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DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. CROWAN. 853 is purely an agricultural district. The area is 2,8og acres ; Letters through Grampound Road. Grampound is the rateable value, [3,317 ; and the population (exclusive of nearest money order & telegraph office Grampound) in 1881 was 243. • Parish Clerk, William Andrew. The school for this parish is situated in Grampound Moore Rev. Charles B.A. Garlenick Qroggan Thomas, farmer, Tregonjohn Nettle Richard, farmer, Treccaine Moore Mrs. Quarry park Dungey Frances (Mrs.), farmer, V en- Pill James, farmer, miller (water), Woollcombe Rev. Philip M.A. Rectory tonwin Baileys mill COMMERCIAL. Filkins Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Pengilly Reynolds Nicholas, farmer, Treswallan Arthur Margaret (Mrs.), farmer, Tre- Grigg Joseph, farmer, Nantellan Smith Geo. Wm. farmer, Trewinnow villack Hawken Joseph, farmer, Nancor Soper James, farmer, Trewinnow Arthur William, farmer Julyan Richard, farmer, Tregidgio Stephens Edwin, farmer, Garlenick Broad William Hy. farmer, Trevenna Lane John, farmer, Corwinnick Tank Sml. Edwd. farmer, Trevillack Chapman William, farmer, Bossullion Magor John, farmer, Pennance Williams Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Clark William, farmer, Trencreek Michell Richard, farmer, Pencoyse Polglaze CROWAN is a township and parish, 4 miles south from from Camborne to Helston, with a Wesleyan chapel and a Camborne railway station, adjacent to the road from Cam- cemetery attached. Letters arrive via foot messenger from borne to Helston, in the Western division of the county, Helston. Penwith hundred, Helston union and count.y court district, RELEATH hamlet is ~~ miles south-east with a Wesleyan Kirrier rural deanery. Cornwall archdeaconry, and Truro , chapel. diocese. The church of St. Crewena, restored and repewed TowNSHEND is a village 4 miles west from Crowan church in I872 at a cost of upwards of £2,ooo (exclusive of the and has a Wesleyan chapel. chancel, restored by the patron), is a building of granite, LEEDS TowN, so named after the Duke of Leeds, is a in the Gothic style, with some incongruous Classic additions, village 3 miles west from Crowan church, 4 miles south of consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western Hayle, on the road from Hayle to Helston. The mission tower, 70 feet high, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, church of St. James, opened in August, 1882, by Dr. Benson, rehung iu 1882 at a cost of £ roo: the north aisle contains late bishop of Truro, is a building of stone in the Early English several monuments to the St. Aubyn family ; but the style, and consists of chancel, nave, north porch and a bell ancient brasses of the St. Aubyns (1400-1599), of which turret containing r bell: the church was built by subscrip engravings are given in Polwhele's "History of Corn- tion at a cost of £soo, the font being given by the builder, wall," have been removed and sold during the present Mr. William Carah of Praze, and has sittings for roo persons. century; the existing memorials range from r629to I839: a Here is a Wesleyan chapel and a Bible Christian chapel. marble monument without inscription occupies the place PRAZE, or Praze-an-beeble, is a village three-quarters of a of the east window, but the west window is a memorial to mile north-west, with a yearly fair for cattle and pleasure Henry Jenkin of Kerthen, I86o; the stained east window held on the xsth July; there is also a feast held here on the was given by Mrs. Render St. Aubyn, in memory of her nearest Sunday to Candlemas (2nd February). Here is a. husband: another at the end of the south aisle is a memorial Wesleyan chapel. of the wife of George Hickman Johns esq. of the Indian civil Parish Clerk, Rev. St. Aubyn Render Molesworth-St. service and son of the present vicar; below the window is a Aubyn M.A., J.P. brass to the above G. H. Johns, who died at Poonah, India, WALL Box, Crowan Churchyard wall, cleared at 1.45 p.m. in r876, and J. Tremenheere Johns, also a son of the vicar, week days only who was drowned at Oxford in 1855 : on the exterior east PosT OFFICE, Leeds Town.-John Rowling, receiver. Letters wall is a memorial to Richard Tregeare, with a quaint arrive via Hayle at ro.rs a.m; dir,patched at 1.40 p.m. inscription, r668 : there are sittings for about 400 persons. Hayle is the nearest money order & telegraph office Theregisterofbaptismsdatesfromtheyeari692;marriages, Pos-r & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank, Praze.- 1696; burials, 1697· The living is a vicarage, yearly value Samuel Webb, receiver. Letters arrive via Camborne at from tithe rent-charge £470, net income £46o, with residence 10.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 1.25 p.m. Camborne is the and 45 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Rev. St. Aubyn Render nearest telegraph office Molesworth-St. Aubyn M.A., J.P. of Clowance, and held since PosT OFFICE, Townshend.-Peter James, receiver. Letters r842 by tbe Rev. John White Johns M.A. of St. John's College, arrive via Hayle at rr.o a.m.; dispatched at I p.m. Hay le Cambridge, and surrogate. There is a Free Methodist chapel is the nearest money order & telegraph office at Gew. Here are reservoirs for the supply of the parishes of INSURANCE AGENT.- Westminster Fi1·e ~ Westminster ~ Crowan, Camborne and lllogan,and holding about 26,ooo,ooo General L~fe, W. Rosewarne, Leeds Town gallons. The inhabitants are chiefly occupied in mining Registrar of Births~ Deaths for Crowan sub-district, Edwin and agriculture. Clowance, the seat of the Rev. St. Aubyn Trevenen, South Crenver Render Molesworth-St. Aubyn M.A., J.P. is a mansion of A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1874; Richard granit~, situated in a well-wooded park containing a lake Paynter, Praze, clerk to the board formed by one of the branches of the river Hayle and sur- Board School (formerly National) (boys'), built in I8I3, for rounded by a high wall about 4 miles in circumference: the 216 boys; average attendance, 6o; John Tresidder, master: mansion was twice burnt down within three years (1836-8), (girls') built in 1844, for 150; average attendance, 88; Mrs. but has been rebuilt: it contains a collection of pictures Jane Janes, mistress by eminent masters. The Rev. St. Aubyn Hender Moles- Board School, Leeds Town (mixed), built in 1878, for ISO worth-St. Aubyn M.A., J.P. who is lord of the manor, and children; average attendance, 136; William Henry Slee- the Duke of Leeds and Lord Churston are the chief land- man Coom, master owners. The soil is loam ; subsoil, principally granite. Praze School (formerly the Improvement Society's building); The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The Miss Grace Pascoe, mistress area is 6,437 acres; rateable value, £7,824 ss. gd.; the OMNIBUSES (passing through):- popu~a.tion in r88r was 2,603; in 1871 was 3,464. CAMBORNE TO HELSTON-Thomas Davey, morning & CROW AN BEACON rises to an altitude of Bso feet, near it evening is a large mass of stone called "Black Rock,": here is a CAMBORNE-Richard James, from Horsedowns: ·william Wesleyan chapel. Berryman, from Townshend, sat BENNERTON, 3 miles west; BoLITHO, 2~ miles east; CARN HELSTON To CAMBORNE & REDRUTH-Thomas Davey TREMAYNE, r~ miles north east; and DRYM, 2 miles west, HELSTON-William Berryman, from Townshend, on sat with the remams of an ancient encampment, are all hamlets. PENZANCE-William Berry man, from Townshend, tues. HoRSEDOWNs, is a hamlet 2 miles west, with a W esleyan thurs. & sat. ; & Richard J ames, from Horsedowns, thurs. chapel. via St. Erth KERTON is a hamlet 4~ miles west from Growan Church. REDRUTH-William Berryman, from Townshend, on fri.; & NANCEGOLLAN is a hamlet 2 miles south-west on the road Orlando Hoare, from Breage, on fri Crowan. Abraham Samuel, farmer, Cardinham Edwards William, builder PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bennetts Richard, farmer, Bodrivial Eva James, farmer, Hellogan Johns Rev. John White M.A. [vicar & Berryman Henry, farmer, Cargenwen EYa .Michael John, farmer, Trenoweth surrogate], New Vicarage Berryman Henry, farmer, Poleo Faull Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Oatfield .Molesworth-St. Aubyn Rev. St. Aubyn Berryman William, farmer, Poleo Gay Charles, farmer, Borthog Render l'tLA., J.P. Clowance CarahJohn,butcher&farmer,Cargenwen Glasson John, farmer, Trevoole Vaughan Rev. Daniel Rechab [curate], CharlesHugh,wheelwright,Horsedowns Hampton James, farmer Old Vicarage Commins Joseph, farmer, Crenver Harris Thomas, farmer, Dower COMMERCIAL. Cornish Granite & FTeestone Co.(William Hichens James, farmer, Tregear Abraham Henry, farmer, Balankan Argall, purser) HicksWm.Hy.farmer,LowerCargenwen • .