DIRECTORY.] . . 45 a number of houses, commanding extensive views sea­ ton. The soil is a light loam ; subsoil, various. The wards. There are golf links of 18 holes belonging to chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area of the North Cornwall Golf club, and other links of 9 hole;; the ecclesiastical parish is 810 acres; the population in for ladies; a club house was erected in 18·95, the use 1891 was 1,057. of which is allowed to visitors on reasonable terms. L YNSTONE, a hamlet half a mile south, ,md a por­ There are also cricket and lawn tennis clubs. The life­ tion of RODDSBRIDGE, one mile south, are :included in boat stationed here was presented to the National Life­ Bude ecclesiastical parish. boat Institution in 1863, in memory of Elizabeth Moore Sexton and Verger, Richard Abbott. Garden, wife of the late Theophilus Garden esq. of Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance King's County, Ireland, and bears her name. .A fair is Office (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. held here on September 22. .A little business in corn, North Cornwall added).-Miss Heard, sub-postmis­ coal, culm, manure, timber, slate and sea sand (used tress. Letters arrive by mail cart at 7.8 a.m. & 7 for agricultural purposes) is carried on. On OOMP .ASS p.m.; dispatched at 8.35 a.m. & 5.20 p.m. on week POINT, west of the harbour, is an octagonal tower, 20 days & 5·5 p.m. sundays feet high, built for the coast guard by Sir T. D . .Acland; southward is Efford beacon, about 300 feet in height. PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. To the north-east is " Binhamy Castle," a moated square Coast Guard Station & Rocket .Apparatus, John West­ area, traditionally the site of a fortified residence, built cott & 3 men in charge c. 1335, by Ralph de Blancbminster; at Yedbury are Life_boat Station, Henry Stapleton, cox. & 12 men indications of an ancient Roman encampment, 327 by People's Institute & Visitors' Reading Room, William 250 feet in area. Near here, and immediately north of Lodwick Miller, hon. sec Stratton, is Stamford Hill, on the Broom Hill estate, National School (mixed), built in 1849 & enlarged in where a decisive battle was fought May 16, 1643, be­ 1866 & in 1891, for 186 children; average attendance. tween the Parliamentary forces under the Earl of Stam­ 133; James .Arthur, master; Miss Ellen Jane Oke-, ford and Sir George Chudleigh, and a body of the king's mistress troops, commanded by Sir Ralph Hopton and Sir J3evil Grenville, when the rebels, though far superior both in CONVEYANCES. numbers and equipment, were completely defeated and Brendon's coaches, in connection with the London 8t dispersed; in there are two houses bearing the South Western railway, leave Brendon's hotel as fol­ date 1620, said to have been occupied by the royal com­ lows:- manders the night before the battle. The downs afford For Holsworthy daily,meeting the xo.so a.m.train to Lon­ delightful rambles along the coast for several tniles. don, returning same day from the station, on arrival There is a coast guard station and rocket apparatus, of the 11 a.m. train from Waterloo. .An extra coacb with telephone communication to rHartland and Clovelly. runs during the summer months to meet the 2.22 The Castle, a modern stone mansion, was built by the train front Holsworthy, returning same day on arrival late Sir Goldsworthy Gurney kt. inventor in 1'839 of of the 9.15 a.m. train from Waterloo, & one leaving Hols­ the Bude light, an arrangement of two or more con­ worthy 9.25 a.m. returning from Bude 5.20 p.m centric argand burners, one rising above the other ; Sir To Bideford during the summer months daily at g, re­ G. Gurney died Febru!'ry 28, 1875; an~ the house is turning from Bideford 3·55; passengers to Bideford now the property of Charles Morgan Cow1e esq. Efford have the privilege of breaking their journey at Clovelly Down, the residence of Arthur Mills esq. D.L., J.P. is To Boscastle, Tintagel & Camelford stations at 10 a.m. a handsome building of brick, pleasantly situated on a daily during the summer months, connecting at Camel­ hill near the sea, and surrounded lby a plantation of fir ford station with trains to & from , in trees. The principal landowners are F. J. Thynne esq. connection with coaches between Wadebridge, Pad­ the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke .Acland bart. P.C., stow, St. Columb & Newquay F.R.G.S., F.L.S., F.C.S. of Killerton, Exeter, who is London & South Western Railway Co. Booking Office lord of the manor, and the feoffees of the poor of Strat- (passengers & parcels), Robert Wilkins, inspector Armitage Miss,Thistledown, Summer- Andrews Jarnes Carter, organist of views, Oeston Park cottage ; & fur­ leaze St. Michael's & .All .Angels', 6 Mor- nished house, Springfield Avery Misses, Lockeking cottage wenna terrace Brock .Ann (Mrs.), apartments; on& Baker William, 1 Bellevue terrace Badcock .Alfred, boot maker sitting & three bedrooms, facing Banbury John William, Strand house Badcock John, apartments, Leven cot sea & golf links, 6a, Morwenna ter Bowen Mrs. Hartland terrace Barrett & Son, painters & decorators Brock Carolina (Mrs.), apartments, 6o Brown Jabez, .Angove house· Barrett .Alfred, apartments, 9 Sum- Queen street Cowie Charles Morgan, The Castle merleaze crescent Bude Cricket Club (.A. W. H. Dickin­ Crocker Mrs. Belvidere Barrett Charles, apartmts. 7 Queen st son, sec) Davey Oliver, Bencoolen villa Barrett George, jun. master mariner, Bude Harbour & Canal Co. (Thomas Deane Mrs. 2 Beach villas 4 Morwenna terrace Found, harbour master) Dickinson .Arscott William Harvey, 4 Barrett George, sen. master mariner, Bude Haven Improvement Committce­ Hartland terrace Leven cottage (James .Arthur, sec) Dickinson Mrs. 4 Hartland terrace Barrett Henry (Mrs. ),furnished apart- Bude Haven Steam Saw Mills Co. Doble Daniel, Falcon terrace ments facing sea & breakwater, Limited (James .Arthur, sec) Foster-Melliar Robert .Aubrey M . .A. pleasant winter residence, near to Bullan Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments,. Oxon. Burn view golf links, Trevelver 8 Queen street Gill Rev . .Albert Perry (Wesleyan), 8 Barrett Thos. apartmnts. 3 Beech viis Burnard Emily (Mrs.), apartments,. Lansdown terrace Baynes Emily (Miss), dress maker, 3 Summerleaze Gurney Gregory Goldsworthy Henry Lansdown terrace Burnard Williarn Henry, grocer B ..A.Oxon. Belmont Beer Edward .Arthur, cabinet maker, Burrows Sml. painter & paperhanger Jarnes Rev. Joseph Henry (United 4 The Crescent Burrows William, apartments, 10 Methodist Free Church),3 West cliff Bickford Martha (Mrs.), apartments, Breakwater road J ones Fredk. Pembroke, Hartland ho Garden terrace Carter Charles, ship builder Marshall The Misses, Falcon terrace Blatchford William Tucker, solicitor & Carter Henry, apartments, 2 Burn vw Miles Major Herbt. 6 Hartland terrace commissioner for oaths; & at Strattn Carter Tarnzan (Mrs.), apartments; Millett Rev. Harold Wake E..A. Bolitho, Williams, Foster, Coode,Grylls with or without board, good sea (curate), Falcon terrace & Co. Limited (Consolidated Bank view, 7 Summerleaze crescent Mills .Arthur D.L., J.P. Efford down, of Cornwall) (J. W. Banbury, Cater Sus an (Mrs.), apartments, 4 Bude haven agent); draw on Williams Deacon Granville terrace J.fills Rev. Barton Reginald Vaughan & Manchester & Salford Bank Lim. Chapple Edwin, grocer M . .A. Vicarage London E C Cholwill Fredk. (:\frs. ), apartments; Sanders Misses, Windsor house Box .William Henry, saddler two sitting & five bedrooms, close­ Scott Misses, The Villa Bray Edward, market gardener, Fal- to golf links, 2 Lansdown terrace Shearme John, 7 Burn view con terrace Chubb Elizabeth (:~frs. ), farm house Shephard Mrs. 5 Hartland terrace Brendon George, jun. Falcon & apartments ; two sitting & five bed­ Smith Coulson Durham, Summerleaze Bude family hotel;;, coaching estab· rooms, every accommodation, five Smith Mrs. Parker, Snmmerleaze lishment & agent for the L. & S. minutes from the sea, good bathing,. Thorn Miss, 17 The Crescent W. railway terms moderate, Upton farm Tregaskes Nicholas Henry, 2 Bellevne Brinton Wm. master mariner, King st Chubb John, farmer, Upton farm co~MERCIAL. Broad Robert, blacksmith Clatworthy John, apartments, 7 J.for­ .Ab bott Richard (Mrs.), apartments, Broad Robert (Mrs.), apartments; two wenna terrace one sitting, one dining & three bed- sitting rooms & five bedrooms, with CGast Guard Etativn Ec Rocket .Ap· rooms, sea ·dew, Rosemount or without attendance, good land paratus (John Westcott, in charge)