CORN'\VALL. [KELLY's

$CORN'\VALL. [KELLY's$ MORWINSTOW. CORN'\VALL. [KELLY's XORWINSTOW, the most northerly parish in Corn including 72 acres of glebe, with reMdence, in the gift wall, extending on the west to the Bris,tol Channel, is of the Bishop of Truro, and held since rgo5 by the ReT. 8 miles north-north-west from Stra.tton and 8! north Herbert Lynne Jones. A Bible Christian chapeL wall west from Bude station on the London and South Wes erected at Woodford in I883, at a cost of £~o., amd -will tern railway, in the North Eastern division of the county, hold 200 people. The Bible Christians have other chapels hundred, pett,y sessional division and union of Stratton, at Eastcott and Gooseham Mill and there is also a Wes Holsworthy county court district, rural deanery of Strat leyan chapel at Woodford and one at Woolley. On Mor ton, archdeaconry of Bodmin and, diocese of Truro. The wir.stow glebe is St. John's well, a low gabled building~ church of S~. Morwenna, standing on a knoll betweer, with a rude cross on the ridge, which, "b-nilt by the two eminences which open towards the sea, is a curious Fathers o'er a lonely well, still breathes the Baptist'p. edifice of stone, partly Norman, and consisting of chancel, sweet remembrance round!" ha.If-way down a precipice nave of five bays, aisles and an embattled western tower, is St. Morwella's well. The rivers Tamar and Tor:ridgE> with crocket~d pinnacles, containing 4 bells, all cast in bot-h rise in the parish. The manorial rights are divided'. 1753: the fine Norman doorway of the south porch The principal landowners are H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. exhibits zigzag moulding, with a string of roses upheld Duke of Cornwall and York K.G.; Francis John Thynntl' by two animals; on the crown of the arch is a group esq. of 67 Eaton place, London S W; Lord Churston ~ of figures resembling dragons, with a chain issuing from Miss Dayman, of ~Iembury, East Putford, Devon; Mrs_ their mouths and entwining a lamb; the inner arch is Martyn, of Tonacombe Manor House; William Waddon ornamented with a profusion of figures and nearly cor Martyn esq. of Kilkhampton; the trustees of the la·te responds with that at Kilkhampton : the benches, which Rev. John Adams; Edward Shearme esq. F.S.A. of West _have carved ends, da~e from I575 : the stained east win Cliff, Bude, and Messrs. John Ashton and John King. dow is the gift of the late Lord Clinton and Lady Clin The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The ton : the chancel retains an arched recess, with a pillar area is 8,138 acres of land, I of water, I of tidal water piscina: the font is an irregularly shaped cylinder of and 242 of foreshore; rateable value, £4,476; the popUJ stone, with a cable moulding round the centre and stands lation in I90I was 633 on a massive square bnse: in the chancel is a monument of white marble to the Rev. Oliver Rouse, forty years STANBURY, one mile south-by-east, is in this parish. vicar of this parish, d. I781, and there are several to the C001'ffiE, 3 miles south; CROSSTOWN, a quarter Hammett, Langford, Loveday and other families. The of a mile south-east; EAS'I'OOTT, 3! east-by-north;. church of Morwenstow was appropriated to t,he monastery GOOSEHA.~f. 2 north-east; SHOP, Ii east; WOOD of Bridgewater and afterwards separated by Henry VIII. FORD, I~ south-east; and WOOLLEY, 4 north-east,. who granted it to Richard G-renville, o~ Stowe, and his are hamlets. heirs; Lord Clinton is lay impropriator, but the tithes of hay, together with the great tithes of Stanbury, be Sexton, vYilliam Oke. long to the vicar. A. chapPI. dedicated to the Virgin, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office. was licensed at Milton, in thi;: parish, in I408: more S'hop.-M:is~ Susan Heard, sub-postmistress. Letters; than 40 sailors were buried here by the late vicar, and through Bude S.O. (North Cornwall), arrive at 9 a.m. ;. the graves of some are marked by the figure-head of dispatched at 4.25 p.m. ; no delivery .on sundays the brig "Caledonia." The church was restored during the period I878-87, in the course of which the roof was Public Elementary School (mixed), a~ Shop, built at repaired, the flooring renewed and the benches restored, different times & enlarged in I875, for 146 children;: the old carved bench ends being retained, at a cost ex averaga attendance, 66; Edward Elias Davies, master;: Miss Sophia Oholwill, assistant teacher & sewing mist ceeding £I,200: a new vestry was added in I887 and a new organ provided in I892: there are 500 sittings. This school is controlled by the Launceston, Camelford' The register dates from the year I558, and is very per & Stratton District Education Committee ; Francis fect. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £246, Dewsbury B.A., LL.B. Avenue pl. Launceston, clerk Jones Rev. Herbert Lynne, Vicarage Cook William, farmer, Ruxmoore ·May James, farmer, Marraton cottage- Lewis Rev.A.lfred Merlin M.A.(curate) Cottle John, farmer, Eastcott Olde William, farmer, Gooseham Martyn Mrs. Tonacombe, Manor ho Cattle .Jn. Shearm, yeoman, Yeolstone Olde William Henry, fa.rmer, Hellaton Porter Rev. Erisey John B.A. (vicar Davis Edward E. clerk to the Parish Pasooe Charles, farmer, Ham Mill frm of Walcombe), Dean lodge . Council & a-ssistant over,seer Phillips Edwin, mason, Woodford COMMERCIAL. Dayman Sl. Sandford, farmr. Woolley Prouse Charles, carpenter, Hackmarsh .Allin Richard, farmer, Cleave Evans William, farmer, Pinkhams Prust Richard, carpenter, vVoolley Allin Richd. (Mrs.), aparts. Cleave Everson John, farmer, Alderbeer Rogers John, farmer, Gooseham .Ashton Henry farmer, Bottaborough Goodenough Eli, farmer, Harscott Shepherd John, farmer, 1Voolley .Ashton John, yeoman, East Milton Hambly Frank, aparts. Morwenna ho Sleeman John, farmer, Gooseham Bale George, farmer, Hol!oborough Harris John, farmer, Lower Cory Sleeman William, farmer & thrashing: Bartlett T-homas farmer, Cornakey Harris Jn. miller ('vrate•r), Gooseham machine owner, Gooseham Brimacombe Wm. farmer, 'Marsland Heard Susan (Miss), sub-postmistress Sluggett Job, farmer, Ovis Burrow William, farmer, Goo~eham Heard William, blacksmith, Shop Tape Henry & Sons, carpenters &. Burrows John, carpenter. Woodfrd Hele George, blacksmith, Woodford millers (water), Coombe Burrows John W. Bush inn Hobbs John, farmer, Forda Tape John, farmer, BI'ownspit Burrows Wm. shoe maker. \Yoodford Hockeridge Ernest, farmer, Shorston Tape William (MI1S.), farmer, Furze 0ann James, farmer, Lee Brn·ton Hopper John, farmer, Lapthorne Thorne John, farme'r & butcher.. Cann Richard, farmer, Woodlands Littlejohn John, farmer, Higher Cory 8outh Stursdon Oardew John, mason, shop Littlejohn William, farmer, vVoolley Vickery John, farmer, Gooseham Cardew Stephen, blacksmith, '\voolley Litt:ejqhn Wm. Hy. farmer,Ham farm Wade John (Mrs.), farmer, Gooseham Oholwill Jn. shoe maker, Gooseham Lucas William, farmer, Rectory farm W'ickett Jo-hn, farmer, Middlefields Cholwill Wm. shoe maker, Crosstown Martin Frederick, shopkpr. '\Voolley Wickett Peter, farmer, Chapel house Cook James, farmer, Tonacombe Martin Thos. farmer, Holloborough Wickett Richard, farmer, Westcott XOUNT HAWKE is an ecclesiastical parish near the Hawlre, Skinners' Bottom and Porth Towan; Bible· sea coast, formed July 14, I846, from the parishes of St. Christian chapels at Wheal Rose and a Primitive Metho-· Agnes, in Trnro union, and Illogan, in Redruth union, dist chapel at Skinners' Bottom. The cemetery of 2 and has a halting placa on the Perranporth and Newquay acres, formed in 1877 at a cost of £soo, is under the· elect,ric branch of the Great Western railway and is 4 control of the St. Agnes Burial Board. In the village is ~iles nort,h from Redruth, in the North Western divi- a literary institute. The principal landowners are Vis sion of the county, hundred of Pyd:u, petty sessional count Falmouth K.C.V.O., C.B. Viscount Clifden, Franci& division of Powder West, county court district of Truro Gilbert Enys esq. of Enys, St. Gluvias, Joshua Sydney for the portion taken from St. Agnes, and Redruth for Davey esq. of Kennack Cov~. Grade, John Williams esq. that taken fr.:>m Illogan, rural deanery of Carnmarth, of Scorrier, A. F. Bassett esq. of Tehidy, R. F. Bolitho archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Truro. The esq. and the Misses Jago. The soil is very varying; sub church of St. John the ,Baptist, erected in I878, at a cost soil, spar. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley .. of £I,4oo, is a structure of local stone, with Bath stone The ecclesiastical parish comprises 3,500 acres; the popu dressings, in the Perpendicular style, !tnd consists of lation in I90I was I,218g chancel, nave, south porch and a turret containing one bell: there are sittings for 200 per-sons. Attached is a Post Offica.-Mrs. Mary Chynoweth, sub-postmistress. school room. The register dates from the year I846. Letters arrive through &:orrier S.O. at 7·35 a.m. &. The living is' a vicarage, nP,t yearly valu':l £ rg2, with rPsi 2.Io p.m.; sundays, 7·35 a.m.; dispatched at 7·45 a·.m. dence, in the gift of the Crown and t1he B:shop of Truro & 2.15 p.m. ; sundays·, 12 noon. Bla~kwater is the alternately, and held since Igoo by the Rev. John Ching nearest money order & Scorrier, 3 miles. distant, tho Barfett. There are Wesleyan chapels at Mawla, Mount nearest telegraph office .

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