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928 LAUNCEETON. CORNWALL. (KELLY's Toms Joseph, painter & glazer, Market street White George Graham, sen. (firm, White, Dingley & White), Treleaven James, outfitter, & dealer in game, Southgate st solicitor & commissioner for taking acknowledgments of Trewin Thomas H~nry, cabinet maker, High street married women for Cornwall, registrar & high bailiff of Trood Thomas Pomery & Co. corn, flour, coal, manure & county court, deputy superintendent registrar & coroner general merchants & dealers in building materials, Town for the Eastern division of Cornwall, Westgate street mills & Railway station · White George Graham, jun. (firm, White, Dingley & White), Truscott Martha Melhuish (Miss), postmistress, Westgate st solicitor, superintendent registrar, clerk to the Launceston Tubb Henry, farmer, Tredidon board of guardians & the rural sanitary authority, & Uglow Richard, baker, Church street deputy coroner for the Eastern division of Cornwall, Vea le John, dairyman, Hendra cottages W estgate street Vivian George William, painter & glazier, Westgate street White Thomas, chemist, grocer & seedsman, &: agent for W. Volunteer Fire Brigade (George Graham White, jun. capt.; & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants, Church street Benjamin H. Balkwill, sec. & treas.); Engine house, Whitten William, baker, Southgate place Market yard Wilson Geor ~e L.R.C.P.Edin. physician & surgeon, medical Wainwright J. &: Son (of Plymouth), carting agents to the officer & public vaccinator,No. 2 district,Launceston union, London &: South Western Railway Co. Broad street Priory house, St. Thomas' road Wemnouth Alfred George, ironmonger, Broad street Wise Charles Pearse, architect & surveyor, Westgate street Western Subscription Rooms (William Henry Cory, man.), Wise William, chemist, druggist & tea dealer (late Ching & Dunheved road Wise), Broad street WestlakeThos. Hy. hair dresser & tobacconist, Southgate pl Wivell Robert, mason, Northgate street Wevill John, carpenter, Tower street Woods Thomas, Exeter inn, High street Wevill Robert, harness maker, High street Worden William, shopkeeper, Northgate street Wheeler i:f Wilson Manufacturing Co. (John Husson, agent), Workman's Hall i:f Reading Room (William Tapson, sec.), Northgate street N orthgate street "'White, Dingley & White, solicitors, Westgate street Yeo William, dairyman, Tower street White Francis E. commercial traveller, St. Thomas road LAWHITTON is a village and parish, part of which is J in the gift of the bishop of the diocese, and held since I839 by included in the municipal and the remainder within the the Rev. Francis Du Boulay M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge parliamentary borough of Launceston, 2~ miles south-east and surrogate; the Rev. Arthur Henry Cooke B.A. Oxon, from Launceston railway station, near the Tamar, in the curate. The manor of Lawhitton was given to the bishopric of Northern division of the county,Launceston union and county Crediton by Edward the Elder in 905, and it has ever since court district, and in the northern division of the hundred remained in the hands of the Bishops of Exeter, the ruins of of East, rural deanery of Trigg Major, archdeaconry of whose palace still remain. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners Bodmin,anddioceseofTruro. ThechurchofSt.Michaelisan are the principal landowners. The soilis clayey; subsoil, ancient building of stone, in the Decorated and Early Perpen- sandy gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. dicular styles, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, south The area is 2,649 acres; rateable value, £3,486 ; and the porch, and an embattled tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 population in 1881 was 425. bells : there is a small stained window on the north side, and Letters through Launceston arrive about I0.30 a.m. WALL a pulpit dated I655, with the arms of Bennett: in the church Box near the church cleared at 3·55 p.m. week days & IO is a monument to Robert Bennett, of Hexworthy esq. I683, a.m. on sundays. The nearest money order & telegraph besides others of more modern date, and there are inscribed office is at Launceston floor stones of the Bennett family, including one to Richard Rennett, 1619. The register dates from the year 1640. The Natic.nal School (mixed), for go children; average attendance, living is a rectory, gross yearly value £soo with residence, 50; Miss Harriett White, mistress Du Boulay Rev. Francis M.A. [rector] 1 Cory John, butcher & farmer,Kenseyvil Masters Thomas, blacksmith Harvey Henry Martin J.P. Hexworthy I Gregory Richd. mason, High Luck ham Metters John&Josiah, farmers, •rreniffie l\Ioore John Gwennap Dennis,Stours- Gregory Saml. farmer, Lower Luckham Sco:ffernMary(Mrs.), farmr.Dunscombe combe Hender Henry, farmer & general mer- Stacey Edward, carpenter 1\Iorshead Mrs. Treniffie chant, Bulsworthy Symons Richard, farmer, Tregada Hocken Wm. farmer, Lower Bamham Vosper Charles, butcher COMMERCIAL. Holman Richard, Manor House Vosper William, farmer & butcher, Alien Jn. miller (water), Bamham mills ·1 Jackman John, farmer, St. Leonard's Middle Bamham Barriball Charles, Bennett's Arms Langman Samuel, farmer, Newton Weeks Henry, farmer, Hexworthy Barriball William, blacksmith Lobb George & Nicholas, farmers, Law- Weeks Richard, farmer, Sheers Barton Brendon Francis, farmer, Newham hitton Barton Wise Wm. Morshead, farmer, Tregada Coombe William, carpenter I Martin John, farmer, Wishworthy LELANT, or UNY LELANT, is a township and parish, land for a burial ground, vested in trustees, were added to within the parliamentary borough of St. Ives, from which the churchyard in I879· The register of baptisms dates it is 3~ miles south-east, 6 north-east from Penzance, with a from the year I684 ; baptisms and burials, 17I6. The living station on the St. Ives branch of the West Cornwall (Great is a vicarage, with Towednack annexed, tithe rent-charge Western) railway, in the Western division of the county, (Lelant) £2o5, joint yearly value £44o with residence, built hundred of Penwith, Penzance union and county court in I835, in the gift of the bishop of Truro and the Crown • district, rural deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall, alternately, and held since 1869 by the Rev. Richard and diocese of Truro, situate on the estuary of the Hayle Frederick Tyacke M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, and surro -river, opposite Hayle. The church of St. Uny is an ancient gate. There are Wesleyan chapels at Lelant Town, Carbis building of stone, partly Norman, with some marks of the Bay and Ninnes; Primitive Methodists at Lelant Town and thirteenth century restoration, which in turn gave way to a Ninnes and Methodist New Connexion at Carbis Bay. In further reconstruction in the fifteenth century: it consists of the churchyard stands a massive cross, 5 feet 6 inches high chancel, nave and aisles of equal height, separated by and I foot 7 inches broad : the round head is boldly caryed arcades of six arches, south porch, and an embattled western with a St. Andrew's cross, and a boss in the centre ; out tower, 6o feet in height, with pinnacles, and containing 6 side the churchyard wall is another cross, 3i feet high bells, all cast I836: the church was thoroughly restored in and about I foot broad, with an oval head, bearing a I873, at a cost of £2,000, when open benches for 420 persons Maltese cross, and on the reverse a figure of Our Lord. A were substituted for the former pews; the roof was also fair is held on the 15th of August, yearly, for cattle. Tre reconstructed, and the chancel decorated and paved : the vethoe, half a mile distant, is held on lease by Sir John St. rood loft remains in the north aisle, and there are piscina Aubyn bart. M.P., D.L., J.P. of Roger William Gi:fford Tyring niches in the chancel and south aisle, and portions of a stoup ham esq. who is lord of the manor and chief landowner ; the in the porch : the original font, of Early English date, mansion is pleasantly situated, surrounded with plantations, has been discovered in a farm yard, and will be restored and and overlooks the estuary of the Hayle ; it was almost en -re-erected: the east window is a memorial to William Praed tirely rebuilt by Humphrey Mackworth Praed esq. in I76I ; and William Tyringham Praed, 1848: there are other the front, ornamented with a pediment, is constructed of stained windows in the aislPs: the communion plate is dated granite ashlar; immediately behind the house, rising to a 1725, but an old Elizabethan chalice is still in use at Towed- height of 550 feet above the sea level, is Trecroben Hill, on nack : there are memorials to the family of Praed, 1620- the summit of which are the remains of an ancient fortress. I846; Pawley, x635-1721; Cundy, 1799-I8o2, and others; The following mines are at work in this parish :-Wheal over the entrance of the south porch is an elaborate niche, Margaret, Tren-Crom and Wheal Sisters. The soil is gravelly; containing a sun dial: a mortuary chapel and additional! the subsoil is killas and granite. The chief crops are wheat. • .

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