• DIRECTORY. J . . 1273 who is lord of the manor, and John Littleton esq. are the & telegraph office is at Antony. Postal orders are issued principal landowners. The soil is clay and slate; subsoil, here, but not paid argillaceous slate. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, WALL LETTER BoxEs, , cleared at 7.40 a. m. & 5.10 potatoes and turnips. The area is 2,282 acres (including p.m. ; , cleared 8.30 a.m. & 4.30 p.m. week 239 of tidal water and 250 of foreshore); rateable value, days only £2,8n; the population in 1891 was 493· ScHOOLS:- Parish Clerk, James Jeffery. Church (mixed), converted into a school house in 1844,for PosT OFFICE, Crafthole.-Mrs. Mary Weihtner, sub-post- 92 children; average attendance, 31; Mr.i. Emily £lake- mistress. Letters received through St. Germans R.S.O. way, mistress arrive by messenger via Polbathic at 8 a.m. & 4.15 p.m.; Wesleyan,Crafthole(mixed), built in r867,for roo children; dispatched at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. The nearest money order average attendance, 41; Miss Grace Foale, mistress Creber Wm. Fras. lime & coalmerchnt Coast Guard Station (John Trevett, Sheviock. Jeffery James, farmer, Pool boatman in charge), Portwrinkle Charles Mrs. Scanner house Matthews John, farmer, Blerrick Davey Henry, blacksmith Glanville Rev. Hy. Carew lii.A. [rector] Matthews Thomas, farmer, Barton Hare John, boot maker • Littleton John, Trewin Parken Richard, farmer, Higher Tredis Hill John, farmer, Liscawa Pole Henry, Tredis Payne Francis, farmer, Lower Tredis Hoskin George, stone mason Pole Miss, Tredis Willcocks Edward, farmer, Tredossel Hoskin Thomas, shopkeeper & farmer Roberts John Dobree Anderson ~.P. Williams John, farmer Meech John, carpenter, Portwrinkle (captain retired R.A. ), Trethill house Crafthole. WeihtnerMary Jane (Mrs ),shopkeeper, Walker William, Lyner villa Beaver Thomas, wheelwright Post office Bennett Richard, farmer, Scanner farm Bersey Thomas, butcher Yeo Peter, apartments, Portwrinkle Cock William, farmer, Trewrickle Channiugs Joseph, New inn SITHNEY is a parish and village, near the high road owner has added a library and a portico, with granite pillars from to , 2 miles south from N ancegollan of the Ionic order : the library is a spacious apartment, ~ station on the Helston branch of the Great Western rail­ by 32 feet; the floor is of parquet oak inlaid with ebony and way, 8 south from , 2 north-west from Helston, Italian walnut, and the cornice is decorated with the em­ in the division of the count.y, hundred of Kirrier, blawned coats of the family; the library comprises over petty sessional division of Kirrier West, Helston union and 7,ooo volumes: the oil paintings are, with few exceptions, county court dist.rict, rural deanery of Kirrier, arch deaconry from the brush of Mr. Bickford-Smith himself: the dining of Cornwall and diocese of 'fruro. The church of St. room is furnished with a magnificent suite of carved black Sithney is a building of granite, in the Pointed style, con­ oak: the grounds, so acres in extent, include gardens, pas­ sisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, south ture and wood and contain a tropical garden, and in the porch ~nd an embattled western tower, with pinnacles. valley a sheet of water ; 120 different species of coniferre are containing three bells, all cast in 1771 : there are mural growing here: some historic interest attaches to the house monuments to Richard Hoblyn esq. and Anne (Carew), his from the fact that Alexander Pope visited here, and that wife, both of whom died in February, 1692; John Arundel, the property once belonged to Charles Wallace, the com­ 1671; and also a monumental inscription to John Oliver, of poser. Capt. John Peverell Rogers R.A., J.P. of Penrose, Trevarno ; some fragments remain of a brass to Roger 'fre­ , William Bickford-Smith e~>q. J.P. and the wythynnyk, one of the King's justices, c. 1410; these trustees of the late J. Samuel Spry esq. aretbe chief land­ include the inscription and portions of a stepped floriated owners. The soil is partly loamy and sandy; the subsoil cross, inscnbed with the legend,'' Ihu mercy," on each limb : is marl, resting on granite. The chief crops are wheat, the arms of the Penrose family are mserted in the window : barley and oats. The area is 5,8g8 acres, of which 65 is in the churchyard is a memorial to Edward Coode,of Treesa, water; rateable value, £1o,r85; the population in r8gr was gent. r662 : there are 320 sittings. The register of baptisms 3,2)10. dates from the year, 1667; marriages and burials, r664. , 3 miles north-east ; , I mile The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £342, north; and , I~ miles north-north-east, are net yearly value £250, with residence and r8 acres of glebe, hamlets. On Higher Prospidnick stands a logan stone, called in the gift of the Bishop of Truro, and held since 1891 by "M€m Amber," II feet long, 6 broad and 4 thick, and on the Rev. Charles Fursdon Rogers l'ti.A. of Trinity College, Prospidnick Hill is a fallen cromlech, called " the Giant's Oxford. There is a Mission room attached to St. Sithney at Quoit,'' r8 feet long, 12 broad and 2 thick: on Longstone Gwavas. At Chynhale is a Wcsleyan chapel, erected in downs stands a pillur of unwrought granite (from which 1879, at a cost of £2,500; the organ was the gift of the this spot takes its name) ; it is now 10 feet only above tbe Misses Bickford-Smith; the chapel holds 250 persons: there ground and about 2 feet thick : some traces remain here of is also a Wesleyan chapel at Church Town, and Free Metho­ ancient earthworks. dist chapels at Tregathenan, Gwavas and Crown Town. N ancegollan station is in this parish. There is a small charity, amounting to {,2 rss. yearly, for PORTHLEVEN, 2~ miles south, is an ecclesiastical district, poor widows. In 1893 the late Miss Smedley of Park Venton formed from this parish Oct. 11, 1844, and wlll be found bequeathed £100 for the poor of St. John'fl, to be held in under a separate heading. trust by the vicar and churchwardens for the time being. Deputy Parish Clerk, Edwin Pascoe. Lomax Silver Lead Mine in this parish is not now worked. Letters through Helston, arrive at 10.30 a. m. ; dispatched at In r8go a reservoir was constructed at Tregathenan in this .z. IO p.m. Helston is the nearest money order & telegtaph parish, capable of holding 3,ooo,ooo gallons: it is the property office. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 2.10 p.m of the Helston and Porthleven Water Works Co. and is SCHOOLS:- intended to provide Helston, Sithney and Porthleven with A School Board of 5 members was formed April r2, 1876; water, the last named only being at present ( 1893) supplied J. Q. James, Merther, is clerk to the board; Joseph Pol­ from the reservoir. Trevarno, the residence of William glase1 attendance officer Bickford-Smith esq. J. P. stands in a valley near the high road Board, Trannack (mixed), built in 1877, for Io8 children; from Helston to Camborne, 2 miles north-west from the average attendance, 75; Josh. Thos. Stephens, master former town and 7 south from the latter: to the original National (mixed), for 130 children; average attendance, building, a mansion of considerable antiquity, the present 5 I ; William Fry, master Bickford-Smith William J.P. Trevarno Bond Nicholas, smith Glasson Joseph, farmer, Tregadjack Rees Rev. R. Wilkins [Wesleyan] Bosanko Thomas, wholesale provision Goodman Nicbolas,blcksmth. Church tn ~ Rogers Rev. Charles Fursdon M.A. The dealer, Lower Prospidnick Goldsworthy John, farmer, Releath Vicarage Bray Luke, farmer, Plain & Melangoose HarrisRd.&Son,quarry ownrs.Trannack Russell Thomas, Champion Wm.frmr.Lower Boscadjack Harris Christ.opher, farmer, Tregoo3e Thomas Mrs. Antron lodge Cory Henry, butcher, Merther cottage Helston & Porthleven Water Works Co. Tregarthen John, Newham Eddy Henry, miller (water), Trevarno (Johnson Qnintrell James, sec.), COMMERCIAL. Eddy Wm. miller (water), Sithney grn Merther Adams Edwin, farmer, Penprase Eddy Wm. Alfred, farmer, Chynhale Higgins John, farmer, Gwavas Adams Samuel, farmer, Boscadjack Folly Edwin, Crown inn James James, shopkeeper, St. John~s Andrewartha Rd. carpntr. Crown town Freethy John Francis, farmer, Gwavas James JohnsonQuintrell,frmr.&clerk to Bennetts John, farmer, Truthall Freeman Charles, farmer, Prospidnick the school board & assistant overseer, Benny Henry, farmer, Sithney green Freeman William, farmer, Glebe collector of rates, tithes &c. assessor Blackmoor Henry, marine store dealer, Gcach Jas. wheelwright, Sithney corn & collector of Queen's taxes & sec. St. John's GeorgeJn. Sampson, frmr. Prospidnick to the Helston & Porthleven Water Blewett Harriet (Miss), shopkeeper, Glasson Ada (Miss), shpkpr.Prospect pl "\\torks Co. Merther Church town Glasson James, farmer, Newham Jeffery Elizh. (1\lrs.), farmer, Trannack Bolitho William, farmer & butcher, Glasson Jas. Russell, farmer, Newham Jenkin Henry, farmer, Church town Higher Prospidnick Olasson John, farmer, Prospect place Jewell John farmer, Boscadjack