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DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. D,EVORAN. 975 Moyle Benjamin, Market inn Rowe Arthur, watch maker Trevethick William, shoe maker Nicholls John, butcher St. Day Fire .Brick & Clay Co. Limited Unity Safe Fuse Co. (William Bennetts, Parry Chas. accountant, Little Beside (L. Tamblyn, manager) manager), Little Beside Paule Charles, saddler Smith Joseph, The Hotel, first class ac- Uren James, butcher, Church street Perry Louisa (Miss), dress maker commodation to commercials, Fore st Vivian Philippa (Miss), milliner Phillips John, grocer Stevens Joseph, farmer, Tolcarne Whitford John Morcom, grocer Pyatt Joseph, brush maker Teague & Sons, butchers & farmers Williams Sarah Aun lMrs.), Cornish Richards Alfred, shopkeeper Thomas Henry, shoe maker Arms P.R Richards Mary Ann (Mrs. ),greengrocer ThomasRichd.Hewett.jewelr.Church st Yourel James, butcher, Church street ST. DENNIS, in Domesday Lan-Dines (the church of register dates from 1687. The living is a rectory, tithe the hill), is a township and parish, bounded on the north- rent-charge £202, net income £142, with residence and 4 west by the river Fal and containing several small villages acres of glebe, in the gift of Lieut.-Col. Cyril Dudley and hamlets; it is 3 miles east-south-east from St. Columb Fortescue, and held since 1852 by the Rev. John Glynn Road station on the Newquay branch of the Great Western Childs B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. There are United railway,s miles north-by-west from Burngullow station on Free Methodist and Bible Christian chapels. There are the Cornwall (Great Western) railway and 7 north-west from also chapels for Bible Christians at Whitemoorand at Ennis St. Austell, in the Mid division of the county, eastern caven. The feast of St. Dennis is celebrated annually on division of the hundred of Powder, petty sessional division October 9th, if it fall on a Sunday; if not, on the Sunday <Jf Powder East, St. Austell union and county court district, following. In this and the adjoining parish of St. Stephen rural deanery of St. Austell, archdeaconry of Cornwall and are some of the largest clay works in the county: china eiocese of Truro. St. Dennis Junction Mineral station is li stone is also dug out in great abundance, and large quan miles west from St. Dennis. The Fowey and Newquay tities of china clay and porcelain stone are dispatched by the lines of railway pass through the parif>h. The church of St. Quay tramway. Viscount Falmouth D.L., J.P. who is lord Dennis, situated on a conical hill, in the midst of an old of the manor, Messrs. Ivimeyand Gill, of London, Capt. entrenchment, near the gorse moors, and protected on the Edyvean, and the Hawkey trustees, are the principal land north by a plantation of firs, was rebuilt in 1847 and is a owners. The soil is clay; subsoil, disintegrated granite. plain but substantial building of native porcelain stone, The land is principally pasturage. The acreage is 3,240 rectangular in plan, with a semi-hexagonal roof and an but the rated area is 1,966, remainder uncultivated; rate embattled western tower of two stages, with short pinnacles able value, £7,512 ; and the population in 1881 was 1,235. and containing 3 bells, of which the treble and tenor are TRELAVER, a quarter of a mile south, and HENDRA, half a eated 1631 and 1738 ; the second bell is undated: near the mile south, are villages; ENNISCAVEN is another village, I south porch is an ancient granite cross, about six feet high: mile north-east. Fairs are held here on May 20th and Octo the porch, which has been modernized, and the tower, are ber 28. all that remain of the old church, which consisted of two Parish Clerk, Thomas Bullock aisles and a transept, and contained a reputed Saxon font; the arcade removed to Nanpean, in the parish of St. POST & T. O.-Thomas Bullock, postmaster. Letters Stephen's in Brannell, in 1847, has been incorporated in a through St. Austell arrive at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at new churc4 at that place. St. Dennis churchyard was in- 3. 10 p.m. Nanpean is the nearest money order office. closed by a wall in 1826, its boundary having previously Postal orders are issued here, but not paid been marked by a trench only: there are 400 sittings. The Church of England School, John Reed, master Childs Rev. John Glynn B.A. Rectory Dingle Henry, farmer, Trerice Mellow Thomas, farmer, New moor Varcoe John, Hendra Grigg Henry, cowkpr. Gothers downs Mellow Wm.cowkeeper, Cornega downs COMMERCIAL. Grigg James, farmer, Menna Mewton Richard, farmer, Menna Allen James, cowkeeper, Downs Grigg Richard, farmer, East park Minear Thos. (Mrs. ),farmer, Enniscaven AlIen Samuel, farmer, Gothers Grigg Richard, farmer, Penrose Olver Wm. Geo. farmer, Lower Bodella Allen William, cowkeeper, Gothers Grigg Robert Varcoe, china clay mer- Osborn James, farmer, Trerice Bassett Thomas, farmer, Trerice chant & tax collector, Hendra Osborn John, cowkeeper, Menna downs BestArthur,rate collctr.&assist.overseer GriggWiIliam (Mrs.), frmr.Enniscaven Rundle William, cowkeeper, Carne Best John, grocer & draper, Trelaver Grigg WiIliam, farmer, Gothers Stephens Fred, farmer, Hendra lane Best Thomas,china clay agent, Trelaver Hocking Simeon, farmer, Trerice Stepbens Frederick, stone cutter, Pra!'e Blewett William, farmer, Carsella Hooper Elizabeth (Mrs.), Miners' Arms ThomasChristphr.Chas.Commercialinn Bray Joseph, cowkeeper P.R. Hendra Tremaine John, shopkeeper, Trelaver Bray Thomas, farmer, Trerice Hooper Julia (Miss), shopkpr. Trelaver Trethewey Charles, farmer, Carnegga Brenton John, cowkeeper Hore Alfred, grocer, Trelaver Truscott Henry, farmer, Trelaver Brokenshire WiIliam, farmer, Carne Kent Benjamin, farmer, Menna Truscott Thomas, farmer, Carn cottage Bullock Tom, carpenter, Trelaver Kent Daniel, carpenter, Hendra Varcoe James, farmer, Penrose Bullock Thomas, tailor Kent James, farmer, Penrose Varcoe John, farmer, Gothers Bunt David, farmer, Menna Kent Robert, farmer, Enniscaven Varcoe Keziah, farmer, Penrose Bunt James, farmer, Carnes Kent ""Tilliam, farmer, Hendra Varcoe Moses, farmer, Gothers Code Richard, farmer, Trelaver Kestle John, shopkeeper, Hendra Varcoe Richard, blacksmith Coon Thomas, farmer, Bodella Key Hart, cowkeeper, Gothers downs Varcoe Richard, farmer & clay mer- Crowle John, shopkeeper Key James, farmer, Domellick chant, Bodella Crowle Thomas, farmer, Enniscaven Mellow Richard, farmer, Rolepole Yelland Richd.butcher& frmr.Trelaver Devonshire Wm. (Mrs.), farmer,Menna MellowSaml.cowkeeper,Cornega downs Yelland William, blacksmith, Trelaver DEVORAN is a village and ecclesiastical parisb, formed taining one bell: there is a brass in the chancel to John January 17, 1873, out of the civil parish of St. Feock, situated Phillpotts esq. of Porthgwidden, in this parish, for many <In Restronguet Creek, an inlet of Falmouth Harbour, 7 years M.P. for the city of Gloucester, and Sarah, his wife, miles north from Falmouth, 4 south from Truro, three- both of whom died in 1849; and to Ulysses Theophilus quarters east from Perran station on the Falmouth branch Hughes esq. of Gravesend, in the county of Glamorgan, d. of the West Cornwall (Great Western) railway, in the Truro 1809, and Rachel Penelope, his wife, d. 1826, whose only division of the county, hundred of West Powder, petty surviving children, the Rev. Thomas Phillpotts M.A. formerly sessional division of Powder West, Truro union and county vicar of Feock, and Mary Anns Penelope, his wife, erected court district, rural deanery of Powder, archdeaconry of this church to their memory A.D. 1856: five windows in the Cornwall and diocese of Truro. From about 1820 until chancel are stained, and the remainder are partly stained: 1839 this place was the site of an extensive tin mine; but there are sittings for 200 persons. The register dates from the proprietors then shut up the works, and the mouth or the year 1873. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value opening to the mine has been almost completely £lled up by about £160, with residence, in the gift of Lord Robartes, sand and earth washed up by the tide; on the site of the and held since 1888 by the Rev. Arthur Williams. Here is mine, called" Carnon Stream Works," is now the harbour a chapel for Wesleyans. At a place called Point, about I <Jr creek of Devoran, the conservators of which are the mile below Devoran, are extensive tin smelting works Redruth and Chacewater Railway Company, first constituted belonging to the Penpoll Tin Smelting Company, whose by Act of Parliament in 1823 and reorganized by an amended chief offices are in Rood lane, London. There is a market Act in 1853 : the prosperity of this place is chiefly owing to for meat and vegetables held on Friday. Lord Robartes the railway, the terminus of which is close to the harbour; D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor, Col. Art.hur Tremayne there are also wharves for the shipping of copper ores from J.P., D.L. of Carclew, Perranarworthal, and Viscount Fal the great mining district of Gwennap, and for the importa- mouth D.L., J.P. are the principal landowners. The soil tion of coal for the supply of the works; but this being a consists of the deoris of decomposed slate; the subsoil is mineral line only, passengers are not conveyed on it. The entirely slate. The population of St. John's in 1881 was <:hurch of St. John is a building vf stone, in the Early 1,286. English style, erected in 1855-6, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a tower with spire, con- Sexton, Frederick Martin..