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11.54 LANREATH. CORNWALL. HarrisW m.frmr. Low. Treire&Polmartin Olver "\Yilliam, farmer, Trecan Tamblyn Thomas, farmer, Bottlett & Hill Joseph, farmer, Castlemawgon Pinch William, mason Woodley Hockaday Robert, gardener Richards Albert, farmer, Herods foot Vague John, blacksmith & general farm Leach John, farmer, Carwen Rundle Rd. farmer, Lower Trevollard implement maker Lean Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Sandey Elias, farmer, Tregrove West Martin, farmer, Trevalfry Lean ~oah, Punch Bowl inn Shapcott Saml.miller(water),ShiiJa mill West William; jun. farmer, Willicombe Mutton William, farmer, Brazemoor 'falling Thomas, farmer, Trecan gate WilliamsHy .frmr. Trefraul&Tregunnick Odgers Samuel, farmer, Furzedown Tamblyn Francis,farmer,Higher ,Lower Wills James, farmer, 'frewen Olver James, farmer, Higher & Lower & Middle Bearah Yeo William, farmer, West parks Bocaddon LANSALLOS (Lan Salus, the place of deli\'erance) is a gift of Francis Howell esq. and held since 1873 by the Rev. township and parish on the sea coast, 7 miles south-by John Edward Car~hew. There are Wesleyan, Free Methodist west from Looe and 13 south-west from Liskeard, in the and Bible Christian chapels. A yearly fair is held on the • South Eastern division of the county, hundred and petty mth July. Francis Buller Howell esq. J.P. of Ethy, St. sessional division of West, Liskeard union and county court Winnow, who is lord of the manor, and Jonathan Rashleigh district, rural deanery of West, arch deaconry of Bodminand esq. B. A., J.P. of Menabilly, Tywardreath, are the chief land diocese of Truro. The church of St. Alwys (according to owners. The soil is loamy ; the subsoil is slate. The chief other authorities, St. Ildierna), situated 514 feet above the crops are oats, wheat, barley and turnips. The area is sea-level, is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular 2,985 acres; rateable value, £3,212; the population in 1891 style, consisting of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, south was 691. porch and an embattled western tower 6o feet high, with POLPERRO, a small fishing town, partly in this parish, pinnacles, and containiqg 3 bel1s, of which the first has an will be found under a separate heading. invocation to St. Margaret ; the ot1ier two, both undated, are Parish Clerk, William Collins. broken: the font is Norman : there are numerous modern tablets and some inscribed floor stones : the church under Letters through Polperro R.S.O. which is the nearest money went partial restoration in 1883-4 at a cost of about £740, order & telegraph office, arrive at 9 a.m and has 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 16oo. This place is included in the 'falland & Lansallos United The living is a rectory, average yearly value from tithe renir School Board district ; the children attend the school at charge £ 38o, with residence and IO acres of glebe, in the Polperro Carthew Rev. John Edwd. The Rectory Horsken William, farmer, Windsor & Painter Francis, farmer, Launear COMMERCIAL. Higher town Pearne John, carpenter Barrett Richard, farmer & landowner, Julian Wm. Hy. farmer, Gt. Tratford Pengelly Richard, mil1er (water) & Landividdy Kelly John, farmer, Trigavithick farmer, Tresquite mill Bate Daniel, farmer, West Kellow Knott Alfred, farmer, Tregue Philp Thomas, farmer, Great tisson Bettinson Geo. blacksmith, Trenewan Lightfoot Richard, farmer, Treweer Rowe Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Charke Thomas, farmer, Tregamellon Marshall John Coppin, farmer & land- Middle Trenewan Charke Thomas (Mrs.), farmer, East owner, Landividdy Serpell Joseph,farmer,North 'rrenewan Trenewan Martin John Lewis (Mrs.), farmer, Tailing Elijah, farmer, Daw.3 Coath Geo. farmer & landownr. Raphael Treneddon Werry William, farmer, Treneddon Ede William, farmer, Langreek May Saml. frmr.Barton &; West Coombe LANTEGLOS-BY-CAMELFORD is a parish, are several interesting remains of ancient crosms, one o' which inc·ludes the town of Camelford, ~~ miles south-west these is a monolith 5 feet high and 1 foot 9 in:ilies wide, from Camelford, 10 north-cast from Wadebridge station on with a circular head, pierced so as to leave~ cross in the the London and South Western railway, and about 2 miles centre: here a!so, now placed on an islet. in a fish-pond at west from Delabole station, opened in August, 1893, on the rectory, is the roLmd head of a similal' shaft, carved the new branch of this line from Launceston to Wade- with a Greek cross, but not pierced; in the centre is a bridge, in the North Eastern division of the county, hundred boss, and one in each of the spaces between the arms of and petty sessional division of Lesnewtb, Camelford union the cross; a third pross now at the rectory is believed to and county court district, rural deanery of Trigg Minor ,arch- have originally stood at a spot called " Valley Fruckle," deaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The river Camel about half a mile west of Camelford, and was for some time forms part of the boundary between this place and Advent. in use in a blacksmith's shop; the total heiJht, including The church of St. Lantey is a building of stone in the Nor- the round head, which bears a plain Greek cross within a man and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel of two border, is 7 feet 6 inches; the shaft immediately below the and a half bays, nave of four bays, south aisle extending head spreads out on either side into a short rounded arm ; along the whole length of the nave and chancel, north tran~ another am:ient stone in the grounds, for seTe~al years used .sept, south porch and an embattled western tower of three to prop up the side wall of an old barn on the- farm of .sta.!res, 71 feet in height, with pinnacles and a newel turret, "Castlegoff," is 7 feet 2 inches high, or inclu::lingthe tenon and containing 5 bells, cast in a field near Helstone in 1783 ; at one end, 8 feet 1 inch, and I foot 4 inches wide.; one of the roofs are enriched with bosses displaying shields of arms, the faces and one side bAar an inscription in Saxon characters including those of the Coryton, Trecarel and Trelawney of the nth century, arranged in three lines and reading as families, and there is an octagonal font of Pentewanstone of follows :~'' + ..ELSELTH & GENERETif WROHTE Perpendicular date: the east windowcontainssomeheraldic THYSNE SYBSTEL FOR ..ELWYNEYS SAUL & FOR .glass, and the windows of the south aisle retain fragments Qf HEYSEL," i.e. " ..Elseth and Genereth wrought this family ancient glass, chiefly figures: on the north side of the chan.. ;pillar (sib-stel) for .Elwyne's soul and for 'themselves;!' this eel are two plain sedilia., and there was also on the same side monolith was purchased and placed in its present position ;a priests' doorway, built up in 1853: the communion table by the Rev. J. J. Wilkinson lii.A. rector (1852-76): .on the .of oak is a memorial to Arthur Gilbert Harvey; d.. xsth rectory lawn also stands a font of Saxon or very Early Nor December, 1872: the north transept opens to the nave by a man -date; the circular basin has an indentad ornament wide semicircular-headed arch: over the south doorway is romtd the edge and is covered with interlaced carving ami a cinquefoiled niche; the stoup is now built up: the roof of knot work~ the stem consists of two bold cable mouldings the porch is ornamented with shields of arms, including those and a band of quatrefoils below. At the junction of several of Dmham : in the church is a monument to the ReV', Wm. roads near the hamlet of Trewalder is the round head of a Phillips M. A. 47 years rector, d. 2oth April, 1794 ; and there cross, placed on a square base : at Trevia is another cross are many others, but all of modern date: the churchyard has with round head, somewhat mutilated and serving as a memorials to Diggory Wallis, ob. December, 156o, and to John gate post: about a quarter of a mile west of the church, on Wills, rector, ob. 2oth February, 1654, and there are various an .eminence, is an earthwork called " Castlegoff, '' consisting altar tombs and many inscribed stones of the x]th century of a circulap rampart about 200 feet in diameter with and of later date: in :1873 the church was restored, reseated entrances an the east and west, a ditch, and on the west side and the floor and roof renovated, at a cost of £4oo, under a semicircular earthwork about 300 feet long and 120 wide : the direction of Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, architect~ the corn- north of this aamp, on the slope, are remains of a much munion plate includes a silver chalice with cover, dated1576, larger circular earthwork called ~· Newbury," 500 feet in and a silver-gilt alms basin, presented by Charles Phillips diameter, forming in part the boundary Qf a meadow, and esq. M.P. for Camelford in 1]68, and bears his arms: there intersected by a road: in the northern part of the parish, on are 250 sittings. 'fhe register dates from the year 1558, the road from Camelford to Bodmin, is p'Lrt of a third but there are entries of four marriages previous to this date. encampment, consisting of about 150 yards on the north The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Advent, side. Trewint, now a farmhouse, was probably built by average tithe rent-charge £373• joint net yearly value the 'Hocken family early in the 17th century. Talcarne, £g6o, including 210 acres of glebe, with residence, in the another old house, r6tains its mullioned windo rs. H.R.H.