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net yearly value £tso, in the ~rift of the Crown and Bishop and Free Methodist chapels. Polstrong is a place half a of alternately, and held since x8so by the Rev. William mile north. Wright Butlin B.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, TRE~ITHEN is a hamlet one mile north, on the road who resides at Basset Road villas, . Here are from Camborne to , with a Wesleyan chapel. Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels. Near the railway REsKADINNICK is a hamlet 2 miles north. viaduct is a circular fortified encampment, in very perfect RoREWORTHY is a hamlet xi miles west, on the road from condition, and inclosed by a hedge, in which, some years Camborne to Hayle ; here are the works of the English ago, a stone axe was found ; and in x88o some celts and Arsenic Co. and the hammer mills of the Tuckingmill bronze spear heads were discovered, which are now in the Foundry Co. Here is also a Wesleyan chapel. possession of W. C. Borlase esq. of Lareggan and J. R. PosT OFFICE, Harriper.-William Luke, sub-postmaster. Daniell, of Camborne; the axe and some other celts now Letters arrive via Camborne 8.45 a.m. ; dispatched at belong to Mr. Thomas Cornish, of . The principal 3· 35 p. m. Camborne is the nearest money order & tela- landowners are Arthur Francis Basset esq. of Tehidy, graph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not William Cole Pendarves esq. D.L., J.P. and the Rev. St. paid Aubyn Hend~r Molesworth-St. Aubyn M.A., J.P. of Crowan. WALL LETTER Box, Penponds, cleared at 3·45 p.m. & Tres- The soil is loamy, with some slate; subsoil, clay. The chief withen, cleared at 4 p.m crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 1,956 Cam borne Board School, Kehelland (mixed), built in r8n, acres ; the population in x891 was x,686. for 120 children; average attendance, rox ; Miss Annie BARRIPER is a hamlet, one third of a mile south, with a Rowe, mistress Free Methodist chapel. Church Scoool (mixed), built in 1848, for xso children; a¥er- KEHELLAND is a village :.a miles north, and has Wesleyan age attendance, 124; Miss Ellen Clemmow, mistress Penponds. BushornTinStream (Stphn. Evans,mgr) Reskadinnick. COMllfERCIAL. Lugg William & George, frmrs.Hospibo Hammer Sampson Chinn Richard, shoe maker Martin Jane (Mis~t), dress maker Vh·ian William Cock Downing William, farmer Menadarva Tin Stream Co. (Joseph Kieve Mill Tin Stream (Jos. Rule mgr) Harris John, farmer Rule, manager) Lukies James, blacksmith Hendry Christopher, coal dealer Nicholas William, farmer, Reskajague Rabling William & Co. tin str~mers Lugg John, dairyman [letters through Hayle] Reskadinnick TinStreaming Co.(Joseph Paull James, butcher Paull Thomas James, farmer Yivian, sec.; Jn.Thos.Rule, managr) Pool John, farmer Pendray Catherine (Miss), shopkeeper Vivian Joseph, farmer & miller (water) Prideaux Henry, farmer Pendray Peter, farmer Prideaux Richard, farmer Pendray William, carpenter Roseworthy. Stone Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper Peters John, farmer Dale Edwin, farmer TambyThomasine&Elizh.(Misses),frmrs Peters John, jun. farmer, Nancemellan English (The) Arsenic Co. (Josiah Treloar James, miller (water) PetersNichls.mllr.(water),Nancemellan Thomas, manager) Trezona Benjamin, shopkeeper Reynolds James, farmer, Menadarva Jeffree Richard, shopkeeper Williams Richard, farmer B.ichards William Trerice, farmer, Paull William, jun. farmer .Barriper. Gwallevellan & Carlean [letters Temby Peter, mine agent through Hayle] Luke William,grocer&draper, Post office Sleeman Edward, farmer, Menadarva Treswithen. Thomas Elizabeth (Miss), St. Michael's South Nancemellan Tin Stream Co.(W. Jackson William Mount P.H B ·1 ) Basset William, farmer Thomas 1\Iargt.Richards(Miss),shopkpr at ey, sec ~ Bennett William, farmer, Race Tonkin George, shoe maker Bennetts John, shopkeeper & carpenter Kehelland.· Polstrong. Paull Thomas James, farmer COllfMERCIAL. Daniell John Rule Rowe Henry, Cornish Dawes P,H Bray Ambrose, farmer Newton Henry Vivian, farmer Williams Thomas, blacksmith PENR YN is a market town and municipal borough, and chapel erected in rBgr-2, or granite, in the Norman style, with Falmouth and parts or other parishes mentioned below at a cost of £s,ooo, and seating 830 persons; the old Wes­ forms a parliamentary borough. The town is pleasantly leyan chapel is now used as a }{echabite meeting hall. The seated on an arm of Falmouth harbour, 2 miles north-west Town Hall, in the centre of the Market street, was erected from Falmouth, 23 east-by-north from Penzance., 8 south- in 1825, and has a clock tower of granite ashlar, added in south-west from Truro, 8 south-east from , and 1839; it contains a council chamber, market hall and police 308! from London, in the Truro division of the county, ! station. The corporation insignia consists of two maces, a hundred of Kerrier, petty sessional division of Kerrier East, mayor's chain and badge, a staff of ollice, two borough seals union and county court district of Falmouth, rural deanery f and a silver badge for the town crier. The maces, pre­ of Carnmarth, archdeaconry of and diocese of sented in 1796 by ~ir Francis Bassett bart. afterwards Baron 'fruro. Under the provisions of the Reform Ac~ of 1832 the de Dunstanville and Bassett, are of silver-gilt, 2 feet 10 parliamentary limits were extended so as to include the inches, and of the usual form, the details of each being ex­ borough of Falmouth, a portion of the parish of Budock, actly alike; the shafts are divided by projecting bands or and part of the parish of St. Gluvms, to which the Boundary knops, and have scroll brackets supporting the heads, wbJCh .Act, 1868 (31 and 32 Vict. c. 46), added part of the parish are enriched with the royal arms within a garter, with crest of )fylor, including the village of Flushing : the borough and supporters, the arms of the donor, those of the borough, continued to return two members to Parliament, until the and a wreath inc!osing an inscription : thP. mayor's chain passing of the "Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885," by and badge, presented by John Bisson esq. mayor r886-7, which the number was reduced to one: Penryn became a and previous mayors, October 25, x388, at a cost of £132, municipal borough as early as 1216, and in 1270, at the in- consists of a series of crowned shields and an ornamental stance of Waiter Bronescombe, bishop of Exeter, was link from which depends the badge, a circular medallion, granted a market: it was first incorporated by James I. in bearing representations of the town seal, maces and loYing 1619, and again in 168:; by James II. whose charter con- cup; on the reverse are the arms of John Bisson esq. ; the tinued in force until the passing of the Municipal Corpor- staff of office, carried by the town crier, is of wood with a ations Act, 1835 (Sand 6 Wm_ IV. c. 76). The corporation, gilt Saracen's head as a finial; the silver badge displays the consisting of a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve town borough arms; the ancient seal also exhibits a Saracen's councillors, acts also as the urban sanitary authority. The head; the other is modern; the Corporation also possess a borough has a commission of the peace. The town is well fine silver loving c11p with cover, 27 inches in height, pre­ lighted with gas by a company, and has an abundant sented by Jane Killigrew x633, a silver salver, 20 by 13 supply of good water from works, at College, belonging to inches, made from the two old maces, and a silver Jlledal the Falmouth Waterworks Co. ; at the west end or the town struck in commemoration of the loss of the "Kent," East there is a station on the West Cornwall (Great Western) Indiaman, March 2, x825. The Temperance Hall, in railway from 'l'ruro to Falmouth. Treliever viaduct, about Market street, built in x853, and enlarged in 1891, will now a quarter of a mile from Penrynstation, is 344 feet long and hold soo persons. There is a Freemasons' lodge, No. 967. 81 high, and the College Wood viaduct, also near the station, consecrated in x863 ; an Oddfellows' lodge, No. 718, opened is 964 feet long and 102 high. There was anciently a in 1842; and a J:l'oresters' court, opened in x863. The chapel here, dedicated to St. Mary :Magdalene. 'l'he inbab- market is held every Saturday, and cattle fairs are held on itants now attend the parish church of St. Glnvias, just the Wednesday after the 6th of March, May 12th, July 7th, outside the town. The curate of Penryn receives £20 yearly October 8th, and December 21st. Penryn contains several from Ludgie's charity, as lecturer; but this appointment is important industries; Messrs Freema;;, Sons and Co.Limited, now (1893) held by the vicar. There is a Congregational who are very extensively engaged in granite quarrying in chapel, built in x8o6, with 400 sittings; Bible Christian I various parts of Cornwall, have a factory here for dressing chapel, erected in r866, and seating 6oo: Primit.ive Meth-1 and polishing granite, in which a number of persons are odist cbapel, built in 1878, with4oo sittings; and a Wesleyan employed, and the firm ship large quantities of their pro-