper Richard, farmer, Tremeer ' Gimblett esq ; I • COLAN (or ST. COLAN) is a parish on a stream called the members of the Creser family ; in the south aisle is one 1o Ryalton, near the north coast of , 3 miles north­ John and Elizabeth Rouse, of Trebudannon, and one in the north-west from St. Columb Road station on the tower to the Rev. Matthew Nixon Brougham M.A. vicar 1872- branch of the Great Western railway, 4 miles south-west 81: there are sittings for 176 persons. The register dates from from St. Columb Major, in the Mid division of the county, the year 1665. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge hundred and petty sessional division of Pydar, St. Columb .£"145, average £uo, net yearly value£1o7, including 17 acres Major union and county court district, rural deanery of of glebe, with house, in the gift of the .Bishop of , and Pydar, archdeaconry of Cornwall and . The held since 1892 by the Rev. Charles John Louis Lavanchy. church of St. Colun is an ancient buildin~; of stone, in the A new Wesleyan chapel was erected at Mountjoy in 1892, Early English and Perpendicular styles, stated in an inquisi­ and the old one is now used as a Sundav school. The annual tion of the bishops of Lincoln and Winchester to have been feast is held on the first Sunday after.the first Thursday in erected by Waiter .Branscombe, bishop of Exeter, about 1250, May. An ancient circular encampment exists here, near to and by him assigned to the Augustine Canons of his College which a flint implement was discovered by W. P. Hoblyn of Glasney, near Penryn: it consists of chancel, nave of five esq. in 1870. At Lady Nance, in this parish, is an ancient bays, north aillle, south transept, south porch and an well or spring, to which it is said in former days people embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 3 resorted in order to ascertain their fortunes for the coming bells : in the south wall of the chancel is a large slab, year by throwing crosses of wood into the water and watch­ formerly on the floor, with brasses to John Cosowarth, of ing if they sank or swam. The Rev. Sir Vyell Donnithorne Cosowarth esq. receiver-gPneral of the , Vyvyan bart. J.P. of Trelowarren, Mawgan, and William ob. 20 Dec. 1575 ; these include effigies of himself in armour, Paget Hoblyn esq. ~r.A., J.P. of the Fir Hill, Colan, are the his wife Dorothy (Lock), se,·en sons and one daughter, two chief landowners. The soil is clay slate; the subsoil is clay shieids of arms and a marginal inscription : in the wall of the slate. .Brown umber is raised on the estate of W. P. Hoblyn ncrth aisle is a slab of slate with another brass to :ffrancis esq. in this parish. The chief crops are wheat, barley, Bluet, ob. 20 May, 1572, and Elizabeth (Colon), his wife, turnips, oats and mangold wul'tzel. The area is 1,973 with effigies of both, standing on either side of an impaled acres; rateable value, £,2,079 ; the population in 1891 was shield of arms, and below these figures of 13 sons and nine 222. daughters ; the verge of the slab bears an incised inscrip­ MouNTJOY is a township ~ mile south; BosouGHA.N1 a tion, and below the brass is an admonition as from the hamlet nearly half a mile from the church. deceased: thel'e are other memorials to the Rev. John Gurney, a former vicar of this parish, d. 1790, and to James Letters by foot post arrive at 10.15 a. m. through St.Columb Magor Ca.rdell, d. 1864: the rood stairs remain in the south R.S.O. St. Columb Mmor is the nea.re>t money order wall, and some portions of the screen, well carved, still & telegrapb office exist: the tower was rebuilt and the bells rehung in 1879, at WALL LETTER BoxEs-by church, cleared at 2.45 p.m. week a cost of £490, and the church was thoroughly restored in days only; & Mountjoy, cleared at 3·5 p.m. week days z884, when it was reseated and refloored, the chancel only repaved and a very elabol'ate brass lectern placed: at the A School Board of 5 members was formed Dec. 29, 187-t-; R. same time the east window was filled with stained glass as a Rundle, jun. St. Columb Minor, clerk to the board memorial to the Rev. John Creser, for 34 years vicar of this BoanJ School ~mixed), for so children; average attendance, parish, and other windows inserted in the north aisle to 1 30 ; Miss Agnes Edith Gouk, mistress Colan. Ralph.Arundell,farmer,TheFirHill farm ParkynJoseph,farmr.HigherBosoughan Hoblyn Capt. William Ernest Paget, Rickard Felix, farmer, Penhill Rundle Richard, farmer The Fir bill RoskellyEmma(Mrs.),frmr.Lower town Hoblyn Wm. Paget M.A.,J.P.The Fir hill Rowe Frank, farmer, Coswarth Mountjoy. Lavanchy Rev. Charles John Louis,The Bundle Thomas, farmer, Colan Barton Gill Russell, carpenter Vicarage Hu~o Henry, market gardener Lavanchy Mrs. The Vicarage Libby William, blacksmith & farmer Lean Christopher, Polwyn Bosoughan. Ralph William Caddy, farmer Bettison James, farmer, White cross Hawke William, farmer, Salathials Trebilcock George, shoe maker Kingdon William, miller (water) & Higman James, shoe maker Veale Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper farmer, Melancoose ST. COLUMB MAJOR is an ancient market town and· chancel with aisles, transepts, nave of three bays, aislJs, north parish, on the road from Camelford to Truro, at the head of , and south porches, and an embattled western tower, stand­ the vale of Lanherne, and is head of a union and coanty · ing on open arches, with pinnacles, and containing 8 bells: court district, 2i miles north from St. Columb Road station in 1676 the chancel, originally 10 feet longer, was injured by on the Newquay branch of the Great Western (Cornwall an explosion of gunpowder: the south chancel aisle was for­ Minerals) railway, 244 from London, 8 south-west from merly a chapel, built or rebuilt before 1427 by Sir John and x6 north-east from Truro; it is in the Mid Arundell kt. of Lanherne, and under which several members division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of this family are buried: in the nave floor, on the south side, of Pydar, rural deanery of Pydar, archdeaconry of Cornwall is the very fine brass, one of the most elaborate and interest­ and diocese of Truro. In 1865, under the provisions of the ing in the county, originally placed in the Arundell chapel, Local Government Act, a reservoir was <:onstructed and to Sir John Arundell K.B. and kt. banneret, ob. Feb. 1545, water laid on throughout the town; the cost ot both gas and and Elizabeth (Grey), his 1st wife, andKatherine (Grenville), water supply being £1,400, whichsnmwasraised by redeem- his 2nd wife; the brass includes effigies of all three, and of able loans charged on the rates of the district. By an order five out of eight children ; there are also six quartered shields of theLocalGovernment Board the district was in 1878 merged of arms and the matrices of two others, a banner and some into the rural sanitary district of the union. The church inscriptions ; a ribbon border of brass, witb mscription now of St Columba is a building of Pentewan and Caen stone, in imperfect, surrounds the whole: occupying a corresponding the Early Decorated aull Perp~ndicular styles, consisting of position on the south side of the nave, on a single stone about