DIRECTORY.] . 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 , 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

GULVAL is a parish, township and village, I mile north­ New Mill. There are charities of small yearly value. Here east from railway station and 2 west from , are extensive ice works, built by Frederick Ashwell esq. aml in the Western division of the county, hundred of , 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 . 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.