[Cornwall.] Torpoint
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[CORNWALL.] TORPOINT. (POST Ol<'FICE .Baker J ames, miller Radcliffe Miss, Travena cotta~e Miller William, draper & grocer Brown William, farmer Teague John Smith John Wade, King.A.rthur Arm& Glanville William, iarmer & miller Tucker Samuel Glenvill John, blacksmith COMMERC~AL. Trewarmet. Langford Harry, farmer Dangar John, carpenter Brown William, farmer Daw Thomas, Wharncliffe Arms Cornelius :Francis, Golden Lion Trevena. family hotel. See advertisement Rush John, shopkeeper Hayter Mrs. Trevena house Fry Jamt:'s, butcher & lodging house Kinsman Rev. Prebendary Richard Kendall Thomas, shoe maker Trebarwith. Byrn, M.A., J.P. [vicar] Manicom J ames, tailor Lobb Seth & Thomas, farmers TORPOINT is a small town, nearly the whole of which engaged in the naval service, and those employed in the has been built since 1790; it is within the civil parish of different Government establishments on the opposite side of Antony, but for ecclesiastical purposes it has been formed the river. The soil is loamy; subsoil, gravel. The area of into a separate parish; it is situated on the west bank of the parish is 1,900 acres; gross estimated rental, £4,178; that part of the river Tamar called Hamoaze, directly rateable value, £3,242 ; and the population in 1871 was opposite the dockyard at Key ham, Devonport; the river 2,458. in this part is nearly three-quarters of a mile wide, and the communication is by a floating steam bridge, which crosses PosT & MoNEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Post every quarter of an hour; it is about 2! miles from the Ply- Office ~avings Bank, Government Annuity & Insurance mouth station of the South Devon railway. The church of Office.-John Nodder. postmaster. Letters are received St. James is a very plain building, in the middle of the through Devonport. London letters arrive at 7 a.m. & 7 town, and has a beH-turret with 1 bell: the small chancel is p.m.; dispatched 5.30 p.m.; arrival from the North at an addition : the church will seat about 800. The register 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 5.55 p.m dates from the year 1819. The living is a vicarage, without CouNTY MAGISTRATES for the Southern Division usually residence, yearly value £125, in the gift of the vicar of attending:- Antony, and held by the Rev. Edgar Huxtable, B.A., of William Henry Pole Carew, Capt. Charles Eliot Christ's College, Cambridge. There are chapels belonging esq. chairman Erasmus Coryton Roberts to the Congregationalists and Wesleyans. William Henry Deeble Boger John J ervis Tucker Pole Carew, esq., J.P., of Antony House, who is lord of Lord Graves Rev. Tobias Furneaux the manor, and Lord Graves, are the principal landowners. Lord Eliot The workhouse for the St. Germans Union is about a quarter Clerk, Henry Trefusis Smith of a mile from Torpoint. There are no fairs or markets, but INSURANCE AGENTg :- the town is well supplied with meat, fish, and vegetables. Great Britain Life~ Provincial Fire, F. F. Holman, The only manufactories are a sulphuric acid and manure Fore street manufactory of the Western Counties and General Manure Norwich Union Fire, Down Brothers, East Cornwall ho Company Limited, and a small rope manufactory carried on Royal, J. H. Goddard, 3 Chapel row by Mr. Ellis. There are gas works, from which the shops St. Germans Union, Nieholas Cock, master; Rev. G. H. and public buildings are lighted, but the inhabitants have Fletcher, M.A. chaplain; l\Hss .Mason Hodge, school- not yet availed themselves of its use for street lamps. The mistress Mechanics' Institution, in which there is a large lecture room Natirmal School, Edwin Rohert Phillips, master; Miss with class and reading rooms, is a plain building. The Mary Emma Vallack, mistress petty sessions for the southern division of the hundred of East County Police Station, John Guy, sergeant are held here on the second Tuesday in every month, and on Overseer of the Parish, Frederick Augustus Gosling, 56 other days when specially appointed. Thanckes House, the Fore street seat of Lord Graves, is a fine building in the Pointed style, CARRIERS:- but is not yet completed. Gravesend House, the seat of the William Crart, from Ferry street, to Looe & Fowey, every Dowager Lady Graves, is a fine buildin~, and the grounds tuesday at 10 a.m.; Plymouth, Stonehouse & Devonport, around, although small, are beautifully arranged. The monday, wednesday, friday, saturday; Tucker & Martin, town contains about 2,245 inhabitants,consisting principally from Plymouth to Looe, every tuesday & friday, return- ofretired naval officers-the families of such as are actively ing on wednesday & saturday PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Keightley Mrs. 3 Wellington street COMMERCIAL. Akenbead Alexander,3 Waterloo street Kestell John, North Hill terrace AkenheadPhilipa(l\Irs.),baker,Ferryst Bagg-s Mrs. North Hill house Kitto Miss, 68 Fore street Baggs Sarah (Mrs.), ladies• boarding Barber Horace, 4 Wellington street Langmead Richard, 9 Waterloo street school, North Hill house Bli~ht Mrs. 6 Chapel row Letherby Henry, 64 Fore street Bray Eliza (Mrs.), earthenware dealer, Brock Edward, 4 Waterloo street Lewis Henry, R.N. 3 Cambridge place 19 Fore street Bromley Miss, 5 Chapel row Littlejohn John, R.N. 62 Fore street Brooks Edward,heer retailer,Fore street Brown Joseph, 2 Wellington street Lobb William Henry, Albert cottage Burt Jacob, dairy, Fore street Browse Mrs. Fore street McKenzie Chas. Loch Lomond cottage Cavenaugh George, boot maker Chubb Charles Henry, Rock house Methers John, R.N. 3 North Hill ter Chubb Charles Henry, surgeon, Rock Cooper Mrs. 8 Wellington street Mitchell Edward, 5 W ellin!!ton street house Couch Edward, 12 Waterloo street Moger Lieut. Wm. R.N. 1 Albert ter Clements Samuel, Old King's Arms, Downs Alexander, R.N. 8 Waterloo st N eal James, R.N. Alexander terrace & coach builder, Fore street Eastcott Thomas, Merrifield Parry Capt. Jones, R.N. 3 Albert ter Crart William, carrier Freathy William, R.N. 6 Waterloo st Payne Thomas, Wilcove Daw Joseph, butcher, Fore street Frost Richard, 6 Wellington street Pentreath Edwin, Merrifield cottage Down Brothers, wholesale & retail Gant Mrs. Green bank Phillips Edwin Robt. 40 Wellington st linen drapers, silk mercers, outfitters, Goddard John Henry, 3 Chapel row Pike Mrs. Fore street tea dealers, grocers, booksellers, Graves Dowager Lady, Gravesend ho Pope Miss, Rowe street stationers & agents to the Norwich Graves Lord, J.P. Thanckes house Rees Capt. John Fletcher, R.N. 7 Union Fire & Life Assurance Greet George, North Hill terrace Chapel row Company, East Cornwall house Hart Peter, North Hill terrace Rees Mi8s, 4 Chapel row Down Richard Haydon, pharmaceutical Hayman Charles, Milborough, 10 Wel- Richards Thos. Rd. R.N. 2 Chapel row chemist. East Cornwall house lington street Roberts Mrs. Carbeal Downing Thomas, baker, 49 Fore street Hayman Thomas, 14 Wellington street Rowe William, 39 Wellington street Durant John Pope, watch maker & Haynes Mrs. 1 Waterloo street Sanson Miss, North Hill terrace jeweller, 52 Fore street Hayward John Jas. R.N. Carlton villas Shepheard Joseph, Carlton villas Eliott Emma (Mrs.), butcher, 51 Hill Mrs. 2 Cambridge place Smith Mrs. 2 Albert terrace Fore street Hillyar Lady, Torre house Snell Thomas, 10 Waterloo street Ellis J~hn, rope manufacturer Home Wm.Keating-,R.N.Alexander ter Teague Mrs. 7 Wellington street Film er & Co. ironmongers & oil dealers, H oskin J ames, 9 Wellington street Teague W illiam, North Hill house 57 Fore street Huxtable Rev. Edgar, B.A. [vicar], Turner Philip, R.N. Fore street Francis John Pawley, beer retailer, 10 Fore street Wavish Richard, Alexander terrace Fore street Ja~o Edwin, 4 Camhridge place Wheeler Jasey, 38 Wellin~ton street Gent John, corn merchant & farmer, .Jago John Rowse, l\Ierrifield J10use White Henry .Jas. R.N. 5 Waterloo st Tre\·ol Jemerson Josepb, 69 Fore street Withecombe Wm. R.N. 7 Waterloo st Goddard John Henry, secretary to the Jewill Ebenezer, Green Bank terrace Woodgate William, 2 Waterloo t~treet • Mechanics' Institution, 3 Chapel row .