[CORNWALL.] SOUTH HILL. 864 [POST OFFICE the Church of St
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[CORNWALL.] SOUTH HILL. 864 [POST OFFICE The church of St. Sithney is a stone building in the Pointed wheat, barley and oats. The area is 5,898 acres, of wllich 65 style : it has chancel, nave, aisles, and square embattled are water; gross estimated rental, £8,536; rateable value, tower with pinnacles, and containing 3 bells: in the interior £7,864 5s.; and the population in 1871 was 3,561. are sevf'ral mural monuments. The register dates from the :BoscAD.JAcK, 3 miles north-east; CROWNTOWN, I year 1680. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £-136, mile north; and PROSPIDNICK, I! miles north-east, are with residence and 17 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the hamletil. :Bishop of Exeter, and held by the Rev. Henry Houssemayne PoRTHLEVEN is an ecclesiastical parish, formed from Du Boulay, B.A., of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a this parish, and will be found under a separate heading. National school for boys and girls. The Wesleyans have a Parish Clerk, Arthur Burch. chapel. There is one small charity, amounting to £21.5s. yearly, for poor widows. John Jope Rogers, esq., the trustees ofthe late Sir Samuel Spry, and Mrs. Popham, are Letters, through Helstcin, arrive at IO.~O a.m.; dispatched at chief landowners. The soil is partly loamy and sandy; the 2 p.m. Helston is the nearest money order office subsoil is marl, resting on granite. The chief crops are National School, J ohnson Quintrall J ames, master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Harry Henry, farmer, Treesa Roherts William, farmer, Sithney green Du Boulay Rev. Henry Houssemayne, Holland John, miller & grocer Rogers Henry, shopkeeper "B.A. [vicar], The \-icarage J ames Daniel, farmer, Lower town Rowe Thomas, farmer, Launervean Popham Mrs. Trevarno J arnes J ohnson Quintrell, farmer & as- Rowe William, farmer, Treesa Vyvyan Henry, Newham sistant overseer Itowe Wm. farmer& miller, Trannack James Richard, carpenter, Crown town Russell Richd. & Thos. millers & farmrs COMMERCIAL. Jenkin John, farmer, Church town Sampson John, farmer, Prospidnick Adams Samuel, farmer, Buscadjack Lawrence William, farmer, Buscadjack Sampson William, farmer, Prospidnick Adams Thomas, farmer, Prospidnick Liddicoat Thomas, farmer, Mellangoose Selwood Williarn, grocer, Tucking mill Blewetts Mary (Miss), shopkeeper Lobb Josiah, farmer, St. Eh·an Tremhath Hurnphrey, farmer Bond Nicholas, smith Martin Henry, T1·ee inn TyackAlfil. farmer& miller, Mellangoose Bray Luke, farmer, Plain Matthews Richard, farmer, Tregoose Tyack Charles, farmer, Pednavounder Freeman Charles, farmer, Prospidnick Moyle William, farmer, Buscadjack Tyack Richard, farmer, Venton Vedna FreemanJas.fanner, Higher1\I ellangoose Nicholas John, farmer, Prospidnick Tyack William, farmer, Pednavounder Freethy John, farmer, Gwavas Nicholas Robert, farmer, Prospidnick Wear Williarn, Crown inn, & farmer, Geach Jas. whlwright. Sithney common Pascoe John, smith Crown town Glasson Jamelll, farmer, Newham Pengilly John Lobb, farmer, Gwavas Williams George, farmer, Sitbney green GlassonJ ohn, farmer, Truth all Pryor Arundel, farmer, Gwavas Williams James, farmer, Sithney green Glasson J oseph, farmer, Tregadjack Reed Thomas, farmer, Trevarno Williarns John, farmer, Antron Harris Christopher, farmer, Tregoose Roberts Richard, farmer, Trannack Williams J oseph, frmr. Higher Penrose SOUTH HILL is a parish, 3 miles north-hy-west from serted by the late rector to members of his family. The Callington, 10 south from Launceston, 9 north-east from register dates from the year 1550. The living is a rectory, Liskeard, 12 west from Tavistock, and 16 north from Ply with the chapelry of Callington annexed, yearly value £750, mouth, in the Eastern division of the county, middle divi with residence at South Hill, and glebe land in South Hill sion of the hundred of East, union of Liskeard, county court and Callington, amounting to 253 acres, in the gift of Lord district of Liskeard, rural deanery of East, Cornwall arch Ashburton and George Strode, esq., and held by the Rev. deaconry, and Exeter diocese; it is situated between the Francis Vansittart Thorn ton, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam rivers Tamar, Lynher, and Inny, and within one mile from bridge. There is a. very good National school for boys and the high road trom Callington to Bodmin by Five Lanes. girls at South Hill; and a Sunday school is held at A bridge of four arches crosses the Lynher at Kerney bridge. the rectory. There is a chapel with the bishop's licence for The clmrch of St. Sampson de South Hill is an ancient divine service at Trevigro, and Infant schools at Trevigro, building; it was appendant to the great manor or franchise Maders, and Golberdon. There are chapels for Wesleyans of Colliland, the property of Lord Ashburton and George and Methodists at Golberdon, in the parish. The charities Strode, esq., anciently the property of Lord Stafford. The are of £5 yearly value, for the education and clothing of church is chiefly in the Decorated style, has a nave, tower poor children and relief of the sick, and £10 yearly for the of three stap,·es, north transept or chantry chapel, and south labouring poor who do not receive parochial relief; the £5 aisle of Perpendicular ~haracter; the high altar was con left by the Knill family, and the £10 by the Hawkings, of secrated in the year 1333; a monument of the seventeenth Treven, in the parish. Louisa, Lady Ashburton, who is century, to Michael Hill, of this parish: ali!o an incised owner of the manor, George Strode, esq., and William D. stone to John Manaton and his wife, who died in I500 and Horndon,esq.,J.P., are chieflandowners. Thesoilis on the 1510, of beautiful Decorated style, on the north of the altar; slate and trap; the subsoil is slate and trap rock. The and also a founder's tomb of the same date and character chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and pasture. '!'he area adjoining: there is an Easter sepulchre: under the south is 3,459 acres; gros3 estimated rental, £3,449 ; rateable window of the chancel is a piscina; in the eastern wall of the value, £2,986; and the population in 1871 was 638. chancel also is a piscina; the north transept is a chantry The chief hamlets are MADERS, MORNICK, GOLBERDON, chapel, anciently belonging to the M anaton family: the font and TREVIGRO. is very curious, and of Norman date ; the tracery of the east Pamh Clerk, William Hancock. window is very beautiful; it has been recently filled with good stained-glass; the church was restored in 1871, at great Letters through Callington, which is the nearest money expense, by the parishioners and others: a memorial window order office inserted hy the 'frehane family, of Stockaton, in this parish; School, Ebenezer W. Spiller, master; Mrs. Sarah Ann and there are also memorial windows in the chancel, in- Spiller, mistress Thornton Rev. Francis Vansittart, Harding John, farmer, Lower Ford Rowe John, butcher, Golberdon M.A. Rectory Harvey Abizer, farmer, 'l'rewoodlow Rowe William, blacksmith, Golberdon Trehane John Honey, Stockaton Hicks Francis, farmer, Furzedon Rowell Thomas, beer retailer,Golberdon COMMERCIAL. Hurrell Sampson, farmer, Buddaford Say John, farmer, Glebe land .Batten Jameil, farmer, Tregunnet Moorshead John, farmer, Mornick Short E. (Mrs.), farmer, Mornick Brock Thos. fartner, Higher Manaton Penprase Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Short John, farmer, Trefennie Bunt Richard, farmer, 1\Iornick Golberdon Short John, farmer, Trevemi Clamo Jeremiah, farmer, Landsugle Rich John, New inn, Golberdon Stephens Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Ford Coad Nicholas, farmer, Trewassick Rickard Charles, butcher, Woodland Warren Samuel, farmer, Egypt Cundy John, miller, Manaton Rickard John, farmer, Lower Man a ton Warren William, farmer, l\leaders Davey James, farmer, Pen warden Rogers Hen. machine maker,Golberdon 'Vorth John, beer retailer, Meaders Dunstan William, farmer, Meaders Roseveare George, farmer, Trevigro Widger -, carpenter, Meaders ST. STEPHENS-IN-BRANNELL is a township, N ANPEAN, in the northern or higher part, and where parish, and ,·illage, distant 3 miles north-east from Gram- there is a large parocl1ial scl10ol. The church of St. pound Road station, 5 west from St. Am;tell, and 7 north- Stephen consists of chancel, nave, and aisles, with square east from Truro, in the Eastern division of the county, castellated tower containing a peal of 6 fine toned bells: west divi~ion of the hundred of Powder, St. Austell union and there is also a beautiful Norman arch and south door: the county court district, rural deanery of Powder, Cornwall whole has been restored gradually and thoroughly from archdeaconry, and diocese of Exeter. The parish includes 1654 to 1871. The register dates from 1694. The living Bevcral villages and hamlets, the principal of which is is a rectory, yearly value .£780, in the gift of the Hon. .