[.] , WEST. 804 [POST OFFICE East CornwallBank(branch of) (Ro­ Langdon William, Salutation inn Reeves Thomas, shopkeeper bins, Foster & Co.) (Charles Bawden, Lee Waiter, Globe inn, Shutta Richards John, plumber agent); draw on Williams, Deacon& Life Institution (Robert Tho­ Rowett Thomas, tailor Co. London mas, sec) Scantlebury Thomas, butcher Fenwick Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker District Bank (branch of) Shapcott Henry & Son, ship builders Fishley Thomas, shopkeeper (Robert Thomas, manager); draw on Shapcott Henry, BuZZer's Arms Hicks Benjamin, linen draper Robarts, Lubbock & Co. London Shapcott John, mason Hicks J ames, grocer &c Little Mary (Mrs.), boot maker Shapcott William, mason Hicks J. (Mrs.), stationer Marshall Thomas, grocer Smith John, plumber Hicks Mary (Mrs.), ironmonger Mechanics' Institute (John Giles, hon. Stephens Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hicks M. (Mrs.) grocer sec.; R. A. Peter, treasurer) Stephens Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hicks T. Henry, chemist Oliver James, blacksmith Stranger Ellen (Miss), seminary Hicks William, linen & woollen draper, Olver Charles, stationer & saddler Tatchell Thomas, rope maker silk mercer, hosier & haberdasher Olver Richard, saddler Toms Reuben, master mariner Hill Joseph, master mariner Olver Thomas, butcher Triggs Keziah (Miss), preparatory Hill William, master mariner Parsons Thomas, manure agent school Hockin Edward, boot maker Benjamin, master mariner Waiters John, grocer Hoskin William, carrier Pengelly John, blacksmith Waiters John, master mariner Howard John, station m!I.Ster Pengelly Thomas Couch, tailor Waiters John, jun. master mariner J effery J ames, wheelwright, Shutta Pengelly William, boot & shoe maker Waiters Samuel, master mariner KerswilJ George, physician Poad John, chemist & druggist, tea Wynhall Edwin, watch maker Ladner Sophia (Mrs.), grocer dealer, grocer & agent for the W es­ Wynhall John, ironmonger Langdon Arthur, carpenter tern Provident Association

LOOE, WEST, is separated by a creek from East Looe, asticai purposes, forms part of the consolidated vicarage of and partakes of all the characteristics of the scenery of the East and West Looe. A market is held on Wednesdays and latter place; it is about 8 miles south from Liskeard, Saturdays, and a cattle and pleasure fair on 6th May. The in Liskeard union, and county court district. It originally poor have £4 yearly, distributed in bread and fuel, h·om the sent two members to Parliament. The church, or chapel, is Trelawny charity of East Looe. Here are chapels for Con­ named in honour of St. Nicholas, and divine service is per- gTegationalists and Bible Christians. Gross estimated rental, formed here by the vicar every Sunday forenoon. This town £1,296; rateable value, £1,091; and the population in 1861 is within the of ; the inhabitants are married was 77 4, and in 1871 was 798. Letters through Liskeard. and buried at Talland parish church; but it now, for ecclesi· The nearest money order office is at East Looe. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Angear Thomas, carpenter Hunting William Russell, baker Hearle Joseph Barrett Thomas, sail maker; & at East Hu8band Samuel, carpenter Hearle Mrs Looe James Robert,master mariner Kemble Rev. Arthur, M.A. Polvellan Bartlett John, master mariner Moon Pbilip: grocer Trevan Isaac, Darloe cottage Bartlett Philip, master mariner Painter William, coal merchant Willcocks Isaac, J".P. [deputy recorder Bartlett William, Jolly Sailor Pengelly Abraham, master mariner of East Looe] Charke Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper Pengelly Benjamin, master mariner Willcocks Miss, Portbyhan house Clements Jane (Mrs.), grocer Simmonds Jeremiah, master mariner Clements John, master mariner Skentelbury Abraham, ship builder COMMERCIAL. Hickey Jane (Mrs.), grocer Symons Peter, mason Angear Ann (Mrs.), tailoress Honey John Henry, blacksmith Tristrail Henry, mining agent Angear John, Cornish Arms Hoskin Waiter, master mariner Tucker Jolm, grocer & tailor

LOSTWITHIEL is a , market town, and July, 1775." The rebrister dates from the year 1677. The polling place for the Eastern division of the county, 246 living is a vicarage, yearly value £95, in the gift of Richard miles from London, 6 south from , 12 west from Foster, esq., and held by the Rev. Henry Waiter Taylor, Liskeard, and 22 north.east from , in the east division M.A., of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. The Town Hall, in Fore of the hundred of Powder, Bodmin union and county court street, a neat structure, was erected in 1740, at the district, rural deanery of Powder, Cornwall archdeaconryJ expense of Richard Edgcumbe, esq. There is a Mathemati­ and diocese. It is situated on the , an cal and Commercial school supported by the Corporation, to consists of the whole of the parish of , a con­ which they elect six poor boys. St. John Elliotleft £613s. 4d. siderable part of , and a small part of St. Winnow. for the schools in this town. There is also a very good The town was incorporated by charter in the reign of boarding and day school for young gentlemen, conducted George II. (1732), and is governed by a recorder, seven by the Rev. E. Stevens, at Norway House. An elementary capital burgesses, and seventeen assistants; the latter elect school is now in the course of erection at Bodmin hill, to be annually one of the capital burgesses to be for the worked on the voluntary principle. Here is a Working ensuing year on the first Tuesday in October. The seven Men's institute, which contains a reading-room with small capital burgesses have the sole management of the corporate library, a bagatelle room, and a smoking room; it was property, and all financial matters are decided by the ma­ established in 1872. The chief trade consists in wool, coals, jority according to charter, the mayor being present. An iron, timber, and malt. The Royal Iron Mine annual law court is held, when the seventeen assistants make is in this township. Here is a tannery. The market day the presentments for the borough, and appoint inspectors of is Friday. A Christmas cattle-show and market is held in the weights and measures. On the 1st of September, 1869, December. The fairs are held on the first Tuesday after an order was made by the Board of Trade for the manage­ Midlent Sunday, July lOth, September 4th, and November ment and improvement of the harbour and river of Fowey, 13th. Charities producing £26 yearly are distributed in and vestin~:e all the rights and privileges in the Fowey bread and money. About 1 mile from the town, upon the Harbour Commissioners. The passes summit of a high hill, are the magnificent ruins of through, and has a station here, and it is also their chief Restormel Castle, built in the reign of Edward I., and once depot for the repairs of carriages : there is also a branch the residence of the Earls of Cornwall; since the visit of line, called the "Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway," now her Majesty and the late Prince Consort, in 1844, it has (1873) leased by the Cornwall Minerals Railway Company. been much frequented. In the town are some considerable The town is lighted with gas. Tbe church of St. Bartho­ remains of an ancient exchequer or shire hall, the walls of lomew is a fine ancient structure, with square tower, 5 bells, which are of great thickness, and are supported by massive and octagonal lantern and spire: the interior is in good buttresses; the interior contains a number of gloomy repair, and has an octagonal font, composed of one large apartments, and was formerly appropriated to the purposes block of freestone, supported on five columns, and covered of a stannary prison. The area of the parish is HO acres; with carved work, and the arms of the . gross estimated rental, £2,383; rateable value, £1,952; The communion plate of this church is very handsome; it and the population in 1871 was 922. comprises a double set, and weighs 15lbs. avoirdupois; they Parish Clerk, Richard Hawken. are all engraved with the following inscription:-" Presented to t.he Mayor, his brothers of the bench, the minister, PosT & MoNEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE, assistants, and other inhabitants of the borough of Lost­ Post Office Savings Bank & Go~ernment Annuity & In­ , pul'8uant to the will of Thomas J ones, deceased, surance Office.-William Probert, postmaster, Queen which he thereby desires they will accept as a token of the street. Letters arrive from London at 5.55 a.m. the great respect he had always borne them : he died 7th down north mail at 12.27 p.m. the up north mail at