CORNWALL. [KELLY's CUBY Is a Parish Adjoining Tregony on the North of That L There Are 400 Sittings
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1080 CUBY. CORNWALL. [KELLY'S CUBY is a parish adjoining Tregony on the north of that l there are 400 sittings. The register is incorporated with town, 4! miles south from Grampound Road station on the 1 that of Tregony. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the Great Western railway, 7~ l'!outh-west from St. Austell and rectory of St. James, Tregony, average tithe rent-charge 7t east from Truro, in the Mid division of the county, west £r49, joint net yearly value £269, including 8r acres of division of the hundred of Powder, petty sessional division g-lebe, in the gift of the repl'esentatives of the late Rev. P.C. of Powder south, Truro union and county court district, Marshall, and held since r89o by the Rev. John Fry Reeves, rural deanery of Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall and who resides at Tregony. The principal landowners are diocese of Truro. Part of the town of Tregony is within Viscount Falmouth and John Charles Williams esq. :M.P. of this parish. The church of St. Cuby, rebuilt, with the Caerhays Castle, St. Michael Caerhays. The soil is a rich exception of the tower, in 1828, stands to the north of loam ; subsoil, slaty schist. The chief crops are wheat~ Tregony and has been used by the inhabitants of that place barley, oats and roots. This is a purely agricultural district. since the destruction of their own church; it is a building The area is 2,262 acres; rateable value, £2,510; the popu of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of nave, north lation in 1891 was 141. transept, south porch and an embattled western tower with Sexton, James Greet. four pii.macles, containing one bell, date~ 1787: . there is a Letters from Grampound Road arrive at Tregony at 8. 10 memorial to Hugh Poi_rteX:o~ esq. 1614, bes1des varwus others a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at of modern date: bmlt m to the south-west corner of the Tregony . church is a famous monumental stone of the third or fourth . century called "The Cuby Stone," bearing the names of The. pa~1sh IS mcluded m the T~egony Umted School Board three Romanized Britons, viz.: "Nonnita," "Ercilius," distriCt, formed September 2 ' 1875 and " Virigatus: " there is an ancient and interesting font : The children attend the Board school at Tregony Davey Robert, farmer, Great Holboat Holman Thomas Andrew, farmer, Thomson Peter, farmer, Tregonyhayn Elliott Thomas Wm. farmer, Rosevallen Goviley Major Thomson P. & G. W. T. farmers & Freethy Ralph, farmer, Newton Julyan Richard, farmer, Great Gargas manure agents, Carvath Grigg James Alfred, farmer, Pittsdowns Knight John Thomas, farmer, Holboat Treloar Thomas, farmer, Glebe farm Hawkins John, farmer, Little 6-argas Treffry Sarah(Mrs.),frmr.Govileyveanl CURY is a township and parish, 5 miles south-south-east Count of Mortein, half-brother of William the ConquP.ror;. from Helston terminal station of a branch of the Great during the Civil wars Bochym was a place of refuge for the Western railway and r2 south-west from Falmouth, in the Royalists, and there are still pointed out in the" oak romp." TrurQ division of the county, western division of the hundred secret staircases and sliding panels in the wainscot, but a of Kerrier, petty sessional division of Kerrier West, Helston portion of the building is of much more ancient date; the union and county court district, rura,l deanery of Kirrier, late Step hen Davey esq. father of the present owner, caused archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese o(Truro. The church a thorough restoration to be made in accordance with plans of St. Corantyn or St. Ninian is a building of granite, and elevations fotmd among the family papers ; the house chiefly in the Late Decorated style, consisting of chancel and now occupies three sides of a square and consists of a centre nave of six bays, north aisle, south transept or Bochym, and north wing, the other wing being formed by a large and which belongs to the manor of Bochym, south porch and an handsome coHservatory ; the house is panelled throughout, embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 3 bells, the library in Italian walnut, the dining room in oak, and the treble da$ed r847 and the others 1761: the Norman door- there are many beautiful pieces of old carved oak furniture; way at the south entrance dates from the uth century and in the dining-room is a four-fold screen of well-preserved its tympanum is enriched with carved work of interlaced hand needlework, representing twelve figure subjects; and rings : at the junction of the chancel and transept is a the collection of .china is both extensive and valuable, some remarkable hagwscope, and in the chancel wall is a "leper's of the examples of Dresden ware being unique : attached is • window:" there are no monuments : the church was restored a very complete model farm, managed upon thoroughly in 1873-41 when Vlany relics of the former building were scientific and practical principles; all the buildings comprisecl brought to light: the old pews were replaced by open seats in it are most complete and were re-arranged by the present and the carved woodwork of the roof carefully cleaned and proprietor. The principal landowners are J. Sydney Davey preserved: there are 250 sittmgs : in the churchyard is a esq. J.P. the trustees of the late Glynn Grylls esq. and the monolithic granite cross, 9 feet high and of great antiquity, trustees of Miss Lyle. The soil is exceedingly fertile, especially and some tombs to the families of Lyle and Davey. The on the south; the subsoil is killas and greenstone, or horn register of baptisms and burials dates from the year r69o; blende rocks. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and marriages, r69r. The living is a vicarage consolidated with turnips. The aret~. is 2,845 acres, induding 75 acres of that of Gunwalloe, gross yearly value £120, with residence, water ; rateable value, £3,249 ; the population in 1891 in the gift of Captain John Peverell Rogers R • .A.. and held was 354· since 1878 by the Rev. Joseph Chambers B • .A.., T.C.D. who Parish Clerk, John Martin. resides at Gunwalloe. At White Cross is a United Free· PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office; Methodist chapel, with :;ittings for so people, and aWes- I Cury Cross Lanes (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should leyan chapel holding 6o persons. The parish feast is on the have R.S.O. Cornwall added).-Miss Mary Ann Rowe; nearest Sunday to the 2nd November, or to All Souls' day. postmistress. Letters arrive at 9.30 a. m. & are dispatched Bochym, the seat of Joshua Sydney Davey esq. J.P. stands at 3.ro p.m near the high road from Helston to Lizard, about 5 miles National School (mixed), built in 1849, for 94 children; from the former place; this estate appears in the Exchequer average attendance, 56 ; the infants' schoJl in connection Domesday as "Buchent," and was then held by Robert is at Gunwalloe; John Martin, master Boaden William, Cross lanes Carlyon Sampson, farmer, Hendra Richards Richard & Joseph, carpenters, Davey Joshua Sydney J.P. llochym Chygwidden Thomas, smith Whitecross Hendy Joseph Day George, farmer, Treloskan & Gilly Rowe Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeeper~ James Rev. Thos. [Wes.], Bonython ho Day Geo. John, farmer, Melleanwa,rne · Post office, Cross lanes Kempthorne Jn.Buckingham,Namplgh Freethy John, farm~r, Burnow Rowe Wm.Courteney,farmer,'rregiddle COMMERCIAL. George Henry, farmer, Nanfan Thomas Carter, farmer, Skewes Boaden William & James, butchers, Gilbert Sampson,Wheel inn,Crosslanes Thomas Henry, farmer, Trenoweth Cross lanes Hendy Sidney, farmer, Polgreen Thomas John, farmer, 'fregideon Boaden Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Trevergy J enkin Sampson, miller, Melleanwarne Trezise Tbos. blcksmth.& miller,Polglaze Boaden William, farmer, Poleskan LawrenceElizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Polwin Wenlock Richard (Mrs.),grocer,Church Boaden William, farm bailiff to Joshua Lory James, farmer, Colvennor town Sydney Davey esq. Bochym Olivey James, Old inn Williams Brothers, farmers, Bonython DAVIDSTOW is a township and parish on the main a western tower of three stages with pinnacles containing 6 road from Launcaston to Camelford and Wadebridge, 3 bells, the first two dated IJOJ, the third .1783 and the next miles north-east from Camelford, 13 west from Launceston two 1726; the whole cost of reconstruction, amounting to stations on the Great Western and London and South £2,500, was defrayed by Miss Pearse, of Launcestou, in Western railways and 3 miles south from Otterham memory of her family, who had been landowners and in station, opened August, 1893, on the new branch of the habitants in the parish for many generations : the lay latter railway from Launceston to Wadebridge, in the rector, Michael Williams esq. at the same time enriched the North Eastern division of the county, Lesnewth bun- east end with three stained windows in memory of his dred and petty sessional division, Camelford union and father Sir William Williams; his sister, Mrs. Hornby county court district, rural deanery of Trigg Minor, arch- Buller, and the Hon. Ashley Carr-Glyn; and also presented deaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The rivers an organ and church plate; another stained window was Camel and Inney have their source in this parish. 'fhe given by Mrs. Pearce: the bells were re-hung in 1881 and a church of St. David, rebuilt on the site of the former treble added, raising the peal to six : the font is octagonal church, is an edifice of stone in thA Early English style, con- and of curious design : there are various memorials to the sisting of c!J.ancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south po:ch an::l families of Bettenson, 1663-93; Pearse, 1638-1835; John .