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1 south-east; VENTERDON, a quarter of a mile north­ 8.20 a.m. ; dispatched at 4 p.m. ; no delivery on west, has a Wesleyan chapel; KELLY BRA.Y is 2 mile3 sundays. Stoke ClimsLmd, 2 miles distant, is the south; HOL..'\fBUSH, 2 miles south, has a Wesleyan nearest money order oflice chapel, built in 1873; RA.MPT, 2 miles east, has a Wall Letter Boxes, Kelly Bray, cleared at 7·45 a.m. & chapel for the Brethren. 5.20 p.m. ; Higherland, cleared at 4.30 p.m. ; Luckett, Sexton, Thomas 1Vay. cleared at 4 p.m.; Hingston, cleared 8.20 a.m.; Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D. & A.. & I. Office.­ Pempwill, cleared at II.I5 a.m.; Alson, cleared at Mrs. Helena Stumbles, sub-postmistress. Lette•rs 3.4o r.m. ~ Vendon, cleared at 4 p.m from S.O. arrive at 7.50 a.m. ; dispatched at 4.30 p.m. ; no delivery on sundays PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. Po~t Ofliee, Downgate, Fredk. Griffin, sub-postmaster. These schools are controlled by the & Callington Letters from Callington S.O. arrive at 7.20 a.m.; District Educat.ion Committee; Alfred Burden, A.lbert dispatched at 5 p.m. ; no delivery on sundays. Stoke terrace, Saltash, clerk Climsland, 1! miles distant, is the nearest money (mixed), 220 children; average attend- order & telegraph oflice ance, 131; Theophilus Mutten, master :Post & T. Office·, Luckett.-Mrs. Isabella Pellow, sub- Luckett (mixed), for 220 children; average attendance, postmistress. Let.te.rs from Callington S.O. arrive at r25; William Henry Cornish, master :\'l:an:ey Rev. Richd. Hy . .\:LA. Rectory Gil:bard Geo. Hy.Dennis, frmr.Norton Penney James, farmer, Luckett hill Nattle WiJiam Henry J.P. Hampt Goodman Frank, farmer, Cockington Perey George, farmer, Tutwe] :Rattenbury Simon Philip J.P. Pol- Goodman John, farmer,Monks corner Percy James, farmer, Goosewell hilsa villa Gribble Fred, farmer, Treecombe & Perry, Spear & Co. Limited, general COMMERCIAL. Bridge merchants, Kelly Bray Rake Richard, farmer, Oldclims Gribble John Doidge, farmer, Climson Perry William, farmer, Deer park Blake William, farmer, Wooda farm Griffin Frederick, shopkeeper, & post Peters John, farmer & butcher,Wind- Boundy Luke, Half Moon P.H office, Downgate sor ~toir.e Carne Jas. mille'r (water), Beals mill' Guest James, shopkeeper, Kelly Bray Philp Leonard, farmer & iandowner, Clarke Frecerick Thomas, farmer, Guest John, fruit grower, Broadgate Downhouse Southcombe Hamleyn George Sampson Freeman, Philp. Robert, fruit grower, Luckett Cole Samuel, farmer, Horwell farmer, Lower Hampt Philp Simon, farmer, Pitt Coles William, farmer, A!mshouse Harding George, farmer Philp Wil!iam, farmer, Tutwe:J Colwill William A.ndrew Hicks, frmr. Harvey E!eazar, farmer, Southcombe Pridham Fredk. haulier, Downgate Venterdon Hatch WiJiam, farmer, Low. Lidwe~l Rapson George & Samuel, fruit Dennis Thomas, farmer & overseer, Heard John, farmer, Coombshead growers, Luckett Trehingsta Hocking John, farmer, Tatterdown Rattenbury Simon P. farmer & land- Dingle Riohard & Sons, cycle manu- Huglow Willi3!lll, farmer, King·ston owner, Polhilsa villa facturers, engineers, machinists & J ones William, farmer, A.lston Rendell Edwin, farmer, Turlea implement makers, Venterdon Knight John, grocer, draper, farmer Rendell ·wm. Edwd. farmer, Merefield Dingle Edmund, farmer, Pempwill & miller (water), Old mill Rendell William, farmer & landowner, Dingle James, fruit grower & farmer, Langford Joseph L. farmer, Burraton Poundfield Kelly Hole Lawry, Hawke & Co. Lim. coal, corn Rowe George, farmer, assistant over- Dingle Jn. Hy. carpenter, saw mills, & manure merchants, Kelly Bray seer & parish clerk general smith, Kelly Bray Lucas John, Maltsters' .Arms P.H. Rundle E;izh. (Mrs.), frmr.Downg-ate Dingle John Henry, grocer, Luckeit Luckett Ruse John Thomas, police constable Dingle William, fruit grower, Hampt Lyne Edmund, farmer, Kingston Ryall Wm. & John, farmers, Alston Doidge Edwd. fruit grower,Broadgate Lyne John, farmer, Beals Rya:l Oliver, farmer, \ViLtown Dymon Jn. fruit grower, Hi~herland Mason Charles, carpenter, Beals mill Short Thomas, farmer & landowner, Eggins John, farmer, Shutta .Matthews Henry, farmer, Winslade North down Eggins Thomas, farmer, Coomshead Mill Horace, grocer Skinner Wi:ll'i:am (Mrs.), farmer, Finnemore Harry,farmer,North Down Mitchell James, farmer, Stoke Hig'her Lidwell Finr1emore Wm. farmer, Venterdon Mitchell Wm. farmer, Holwell house Spear John, coal, seed & manure mer­ Garland John, b:acksmith, Pempwill M under William, farmer, Kelly Bray chant & wool buyer; depot, Kelly Gartrell Thomas, farmer, Pitt Nattle William Henry, farmer & land- Bray Geake Albert, farmer, Crockett owner, Hampt cottage Thomas Willia.m, farmer, Deans Geake Mary Jane (:Mrs.), farmer, Nicholson Hy. cycle maker, Downgate Tink John, fruit grower, New mill Downgate Parsons A.nne (Mrs.), Railway Inn Trathen Henry Wm. grocer, Glitters Geake Rd. butcher & frmr. Downgate P.H. Kelly Bray Vivian & Sons, gen. mers. Kelly Bray Geake William, farmer, Oaklands Pellow George, mason, Venterdon Wadland George, f,armer, Hampt Gerry James, farmer, Pempwill Pellow Samuel, mason, Venterdon Wearing Richd. carpenter, Venterdon Gi~bard Charles, farmer, Penpill Penney lsaac, farmer, Luckett Westlake William, farmer, Trecombe STRATTON, so called from its position on a Roman plete armour, the two wives are clad in furred and richly read (stratum) leading from Cornwall into Devon, is ornamented robes with long hanging slashed sleeves; over a small market and union town, township and parish, the effigies are two quartered shields, between them two B miles west from Holsworthy, I! miles east from figures of children, one being a matrix only; below are terminal station on a branch of the London and South ten others, and matrices of two shields ; a marginal in­ ·western railway, 223 from London and 18 north from scription surrounds the whole: the south window in the Launceston, giving name to a hundred, and is head of chancel is a memorial to the Rev. C. R. Holmes, a former a petty sessional division, in the North Eastern division vicar, and tnere are others to Edward Shearme esq. J. F. of the county, Holsworthy county court district, rural Delmar esq. and Mrs. Delmar, of Trelena, Poughill, deanery of Stratton, archdeaconry of and diocese 1 William Pickard esq. of Stratton and the Rev. George of . Stratton and Bude are governed by an Urban Wingate, vicar of Stratton 1893-1899: the circular font District Council of IS members, formed under the pro- of Transitional date is encircled with a cable moulding, visions of the "Local Government Act, I894" (56 and 57 and the benches are of ancient carved oak: on the quoin Vict. eh. 73). By Local Government Board Order No. of an ancient doorway (now blocked up) at the west end 39,878, dated April I, I90:l, the Urban District was of the north aisle is carved the date u6o: the exterior created a from parts of Poughill and walls of this aisle are Norman: the church was restored Btratton parishes. The ·church {)f St. A.ndrew is an in 1878 and again in I887-9 at a cost of £2,II3, when the ancient . buil.:ling of stone in the Decorated and tower and roofs were renovated, the north arcade rebuilt, :Perpendicular styles, consisting of chan('el, nave of six the ch11-ncel repaved, a carved oak screen and choir stalls bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western erected, and the church repaired and reseated, the old tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 8 bells, of c:uved bench ends being retained: a new organ was which 6 wPre recast and two were addfd in 1778 ; the presented by Miss King, of Stratton, at a cost of £6go, dock was placed in the tower in memory of the recovery and a brass eagle lectern by Philip King esq. of Strat­ of His Majesty Edward VII. (then Prince of Wales) from ton: in 1901 a new vestry and coved chancel screen his serious illness in I871; on the porch is a sundial: wt>re erected from designs by Edmund Sedding esq. in the north aisle is a tOmb with the effigy of a crusader, F.R.I.B.A. the latter being a memorial to Miss .A. E. supposed to represent Sir Ranulph de Blancheminster, Sht-a.rme, of Cothill, Stratton: there are sittings for 400 and at the east end of the north aisle is an altar-tomb per~:ms. The register dates from the year 1687, and of black marble, with brass effigies of Sir John Arundell has an entry of the burial, March 10th, 1691, of of Trerice, kt. ob. 25th November, 1.')61, his two wives Elizabeth Cornish, widow, aged II3- The living is a ~Iary (Bevyll) and Juliana (Eryssy). ob. March, 1567-8, vic·arage, net income £no, with residence and 2! acres and twelve children; the figure of the knight is in com- of glebe, in the gift of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales,