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DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. GULVAL. 885 used as a reading room and has a library containing 1 6o night mail 4·35 p.m. Office hours, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tele- volumes, opened in I 870 ; in the same room are tbe Royal graph 8 a. m. to 8 p.m arms taken from the old chapel and bearing the name and INSURANCE AGENTS :- date of King John; near the town hall stands the Market Guardian l.i'ire ~Life, A. H. Wellington Cross, a monolith of Pothole stone, now about 12 feet in Northern, J. F. Crewes height. Market day is Saturday. Christopher Henry I National School (mixed), built in 1854, for 135 children; Thomas Hawkins esq. J.P., D.L. is lord of the manor and chief average attendance, 90; it has an endowment of £15 from landowner; rateable value, £928; the population in r881 a charity, given in the reign of Queen Anne, by John was 482. Buller esq. of Morval; William Andrew, master PosT, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Inland Revenue Office, John Connett, officer Bank.-Mrs. Ann Lugg, postmistress. Letters arri\·e at .llfarket Hall, Thomas Nancarrow, manager 7.20 a.m. & 6 p.m. week days & sundays. Box closes at CARRIER.-James, to Truro, mon. wed. thurs. & sat.; to St. 10 p.m.; dispatched the following morning at 5.41 a.m. ; Anstell, fri Baker Mrs Brown John, dairyman Library <f Reading Room (William Crewes James Francis Cavill Thomas, Dolphin Audrew, sec) Crewes Richard Clemmow Richard, farmer Market Hall(Thomas Nancarrow,man) Croggan William Clemmow Wm: house decoratr. ~ grocr Nancarrow Jn. & Son,tannrs.& curriers Croggon Josiah Connett John, mland revenue officer N ancarrow Thomas, farmer Flamank Rev. James B.A. [curate] Croggon J?s?.&Son,tannrs. & curriers Pascoe William, market gardener Hill Thos. Johnson L.S.A.,L.M. Bonython Gellard Wtlham, .clerk of the works to Paynter W. mason Smith John Ball • C. H. T. Hawkms esq Richards Agnes (Mrs.), baker Trethewey Miss Goodfellow Philip, shoe maker Richards Robert Teague, King's Head Hill Thomas Johnson, surgeon & med. Tank Samuel Edward, miller (water) & COMMERCIAL. off. & pub. vacc. Grampound dist. St. corn merchant; & farmer at Creed Barnicoat James, blacksmith Austell union, Bonython Teague Henry, shoe maker Bennett Charles, butcher James James & Sons, carriers Teague John Henry, bhicksmith • Bennett John, mason J e:ffery William Dadson, draper & grocer Tregunna Richard, carpenter Bennett Richard, mason J ohns C. H. saddler Turner Bartholomew, mason Bennett Thomas, mason Johns C. H. (Mrs.), dress maker Wellington A bra ham & Son, tanners ; & Bennett William, draper & grocer J ulian Thomas, dairyman at Truro & St. Austell Bilkey John, currier Lampshire Henry, grocer & draper Whitford Richard, draper & grocer Brown Ann (Miss), dress maker Luke Philip, boot maker Whitford Thomas, shoe maker GRAMPOUND ROAD is a thriving village in the PosT, MoNEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings parishes of Probus and Ladock, with a station on the Corn Bank.-James McCoskrie, postmaster. Letters arnyc at wall railway (Great Western), about 7~ miles north-east 6.30 & 11.45 a.m. 1.9, 5.32 & 7.Io p.m.; dispatched at from Truro and about the same distance north-west from 6.30 & I 1.45 a. m. & 5.30 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 6.30 a.m.; St. Austell and 293 from London; it is in the county court dispatched at 5.30 p.m district of St. Austell. Cattle markets, held here on the INSURANCE AGENTS:- fourth Monday in each month,are very numerously attended; London Assurance, B. N. Hooper, 11 Ormsby villas, Albert there is also an extensive show of fat cattle annually, about a road, Saltash; & H. Tresawna, Lamellyn, Probus fortnight before Christmas, and a horse show is helll here in Scottish Widows', A. D. Brewer March. Here is a chapel of ease. There is a chapel for Railway Station, John Olver, master '\\'esleyans here. A reading room has been opened here with Chw·ch Schools, erected in 1872 by the Rev. R. F. 'Vise, a supply of the London ·a.nd local papers, and is supported by rector of Ladock, & his sister; Alfred Hughes, master • subscription. Wesleyan; Miss Mary Simmons, mistress Andrew Pryn, Tresleigh Brewer James & Son, general agricul- James George, Commercial h9ttl, & Bone Alexander I tural merchants. See advertisement carrier Brewer Alexander Dingle, Green bank Cock James, shopkeeper Juleff William, monumental ma~on Brewer James, Tregellas Crocker James, veterinary surgeon Mining Engineer (published monthly by Care John, Florence villa Dingle John David, grocer & draper the Associated Mine Owners' Corpora- Coles J oseph Ducrog Lewis, miller & accountant tion) ; offices, Grampound Road. See Hotten William, Florence villa I Gmmpound (The) Road Brick <f Tile Co. advertisement James Henry Harris, Belview house Limited (James Julian, sole agent & Olv<:lr John, station master McCoskrie James, Glencairn house · manager),brick & tile manufacturers; Railway family <f commercial hotel, Tank Thomas, Morrab offices, Lemon quay, Truro og1'icultural house 4' posting establis!t- COMMERCIAL. JAMES & Co. merchants, contractors & ment (Mrs. Mary Ann Doble, mana- Andrew Pryn, cattle dealer & farmer mining engineers; mines inspected I geress) Associated Mine Owners' Corporation, & contracts undertaken in any part Readin,q Romn (Alfred Hughes, sec) publishers & proprietors of the ' Min of the United Kingdom for the erec- Redruth Brewe~y Co. (Brewer & Sonf, ing Engineer' (Messrs. James & Co. tion of buildings & all kinds of mining I agents) managers); offices, GrampoundRoad. plant & machinP-ry; Western mining Searle William, butcher See advertisement offices. See advertisement Tank Thomas, miller & corn merchant Bice Thomas, nurseryman Jose William Henry, carpenter & builder . Truscott Matthew, manure agent GULVAL is a parish, township and village, I mile north New Mill. There are charities of small yearly value. Here east from Penzance railway station and 2 west from Marazion, are extensive ice works, built by Frederick Ashwell esq. aml in the Western division of the county, hundred of Penwith, fitted with Harrison's patent machinery, by Siddeley and Penzance union and county court district, rural deanery of Mackay, capable of producing 6o tons of ice per week. The Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Truro. The Rosemorran is an ancient round headed cross, 3 feet high, an cl church of ~t. Gul wal is a building of granite mainly of the atBleu (i.e. parish) Bridge an inscribed monolith, which reads sixteenth century, and consists of chancel, naYe, south aisle "Quenatavus Icdinui filius." Trevayler• is the seat of the with porch, north transept and an embattled tower with Veale family and is now occupied by Mrs. T. B. Bolitho; and pinnacles containing 3 bells : it was re-seated and partially Ponsandane, of William Bolitho esq. jun.; Kenegie, the old restored in I858, at a cost of about £6oo, raised by subscrip seat of Arundell Harris esq. is now occupied by Sir Paul Wm. tion: the windows, all of which are stained, have been Molesworth hart. J.P. Thomas Simon Bolitho esq. J.P., D.L. inserted at a total cost of £5,ooo: there is a piscina and a is lord of the manor, the legatees of Miss John and Colonel very curious old monument, erected in I627, to the Davills Sir Augustine Fitz- Gerald hart. are chief landowners. family : in the churchyard stands the mutilated head of a The soil near the sea is chiefly killas, and is extremely pro cross, fixed in a# massive base, with some half-obliterated ductive, while on the higher side it is light with granite carving. The register of baptisms dates from the year beneath. The chief crops are vegetables for the London and I6oo; marriages and burials, 1598. The living is a vicarage, other markets; potatoes and brocoli are grown on the lower £355 yearly rent-charge, gross income £425 with residence ground, a large portion of the higher being in dairy farm ; and 20 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, ar1d a little wheat, with oats, barley and roots are grown. The held since 1839 by the Rev. William Wriothesley Wingfield area is 4,547 acres (Igo of which are water); rateable value, B.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, and surrogate. There are £7,533; and the population in r88I was I,623. three chapels for Wesleyans, situated at Cross, Gear and DING-DONG mine, in this parish, is one of the oldest in Trezelah, and two for Bible Christians at Carfury and Cornwall, but ceased working in I88o. .