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1052 LELANT. CORNWALL. [KELLY'S J'ayne Joseph, farmer, Nance Quick John, farmer, Gonew Thomas Matthew, tin dresser, Trink Payne Edwin, tin dresser, Wheal Speed Richards Charles, farmer, Venwyn Thomas Simon, farmer, Vorvas Pearce John, farmer &market gardener, Richards Vivian Stephen, farmer Thomas William,farmer, Wheal wreeth Trenoweth Roach Paul, farmer Toms John, farmer & market gardener Penberthy James, farmer Roach Paul, jun. Praed's Arms P.H Treweeke Thomas, mining engineer J'Jnherthv John, mine agent Rogers Samuel, farmer, Laity Trewhella Matthew, farmer, Brunnion J'~nberthy William, farmer, Vorres Rosewarne John, carpenter & clerk to Uren Edmund, farmer, Trink J'erry Andrew, farmer, Chy-an-gwail the school board Uren Francis, farmer, Westway P clrryMary(Mrs. ),lodg. ho. Chy-an-gwaiI Sandow Henry, farmer, Trembethow Uren Richard Hy. farmer, Carninney Polkinghorne Stephen, farmer,Gunwing Sandow JamesHenry,grocer & registrar Uren William, farmer, Carntiscoe P'111ardJohn,farmer & market gardener of births & deaths for Lelant sub-dist ·Wearne Wm. farmer, Mount Pleasant l'rouse Jacob, tin dresser, Menner Thomas John, nursery gardener "Woodward Robert, farmer LESNEWTH is a parish, situated about 2 miles from Iwith a Greek cross; and memorials to Humphry Prowse, the hea coast, 15 north-by-west from Launceston stations on ob. May, 1638, Thomas Taylor, 01>. May, 1683, bur... before ille Great Western and London and South Western railways, !the towre," and Degory, his son, ob. Jan. 1682, and other" and 5 north from Camelford, in the North Eastern division to the familie3 of Betenson and Pearse. The register of bl\p o()f the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Les- tisms dates from the year 1573; marriages, 1569; burials, IJewth, Camelford union and county court district, rural 1564. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value from ,Ieanery of Trigg Minor, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese tithe rent-charge £200, with residence and 45 acres of glebe, of Truro. The Valencia stream, which rises here, separates in the gift of Lord Churston, and held since 1889 by the St. Juliot from this parish and flows into Boscastle Harbour. Rev. Charles Lennard Payne. 'rhere is a chapel for Bible The church of St. Knet, in the register of Bishop Lacy Christians at Freworwall, built in 1838. On the west side (1421-56) called "St. Michael," and originally cruciform, of the road leading to Stratton and chiefly inthis parish, but is a building of stone in the Early Perpendicular style, with extending in to that of Davidstow, is a hill, 1,0lD feet above ~ome Norman and Early English remains, and consists of the sea level called "Tiehbarrow (Tettesborough) Beacon," on dlancel with vestries on the south side, nave, south porch, which are four barrows of unequal size, disposed in a line ~Uld an embattled western tower of three stages, with from north-ea'lt to south-west, and about 100 yards apart; -('rocketed pinnacles and a stair turret and containing 5 bells. one of these, opened about 1870, disclosed a rude stone cist o<!a1ed respectively 1834 (2),18°5, and the tenor (cahtat Ox- containing human remains. In the valley dividing the ford) 1830; the fourth has no date: the chun'h was entirely parishes above mentioned, is St. Austin's Well, a fine spring rebuilt, with the exception of the tower and portions of the of water, and the source of the brook which bounds the -chancel, on a new plan furnished by Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, I parish on that side. Lord Churston J.P. who is lord of the .architect, in the year 1865, at a cost of £700; in the llew manor of Lesnewth, Edward Auriol Magor esq. M.A., J.P. of -church, the former transepts of Norman date do not Lamellen, St. Tudy, who is lord of the manor of Helset, and appear, and the porch has been rebuilt more to the west; Arthur Wade esq. of Orchard House, Boscastle, are the chief the chancel retains a piscina with a square recess above It; landowners. The soil is dark loam; the subsoil is rock. .an aumbry on the north side of the chancel has been con- The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area -verted into a window, and herein is now set a small window is 2,028 acres; rateable value, £10381 ; the population in and altar slab removed from the destroyed north transept: 1881 was II6. the south doorway, re-set, is Late Perpendicular: the font TREWORL hamlet IS three-quarters of a mile north-west. is octagonal: the communion plate includes a chalice with Parish Clerk, Nicholas Harris. -cover, dated 1638, the stem of the former being composed Letters through Boscastle R.S.O. which is the nearest mouey of three intertwi5ted serpents: there are 70 sittings I in the order & telegraph office, arrive at 11 a.m. WALL LIo:TTER .churchyard is a tall granite cross, with a round head carved Box cleared at 1.45 p.m 'Payne Rev. Charles Lennard, Rectory Harris Nicholas, farmer, Trewannion Oke Thomas, blacksmith .l1escomb Samuel, farmer Jose Henry, farmer, Treworl Squire James, farmer BurnSI'd George, farmer, Penpole Jose Jane (Mrs.), farmer Stephens George, farmer Harris Henry, farmer, Grylls Jose William, farmer ST. LEVAN is a parish situated on the extreme south striking: here is the Funnel Rock, a natural, well shaped point of the Penwith peninsula, 8 miles south-west from chasm, the bottom of which is accessible at low water: near Penzance, where is the nearest railway station, and 3 miles here is the Chair Ladder, a huge pile of gig-antic blocks of 8outh-east from the Land's End, in the Western division of granite: on the high ground behind the cliffs are two 1he county, hundred of Penwith, petty sessional division of conical beacons 12 feet high, placed 70 yard5 apart in a Pen"with West, Penzance union and county court district, line with the Runnel Stone, a dangerous rock 4 yards long -rural deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall and by two in breadth, which rises from the deep sea about a <diocese of Truro. This place now gives the title of baron to mile from the shore. At Pendower Cove, about a mile west, the St. Aubyn family. The church of St. Levan, situated in is the Bosistow Logan Rock. Eastward, on the headland a ~ecluded dell opening to the sea at Portchapel, is a plain called" Treryn Dinas," is the celebrated" Logan Stone," building of granite in the Late Perpendicular style, consist- an immense block of granite placed on the summit of three jng of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north transept, I piles of rock rising from the sea; the weight of this stone is .muth porch. and an embattled western tower with pin- supposed to be 90 tons, yet it is so nicely balanced that it 11Scles, containing 3 bells: the screen, restored in 1885, may be easily logged, or rocked to and fro in a certain -retains some fragments of old oak carving, and there are a direction: in 1820 it waS displaced in a frolic by some number of curiously carved old bench ends, one of which sailors under the command of Lieut. Goldsmith R.N. nephew has a figure of a jester in cap and bells: the piscina and of the poet, and then in charge of a revenue cutter cruising rood stairs remain and in the south porch is a singular along this coast, but was replaced by the officer under in square stoup: the east window is stained: the church was structions from the Admiralty in the same year, but the "thoroughly restored in 1876 and has sittings for 25Q persons: original nicety of its adjustment is now lost: the headland in the churchyard is an ancient cross, about 7 feet high, on has at some time been fortified and portions of the entrench ;a round base, the head of which bears a rude carving of the ments still remain. The lords of the manor and the princi .. , Crucifixion; " on the churchyard wall is the round head of pal landowners are Lord St. Levan, Rev. Sir Vyell Donni -another, and a third stands in an adjoining field: at the thorne Vyvian bart. J.P. of Trelowarren, Mawgan, Thomas north and east entrances to the churchyard are the old lych Bedford Bolitho esC}. M.P., D.L., J.P. of Trewidden, Madron, :stOJ1es used as resting places for funerals. The register William Bolitho esq. of Polwithen, Penzance, Henry Hodge ·dat-es from the year 1700. This place was formerly included esq. and Nicholas Thomas Tremewen esq. The soil is ecclesiastically in the Royal peculiar of St. Burian, which growan, overlying granite. The chief crops are wheat and -see. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £236, potatoes. The area is 2,328 acres; rateable value, £3,582; net yearly value £210, in the gift of H.R.H. the Duke of the popnlation in 1881 was 583. .comwall, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Paul D'Ockham PORTUCURNOW, in this parish, is bounded on the west by Silvester M.A. Exeter College, Oxford. There are Wesleyan magnificent and lofty rocks, extending far out seaward, and -chapels at Chygwidden Cross and at Treen. This parish is heaped one upon another in magnificent disorder. These hounded on the south by the superbstretch of sea coast from rocks are wholly granitic, no trace of limestoue being :I'enberth Cove to Nanjisal Bay-about 4 miles of granite found in them, and constitute a portion of the boldest and l(']iffs mostly over 200 feet in height, and compnsing many most romantic scenery in the south of Cornwall.