DIRECTORY.) ST. AGNES. [CORNWALL.] ADVENT Is a Parish

DIRECTORY.) 701 ST. AGNES. [CORNWALL.] ADVENT is a parish~ H miles south from Camelford, Queen's College, Oxford, 3.P., and rural dean. H.R.H. having tht: river Camel on the west, in the Eastern division the Duke of Cornwall is lord of the manor. The principal of the county, Le~mewth hundred, Cameltord union and landownen are Col. Grylls and A. Marllhall, esq. The soil county court district, rural deanery of Trigg Minor, arch. is rich loam; subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat, deaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter. 'l'he church oats and roots. The apea i11 4,0.59 acres; gross estimated of St. Ad wen has chancel, nave, south aisle and transept, rental, £1,944; rateable value, £1,868; the population in and square tower with 6 bells: the church is now (1873) in 1871 was 246. the course of restoration. The reg-ister dates from the year Parish Clerk, Francis H awkey. 1709. The living is a rectory, consolidated with Lanteglos, yearly value £760; in the gift of H.R.H. the Duke of Corn.. Letters through Camelford, which is the nearest money wall, and held by the Rev. John James Wilkin.son, M.A., of order office Alford William, farmer, Higher Town GlanvUI Henry, farmer, Stepps Parnell Nicholas, farmer, Grey lake Banbury Samuel, farmer, Treclego Hawken Thomas, farmer, Heneward P~thick Jhn. & Hen. farmers,Tresinnf'y Cleave Richard, farmer, Trethin Inch Joseph, farmer, Tor Scott William, farmer, Whitewells Colwill Thomas, farmer, Tre!linney Lobb J ames, farmer, Pencarrow Smeethe John, farmer, Goose hill French William, farmer, Goose hill Nor they Geor~e, farmer, New hall Somers Edward, farmer, Trewint Gillard Thomas P. farmer, Tresinney Northey Richard, farmer, Watergate Teague WiUiam. farmer, Grey lake ST. AG NES, pronounced by its inhabitants with the g glories; he afterwards was elected professor of painting at silent, "St. Ann's" (so that it may be distinguished from the Royal Academy, and died in the year 1807. At ::;r. St. Agnes, one of the Scilly Isles), and formerly called Agnes is a high hill, called St. A~es Beacon, of singula1· Breanick, is a large parish and market town, bounded on the geological character; it rises pyramidally nearly 600 feet north by the sea. The parish is in the Western division of above the len-1 of the sea, having on its! summit three barro\\,., the county, hundred or Pyder, Truro union and county and commanding extensive views. Borlase particularly court district, rural deanery of Pyder, archdeaconry of describes the extraordinary stratification of this stupendou• Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter. The town is 8 miles hill, as deserving the attention of the geologist. In a larg,.. north-west from Truro, 6 north from Redruth, and 267 entrenchment, called the Gorres, a golden coin ofValentir.ian from London. There once exiilted a chapel at Chaple was ploughed up. Off the coast are the rocks calleu tht> Porth, near to the sea side. 'rhe church of St. Agnes iil a "Cow and Calf," or "l\Jan and his Man." Trevaunauc,• handsome building in the Decorated style, consisting of a was formerly the property and residence of Thomas Tonkin, chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, with tower, surmounted esq., the annotator on "Carew's Survey of Cornwall," and by a finEly tapering spire, and containing 6 bells. Tht author of the parochial history of the county. The right.. register dates from the year 1653. The living- is a vicarage, of the manors of Tywarnhayle and 1\Iithian are vestet1 in yearly value £::300, with residence, in the gift of the Dean Richard Davey, esq. of Bochim, Helston; Elizabeth M aria and Cha!Jter of Exeter, and held by the Rev. Alexander Williams, Carhayes Castle; Fraocis Gilhert Enys, of Enys, Alien Vawdrey, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge. A Penryn; and John Gilbert Chilcot, of Truro; and those of School Board has been recently formed here, and there is a the manor of Goonlaze in the Duke of Buckingham anu · Sunday school for boys and girls. There are chapels others, These are also the principal landowners. The for Wesleyans, Primitive ~fet-hodists, and Bible Christians. parish comprises 8,354 acres, of which 60 are water; gros" Nicholas Kent, of :Mingoose, by his will, bearing date estimated rental, £10,596; rateable value, £8,757; and the 1688, gave, for the term of 499 years, a dwe1lin~-house population in 1871 was 6,164. divided into four tenements, and a garden, for poor BLACKWATER is a village, partly in this parish and widows of this parish; the property, having become ruinous, partly in that of Kenwyn, on the road betwePn Redruth and is now let for pasturage. In the year 1632, an attempt was St. Columb. Here the tour hundreds of Powder, Pyder, made tCJ form a harbour at Trevaunanre (now called Tre Penwith, and Kerrier meet. vaunance Quay), and after repeated failures the effort was Parish Clerk, James Daniel. · resumed in 1710 by the Tonkin family; their labour was so far sucressful that it remained nearly a century; some parts Pos'l' & MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Post having become decayed, the work was again undertaken in Office Savings Bank,Cimrch Town.-Thomas Stribley,suh- the year 1794 by a company of gentlemen, by whom a pier postmaster. Letters through Scorrier, arrive from London of' moorstone was erected, at a cost of £10,000; from this at 9 a. m. & are dispatched thereto at 2.40 p.m. per messen- place a considerable trade is carried on with Ireland and ger. Letters for the North are dispatched at 5.30 a.m.; Wales. A pilchard fishery was established here, but it has arrive at 7 p.m not proved very profitable. At Trevaunance, day works are ScJIOOL BoARD. C'arl'ied on, and there are several good mines in the parish. T. H. Hitchim, chairman Theodore l\Iartin A weekly market is held in the town on 'l'hursday, tor the Rev. A. A. Vawdrey Richard Edwards sale of all sorts of wares; and a fair for cattle is held yearly, Rev. Peter Prescott [Wes- John Nettle on the 30th of April. Here are a Mechanics' Institute, Odd leyan] William Symons Fellows' Lodge, and Tradesmen's Club. On the 3rd Febru- Clerk, George Coulter Hancock ary, 1830, a fearful accident occurred at the United Hills INSURANCE AGENTS:- Mine, in this parish, by the bursting of the engine boiler; Briton Life, N. Bryant . out of thirteen persons who were on the premises at the time Liverpool~ London ~ Globe, T. Martm of the accident, nine were killed on the spot, or died shortly London A.~surance, N. Bryant afterwards. The celebrated Opie, the son of a carpenter, Prudential Life, J. Tregellas was born here; his genius for painting soon became per- Royal Exchange, G. C. Hancork ceptihle to Dr. Wolcot (Peter Pindar), who was so highly Sovereign Life, J. Gripe gratified with his juvenile attainments in the art, that he PUBLIC OFFICERs:- took him to London, where he much distinguished himself as Regi8trar of Births~ Deaths for the Parish of St. an artist; he also possessed great literary ability, and was Agnes, lsaac Rowse, Rosemundy the author of the "Life of Reynolds," published in Dr. Medical O.fficer tQ St. Agnes District of the Tru1·o Wolcot's edition of " Pilkington's Dictionary"; he Union, John Henry La.mbrick, Church town afterwards published a letter in a daily paper, "The True Rate Collector, Richard Stephens, Towan cross Briton," entitled "An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation CARRIERS TO:- of the Arts of Design in England"; in this be prop<>sed a TRURo-Stribley & Hancock, from the Church town, distinct plan for the formation of a National Gallery, tending monday, wednesday & saturday; returning same days at once to exalt the arts of his country and immortalise its REDRUTH-Stribley & Hancock, friday PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Newton Richard, Church town COMMERCIAL. Andrew Mrs. Blackwater Oates Mrs. Blackwater Argall Elizabeth (Miss), Victory, Billing Mrs. A. Blackwater Prescott Rev. Peter [Wesleyan], Towan cross Billing :Mrs. E. Blackwater British row Argall Samuel, boot & shoe maker, Bolderson Miss, Trevaunancf' hou.'lf' SkewesRev.Hy.[We!!leyan]Church twn Peterville Cameron William Booth Joseph Price, Stevens Faithful, Wheal Rose Bartle James, blacksmith, Blackwater Stephen's cottages, Beacon Tregellas Elisha, Gmve house Bennett Mrs. farmer, Silverwell Faull Mrs. Wheal Rose Vawdrey Rev. Alexander Alien, 111' .A. Bennett William Henry, draper & Hitchins Martin Tredinnick, Quay rvicar], Church town grocer, l\founthawke Jenkin ~Irs. Wheal Rose Whitworth Henry, lii'.D. Church town Bennetts Samuel, mine manager, Tre- Knapp Rev. Chas. Tyrrel, Church twn Williams Commander W. H. R.N. vaunance cottage · Lambrick John, Chprch toWIJ Church town Billin~ Thos.SpreadEaglelBlac}twater .

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