DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. MlLLBROOK. 213 MICHAELSTOW is a village and parish on the with residence, in the gift of H.R.H. the Duke of Corn­ river Camel, 3 miles south-south-west from Camelford, wall, and held since I892 by the Rev. George Gould R.oss 8 north-east from Wadebridge, 9 north from Hodmin D.C.L. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. Here is a Free station on the Great Western railway and about 4! north­ Methodist chapel, built in 1842, and seating 75 persons, west from Delabole station on the new section of the and a Bible Christian chapel, built in 1828, with 100 London and South Western railway from Launceston sittings. Michaelstow, or St. Syth's Beacon, commonly to Wadebridge, in the North Eastern division of the known as "Helesbury," at a little distance north of the county, Lesnewth hundred and petty sessional division, church, is a mound, supposed to have been the site of Camelford union and county court district, rural deanery a castle of the Earls of Cornwall; it is 684 feet above of Trigg Minor, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese the sea level and commands an extensive view, includ­ of Truro. The church of St. Michael is a building of ing a number of\ other ancient fortresses in this ncigh­ stone in the Perpendicular style, with some modern bourhood ; t.he earthwork on the summit consists of additions at the east end and on the south side, con­ a single lofty rampart with several openings and inclos­ sisting of chancel with south aisle of one bay and a half, ing an area about 460 feet in diameter; on the north· nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a battlemented east is a square outwork, about 400 by 200 feet, and western tower of three stages, 56 feet high, with a stair­ the whole is defended by a deep fosse or ditch. Within case turret on the north side and pinnacles, and contain­ the principal inclosure are some remains of a small build­ ing 3 bells, the first of which has an invocation to St. ing, 40 feet long and from 20 to IS feet wide, supposed Margaret ; the others are dated respectively 1739 and to have been the chapel of St. Syth; two arches, one 1750 : inside the north wall o~ the chancel is a pierced of which seems to be Perpendicular, are still standing, quatrefoil, and outside a small arch, probably once be­ and in the grounds of John Bastard esq, are several longing to a. piscina: the east window of the south aisle monoliths. Tregenna House, now the residence of John once contained fragments of old stained glass, represent­ Richard Oollins esq. was built in I869 by William Hocken ing the later scenes of Our Saviour's life, with the legend esq. and is a fine mansion o~ granite ashlar and native " Hie ductus est ante Pilatu' " : the font has an octagonal stone, and the principal rooms have enriched ceilings basin of Perpendicular date, but the base is Norman: adorned with arabesque work. IH.R.H. the Duke of in the church are monuments to Philip Mountsteven, Cornwall K.G. is lord Qf the manor. The chief land­ ob. November, x66o, and Honor, wife of Richard Mount­ owners are Messrs. John H. Seccombe and J. R. Collins, steven, ob. June, 1654; Jane (Killiow), wife of Thomas Harry Hocken esq. Mr. Gatley, John Bast~U"d esq. and Merrifield, gent. ob. 26 March, 1662; Joseph Mayow, Mrs. Nichols. The soil is dark loam, resting on stone. gent. ob. August, 1689 and Margery Symons, ob. 28 The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The January, 1629: in the churchyard are memorials• to area is 1,656 acres; rateable value, £I,652; and the the Brodes, of Trenowith, in this parish ( 1577-82 ), and population in I891 was 255. to the families of May (1656-61), Lower (1724-47), and Hocken (1770-1837); there is also a cr.oss erected in TREV~~ING, a quarter of a mile south; TRE~ memory of\ the Rev. John Kingdon B.A. 21 years rector, VEIGHAN, a quarter of a mile north-west; and FEN­ d. 21 Oct{)ber, r87o: the chancel was restored about TONADLE, half a mile south-east, are hamlets. 1868: the restorations begun in 1870 were completed in 1889 at a cost of £4oo, under the direction of Messrs. TREGREENWELL, three-quarters of a mile north­ Hine and Odgers, architects, and comprise the restora- west, was formerly the property and seat of the Lower tion of fifteen original seats with carved ends, the sub- family. stitution of oak benches in place of deal pews, and of Post Office.-Mrs. Ann Martin, sub-postmistress. Let- oak stalls with traceried fronts for pitch pine fittings ters through Camelford by mail cart, arrive at 9·35 in the chancel: an oak pulpit on a granite base and a a.m. & are dispatched at 3.30 p.m. Postal orders reredos have also been erected : the church will seat are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money 150 persons : the churchyard cross, the shaft of which, order & telegraph office is at St. Breward 9 feet in length, had formed part of a flight of steps Michaelstow is included in the United School Board dis- leading up to the churchyard from the village green, has trict of St. Teath, formed March Ig, I875, to which it been restored and re-erected. The regist~r of baptisms contributes one member dates from the year 1682; marriages, I548; burials, Board School, built as a National school in 1852, for 45 1544• but are in part defective. The living is a rec- children ; average attendance, 34; Miss Annie Restar- tory, net yearly value £I79• including 48 acres of glebe, rick, mistress Bastard John, '.Th-evenning Button John, farmer, Barook Parr John, farmer, Gam CollinSI John Richard, Tregenna house Couch John, farmer, Horse park Rawle Chud, fa1mer, Tredarrup Nichols Mrs. Trevellick Davey Jn. black1m1itdl, Leather bottle Roe John, fa!l"mer, Church town Ross Rev. Geo. Gould D.C.L. Rectory Francis Herbert, market gardener, Secc<>mbe Jn. Hocken, frmr. Tregawn. Leather bottle Stacey John, regrator, Tanners park COMMERCIAL. Harris Rd. Arundell,frmr. '.Th-evenning Stephens Percy, farmer, Trenewth Alford William, farmer, Helsbury Hodge John, head ga:rdener to J. R. Symons William, farmer,Church town. Bastard John, farm bailiff to S'ir W. Collins esq. Treveighan SymonSI "\Villiam, sen. marine st<>re W. R. Onslow esq M3rtrin . Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper & dealer, Church town Billing George, farmer, Fentonadle post office Teague Eoos, mas(}n, 'freveighan Billing Samuel, farmer, 'frevennring "Matthews "\Villiaan, farmer,Trevenning Thomas J,ames, seed merchant &. Brown Thomas, fwrmer, Tregreenwell Mutton Henry, regrator, Treveighan farme~r, Tregreenwell Button Henry, farmer, T'regreenwell Nichols Priscilla. (Mirs.), farmer & Tremain Thos. shoe ma. ChUJrch town. & Treveigham landowner, Trevellick MILLBROOK, now a village, and formerly a place of I821. Millbrook Samaritan Institution was established greater importance, and a borough, said to have sent in I893, for the benefit of\ the sick and suffering amongst members to Parliament, it was, by an order in Council the poor of the parish. The Reading Room and Insti­ dated May 31, 18g6, constituted a civil parish, out of tute, opened in 1861, is supported by subscription. the parish of Maker, and is on a branch of the river The corporate seal of this borough, which bears the Tamar, I! miles west-north-west from :Maker church, device of a. mill on a brook, is still in existence. The 2! from Stonehouse and 3! west from Plymouth, in portion of Maker charities allotted to this place amounts the Eastern division of the county, south division of to about £so yearly. The area is 1,151 acres; rateable the hundred of East, St. Germans union, county court value, £4,412. The population in 1891 was 2,116. district of East Stonehouse, rural deanery of. East, arch- deaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The ecclesias- Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. tical parish was constituted May qth, 18~. The church -Miss Ellen Coombes, sub-postmistress. Letters of All Saints, erected in 1895, at a cost of over £s,ooo, I arrive from Plymouth at 7·35 a.m. & 3·55 p.m. & is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, con- are dispatched at 9 & II.5 a.m. & 5·55 p.m.; sundays, sisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an in- arrive at 9 a.m. & dispatched 11t II.5 a.m complete tower: the interior has columns of Polyphant 'Wall Letter Boxes.-West street, cleared at 9.Io & 11.10 stone and a waggon roof: the stained east window is a.m. & 5·45 p.m.; sundays, II.Io a.m.; Andert<>n, a memorial to William Frederick Lapidge R.N.: there cleared at 9.20 & 11.20 a.m. & 6.5 p.m.; sundays, are sittings for 6oo persons. The register dates fDom 11.20 a.m the year 1870. The living is a. vicarage, net yearly value £193, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of M(}unt PUBLIC OFFICERS. Edgcumbe, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Hamlet Assistant Overseer, Charles Harris, Dodbrooke farm "William "Millett, late chap:ain R.N. Here is a Wesleyan :\Iedical Officers & Public Vaccinators, 3rd District, St. chapel, erected in 1873, and a Baptist chapel, built in Germans Union, James Leslie Watt M.B., C.M. Brook-