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Liskeard, and 6 south-west from station on the LL., J.P. Samuel Lang esq. John Mason esq. and the Messrs. Great Western and London and South Western railways, in Bowhay are the principal landowners. The soil is light; the the North Eastern division of the county, Middle division of subsoil is granite and clay slate. The chief crops are wheat, the hundred of East, petty sessional division of East Middle, oats, barley and pasturage. The area is 6,133 acres; rate­ Tavistock union and county court district, rural deanery of able value, £13,129; the population in 1881 was 6,845. East, archdeaconry of and diocese of . The , 2 miles north of , is a rapidly Callingtou and Tavistock high road passes through this improving village, pleasantly situated on the , on parish. The church of St. Andrew, which stands on a com­ which is a salmon weir; the and Tavistock high manding eminence, is an ancient building of Cornish granite road here cro<:;ses the river by a bridge, and passes through in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four the village, which is lighted with gas. The Tavistock and bays, aisles, a mortuary chapel, built in 1788, and belonging coach passes through this place. St. Ann's chapel to the Edgcumbe family, vestry, south porch and an em­ of ease, erected in 1880, at a cost of £2,400, consists of battled western tower, with octagonal pinnacles, containing chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, north and south porches and a clock and 6 bells, cast in 1773: in the chapel, among a turret containing 2 bells. Here are Wesleyan, Bible Chris­ Qthers, are the tombs of Richard Edgcumbe, ob. 1660, and of tian and Free Methodist chapels and one for the Brethren. Jemima, daughter of John, 1st Baron Crew, of Stene, and The Tamar and Kit Hill Granite Company Limited have wife of Edward, 1st Earl of Sandwich, ob. 1674: in the very extensive quarries here: the granite is a stone of fine north arcade of the nave are some ancient mural paintings; grain and of uniform colour, much harder than ordinary the east window is a memorial to Isaac Rosekilly, d. 1883 : Cornish granite and from this and its SImilarity to Scotch in the south aisle is a copy of the letter of thanks from granite is much preferred by LO"ldon contractors for paving Charles I.sent to all the parishes in , and dated 1643: purposes; it has been largely used in the construction of the in the porch are the remains of a holy water stoup and a deeply Thames Embankment, in the new Blackfriars Bridge, in the carved tombstone commemorating Griffith Stevens, ob. 1591, fortifications around Plymouthand Devonport and the works and John Stevens, ob. 1620: there are 330 sittings. The exist­ at Keyham yard; for some years the Local Boards III the ing register dates from the year 1656. The living- is a rectory, neighbourhood have been supplied from this quarry and average tithe rent-charge £395, net yearly value £318, in­ large quantities are sent to London. Mr. E. Story has also a