CORNWALL. [ KELLY's Skitch Robert, Shoe Maker Uglow Nicholas, Farmer & Mason,Monnt Wackiey William, Carpenter Southwood John, Mason, Lake Cottage Pleasant
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998 l>OUGHILL. CORNWALL. [ KELLY'S Skitch Robert, shoe maker Uglow Nicholas, farmer & mason,Monnt Wackiey William, carpenter Southwood John, mason, Lake cottage Pleasant . Yelland Thomas, farmer, Ashton Trewin James, farmer, Maer Vinner James, farmer, Crockwood • ~ POUNDSTOCK is a parish, on the shore of Bude bay, The manorial rights are divided. The principallai;ldO'lvner in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Lesnewth, is Edward Mucklow esq. J.P. (Lane.), of Bennetts,Holswor.thy. union of Stratton, Holsworthy county courh distriGt, rural Th~ soil is chielzy clay ; subsoil, the same. The cbi~f crops deanery of Stratum, archdeaconry of Bodmin and ruocese of are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 4,814 $cres Truro, 5 miles south from Stratton and ul miles south- (including i9o of water) ; rateable value; £3,137.; and the west from Holsworthy, the nearest railway statioos. The population in r88r was 522. • . church of St. Neot is an ancient building of stone and BANGORS, half a mile east; CoPPETHORNE, r mile north granite in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave of six east; P.ENLEAN, 1 mile south; TRESKINNICK CRoss, half a bays, north aisles, south transept, and an embattled tower mile south-east; TREGOLE, half a mile south.,west are with pinnacles, containing 5 bells, all cast in 1791 ; portions hamlets. ' of the screen with painted figures on it remain, as well as Letters through Stratum R.S.O. which is the nearest money some carved bench ends : the font has a square bowl with order & telegraph office arcaded sides : there is a memorial to the Trebarfoote WALL LETTER Box at Treskinnick Cross, cleared at 8.$$_ a.m. family, 1616-30, and others of later dates; the church will week days only ' seat 300 persons. The register dates from the year 1615. A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1874; ~ames The living is a vicarage, yearly value from tithe rent-charge Congdon, Penfound, chairman; William Webb, Penbalt. £202, gross income £275 with 25 acres of glebe, in the gift clerk to the board of and held since 1841 by the Rev. Phillipps Donithorne Board Sclwol, built in 'IS77, for 85 children, average attend- Dayman M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. Here are a United ance, 62; George Richard Glasson, master; Miss Susan Methodist Free church and a chapel for Bible Christians. Marshall, assistant mistress Dayman Rev. Phillipps Donithon;1e H.A. Goman William, farmer, & registrar of Parminter John, farmer~ Wanson 1 [vicar] births & deaths for the sub-district Pearce Thomas, farmer, Kennicott 1 COMMERCIAL. of Week St: Mary, & ma,rriages for Rowland 'rhos. shopkpr. Coppethorne Bassett Thomas, farmer, Crethorne Stratton union, Treskinnick Sandercock John, farmer, Trevoltelj Batten Jn.blcksmtb.Coppetthorne cross Hawken -,farmer, Tregole Sandercock Jn. jun. farmr. Trekennard Batten William, farmer, Blackdown ·Henwood Samuel, blacksmith, Tres- Sandercock Thomas, farmer, Penlean Box Samuel, farmer, Westpenlane kinnick cross · Smeeth John, miller (water), Miflook . Bray John, shopkeeper & tailor, Tres- Hicks Robert, faqner, Lower Trewint Stacey Nicholas, farmer, Longlands kinnick Hicks Simon, shoe maker Stevens John, farmer, Trebarfoot Burden Charles, farmer, Trewint Hill John, farmer, Mades Sutton John, farmer Congdon James, farmer, Penfound Marks Thomas, farmer, New mills Webb William, farmer, Penha:It 1 Congdon Lewis, farmr. Lower Cawswell Marks William, fa1mer Werren John, farmer, Herds , DennisJudith (Mrs.),farmer, Woolstone Marks William, jun. farmer, Penhalt Wickett John, Turk's Head, Tres1dnnick Dennis Richard, farmer, Widemouth Marshall William, carpenter, Tres~ cross Featberstone William, carpenter kinnick cross Wilcock Anna (Miss), shopkpr. Bangors Greenaway George, farmer, Trevissick Medland Henry, farmer, Burracot~ Wilcock Thomas, farmer. Greenaway William, farmer, Tregole Neal William, farmer, Cawswell Yeo Daniel, shoe maker PROBUS, with a portion of the hamlet of TRESILLIAN1 G. E. Street. esq .. R.A. architect, at a cost of upwards or is a large parish and compact yillage, situate on the high £r,soo, :raised by ~oluntary subscriptions and a church-rate. road from Truro to St. Austell, 2~ mile!'! south-west from T.he register dates from the year 1645- The living is a the Grampound road railway station, si north-east from vicarage, tithe rent-charge £548, gross yearly value £6oo Truro and 8 south-west from St. Austell, jn the Western with residence and 33 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the division of the county, western divj.sion of the hundred of Bishop Qf Truro, and held since 1849 by the Rev. Richard Powder, 'fruro union and county court district, ..rural William :Barnes M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, and preben deanery of Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of dary of Exeter. There are Wesleyan chapels in the village, Truro. Tresillian bridge, across the small river Tresillian, and .one .fo-r Bible Christians, at Tresillian, in this parish. connects the parishes of Merther and Probus. Mertherand Here is a college for boys. established in 1853 byRev.Daniel Cornelly 'Were originally portions of this parish. The town Trinder M.A. vicar of St. Michael's, Highgate, and formerly ot Grampound is partly in Probus and partly in Creed ; the curate of Probus, for the purpose of giving a liberal educa latter being connected with Probus by a bridge across the tion to the middle classes of Cornwall ; the building was river Fal. This parish, standing on an elevation 305 feet designed and erected under the supervision of the late G. above the level of the. sea, is generally considered to be E. Street esq. R.A. and has room for So boarders; the Rev. very healthy. The church of St. Mertber, or SS. Probus and R. Blackmnre M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, and vicar of Grace, restored by the parishioners in 1550, is wholly built Merther, is principal. Richard Tredenham esq. ·left l.ands of granite in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, of the annual value of £20, for the repairs of the church~ nave, aisles, north and south porches and a tower regarded and for the poor of this parish. Trewithen, the property by some as the finest in Cornwall, containing 6 bells, and of Christopher Henry Thomas Hawkins esq. J.P. about 1 clock; it is constructed of St.Stephen's stone and i~ ro8 feet mile to the east of Probus church, is a mansion of stone~ high to the battlements, the angles are supported by double begun by Thomas Hawkins esq. who died in 1766, before its buttresses, embellished with embrasures, and above these completion, with about 120 acres of pasture and pleasure rise eight crocketed pinnacles 13 feet in height, each with grounds; the house and grounds present a very fine appear four lesser pinnacles : the plinth, cornices, and upper story ance when viewed from the road leading to Golden : the are ornamented with small figures, foliage, fleurs-de-lis, mansion at present is unoccupied. Trebane,.. the seat of animals and other carvings: there are three Gothic niches Captain William Stackhouse C. Pinwill situated 3 miles on the north and south sides ; there are two ancient brasses west from Probus church, was erected by the Williamses. in the Golden aisles, one of which commemorates John formerly residents here in 1701·3, and does not appear to Wulvedon, 1513, and Cecilia his wife, 1512, and on the floor have undergone much change. Christoper Henry Thomas is a stone inscribed to the Rev. William ·Cornish, 1789, and Hawkins esq. J.P., D.L. who is lord of the manor, the Earl of Jane his wife, first cousin and heiress of John ~elly esq. of Mount ~dgcumbe, Viscount Falmouth, Francis Granville Exeter and Washbourne,in the county of Devon, 1773 ; tb.ere Gregor esq. D.L. and Captain Pinwill are the chief land are also various modern monuments ~ the chancel screen owners. The soil is of a loamy nature; subsoil, clay slate. formed of portions of the ancient screen and bench ends, is The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and man dated 1591 and bears an inscription as follows:-" Jesus, gold. The area is 8,113 acres; rateable value, £ro,1'flo; and hear us, thy people; and send us grace and good for ever,'1 the population in r88r was I,2J'3, exclusive of Grampouml 11 (alluding to the dedication to'~Grace"and" Probus ): there town, which will be found under a separate beading. are several stained glass windows, chiefly memorials includ- The hamlet of TRESILLIAN, partly in this and partly in ing the east window, erected by & late vicar the Rev. Robert Mertber and St. Erme parishes, is 2 miles west-south... west Lampen, in memory of his parents : the font is a memorial from Probns village, and contains several houses ; previous to Sarah, wife of the Rev. William Stackbouse, ob. 1845; and to the opening of the branch railway, an extensive coal, the pulpit of Caen stone, a memorial to William and Mary timber and manure trade was carried on here. Stackhonse, ob. 1830 and r8o6; the vestry is constructed GoLDEN, formerly called Wolvedon, from its ancient from ancient bench ends; in the n(}rth wall remain the rood owners, is situated in the parish of Probus, 2 miles south stairs, open and in good condition: the church was partly east from the church, near the Fa!, and was formerly the rebuilt and thoroughly restored in the year 1851, by the late seat of the Tregians, one of whom, Francis Tregian esq. in • .