Cornwall. Gorr.An

DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. GORR.AN. 8S3 GODOLPHIN is a village and ecclesiastical parish, before sunrise, the reeve must ttppear at the outer door and formed in February, 1846, from the parish of St. Breage, in give three distinct knocks, saying, " Oh yes ! oh yes ! oh yes! the Western division of the county, hundred of Kerrier, Hel- Here comes I, the reeve of the Manor of Lamburne, to de st.on union and county court district, Kirrier rural deanery, mand my Lord's dues : three groats and a penny in money, Cornwall archdeaconry and Truro diocese, 4~ miles north- a loaf, a cheese, a collar of brawn and a jug of the best beer west from Helston and 7 south from Gwinear road station in the house; God save the King and the Lord of the l\Ianc·r ." on the West Cornwall (Great Western) railway. The church This must be repeated at the two inner doors, after which of St. John the Baptist, erected in 185r, is a building of stone his demand is satisfied. It was a Sir Francis Godolphin who with granite facings in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, introduced the first stamping machine for tin ore into Corn lofty nave, aisles separated from the nave by arcades of four wall. At Great Works Mine gunpowder was first used in arches, north porch and a small bell-turret on the western r688 for blasting purposes; and at Wheal Vor, also in this gable containing two bells. The register dates from the parish, the first colliery engine was erected in 17Io. The year I85I. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value from population are chiefly engaged in mining. The principal Ecclesiastical Commissioners £1471 with residence, erected landowners are the Duke of Leeds and C. Tre1awny esq. The in 1877 at a cost of £I,ooo, in the gift of the Crown and the soil is light, resting on granite and spar. The chief crops bishop of Truro alternately, and held since 1879 by the Rev. are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The population in I88r Samuel Rundle, jun. M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. was I,245. Godolphin House, a quadrangular structure, situated in a Letters through Helston, the nearest money order & tele- large and well-wooded park and now occupied as a farm h ffi house, was the seat of the Earls of Godolphin (cir. r7o6), grap 0 ce but the present building is only a portion of the original. This parish is included in Breage school board district Charles II. it is reported, slept here when on a journey to St. Board School, Herland cross (mixed), erected in r876, for Michael's Mount. A high lordship is paid by the Duke of r6o children; average attendance, 70; Richard Smithem, Leeds, the present owner, to the St. Aubyn family, as reeve master of the manor of Lamburne, to which family, failing an heir, CARRIER.-Joseph Berryman, to Helston, on sats.; to Penz- the estate returns. On Candlemas Day (February 2nd), ance, on tues. & thurs. returning same day Rosewarne Roseveare, Godolphin house Hebbard Arthur, farmer, Trescowe Richard~ Wm. Hy. farmer, Whealvor Rundle Rev. Samuel, juu. M.A. Vicarage Hocking John, farmer, Gwedna Riddington Edwin, surveyor & mine Jacka Joseph, farmer, Re:lallan agent, Polladrass COMMERCIAL. Johns Robert, blacksmith, Trescowe Rosewarne Roseveare, farmer, Godol- Adams Jane (Mrs.),frmr.Penhaleandrea Oats John, tin streamer,Maiden Stamps phin house • Adams Paul Thomas, farmer, 'frenear Pearce Emanuel, farmer, Trescowe Rowe John, blacksmith, Herland cross Adams Wm. Henry, farmer, Chystodden Pearce Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Trescowe Rowe William, farmer, Pengwedna Bailey James, carpenter & builder, Pearce Nicholas, farmer & carman, Russell James, farmer, Pengwedna Herland cross Trescowe SampsonWm.farmer & carman,Sparnon Bennetts John James, farmer, Sparnon Polkinghorne William, shoe maker, Scholar Thomas, farmer, Trescowe BennettsMry.(Mrs.),frmr.Herland cross Herland cross Shephard Wm. Hendy, farmer, Pengilly Blight Francis, farmer, 'fregoning Polglase Mary (Mrs.), ·shopkeeper, Stephens John, shopkeeper Brian Hugh, farmer, Trescowe Great work Stephens ·william, tin merchant, Go- Brown Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Sparnon Polmountain Isaac, farmr. Little Gilley dolphin bridge Carne John, farmer, Tregoning Pool Christian, shopkeepr.Herland cross Thomas Wm. farmer & carman,Herland Edwards Renjamin, farmer, Herland Pool James, farmer, 'frescowe Tredrea Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Her- Edwards James, blacksmith, Gwedna Pope Elizh. ( Mrs.),shopkpr.Herland cross land cross Ed wards William, carpenter & farmer, Pope Jeremiah, farmer, Trescowe Treloar Mary (Mrs.), farmer & shop- Colsluick Pope John, mine agent, Trescowe corn keeper, Trescowe Gilbert Thomas, shopkeeper, Carleen Pryor John, farmer & tin merchant, Uren John, carrier, Tregoning hill Harris Stephen, mine agent, Poldown Whealvor Wellington John, Britannia inn, Her- Harry Charles, seed & manure mer- Reynolds George & Sons,tailors,Herland land cross chant, shopkeeper & carrier, Herland cross White James, butcher, Herland cross cross Richards Thos. shopkeeper, Pengwedna Williams John, farmer, Penhaleandrea GOLANT, see ST. SAMPSON's. GORRAN, or ST. GoRAN, is a parish and village situated of Stephen Hy. Dickerson esq. The principal landowners on the coast of the English Channel, 9 miles south-west from 1 are the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, who is lord of the manor, St. Austell station on the Cornwall (Great Western) rail- 'John Tremayne esq. J.P., D.L. J. C. Williams esq. trustee of way and 3 south-south-west from Mevagissey, in the Eastern Mr. F. Slade-Gully, a minor, William Cole Pendarves B.A., division of the county, east division of the hundred of J.P., D.L. and T. G. Graham esqrs. The soil is a rich loam; Powder, St. Austell union and county court district, rural subsoil, killas and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, deanery of St. A us tell, archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese oats and roots. The area is 4,725 acres ; rateable value, of Truro. The church of St. Goran, built in the sixteenth £5,981 ; and the population in r88r was 958. century, is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, and TREVEOR, I mile south-west, TREVARRICK, 2 north-west; consists of chancel, nave, unitedly of eight bays, south aisle PENARE, 2 south, RESCASSA 1! west, TREGAVARAS, 2 south of the same length, north transept, and a lofty embattled 1 west, and BoswiNGRAN, r~ south, are hamlets. western tower with four pinnacles, built in r6o6, and con taining 6 bells, all cast in ~772, and one of which is broken: About I mile south-east from the church is the village of there are two piscinre, some fragments of a screen and a GoRRAN HAVEN, or, as it is sometimes called, PORTEAST. brass effigy of a female kneeling: the nave and aisle retain Here is an ancient chapel in the Late Tudor style, supposed some good benches with well-carved ends, many of them to have been built by the Bodrugan family about the middle bearing initials: a new roof was erected in 1870, from of the fifteenth century; it is a rectangular building of stone, designs by .r. P. St. Aubyn esq.: there is an ancient monu with a curious and interesting pentagonal tower in a very ment in the nave to Richard Edgcumbe, of Bodrugan esq. dilapidated state; it is hoped that thP. structure will shortly 1655, and a brass to William Algernon Slade-Gully M.A. 1870, be restored. This was, doubtless, a place of some note, as with other modern memorials ; some once existing here to may be inferred from its old pier, supposed to have been the Trevanions have now disappeared: there are two stained built by the Boclrug-ans, an ancient family of that name, windows and some fragments of old glass in the aisle; a curious who flourished in the reign of Edward II. but became carved chair, bearing the figure of St. Goran, is preserved at extinct in 1300; Bodrugan (the house on the down) is now the vicarage: the tower is a well-known sea mark and is. a a farm house, and Gorran Haven is known only as a small conspicuous object for many miles round. The register of fishing place, the inhabitants of which obtain a living by baptisms and burials dates from the year r66I ; marriages, catching lobsters and crabs, which are taken in large 1668. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £320; gross quantities here. Opposite the haven is the " Gwineas" yearly value £415 with residence and I acre of glebe, in the rock. · gift of the bishop of Truro, and held since r869 by the Rev. Sea:ton, William Tregilas. Charles Richard So well B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel at High Lanes and a Bible Christain PosT OFFICE.-William Han·ey, postmaster. Letters from chapel at Boswinger, and at Gorran Haven are Wesleyan and St• .Austell arrive at 1.15 a.m.; dispatched at 3·45 p.rn. Congregational chapels. The " Deadman " is a bold head- T_he nearest money order & telegraph office is at Meva- land, 379 feet in height, on the summit of which is placed the g~ssey signal house of the coast guard. Trevennen is the residence 1 Coast Guard, Gorran Haven, Joseph Forward, chief officer 56* .

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