DIRECTORY.] . GERR.ANfl. llll the poor: there is also a sum of [,g for widows, left by a PosT 0FFIC:&:.-Miss Martha Paull, sub-postmistress. Letters former Duke of Leeds. At Great Work mine in this parish, through R.S.O. arrive at 11 a.m.; dispatched gunpowder was first used in 1688 for blasting purposes. at 2 p.m. Goldsithuey is the nearest money order office T RESOW AS, half a mile east and BosCREAGE, 1 north-east, are & Marazion the nearest telegraph office. Postal orders villages in this parish. The Duke of Leeds, the Rev. St. are issued here, but not paid Aubyn Bender Molesworth-St. Aubyn M. A., J.P. of Clowance, Crowan, and William Buller esq. are lords of the manor and A School Board of 5 members was formed August 23, r87r; chief landowners. The soil is loamy; the subsoil is granite. H. H. Nicbolas, Breage, clerk to the board ; Edmund The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and broccoli. Johns, Church town, attendance officer The acreage ts 1,287 acres; rateable value, /,1,864; and the Board School (mixed), erected in 1877, for 180 children; population in 1891 was 497· average attendance, 86; James Kilynack, master; Miss Sexton, Edward Collick. Laura Rickards, mistress COMMERCIAL, JohnsEdmund,shoe maker, Church twn Richards Henry, shopkeeper Ball Peter, farmer Keskeys Robert, farmer Richards John, farmer, Tresowas Coad John, farmer, Rejarden Laity William, farmer, Trennal Richards Thos. shoe maker, Tresowas Eustice Paul, carpenter New Great Work Tin Mine (William Rowe Philip, farmer Great Work Tin & Copper Mines (Great Stephens,mgr.; Fred. Thomas,purser) Thomas William, boot maker & shopkpr Work Mining Co. Limited) (Joseph Paull John, 'bus proprietor ·waters William, farmer Prisk, manager & purser) Paull Martha (Miss), shopkpr. Post off Wheal Grey Clay & Brick Works (John Hosken Wm. 'fhos.Hardy,smith&farrier Pellor Samuel, Dolphin inn Martin, manager & purser) Jacka James, farmer, Ninnes Piper James, shopkeeper Williams James, farmer, Tretheweg James John, shopkeeper, Great work Prout George, farm~r, Chycarne , or ST. GERRANS, is a parish about 7 miles 1College, Cambridge. Here are Bib:e Christian and Wesleyan south-west from , 9 south from , 4 north-east chapels. Henry Harris esq. formerly of Rosteage, by will from St. Mawes and 12 south-west from Grampound Road dated nth July, bequeathed a charity of the annual value of station on the Great Western railway, in the Mid division of £9 2s. 6d. for distribution, and in 1867 Captain Charles the county, west division of Powder hundred, petty sessional Baker R.N. gave /,200 stock for the poor of the parish and division of Powder South, Truro union and county court for the repair of the family vault. On the Curgurrell estate district, rural deanery of Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall is a round earthwork, called" Dingerin," and in the side of and ; it adjoins the parish of St. Anthony- a cliff near Creek ~tephen is a subterranean passage, some­ in-Roseland and is hounded on the east by the English Chan- times called "The Mermaids' Hole." A cattle fair is held nel and on the west by a creek of St. Mawes harbour. This yearly, at in Gerrans, usually in May. Rosteage place derives its name from a king, Gerennius, who, before (the fair vale) was held by the Kempe family from 1619 to the year 596, came from Wales, driven thence by the Saxons, IJ80. Trewince, the property of the trustees of the late and being well received by the people in Cornwall, fixed Richard Spry esq. is now occupied by John Thomas esq.; upon a place then called Curgurrell, where he is said to have the mansion, a good building of freestone, was erected in built a castle and a kingly residence with numerous fortifi- 1750. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Francis Gil­ catwns ; after living there some years he appointed his so:o. bert Enys esq. J.P., D.L. of Enys, St. Gluvias, who are lords his successor, and dying in the year 596 was buried near of the manor, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales as Duke of Corn­ that spot; some time after, his son, in reverence to his wall and J. G. Cregoe esq. are the principal landowners. father's remains, had them removed to and deposited in a The soil is light, shallow and fine earth ; subsoil, killas with place called Carne Beacon-an immense elevation about two elvan dykes. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips miles from Curgurrell-a gold boat with silver oars, and an and grass. The area is 2,870 acres, of which 215 are water; urn being ipterred with his remains: in November, 1855, a rateable value, £4,004: the population in 1891 was 790. fruitless search was made for the supposed relics, but the Sexton, Thomas Sye. results attained evidently showed that it had been a place of Letters through Falmouth, arrive at ro a. m. & 4 p.m. bariallong ages ago. The first church is supposed to have is the nearest money order & telegraph office been built previous to the year 590, by order of Gerennius, National School (mixed), built in 1863, for 140 children; who was subsequently canonized, yet history says that, in average attendance, 54 boys, 42 girls & 25 infants ; the year 1334, Gerrans was only a chapel dependent on St. Benjamin Linzell, master Anthony, for in a deed of confirmation of churches and Trewithian and Portscatho (the boat-pool) are chapels to Plymouth Priory, by Bishop Grandison, 1334, villages; the latter, the largest in the parish, is pleasantly "the prior and convent" are said "to hold in possession situated at the southern extremity of Gerrans bay, and about the church of St. Antoninus '1 "and the chapel of Gerrands half a mile below the church. Gerrans is frequented as a dependent upon it." The existing church of St. Gerendus, watering place in the summer season, and pilchard and erected in 1262, in the Early English style, and rebuilt in mackerel fishing is carried on to a small extent. There is a r849-50, is a building of stone consisting of chancel with Congregational chapel at Portscatho: also a reading-room, aisle and arcade of two bays, nave of five bays, south aisle, supported by subscription. north transept, south porch and an embattled western tower Pos-r, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, with spire, erected in 1636, containing 4 bells, two of which Portscatho (Railway Sub-office. Letters should have are dated 1830 and 1753, and all were recast in r88o, the R.S.O. Cornwall added).-Stephen Johns, postmaster. dates being retained: the spire was restored in 1890 at a Letters arrive at g.20 a.m. & 4·5 p.m. ; dispatched cost of {,102: there is a good modern chal\cel screen, a pis- at 8.25 a.m. & 3·5 p.m.; sundays, arrive at 9.20 a. m.; cina and an aumbry and several of the windows are stained, dispatched at 8.25 a. m in the aisle is a fine monument of marble to Edward Hobbs, Pos-r OFFICE, Trewithiau.-William Snell, sub-postmaster. of Tregassa, gent. ob. 1718: there ave 200 sittings : the Letters through Grampound Road arrive at g. ro a. m.; churchyard contains a fine old granite cross, 7 feet high and dispatched at 3.22 p.m.; sundays, g.22 p.m. Portscatho 2 wide. The register of baptisms and marriages dates from is the nearest money order & telegraph office the yea; 1538 ; buri~ls 1539· The living is a rectory, en- WALL LETTER Box, Gerrans.-Cleared at 7·55 a.m. & 2.40 ~owed m 1261 by Bishop Bronescombe, lord of the man?r, p.m .. sundays at . a. m ttthe rent-charge commuted at £3o6, average£ 194, gross m- ' 7 55 . come£2go,netyearlyvalue£r98,with residenceaH.d 1tacres Coast Guard, Portscatbo, Thomas Pope, chief officer of glebe, in the gift of the Bi!'hop of Truro, and held since 1 CARRIERS.-Nicholls, to Truro, wed. & sat.; Butland, to r88g by the Rev. Charles Ernest Randle Cowan M.A. of Caius Truro, wed Gerrans. Butland Joscph & Charles, carriers & tGayRichd.Ed wn. farmr .High. posting establishment ; open & close Hawkin Henry, farmer, Lanhay [Marked thus t letters through Grampound Road.] carriages & wagonettes supplied on Hill James & George, coal & oil dealers the most reasonable terms Hill George, farmer, Tregassick Barnett J ames Chenoweth Charles, saddler Hill James, carpenter Cowan Rev. Charles Ernest Randle Cocking Emma (.Miss), dress maker Hitchings Elizabeth (Miss), laundress lii.A. Rectory Coryn Chas. nurseryman, Mountview Hoatten William, insurance agent Lobb Richard, Tregear Cregoe Stephen, carpenter Jane William, boot maker Thomas John, Trewince Davies Joseph, farmer, Lanhay Lobb Arthur, farmer, Polaughan Thomas Samuel, Tregassa Emmett Peter, gardener to John Michell Jn. Hy. (Mrs. ),farmer,Rosevine West Edward Edgar Thomas esq Nicholls John Henry & Wm.coaldealers Evans Charles, Royal Standard Nicholls Jane (Mrs.),farmer,Tregassick COMMERCIAL. inn, comfortable apartments for Nicholls Nicholas, farmer, Trewince Andain William, blacksmith visitors at reasonable r~tes, new Pearce Charles, blacksmith Blight Harriett (Mrs.), shopkeeper stables & coach house, good accommo­ Pearce Philip, g,rocer Butland Francis, farmer dation for picnic parties ::5tentiford Grace (Mrs.),shopkeeper