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7 48 S'f. BREWARD. CORNWALL. [KELLY S Statham Rev. Samuel Percy Ham- Col will Thomas, farmer, Corgelly Miller William, yeoman, Deaconstow!l mond B.A. Leaze cottage Crowle Henry, farmer, Keybridge ~ankivell William & Sons, granite Tom Nicholas, Higher Lank Curnow John H. farmer & carrier, merchants ; estimates given for en Williams Johm George, Rowe assistant overseer & clerk to Parish gineering, architectural & monu Wright Charles E. Lower Lamphill Council, Hill mental work in finest quality grey f'OMMF.RCIAL. De Lank Granite Quarry (Hard Stone granite; delivered by sea or rail to Armstrong .Alex. farmer, Hallagenna Firms Limited, proprietors; Wm. any part of the United Kingdom; Arm strong Harriet (Mrs.), W enford Pellow Bolt, manager) & Blisland. See advert Inn• Hancock Sidney John, works manager North Cornwall China Clay Co. Lim. Armstrong William, granite & marble to the Butter Tor & General Min china clay manufactrs. & producers merchant ; quotations supplied for ing Syndicate Limited, Butter Tor Pethick John, farmer, Stanon dressed granite in architectural, (letters through Camelford) Pett & Son, carpenters, Keybridge building & monumental worK, Hard Stone Firms Limited, Bath Philp Thomas, farmer, Jordan Wenford (telegrams, "Armstrong, (proprietors of De Lank Granite Polkinghorne & Tremain, gros.& drprs St. Breward "); & at Rhind street, Quarry), granite & stone quarry Polkinghorne Benjamin, boot & shoe Bodmin. See advert owners; good "Elvan" stone for maker, Rowe Bartlett Francis, farmer, Penrose road making & mending (William Polkinghorne Benjamin, Glen-View Bastard John, farmer, Hamatethy P. Bolt, manager), De Lank private hotel Batten William, farmer, Swallock HaiTis Wm. Arundell, farmer, Brad- Polkinghorne Susan (Mrs.), farmer, Best Richd. & Thos. farmers,Lank ho ford (letters through Blisland) Tor down Best William, farm bailiff to John Hawken Benjamin, farmer, De Lank Rawlings .Toseph, farmer, Ivy Runnalls Cardinham esq. Fernacre Hawken Benj. jun. farmer, Penpont Reynolds James B. farmer, Chaple Bolt William Pellow, manager of Hawken Charles Hy. sub-postmaster Runnals Samuel, farmer & miller De Lank Granite Quarry ' (Hard Hawken Jsph. carpenter, Lime head (water), Comb Stone Firms Limited), De Lank Hawken William Henry, wheelwright St. Breward Co-operative Store Co. Broad Thomas, Old inn, & farmer, & carpenter, Lime head Limited (Joseph Spare & Chas. Hy. Church Town Hicks John Lobb, farmer, Lamphill Hawken, mn!j!rs. ),grocers & drapers Brook Frank Edgar, schoolmaster Hosken Archelaus, farmer Scawn John, farmer, Slades Bunt Joseph, farmer, Whitehead Hosken Edward John, farmer, Irish Shillaber John, farmer, Fellover lJutter Tor & General Mining Syndi- Hosken Eleazer H. carpntr. Lime hd Teague Bros. masons, Lime head cate Limited (The), tin streamers Hosken Fras. farmer, Lower Penquite Toms Mary (Miss), frmr.Higher Lank (S. J. Hancock, manager), Butter Hosken Thomas, shoe maker Tremain Samson, grocer &c. see 'Tor (letters through Camelford) Inch Marjorie (Mrs.), frmr. Henewrd Polkinghorne & Tremain 'Chapman Edward, general cast steel Keast Thomas J. farmer, Belatherick West Frank A. clerk, Laburnam cot shoeing smith, Lime he11d Keat William, farmer, Penquite Wills James Thomas Pearce, farmer, 'Chapman Richd. farmer, East Rose Marshall Thomas Hy. farmr.Wenford Camperdown Cole Jonathan, farmer, Candra I Masters William, farmer, West Rose Wills Wm. James, carpenter, Rowe BROADOAK (Bradock or Jlradoc) is a parish 3 miles Bevill Fortescue esq. and held since 1874 by the Rev. -south-west from Doublebois station on the Great Wes Vernon Harcourt Aldham M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, tern railway and 7 west-south-west from Liskeard, in Oxford, hon. canon of Truro and rural dean of West. the South Eastern division of the county, hundred and There is a Wesleyan chapel at West Taphouse, origin petty sessional division of West, Liskeard union and ally erected about 1828, and rebuilt in 1883. On •county court district, rural deanery of West, archdeaconry Braddock Downs are several ancient barrows in which of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The church of St. rude arms have been found. On January 19, 1643, Mary is an ancient building of stone and granite, in the the forces of Charles I. under Sir Ralph Hopton and Perpendicular style, consisting of double aisle!! with chan Sir Beville Grenville, obtained an important advantage cel, transept and a western tower of two stages with here over a much larger Parliamentary force, com pinnacles containing 5 bells, all recast in 1845 by Mears, manded by Col. Ruthven, governor of Plymouth; on ·from a previous peal of 4, with additional metal: the Saturday, August 31st, 1644, Lord Essex, closed· pursued 'base of the rood-screen remains, but the upper part is by the king, abandoned his army, which afterwards now in Boconnoc church : some of the bench ends bear forced a passage through the royal troops and escaped the arms of the Ringwood family and the date 1634: to Plymouth. John :Bevill Fortescue 'M.A., D.L., J.P. the pulpit is cinque-cento : in the windows are the arms of Boconnoc, is loTd of the manor and chief landowner. of Pitt, Fortescue and Ryder : the font of Pentewan The parish is said to be remarkably healthy and its stone is Early English : the organ, designed by the late Sir climate peculiarly favourable to sufferers from ague . .Tohn Stainer Mus.D. Oxon. was presented by the late The soil is rather light ; the subsoil is spar and clay. Lieut.-Ool. C. D. Fortescue in r887: the chancel was re The -crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The seated in the same year, the church having been restored area is 3,389 acres of land and IS of water; rateable some time previously: there are sittings for rso persons. value, £2,897; the population in 1901 was 24J8. In the churchyard is an originallychgate. An ancient in WEST TAPHOUSE is a hamlet 1! miles north-west cised cross, formerly known as "Killboy Cross," but the site of which had for some generations been lost, was from the church. discovered in 18g6 about 300 yards from the church and Letters through Lostwithiel, which is the nearest money has been re-erected on a granite base on the same spot. order office, arrive at 8.30 a.m.; telegraph office at The register of baptisms dates from the year 1571 ; Dobwalls, 4 miles distant. Wall Letter Box at West 'burials, 1555; marriages, r6rg. The living is a rectory Taphouse cleared at 3·30 p.m annexed to that of Boconnoc, joint net yearly value [178, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 6o with residence and 84 acres of glebe, in the gift of John children; average attendance, 40; Mrs. Ford, mistress Aldham Rev. Vernon Harcourt M.A. [ Crago William, farmer, Derrycombe Prince Charles, gamekeeper to J. B. (rector, hon. canon of Truro & Dunn Hedley, farmer, Clinnicks Fortescue esq. Kilmanant rural dean of West), Rectory Edwards Daniel, farmer, Wheaton Penno Alfred, farmer, Drift 'Case Rev. Montague Jas.B.A.(curate), Hosking Jn. White, frmr. Babbington Sandercock .T. farmer, Penkestle 'Hosldn Frederick, farmer, Cripston Saunders Mahalah (Mrs.), farmer, COMMERCIAL. Laity William & Robert, farmers, Bodargye Beavis William, farmer, Crickapit Trewindle Saunders Wm. Jas. farmer. Bagston :Bellringer Frederick, farmer,Bellasize IPearce Edward, farmer, Treganver & Smith Wm. farmer, West Taphouse ·mewett Thos.farmer,Middle Taphouse Penwater Spear William, farmer, Colyton Cole John, farmer, Largingate Pendray Thos. H. farmer, Penventon Symonds Jabez, carpenter, CTipston Orago Robert, farmer, Tithe hall Whell Francis, farmer, Penadlake BUDE, or Bude Haven, is a small seaport and bathing ooaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. In 1888 an 'l'esort at the mouth of the river Strat, amidst beautiful embankment and promenade, soo feet long. was made, ·coa>~t and inland scenery, and was formed into an eccle- under the direction of Messrs. Sullivan and Baker. The siastical parish August ro, 1836, from the civil parish of Bude eanal was constructed between 1819 and 1826, at a ·Stratton, being 2 miles west from the town of that name, cost of £rz8,ooo, but is not now in working order further 20 north-west from Launceston and 9~ west from Hoh- than Hele Bridge, a dist-ance of about 2 miles. worthy. with a station on a branch of the London and Under the provisions of the "Local Government Act. South Western railway, opened Aug. 1898; the parish is 1894" (56 nnrl 57 Vict. eh. 73). Bude is ~overnecl hv the in the North Eastern division of the countv,• Stratton Stratton :mcl Bude Urban District Council, formed March 'hulldred, petty sessional division and union, Holsworthy I 30, 1900. The district is divided into two wards, viz. : ·county court district, rural deanery of Stratton, arch- Stratton nnd Bude. .