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Speare Eliza & :L\Iary Jane (~Iisses), lime, oil, brick, flour, oilcake mer-] tion officer for North district, St. Ger- milliners, 94 chants & manure manufacturers ; & mans union, 3 Belle Vue terrace S._Jeare Eliz'lbeth (:~Iiss), girls' school, at Bray-shop, , Gunnislake '''hidden Ann (l\Irs.), lodging house, 94 Fore street & Gt. Western docks, 95 Fore street Star Coffee Tavern (Robert Thomas, Vaughan Frederick Richard & Co. Whitehouse James, plumber, 51 Forest manager), Fore street brewers, The Brewery Whitford George, baker, 105 Fore street Stra.thon John Thomas, watch maker, Vosper Edward, butcher, 27 Tamar st Wilson Edwd. boardng. schl. College ho 53 :Fore street Vosper William, butcher, 32 Fore street Windeatt John, hair dresser, 47 Forest Terrell Wm. Hy. Railwa.v hotel, Forest Webber William Elias Efford, registrar Wood Charles, auctioneer, 128 Forest Town Hall (Charles Wool, hon. sec.), of births & deaths for No. 3 Worden Samuel, plumber, 111 Forest Fore street sub-district, & marriages for St. Ger- Wotton Stepheu, lodging house, Albert Trood Edward & Co. coal, corn, bone, mans union, & relieving & vaccina- road, & refreshment rooms, 4 New rd ST. SAMPSON'S, or GOLA.NT, is a parish and village, esq. J.P. of Menabilly, and held since 1863 by the Rev. situated 3 miles north from station, on the Cornwall George Ross M.A.. of Lincoln College, Oxford, and surrogate. Minerals and , 4 south from Lost- Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Penquite, a seat here, a quarter withiel and 3 east from Par station, on the Cornwall rail- of a mile south of Golant, is a stone mansion, the property way, in the Eastern division of the county, west division of of the West family; but is at present unoccupied. Jonathan the hundred of Powder, St. Austell union and county court Rashleigh esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor, p.nd Mr. district, rural deanery of St. Austell, archdeaconry of Corn- Graham are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy ; wall and diocese of . GoLANT, the principal village, subsoil, rock and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley is pleasantly situated on the west bank of the . and turnips. The acreage is 1.470: rateable value, £1,778 The church of St. Sampson, an ancient building of stone rss.; and the population in r881 was 238. and granite, in the Perpendicular style, consists of chancel, Parish Clerk, Nathaniel Smith. nave, north aisle and a tower containing 5 bells ; it was Letters through Par station R.S.O. The nearest money restored in 1842, at a cost of £534· There is an old bap- order offices are at Fowey & ; & telegraph tistery well in the churchyard. The register dates from the office at Par station. Lantyne letters through Lostwithiel :rear 1568. The living is a perpetual curacy, gross yearly National School (mixed), built in 1877, for so children; value £73, with residence, in the gift of Jonathan Rashleigh average attendance, 36; mistress, Mrs. Elizabeth Berry St Sampson's Serpell John, farmer, Penquite Blowey Nicholas, New inn · · Sweet John, blacksmith, Castledor Cock Selina C. (Mrs.), beer retailer Gundry William, Torfry Golant. Hill Joseph, cattle dealer Lang-sford William, farmer, Lanyon Je:ffery Joseph, mason Mug-fur William, farmer, South Torfry Hazeland Saml. Searle, Victoria cottage Lee Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Phillips Richard, farmer, Lawhibbet Ross Rev. G&orge M.A.. [vicar of Tyward- Phillips Render, shopkeeper Rundle Charles, farmer, Trebuthevy reath & perpetual curate of St. Sings Richard, shopkeeper Rundle James, farmer, Lantyne Sampson's], Vicarage Smith Nathaniel, mason & parish clerk (Letters through Lostwithiel) Blowey Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer is a parish 4 miles west-by-south from baptistery and holy well at Chapel Downs. There are also , in the Western division of the county, hundred of two Logan stones of some interest at Begowans Th~re are Penwith, Penzance union and county court district, rural chapels at New Bridge and Court for Wesleyans, and at deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Grumbla, Brane, Tregerris, and Drift for Bible Christians. Trnro. The church of San Creed (or Sancta Crida) is a build- Edward Bolitho esq. and Mrs. Scobell are lord and lady of ing of granite mainly in the fifteenth century style, con- the manor and chief landowners. The soil is killas ; subsoil, si sting of chancel, nave, aisles, transept, porch and an em- marI. The chief crops are oats, barley and potatoes, but the hattled tower containing 3 bells, and there are several mural greater part of the land is in pasture. The area is 3,909 monuments : the church was restored in 1882 at a cost of acres ; rateable value, £5,092; the population in 1881 was £:.,250, when the remains of a Norman font were found: 937· ou the churchyard wall is the quatre-foiled head of an Parish Clerk, John Toman. ancient cross, and in the churchyard a tall and finely in- ·c·ised cross, nearly 8 feet high: at Higher Drift is a stone 2 Pos-r & MoNEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank, New bridge; feet high, with a Latin cross on one side. The register of Miss Elizabeth Bennetts, receiver bctptisms dates from the year IS66; marriages, 1559 ; burials, Letters through Penzance, received at 10.30 a.m. ; dispatched I ~79· The living is a vicarage, vicarial tithe rent-charge at 2 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Penzance £370, net yearly value £313 with residence and 152 acres A School Board of 5 members was formed in 188o; C. of g-lebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and Clemens, Drift, clerk to the board held since 1879 by the Rev.Reginald Basset Rogers B.A. of St. Boa1·d School, to accommodate 90; J. C. Guy, master J0hn's College, Oxford. There is a series of very perfect National School (mixed), for 170 children, supported by British caves at Brane and an ancient circular fortification voluntary contributions; W. P. Mitchell, master; Miss :at Caer Bran. There is a holy well at Chapel Uny and a Ellen Eddy, mistress Bennetts Thomas, New bridge Harvey Thomas, farmer, Tregerris 1 Quick James, farmer, Tregonebris naniel John . Holla Thomas, farmer, Boswens I Richards Richard Samuel,miller(water), .Tago Lieut.-Col. Darel1, Tregenhoe Hollow Thomas, farmer, Boswens Lower drift Hog-ers Rev. Rf'ginald Basset M.A. Hosking John, farmer, Bosence Richards Samuel, farmer, Higher drift Vicarage Jacka James, farm bailiff to E. Bolitho 1 Roach Matthew, farmer, Begowans ,,·oulcock Thomas esq. Trenugg-o Rowe Hannibal, farmer, Trevean Jeffery Wm. Richard, farmer, Drift Rowe John, farmer, Bosvenning cmniERCIAL. Matthews John Thomas, Neu:bridge inn Stevens Grace (Mrs.),farmer,Tregerrest Hen netts Elizabeth (Miss), grocer, l\Iatthews William (Mrs.), farmer Thomas Thomas Henry & Son, farmers, draper, & post office, New bridge Newton James, farmer Botrea Rennetts John, farmer, ReceYan Nicholls Cyprian, farmer, Boslow I Thomas John, farmer, Jericho Bennetts 'Villiam, farmer, Boljothno North .Tames, farmer, Drift Toman John, farmer Boase Thomas, farmer, Brane Oats James, farmer, Brane I Tonkin Joseph, farmer, Boswens Bosence John, rate collector Oats John, farmer, Brane i Trembath James (Mrs.), farmer, Tre- Clemens Charles, smith & farrier, Drift Oats Richard, farmer, Brane i gerrest Elhs William, farmer, Recevan , Oliver John, miller (water) I Warren Nicholas, farmer, Boljothno (rrose Solomon Thos. farmer, Trerice I OsbornJohn Charles,farmer,Trevorrian Warren William, farmer, Tregerrest Hall William, farmer, Sellen IPearse John. farmer, Tregonebris I Woolcock Wm. & Hugh, farmers, Sellen Harry Richard, farmer, Brane Pengilly Philip, farmer, Lesbew • THE ISLANDS OF SCILLY. THE IsLANDS OF SCILLY, about 40 in number, are situate 40 summer (.~lay and June daily) and twice in winter; a,•erage miles due west from the Lizard Point and 30 west-by- passage 4 h(lurs. The situation is wild, and the rocky south from the Land's End, in ]at. so N. Ion~. 6 W. and are scenery beautifully grand. The islands form a superin­ re.