Directory. St. Gennys. [Cornwall.]

DIRECTORY. 113 ST. GENNYS. [CORNWALL.] ST. GENNYS is a parish, 16~ miles north-west from Lord RoUe are lords of the manor, and, with Lewis William Launceston, 22 north from Bodmin, Ill south-south-west Buck, M,P., and Robert Chichester, Esq., are chief land from Stratton, and 10 north from Camelford, in the east owners. The chief crops are corn. division of Cornwall, Lesnewth Hundred, Stratton Union, The following are hamlets, with their distances from the Trigg Major deanery, Cornwall arch deaconry, and Exeter chnreh :-RoscARE,ll miles; Trencrick, 2~ miles; Coxford, bishopric; it is situated on the north coast of Cornwall. l~alf a mile ; Cracking ton Haven, three-quarters of a mile; The church of St. Genesius is an old stone building, in the Dysart, 2 miles; Sweets, ll miles; Hill, 2 miles; Pen early English style of architecture; has a nave, aisles, kuke, 2 miles, chancel, porch, low tower, 4 bells, and font. The living is The following are adjacent places, with their distances a vicarage, worth £160 yearly, with residence and 27 from the church :-TRENCRICK, i>! miles; Hole, Il miles; acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Earl of St. Germans; West Dysart, 2 miles; Church Town, adjoining Baypark, the Rev. John A thanasius Herring Laffer, B.A., is the in 2 miles; Halligather, 1 ~ miles; Treleigh, 2 miles; Middle cumbent. There is a chapel for Association Methodists. Crackington, I mile; Hentervean, 2 miles; Whitemoor, There is a parochial school in connexion with the church. I!- miles; Flanders, 1 mile; Penruke, 2 miles; Ludon, A fair is held on July 16th yearly, for cattle and sheep. 1 mile; 1'revigiu1 2 miles; Pengold1 2! miles; Bastard, The population, in 1851, was 649, and the act·eage is 5,486; 2 miles; Roundhouse, 2 miles; Wood a, I~ miles; Tres the soil is clayey; the subsoil is slate. The trustees of morn, I mile; Trengare, I! miles; Treworgey, 2 miles. St. Gennys. Rog-ers Charles, carpenter & farmer, Penkuke. TRADERS. Roundhouse TRADERS. Bray Thomas, farmer, Hole Rogers Henry, farmer, Bastard M arsball John, tarmer Bridgman R1cha.rd, draper & grocer, Rogers Henry, farmer, Wood a Sandercock William, farmer Tre, Sparrett post Ro~er~ John, farmer, Pen~old R.oscare. Broad William, farmer", Halligather Smeeth Johu, farmer, Tresmorn TRADERS. Cory John, blacksmith Stacey William, farmer, Tresmorn Cory James, farmer Cowling John, farmer, Church town Ward Henry, farmer, Trengare Greenwood John, farmer Dinnis John, farmer, Flanders Coxford. Jewell William, farmer Elson Edward, farmer, Baypark N ottle William, farmer Petherick Cator, farmer Elson John, farmer, Halligather Cracking-ton Haven. Sandercock John, farmer & shopkeeper Elson William, farmer, Baypark Cock Joanna (Miss), farmer Hicks Thoma~, farmer, Treleigh Tinney Jacob, farmer Sweets. Hockin John, farmer, Mid. Cracking ton Dysart. Tinney Jacob, farmer Hole William, farmer, Pengold Brav John, farmer, West Dysart Trencrick. Jewell Thomas, farmer, Crackington Heal James, farmer TRADEHS. Jose John, farmer, Hentervean Tinney Roger, farmer Bond William, farmer Luxon Thomas, farmer, Whitemoor Ward Edward, farmer Sandercock Georg~>, farmer & butcher Marks Wm. f'armer&miller, Bastard mill Bill. Shephard James, farmer Marsball Edward, 'Red Lion' Drak~:>s William, farmer Ward Edward, farmer Medlaml Thomas, farmer, Ludon Rogeril William, farmer Letters through Stratton, which is Moyse William, farmer, Trevigue Trease John, farmer also the nearest money order office ST. GER.MA'NS is a small market town, city, and ceives £88 per annum. St. Germans and Landrake, with parish, near the river Tidi and the Lynher creek, distant St. Erney, are peculiars. The two district churches, St. 226 miles from London, 8 from Saltash, 9 from Devon- Ann's, at Hessenford, and St. Luke's, at 'l'ideford, in thit~ port, and 81 from Liskeard, and gives name to a Union, parish have both been built and endowed during the in in the southern division of the Hundred of East, East cumhency of the Rev. Tobias Furneaux, M.A.. The Wes Cornwall; the Cornwall railway pa8ses through a part leyans have a chapt:l here; there is an endowed school of the town. The church, dedicated to St. Germanus, fur boys, a National and Infants' school; both are sup consists of the nave and aisles of an old conventual ported by the Couute~s of St. Germans. There is a cattle ehurch. The most interesting portions are at Lhe fair held here on the 28th of May, and a pleasure fair on western end, where nearly all the original Norman re- the 1st of August. Port Eliot, the seat of the Earl of St. mains are to be found. The west front consists of a Germans, is a plain building, pleasantly situated, and is a deeply recessed and projecting Norman doorway; the desirable country residence; the apartments contain some north tower is Norman in its two lower stages, and has good paintings, principally family portraits, amongst them plain round-hearled windows of one light in each story; are paintings by Rembrandt, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the south tower is Nor man in its lower sta~e only, the Opie. The ancient priory came into the possession of the upper having been rebuilt (and another added) of reduced Eliot family by an exchange of propt'rty with the Cham dimensious, and of a later date. This tower is embattled, pernownes. The refectory of the priory is in the space and has a peal of 6 bells; both towers have newell stairs r.ow occupied as the dining-room. The population, in in the thickness of the walls; the interior has been 1851, was 2,967; the acreage of the-parish is 9,999a. 3r. recently restored hy taking away the plaster which dis· The Earl of St. Germans is lord of the manor, and the figured it ; other renovations aiso ha\"e been made by the principal landowners are, the Earl of St. Germans, Sir Rev. T. Furneaux. Here are some aucient monuments of Joseph \Villiam Copley, Bart., John Littleton, Esq., and the Eliot family. A cenotaph has recently been erected Nicholas Littleton, Esq. by the tenants of the St. Germans estate, which bears the TIDEFORD is a small village, 2 miles from the Church following inscription :-•'To the memory of the Hon. Gran- Town, and in the parish of St. Germans. ville CharlesCornwallis Eliot, second sou of the Right Hon. HESSENPORD is a small village in the parish of St. Earl of St. Germans and Jemima his wife, Lieutenant and Germans, 4 miles distant from St. Germans. Captain of the Coldstream Regiment of Fout Guards, who CRAFTHOLE is a small village in the parish of Sheviock; fell while acting as Adjutant in the battle of lukerrnan, there is a coast guard station at Portwriukle, in Sheviock November 5th, 1854." The living is a perpetual curacy, in parish. the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor; the tithes DoWNDERRY is a small fishin!r-place in the parish of were commuted at £1,649, in 1843; the incumbent re- St. Germans, and has a coast-guard station. GENTRY. • Tucker Edmund Snell, esq. Molenick Burnard Thomas, farmer, Clynick Eliot Lord, Port Eliot Welch George, esq. Bellvue house Cardew Joseph, saddler, ironmonger, Geake Edward, esq. Hoskyn TRA.DERS. auctioneer, seed merchant,& agent to Kerswell R. W. P. e~q. Fair field Austin Samuel, farmer, Milladon Western life & Imperial fire insurance Kruckenberg William, esq. Westem cot Bastard George, farmer, lntown offices Newvort Tbeodore, esq Benuett Thomas, farmer, Deviock Carpenter Jamfs, farmer, Pennywio Raby Samuel, esq. TrifHe Bersey John, boot and shoe maker CarpenterJobn,jun. f11rmer, Carracawn Ritson George, esq Blake Richard, farmer, Treroost Carpenter John, sen. farmeT,Carracawn St. Germans, Rt. Hon. Earl of, Port Eliot Bli!.!;ht Richard, builder, Polbathick Chi~well Hy. farmer,Cathfrench quarry Tapson Wm. Henry, e@q. Elm cottage Bray Thomas, farmer, Tregone Claridge ThomaQ, Eliot Ar1ru com- Tapson William Henry, esq. Brenton Jane {Mrs.), farmer, Cross fnercial t family inn Tmgcombe Misses, Lynber cottage Budge A.rtbur,.carrier Clarke William,. carpenter, Polhathick Jl .

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