[.] ROCHE. 856 [POST OFFICE

ROCHE is a parish and village, 5~ miles north from St. the third Tuesday in July, and the second Tuesday in Austell railway station, in the Eastern division of the October. This is a mining district. China-clay is dug out in county, we~ tern division of the hundred of Powder, union immense quantities from this neighbourhood, and forms a and county court district of St. Austell, rural deanery of large article of commerce in tl1is and the adjoining parishes. Powder, Cornwall archdeaconry, and diocese of Exeter. The Viscount Falmouth is lord of the rn11nor. The principal church' of St. Gomonda is a substantial but plain building: landowners are the Earl of Mount Edgcum be, Lord Robartfs, it has a noble, square, lofty, emhattled tower with 6 bells. The J olm Tremayne, esq., and the representatives of the late register dates from the year 1572. The living is a rectory, William Rashleigh, esq. The area is 4,930 acres; ~oss yearly value £440, with residence and 35 acres of glebe, in estimated rental, £6,54~; rateable value, £5,797; and the the gift ofT. E. Drake, esq., and held by the Rev. Robert population in 1871 was 1,863. Fauquier Gardiner, B.A., of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. Here Parish Clerk, Samuel Curtis. is an Elementary Board school for boys and girls; also chapels for W esleyaJJS and Bible Christians. Within a short PosT 0 FFICE.-Samuel Curtis, postmaster. Letters from distance of the village, on property leased by Mr. John St. Austell arrive at 10 a.m.; dispatched at 2.30 p.m.; Robin~, is an immense rock or ~ries of rocks-huge masses week days only. The nearest JllOney order office is at of granite towering one above the other to the l1ei~~:ht of lOO St. Austell feet: on the highest point are the ruins of an ancient chapel, INSURANCE AGENT.-Lancaslzire, J. Stotten probably the habitation of some anchorite; its appearance As.<:istant Overseer\\" Collector of Rates~ Taxes, Philip and position is most singular. A little to the west of Tonkin Hensbarrow, in this parish, rises the , which, after School Board, Rev. R. F. Gardiner, clmirman; R. Varcoe, a course of 20 miles ( 4 of which are tidal), fall~ into the well- vice-chairman; D. Cock, J. J. Phillips, & J. Robins known harbour that takes its name. The river Par also INSURANCE AGENT.-Sovereigu Life, W. H. Gray rises here. Fairs are held on the day before Holy Thursday, Elementary School, John Stotten, master Andrew Richard, Park villas Grose Richard, miller, Carbus Pearce William, farmer GdrdinerRev.Rt.Fauquier,B.A.Rectory Guard Anne (Miss), shopkeeper Pedler Richard, blacksmith Higman Robert, Tresayes GuardJames, farmer, Tregonhay Phillips Job Josias, blacksmith Knight John Hocken Harris Philip & Hen. farmers, Bilberry Retallick James, grocer & draper Knight Mrs. Rock cottage Hawke George, farmer, Pentivall Retallick Richard,jun. mine agent Payne Richard, Carbus Hawke Henry, farmer, Killevreth Retallick William, farmer, Woon Pearne Mrs. Harmony cottage Hawke Josiah, farmer, Killevreth Robins John, farmer Pinch William, Rosemelling Hawkey Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Trerank Rouse Reuben, farmer, Bilberry Robins Mrs Hawkey William, farmer, Retillick Rowse Charles, farmer, Bowdens Step hens Ricl1ard, Hawkey William, jun. farmer Rowse Timothy, farmer, Penstrays Stephens Thomas, Higgans John, Commercial inn Rundle John, farmer, 'fregonhay Yelland Richard, Killevreth Higman Joseph, farmer, Rosemeliing Searle John, farmer, Bryn Higman Nicholas, farmer, Penlenvall Snell Thomas, carpenter, Carbus 1 COMMERCIAL. Higman Robert, boot & shoe maker Solomon Thomas, shoe maker Hassett Thomas, shopkeeper Hooper James, Victoria inn Solomon Virgil, carpenter Brewer William, tailor Hoskins John, farmer, Tremoderate Spratt John, temperance house Bullock Elizabeth (Mrs.), shQpkeeper, HoskinsJ ohn, jun. farmer, Tremoderate Stephens J oseph~ farmer, Belowda Belowda J ulyan John, jun. smith Stephens Thomas, farmer, Belowda Cock Daniel, farmer, Reeshill Julyan Richard, farmer, Stick Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer & draper Cock David, mining agent Julyan Robert, carpenter Stick Nicholas, miller & farmer, Bryn Cock Rodney, farmer, Tregoss Kni~ht P. & Son, manure & general Stick Thomas, farmer, Belowda Cock Samuel, mining captain merchants; & at Pentuan. See advt Stickland J ames, farmer, Rosemelling Common Stephen, farmer, Hendra Knight Absalom, tailor, Woon Thomas Alphonso, flour dealer Crux & Co. farmers, Knight Melinda (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Thomas Jacob, farmer, Bilberry Dolly Stephen, captain of clay works, Carbus Thomas John, butcher Carbus Knight Thomas, butcher Tonkin Philip, assistant overseer & Dyer Edward, farmer, Killevreth Knight Thomas, jun. farmer, W oon collector of rates & taxes, Carbus Dyer Henry, farmer, Gilley Knight William, farmer, Tresibble Treleaven John, farmer, Eglosbayle Dyer Martin Richard, mine agent Robert, tailor Daniel, wheelwright Dyer Thomas, farmer, Killevreth Leddicoat William, farmer, Belowda Trethewey Richard, farmer, Tresayes Dyer William, farmer, Tregoss Liddicoat James, blacksmith, Carbus Trethewey Samuel, farmer, Edyvean John, farmer) Tresayes Lobb James, farmer, Colbiggon Trethewey Thomas, shoe maker Edyvean Joseph, farmer, Pendean Lobb Thomas, farmer, Colbiggon Trethewey William, farmer Edyvean "\Villiam, tailor Manhire William, mason, Parkwoon Trethewey William, miller, Tremoderate Francis Francis, Roche Rock inn Marshall William, clay agent TruscottJohn, farmer, Pentenvall Francis Thomas, farmer, Tremoderate Newton Richard, shoe maker Varcoe Richard, farmer, Tregoss George William, flour dealer Ol ver Charles, saddler · Varcoe Rohert, wheelwright Goudge John, farmer, Killevreth Parkyn Thomas, mining agent Varcoe William, farmer, 'l'rerank Grigg James, farmer, Belowda Pascoe Elias, china clay agent, Hallew Veale Richard, farmer, Helowda Grigg John, farmer, Trenower Pascoe William, farmer, 'l'remoderate Vivian William, farmer, Colbiggan Grose Henry, shoe maker Payne Elizabeth (Mrs.), milliner Vivian William,jun. farlll€r, Colbiggan Grose Nicholas, linen & woollen draper, Pearce John, farmer, \'Voon White Samuel, farmer grocer, ironmonger & general dealer Pearce Waiter, farmer, White Thos. Stick, farmer, Trebilcock

RUAN-LANIHORNE is a parish and village, 2! tean, esq.; there is also a brass with an inscription and miles south-west from , 10 south-east from a marble monument to John Luke, esq., of Treviles, by the turnpike road leading through , and who died in 1776, and of Elizabeth his wife, daughter of 6 from Truro by the passage across the Fal at , Richard Morshead, esq., of Penhargate, who died in 1778. and is washed on the west and south by the waters of the The register dates from the year 1685. The living is a Fal. It is in the Western division of the county, the west- rectory, tithe apportionment £420, with 90 acres of glebe ern division of the hundred of Powder, Truro union, and and house, in the gitt of Corpus Christi College, Oxtord, county court district, rural deanery of Powder, archdea- and held by the Rev. Henry Spencer Slight, B.n., formerly conry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter. This parish Fellow of that College. A Parochial school was erected in claims to be considered one of the parishes of Roseland, but 1871, and is supported by voluntary subscriptions. Near Whitaker maintained it had no right to that honour. The the church there formerly existed a castle with eight towers, church of St. Rumon is situated in a picturesque valley : said to have been the residence of the Erchdekne family, it is a Gothic Pdifice, founded in 1315, with a tower contain- who were extensive landed proprietors in this and other parts ing 2 bells, and consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, and of the county: the outline of the castle can still be traced; south transept. : it was perfectly restored in 1~66, and pos- the last towtr is supposed to have been taken down about sesses some fine old carved oak in the roof~ pulpit, and the year 1718. Tre\·iles was the seat of the Lukes, and is communion-table: under the floor which faces the altar are I now the property and residence of the Hev. Lewis Morgan the remains of the Rev. John Whitaker, B.D., the author of Peter, M.A., J.P., and vicar ofCornelly. Trelonk, formerly " The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall," and late rector of the seat of the Tresteans, and afterwards the property of this parish; a similar stone is inscribed to Jane 1\Iargaret the Earls of Radnor, is now occupieo by a farmer. There Whitaker, daughter of the Rev. John Whitaker; in the Iis a \\ esleyan chapel at Tregh.win, and one for Bible Chris­ south aisle is a monument, with tl1e bust of Rich;nd Tris- tians at Treworga. F. G. Gregor, esq., is lord of the manor .

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