[Cornwall.] Luxulyan
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[CORNWALL.] LUXULYAN. 806 (POST OFFICE man arch, and square embattled tower containing 5 bells : held on the 2nd of October, yearJy, at Lower Quarter, for in this church lie the remains of Dr. Borlase, the well· cattle. J. Jope Rogers, esq., who is lord of the manor, known historian and antiquary of this, his native county, the Duke of Leeds, the Duke of Cleveland and the Earl of who was rector of ~his parish fifty-two years; he died Sandwich are chief landowners. The soil is clayey; sub in 1772, aged 78. The register dates from the year 1563. soil is killas. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, pota The living is a rectory, yearly value £800, with residence toes, and brocoli. The area is 4,5tl4 acres (including 40 of and 23 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Duchess of water); gross estimated rental, £8,672; rateable value, Cleveland and the Earl of Sandwich alternately, and held £7,662; and the population in 1871 was 2,960. by the Rev. David John Harrison, M.A., of Pembroke CROWLAS is a hamlet. College, Oxford. There is a National school for boys and Pari8h Clerk, Gideon Semmens. girls, and a Sunday school is held in the school-room. There are four chapels for W esleyans, one for Bible Chris PosT OFFICE, Crowlas.-Richard Pearce, postmaster. tians, and one for Primitive Methodists. There are charities Letters through Penzance arrive at 11 a.m.; dispatched of £3 15s. yearly value, applied to education. A fair is at 2 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Marazion Harrison Rev. David John, M.A. Friggens John, Commercial inn, Mitchell John, beer retailer, Baldue Rectory Long rock Pearce James, farmer, Crowlas Warren Henry, Rosevale Hawke John, White Hart inn Polmear Samuel, farmer COMMERCIAL. Hosking Frederick, farmer, Tregender Rapsorr Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Bennetts William, Star inn, Crowlas Hosking James, farmer, Treassowe Richards Benjn. farmer, Croft Hooper Blight Samuel, farmer, Colloryan Hosking John, butcher, Carvapowe Roach Robert, farmer, Truthall Caddy Edward, gardener Hosking John, farmer, Rosevidney Rowe John, butcher, Canons town Carne Thomas, farmer, Crowlas Hosking John, Old inn, Carvapowe Rowse Francis, farmer, Tregellas Chellew J oseph, farmer Hosking Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer, Rubery Richard, farmer, Colloryan Chellew Samuel, farmer, Treassowe Long rock Semmens Geo. farmer, Ludgvan lease Corin John, farmer, Tregarthen Hosking Richard, carpenter & wheel- Taylor Michael, farmer, Boskennel Craze Francis, farmer, N ancedden wright, Lower quarter Thomas Charles, farmer, Bog Craze Joseph, farmer Hosking Wm. farmer, Tremenheere TI10mas Henry, farmer, Truthall Curnow Andrew, farmer, Newtown Hutchens William, farmer, Tregender Tregoning Henry, farmer, Tregillsowe Curnow Uriah, farmer, Rospeath Ivey Henry, miller & farmer, 'frnthall Tregoning Richard, farmer, Rosvioney Duns tan J ames, surveyor, Canons town Jones William, shopkeeper Trembath Grace (:~Irs. ),frmr.Menwiddn Eddy David, farmer Johns John, farmer, Truthall ' Trembath J ames, farmer, Menwiddeu Eddy Thomas, farmer, Trenowin Kitchen John, farmer, Bowgheere Trembath Richard, grocer Eddy Thomas, farmer, White cross Laity Thomas, farmer, Curcuryan Trewhella William, shoe maker Edwards Edmund, farmr. Tarriewidden Lanyon James, farmer, Cbyvella Trytlaall William, farmer, V ellanoweth Edwards Edward, farmer, Trenowin Lanyon John, farmer, Rospeath White Henry, farmer, Trevorrow Edwards William, smith, Lower quarter Lawry Andrew, farmer, Vartell White William, miller, Curcuryan Ellis William, smith Leggo Thomas, farmer, Mount's view White Nicholas, farmer Firstbrook Jhn.ironfounder, Rosevidney Mitchell Charles, farmer, Chellew Williams John, farmer LUXULYAN {calledLUXILYAN) isa township, parish, Sir John Colman Rashleigh, and is near the site of the old and village, situated on the river Par, 4~ milessouth-westfrom manor-house. At Prideaux, in this parish, stood a castle, Lostwithiel, 5north from St. Austell, and 3~ north from Par supposed to have been built before the Norman Conquest; railway station, in the Eastern division of the county, east it was inhabited by a family of the same name, now division of the hundred of Powder, Bodmin union, Bodmin represented by Charles Prideaux-Brune, esq., of Prideaux county court district, rural deanery of Powder, Cornwall arch Place, Padstow; all that remains of the manor-house deaconry, and diocese of Exeter. A new line, the Cornwall has been converted into a stable; there are still the Mineral railway, is in course of construction to run through remains of an encampment at that place. A fair is held this parish from Fowey to N ewquay. The church of St. on the 2nd July and 7th October. Sir Colman Rashleigh, Cyriacus and Julietta is an old building, and contains a bart., J.P., is lord of the manor. The principal land marble tablet to the memory of Sir John Col man Rashleigh, owners are Lord Robartes, Lord Mount Edgcumbe, J. bart., and Harrietthiswife; also a tablet toJoseph Carveth, Rashleigh, esq., and SirC.B. Graves-Sawle, hart. The soil is M.A., bearing date 1728. In this church the records of the clayey; subsoil, granite. The chief crops are oats, wheat, Duchy of Cornwall were kept before the Civil War; at that barley and turnips. The area is 5,354 acres; gross estimated time .they were removed to Lostwithiel, which place, bow rental, £5,053; rateable value, £4,551 ; and the population ever, proved less secure, for in Lostwithiel the war raged, in 1871 was 1,248. and the records were destroyed, while the church of Parish Clerk, Sir Col man Rashleigh, bart., J.P. ; John Luxulyan escaped both fire and pillage. The register dates Hobbah officiates. from the year 1594. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £231, with residence and 13~ acres of glebe, in the gift of Sir Colman Rashleigh, hart., J.P., and held by the Rev. PosT OFFICE.-John Hobbah, receiver. Letters arrive John Kendall Rashleigh, :M.A., ofMagdaleneCollege, Cam- from Bodmin at 10.25a.m.; dispatched at 2 p.m. The bridge. There is a good school for boys and girls, erected nearest money order office is at St. Blazey in 1872, and supported by voluntary contributions; also INSURANCE AGENT.-Briton ~Provincial Fire~ Life, chapels for Wesleyans and Bible Christians. Prideaux, the John Hobbah seat of Sir Colman Rashleigh, bart., J.P., is a handsome School, John Hobbah, master; Mrs. Ann Maria Morris, stone mansion; it was erected in the year 1808 by the late mistress Rashleigh Sir Colman, bart. J.P. Church Edgar, farmer, Treskilling 1 Honey William, farmer, Trenetham Prideaux Church Thomas, farmer, Tretharrup J ohns William, farmer, Higher Wood Rashleigh Coleman Battie,J.P .Prideaux Clemo Richard, farmer, Bodwen J ope J ames, blacksmith Rashleigh Rev. John Kendall, M.A. Coad Jeremiah, farmer, Locking gate Keam John, farmer, Great Prideaux Vicarage Cock Jonathan, farmer, Tresco1l Keam Robert, miller, Wood mill Bennett Richard Cock Robert Thomas, farmer, Trescoll Knight Jas. farmer, Higher Menadue COMMERCIAL. Cock William, farmer, Trescoll Knight Joseph J. farmer, Methrose Bassett William, farmer, Lestoon Dawe Charles, farmer, Secouch Knight Oscar, farmer, Bodwen Bawden & Co. china clay makers, DingleJane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Knight William, farmer, St. Cyors Ennisvarth Dyer John, farmer & landowner, Lawry James, miller, Lestoon Bennett J sph.Polsue, shoe ma.& farmr Higher Innis Marshall Williarn, farmer, Lower Wood Bennett Nicholas, shoemaker Edwards Robert, farmer, Croft Meager Henry, farmer, Cottage Bennett Richard, miller Francis Thoma3, farmer, Harrows Morcom William, farmer, Bodwen Bennett Stephen,blacksmith,Nanscawn Geach Edward, farmei", Carne Morris William, farmer, Kernick Bennett 'Villiam, farmer, Carnminnow Grigg Joseph, farmer, Gunwen Mufford Thos. farmer, Lower .l\fenadue Beswetherick J abez, carpenter, Cross Grose J olm, farmer, Trescoll Pascoe Richard, farmer, Bodiggo Beswetherick Richd. carpenter,Bodwen Grose Joseph, farmer; Swarth Peake Francis, farmer, 'freskillin~ Beswethet·lck Thomas, farmer, Lestoon Hick Henry, shopkeeper, Lower town Phillips Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Tre· Beswetherick Wm. farmer, Tredinnick Higgs Richard, Earl Grey gonnmg• Borlase Sampson, farmer, Treskilling Higrnan John, miller, Prideaux Phillips William, carpenter Bunt William, blacksmith, Marks Hill Richard, farmer, Treskilling Pinch Joseph, farmer, Chetton Carkeek William Henry, grocer Hobbah .John, postmaster IRoach Chas. farmer & sboema. 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