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MAKER. 1 Phillips Philip, . parish clerk Cheves James Trelawny M.R.C.S.Eng.

Mount Edgcumbe Right Hon. Earl of 1 Richards Samuel John, head gardener surgeon & Adllliralty surgeon &i P.C., D.C.L. (lord lieutenant & 1 to the Earl Qf Mount Edgcumbe agent & police surgeon vice-admiral of Cornwall), Mount Rogers & .eo. steam launch, yacht & Clark Goo. cowkeeper & apartments Edgcumbe; 5 Victoria square s w boat builders, Oremyll Cleave & Trethowen, grocers & drapr1 & Carlton club, London SW Sandercock John, land steward to the Cook John, grocer Briggs Rev. Fras. Wm. M . .A. (vicar) Earl o[ Mo~n.t Edgcumbe Cotton Rosa (Miss), apartments .Sandercock John Wonnacott W1lham, ferry master Cullis Mary J ane (Mrs.), grocer Hill Oharles, coal merohant COMMERCIAL. KINGS.AND. Jenkins John, Rising Sun P.H .Avery Henry, gamekeeper to the Earl Gray Miss Kingdon Percy, shopkeeper of Mount 1Edgcumbe Lewis Ashton, Penlee villa Littleton Simon, Devonport inn Earnes Alfred Merrifield, Edgcumbe Pridham Miss, North rock Police Station (William Hy. Rogers. .Arms P.H constable in charge) Ingram J oseph, house steward to the COMMERCIAL. Smale Henry, King's .Arms P.H. & Earl of. Mount Edgcumbe, Empa- Ashton John, blacksmith carpenter combe cottage Blair Mary (Mrs.), London inn Spiller Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Marshahl J o'hn, shopkeeper Carne William Benjamin & Son, build- Westlake Thomas Jasper, grocer Phillips Daniel, farmer, Home farm · ers & contractors • Wotton John, jun. beer retailer MANACCAN (Manackon,. Manackar or Minster). is Bishop of' , and held since 1903 by the !&ev. a parish and village, on the south oil the , Edward Ormerod M . .A. of Keble College, Oxford. The 7 miles south-south-west from Falmouth by road and Rev. Richard Polwhele, · topographer and poet, and the Helford ferry, 7! south from Penryn station on the author (r8r6) of a "," was some West Cornwall branch and ro~ east-south-east from time vicar here and died at Truro, March 12, 1838. station on the Great Western railway, in the Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in r867. The prin­ Truro division of the county, hundred of , petty cipal landowners are Capt. William Francis Tremayne, sessional division of Kerrier West, Helston union and of earclew, Mylor, Ool. Sir AJ'Ithur Pendarves Vivian oounty court district, rural • deanery of Kerrier, arch­ K.e.B., V.D. of Bosahan, ,St. Anthony-in-Meneage, ~sq. deaconry• of 0ll"nwall and . The church William John Williams Richards of The Hoe, of St. Mannaccus and St. Dunstan is an ancient build- Church town and Henry Toy, of Helston. The parish ing of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of six bays, feast is on the nearest Sunday to October q. The south transept, north aisle and an embattled western soil is clay ; subsoil, clay and marl. The chief crops tower, with pinna-cles, containing 6 bells: the chan­ are wheat, barley and oats. The area is r,746 acres of cel is Early English and the north aisle Perpen­ land, 113 of tidal water and 34 of foreshore; rateablf' dicular: at the junction of the south transept and value, £2,267; the population in 1901 was 372. chancel there is a hagioscope, and at the south door­ way a stoup : the stained east window is a memorial HELFORD is a small port, r mile north-west, with to Frances Jane, wife of James Trevenen esq. d. z86o; a ferry across the estuary for both horse and foot pas­ and their son, John Trevenen, commander R.N. d. sengers; the harbour is about three-quarters of a mile z86I; there is also a very fine stained window at the wide at the entrance, and in some places is deep enough east end of the north aisle presented by Arthur Pen- for ve,:sels of 6oo tons; there is a limited import trade darves Vivian esq. : the south transept retains a piscina, in timber, lime, coals and manure. Here is a Church and in the north wall are the rood-loft stairs; these are of England mission room, built in r8g4, and seating not uncovered, but the remains of the door leading to 6o persons. the former rood-loft are still visible on the north side Honorary Sexton, Mr. William .Adames. of the chancel: the south doorway is a very good ex- Post, M. 0. &:; T. 0., T. M. 0. S. B. & A. & I. ample of Early Norman: the monuments are of modern Office.~.Miss Cornelia Richards, sub-postmistress. date: on the south side of the tower is a large fig tree, Letters t'hrough 'St. 'Martin S.O. arrive at 9.30 a.m. ; growing out of the church wall, more than two cen· d~spatched, 3·35 p.m.; no delivery on sundays turies old, with a trunk r8 inches in diameter; its roots Post, 1M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B. & A. & I. penetrate the thickness of the wall, and on the occa· Office, Helford.-Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Tong, sub- sion of the alterations in the church were found to have postmiSitres.s. Letters arrive through St. Martin S.O. pushed their way under the seats for a considerable at 9·45 a.m.; dispatched at 3.10 p.m.; no delivery distance : the communion plate consists of a chalice of on sundays Elizabethan date, a covered flagon, and two patens and Public Elementary School, built in 1896, for r2o child- an alms dish, dating from r699 to 1 737: the church ren; average attendance, j'6; Oharle,s W. Bryant, was repaired and enlarged in 1824, when roo free sit- master; Miss Jeffery, mistress , tings were added, and again restored in r888: there . . are 2 4o sittings. The register dates from the year r6r5. The old National school, held in trust by the v1ear, 1s The living is a vicarage, net yearly income £z6r, used for sunday school.& church purposes including 32 acres of glebe, with resid,ence, in t-he Conveyance to Helston (passengers & parcels).-Henry gift of the Lord Chancellor, but until r897 of the Tresize, omnibus, wed. & sat. returning same days MAN.ACCAN. Curnow Thomas, farmer Vivian & Sons, coal & manure mer- Cuttance Wm. Caddy frmr.Trenower chants, Treath Asprey Miss, Langsyne Hodge Sampson Jas. frmr.Trevaddra Williams Henry, farmer, Rosecaddon Bates Montague, The Retreat Honeychurch Joseph, farmer, Crowns Williams Joel, farmer, Trenower Or~erod Rev. Edwar~ M.A. Vicarage Hoskin John, blacksmith Williams Thomas, farmer, Trudgwell Pr1sk Joseph, Woodbme cotta~e. Jenkin Thomas farmer Tregithew Richards William John Wilhams, 1 Lovesey Edward, New i~n The Hoe, Church town L HELFORD.. Samuelson Mrs I yne Wm. Thos. frmr. Kestle Wartha Smith William Medlyn Thomas Hy. farmer, Treyebal Adames William Tressider Robert Paul Richard Dalby Mitchell, farmer, Downing Edward (Mrs.), apartments assistant overseer & clerk to the Knowles Capt. Robert Townley COMMERCIAL. Parish Council, Tregonwell Lodge Mrs Asprey Minnie (Miss), artist,Langsyne Richards Cornelia & Hebe (l.Iisses), Merifield Simond John, Shipwrights, Boaden John G. farmer, Chywoon merchants, Post office, The Stores, Arms P.H Bowcher John Wm. farmer, Trelawry Church Town Parkins Capt. James, Irvine bank Carter Francis, farmer, Rosemorder Richards Jn. fr..-.·m""'r. Tregonwell mill Oates Ohristopher, farmer Choak Hugh Lyne, frmr. Treworgie Roberts James, farmer, Kestle Vean Tong Mary Elizabeth (Mrs.), tobacco­ • Orawford Thomas; farm bailifi & es- Trezise Henry, farmer & 'bus propr nist, Post office tate agent to A. P. Vivian esq. Bosa­ Tripoony Samuel, carpenter Veail Margaret (Miss), shopkeeper han Barton Vellenoweth Edwd. frmr. Landiwick , or Market Jew (i.e. Thursday market) Road station on the West Cornwall section of the Great {" quod ibi," says Camden, "mercatus die J avis Western railway and 312 from London by road and 325 habeatur "), is a town and large parish formed from by railway, in the Western division of the county, that of St. Hilary, May 9, 1893, on a declivity on the hundred and petty sessional division of West Penwith, coast, facing St. Michael's Mount, 3 miles east from union and county court district, rural deanery Penzance, 10 west from Helston, 1 east from Marazion of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of CORNWALL 11*