DIRECTORY.] . S.ANCREED. 126'7 Mil1er & Co. grocers, 39 Fore street & Pope Andrew, fishmonger, 29 Tamarst Gas & Coke Co. (Williatn. Ham I North road Porter Philip Erisey Blackburn, solici- Mathew, sec) • Miller Frederick James, stationer & tor & commissioner for oaths, 109 Scott Wm. Henry, butcher, 50 Fore st printer, 64 Fore street Fore street · ShaddockWm.cntrcr.Flora vil. Port view MorrishJn.ma.rkt. grdnr.Low.Ponnd pk Preston George L.R.O.P.Edin., D.P.H. Skinner Wm. watch maker, 97 Fore st Morrish William Henry, market gar- surgeon, & med. off. & pub. vacc. of Spearil Elizabeth & Eliza.(Misses), girls' dener, Higher Pound park 5th dist. of St. Germans union, Laurel school, 94 Fore street Naval Bank (branch) (Thomas Millman bank, Port view Squires Fk. Wm. coach bldr. Riverview Grylls, manager), 108 Fore street ; Rawling FredAvery, deputy registrar of StanleyAnn(Mrs. ),shopkpr. 21Tamar st draw on Robarts, Lnbbock & Co. births & deaths, Postoffi. g8 Forest Star Coffee Tavern (Richard Giles, London E c Rawlings William John, shopkeeper & manager), Fore street Neath Lizzie (Mrs.), teacher of dancing, town crier, 3 Albert road Terrell Wm. Hy.Railwayhtl.uoFore st Lockwood house Renfree & Sons, dairymen, 74 Forest ThomasJn.Fletcher,shopkpr.g Tamarst Odgers Jane (Mrs.), aparts. 24 Tamar st Revell (R. C.) & Meadows (R. T.), sur- Thom!tsMchl.Cornish,btchr.6Brnnel ter Ongh Richard, shopkeeper, 56 Fore st geons, Alexandra square Tickle Edwd. greengrocer, 22 Tamar st Paige Albert, plumber, 65 Fore street Revell Richard Carter, snrgeon,&med. Tolman Jsph. Union inn, Albert road Paine Alfred Edward Vosper, stationer, off. & pub. vacc. of the 4tb.dist. of St. Trood E. & Co.mannre manufacturers; agent for Ind,Coope & Co. & assistant Germans union, Alexandra house & at Gunnislake, Plymouth, Oke- overseer & collector of borough rates, RundleBerthaHarris(Miss), shopkeeper, hampton, Tavistock &c.; head office, & agent for the Consolidated Bank of 5 Tamar street Sa.ltash Cornwall, 100 Fore street St. Barnabus Cottage Hospital & Con- Trood T. P. & Co. coal & corn mer- Palmar James Rowe, coal merchant,see valescent Home (R. C Revell, R. T. .chants, Saltash; & at Launceston Bennett & Palmer Meadows M.D. & G. Preston L.R.C.P. Tripp Jas.insnrance agt.3 WellPark ter Palmer John, grocer, 34 Fore street Edin. medical officers; F. Blatchley, Volunteer Battalion (2nd) DukeofCorn- Pawley James, poulterer, 36 Forest hon. sec.), Port view wall's Light Infantry (I company) Pearce Rd. baker & confectnr. 103Fore st Saltash District Co·operative Society (Captain R. C. Revell) PearceWm.Phillip,watch ma.1o2Fore st Lim. grocers (Peter Grimshaw, man- VosperEdwd.&Sons,butchers,46Fore st Pearn Edwd. Thos.shopkpr. 15Tamar st ager ), 38 Fore street Vosper Roderick, butcher,32 Fore streett Plymouth Breweries Limited (branch) Saltash Three Towns & District Steam Vosper Thomas, butcher, 27 Tamar st (Thomas Vicary, manager) Hoat Co. Lim. (William Gilbert, man- Widdecombe Alfred, baker, 105 Forest Pooley John Henry, saddler, 104Forest aging director) Warden Samuel, plumber, III Forest

ST. SAMPSON'S, or GoLA~, is a parish and village year 1568. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly pleasantly situated on the west bank of the river , 2~ value £7o, with residence, in the gift of Jonathan Rashleigh miles north from Fowey station on the Cornwall Minerals esq. and held since 1892 by the Rev. Albert Henry Lang­ and Great 'Vestern railway, 3 east from Par station on the ridge, who is also assistant diocesan missioner. Here is a Great Western railway and 3~ south from , in Wesleyan chapel, seating so persons. Penquite, a quarter the South-Eastern division of the county, west division of the of a mile north of Golant, is a stone mansion, the property hundred of Powder, petty sessional division of Powder Ty- of the West family, and now the residence of David Howell wardreath, St. Austell union and county court district, esq. J.P. Torfrey, a handsome building of granite, standing rural deanery of St. Austell, archdeaconry of Cornwall and in grounds of about 30 acres in extent, is tpe residence of diocese of . The church of St. Sampson is an ancient William Gundry esq. Jonathan Ra.shleigh esq. D.L., J.P. of building of stone and granite in the Perpendicular style, Menabilly, Tywardreath, who is lord of the manor, and Mr. consisting of nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled Graham are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy; western tower containing 5 bells~ the interior of the church subsoil, rock and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley has many interesting features: the granite piers are of early and turnips. The acreage is 1,470; rateable value, £1,637;. date: the font is octagonal and of granite: the pulpit and the population in 1891 was 261. reading-desk are finely carved and the bosses are also Parish Clerk, Nathaniel Smith. carved: at the west end of the church are the royal arms PosT OFFICE, Golant.-Miss Ada Roskelley,sub-postmistress. painted on wood, dating from A.D. r685: there are some Letters through Par Station R.S.O. arrive at 9.25 a.m. & remains of old stained glass in the east window of the south are dispatched at 9.30 a. m. & 4·35 p.m. The nearest aisle: the church was restored in 1842 at a cost of £534, money order & telegraph office is at 'fywardreath. Postal and in 1891 the tower and west end were renovated at a cost orders are issued here, but not paid. Lantyne letters. of £170; the church affords 250 sittings. In the churchyard, through Lostwithiel arrive about 7.30 a. m enlarged in 1891, is an old baptistery well, covered by very PILLAR LETTER Box, Castle Dore, cleared at 10.5 a. m. & 5 ancient stonework; it was formerly approached through p.m the church porch, but the pas!'!age has been bricked up; its National School (mix:ed), built ·or stone in 1877, for so child- water is remarkably clear. The register dates from the ren; average attendance, 33; Mi.ss Jessie Rundle, mist St. Sampson's. Sweet John, blacksmith, Castledoor Blowey William, farmer Gundry William, 'forfrey Tuckett William, farmer, Penqnite Cock Selina C. (Miss), beer retailer Howell David J.P. Penquite White Charles, farmer, South. 'forfrey Hazeland Samuel Searle, prof. inventor Blowey John, farmer Hill Joseph, cattle dealer Dnnn Luke, farmer, Lanyon Golant. Phillips Render, shopkeeper Phillips Wm. John, farmer, Lawhibbet Langridge Rev. Albert Henrr [vicar & Phillips John, butcher Rnndle Charles, farmer, Trebuthevy assistant diocesan missinr.j,Vicarage Roskelley Ada (Miss), shopkpr.Post offi Rundle Clarinda (Mrs.), farmer, Lan- Austin William Broad, market gardnr Rundle William,teagardns.Orchard cot tyan [letters throughLostwithiel] Blowey Jane (Mrs.), New inn Smith Nathaniel, mason & parish clerk • SANCREED is a parish 4 miles west-by-south from of the Virgin; at Higher Drift is a stone 2 feet high with a , in the Western division of the county, hundred of Latin cross on one side. The register of baptisms dates Penwith, petty sessional division of Penwith West, Penzance from the year 1556; marriages, 1559; burials, I579· The union and county court district, rural deanery of Penwith, living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £258, net archdeaconry of Cornwall and . The church yearly value £295, including 152 acres of glebe, with resi­ of San Creed (or Sancta Crida) is a building of granite chiefly dence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Trnro, and in the late 15th century style, consisting of chancel, nave, held since 1879 by the Rev. Reginald Basset Rogers B.A. of aisles, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower St. John's College, Oxford. There are Wesleyan chapels at with pinnacles containing 3 bells : the rood stairs, piscina New Bridge and Court, and Bible Christian chapels at and stoup remain : some carving on the rood screen is pos- Grumbla, Brane, Tregerrest and Drift. There is a series of sibly Spanish: the restoration of the church, begun in 1881, very perfect British caves at Brane and an ancient circular under the direction of Mr. J. D. Sedding, architect, was fortification at Caer Bran, now ruinous. At chapel Uny are completed in 1891 at a cost of £2,350: the church has been the remains of a well or baptistery dedicated to St. Eurnus new roofed, refloored and reseated with carved oak benches, or Uny and another baptistery and well at Chapel Downs. affording 240 sittings, and internal fittings are still ( r 893) There are also two logan stones of some interest at Bejowaus. being added: during the restoration the remains of a Nor- Thomas Bedford Bolitho esq. H.P., D.L., ;J,P. of Trewidden, man font were found : on the churchyard wall is the circular Madron, and Mrs. Scobell, are lord and lady of the manor, head of a cross, discovered by the present vicar in a ditch and Lord Robartes and Jonathan Rashleigh esq. are the close by, and near the vicarage gates the quatrafoiled head chief landowners. The soil is killas ; subsoil, marl. The of another has been erected on its original shaft, recently chief crops are oats, barley and potatoes, but the greater found in the south aisle ; in the churchyard is a fine cross part of the land is in pasture. The area is 4,471 acres ; nearly 8 feet high, uniquely incised with a lily, the emblem rateable value £5,028; the population in 1891 was 867. ·DEV. & CORN. 80*