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DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. STRATTON. 297 cascades, and is the property of H.R.H. the Duke of at 4.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph Cornwall K.G. but at present unoccupied. H.R.H. tha office is at Callington. Postal orders are issued here, Duke of Cornwall K.G. who is lord of the manors of but not paid Climsland and Climsland Prior, the Duke of Bedford and Post Office, Downgate, Richard Johns, sub-po&tmaster. William Rendell, William H. Ntlttle, Thomas Short Letters from Callington R.S.O. arrive at 7·35 a.m. and Simon Rattenbury esqrs. are the chief landowners. dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order &. The soil is friable loam; subsoil, clay and sl.at-e. The telegraph office is at Callington. Postal orders are chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips and straw iE-sued here, but not paid bel'!I'ies. The area is 8,856 acres; rateable vaJue, Wall Letter Boxes, Kelly Bray, cleared at 7·45 a.m. & £7,692; the population in 1B91 was 1,865. 5.20 p.m.; Higherland, cleared ab 4.30 p.m; Luckett~ cleared at 4 p.m.; Hingston cleared 8.35 a.m. & BRAYSHOP, 2 miles west, has a Bible Christian Pempwill cleared at 11.15 a.m chapel. BEALSYILL, 2 north; DOWNG.ATE, x SDuth, has a Bible Christian chapel; LUCKETT, 2 e3st-south SCHOOLS. east, has a Wesleyan chapel; )IQXKS CORNER, 2! A School Board of 7 members was formed July 27, 1874; south-east, has a Bible Christian chapel; OLD:MILL is George Rowe, clerk to the board; Bartholomew Gist, I south-east; VENTERDON, a quarter of a mile north Luckett, attendance officer west, has a Wesleyan chapl; KELLY BRAY is 2 miles Stoke a.imsland Board (mixed), 220 children; averag8 south; HOLMBUSH, 2 mile~ south, has a Wesleyan attendance, 47 boys, 29 girls & 21 infants; Theophilus chapel, built in 1873; H.A~IPT, 2 miles east, has a chapel for the Brethren. Mutten, master; :Miss Eliza Jane Hawton, mistress Sexton, Thomas Way. Luckett (mixed), for 220 children; average attendance~ Post Office. James Mitchell, sub-postmaster. Letters 35 boys, 43 girls & 33 infants; William Henry C.arnish~ from Callington R.S.O. arrive at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched master ; Miss .Annie Burrows, mistress Man:ey Rev. Richd. Hy. ~L.A. Rectory Gerry James, farmer, Pempwill Penney Isaac, farmer, Luckett Morris Rev. Edward Rowley (curate), Giibard Charles, farmer, Penpill Penney James, farmer, Luckett mill Luckett Gillbard Geo. Hy.Dennis, frmr.Xorton Percy George, farmer, Tutwell Xattle WiJiam Henry J.P. Hampt Gist Bartholomew, mine agent, fruit Percy James, farmer, Goosewf'll RattenburySimon PhilpJ .P.Polhilsa vil grower & school attendance officer, Percy John, farmer, Trehill COMMERCIAL. Luckett Percy John, jun. farmer, .Alson Baber Waiter Henry, farmer Goodman Frank, farmer, Cockington Percy Thomas, fruit grower, Luckett Bassett Harry, Half Moon P.H Goodman John, farmer, Hingston Perry, Spear & Co. Limited, general Bawden lVilliam, shopkeeper, Luckett Gribble John Doidge, farmer, Climson merchants, Kelly Bray Beale Samuel, farmer, Lower Hampt Gribble Thomas, farmer, Treecombe Perry "William, farmer, Deer park Bennett Henry, farmer, Redmoor Gribble "\Yilliam, farmer, Bridge farm Peters John, farmer & butcher, Wind- Blake Mary (Mrs.), frmr. Wooda farm Griffin Chas. shopkeeper, Downgate sor ~toi::e B:ake Richard, farmer, Oldclims Guest J emima (:Mrs.), shopkeeper, Philp Leonard, farmer & i.andowner, Body William, farmer, Kelly Bray Kelly Bray Downhouse Bridgman Mary (:Mrs.), frmr .Kingston Harvey Eleazar, farmer, Southcombe Philp William, farmer, Tutwell Brooking John, mason, Hingston Hatch Wi:liam, farmer, Low. Lidwe:l Rapson James, fruit grower, Luckett Clarke Thomas, farmer, Southcombe Heard John, farmer, Coomb~head Rattenbury Simon P. farmer & land- Coles lVilliam, farmer, .Almshouse Higgins John, farmer, Shutta owner. Polhilsa villa Colwi:l John, farmer, Venterdon Hocking John, farmer, Tatterdown Rendell Edmund, farmer, Turlea Coombe Henry, farmer, Tutwell Jasper Richard, farmer, Deans Rendell "\Ym. Edwd. farmer, Mearfield Cornelius Richard, carpenter Johns & Edgcumbe, shopkeepers, Post Rendell William, farmer & landowner, Cory Daniel, farmer, Trehingsta j office, Downgate Poundfield Cory Henry, farmer, Taylormanaton Johns "\YiEiam, mil:er (water) & far- Roseveare William, farmer, Holwell Davey SI. farmer & auctioneer, Pitt mer, Beals mill IRowe George, farmer, shopkeeper &. Ding:e Edward, farmer, Pempwill Knight John, grocer, draper, farmer assistant overseer Dingle James, fruit grower & farmer, & mi11er (water), Old mill Rundle Daniel, farmer, North down Kelly Hole Lang .Ann (Mrs.), farmer & land- Rundle E:izh. (Mrs.), frmr.Downgate Dingle Jn. Hy. carpenter, saw mi;ls, owner, C:itter Ryall Oliver, farmer, Willtown gen. smith '& Railway inn,KellyBray Langford Joseph L. farmer, Burraton Searle George, shoe maker :Cingle Richard & Sons, cycle manufac Lawry, Hawke & Venning, coal, corn Short Thomas, farmer & landowner, turers, engineers, machinists & im & manure merchants (James Venn- North down plement makers, Yenterdon ing manager), Ke;Jy Bray Skinner Wm. farmer, Higher Lidwel1 Dingle Thomas, farmer & ·butcher, Lyne Edmund, farmer, K-ingston Stephens Richard, farmer, Venterdon Higher Crockett Lyne John, farmer, Beals S~"Inons Jn . .Arscott, farmer, Tresallick Ding~e "William, butcher ~Ia~on Charles, carpenter, Beals mill Tink John, fruit grower, New mill Dingle William, fruit grower, Hampt ~Iatthews Henry, farmer, Winslade Trefry George, fruit grower, Luckett Dymond Jn. fruit grower, Higherland Mitchell James, general merchant & TuckerJn.Maltsters' .Arms P.H.Lucktt Eggins Thomas, farmer, Coomshead farmer, Post office Yivian & Sons, gen. mers. Kelly Bray Garland John, b:acksmith, Pempwill ~Iitchell "\Vm.grcr. & btchr.Ho:well ho Wad1and Ellen (:Mrs.), farmer, Hampt Gartrell Joseph, farmer, Pitt ~attle ·william Henry, farmer & land- Wearing Richd. carpenter, Venterton Geake ~1ary Jane (:~Irs.), farmer, owner, Hampt cottage Weave! Joseph, frmr. Higher Sherre:I Downgate Parsons John, fruit grower, Luckett "\Vestlake Thomas, farmer, Tresallick Geake Richard, butcher k farmer Peake William, carpenter & wheel- Westlake "\Villiam, farmer, Trecombe Geake Thomas, farmer, Crockett wright, Treovis mill Willcock John Doidge, coal merchant, Geake William, farmer, Oaklands Pellow John, mason, Yenterdon Kelly Bray STRATTON, so called from its position on a Roman Sir John .Arundell of Trerice, kt. ob. 25th November. road (stratum) leading from Cornwall into Devon, ::s 156r, his two wives, :\fary (Bevyll) and Juliana (Eryssy). a small market and union tDwn, township and parish, ob. :\larch, 1567-8, and twelve children; the figure of 8 miles west from Holsworthy terminal station of a the knight is in comp~ete armour, the two wives are branch of the London and South "\Yestern railway, 223 clad in furred and richly ornamented robes with long from London and 18 north from Launceston, giving hanging s:ashed sleeves; over the effigies are two quar name to a hundreJ, and is head of a petty sessional divi- tered shields. between them two figures of children. sion, in the North Eastern division of the county, Hols- one being a matrix only; below are ten others, and worthy county court district, rural deanery of Stratton, toatrices of two shields ; a marginal inscription sur archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The rounds the who~e: the south window in the chancel is church of St. .Andrew is an ancient building of stone :t memorial to the Rev. C. R. Holmes, a former vicar: in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of at the west end of the south aisle is another memorial chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and an window to Edward Shearme esq. and there are six other embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a stained windows: the circular font of Transitional date c:lock and 8 beas, of which 6 were recast and two were is encircled with a cable moutiing, and the benches added in r 778 ; the clock was placed in the tower in are of ancient carved oak: on the quoin of an ancient memory of the recovery of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales doorway (now blocked up) at the west end of the north from his serious illness in 1871; on the porch is a sun- aisle is carved the date u6o: the exterior walls of this dial: in the north aisle is a tomb with th~ effigy .of a aisle are ~orman: the church was restored in 1878 crusader, supposed to represent Sir Ranulph de and again in 1887-9 at a cost of £2,113, when the tower Blancheminster, and at the east end of the north aisle and roofs were renovated, the north arcade rebuilt, the Is an a:tar-tomb of b:ack marblf, with bra~s effigies of chancel repaved, a carveJ oak screen and choir stalls .