1078 CROW AN. CORNWALL. CROWAN is a township and parish, near the road from ton branch of the Great Western l'ailway. There is a Camborne to Helston, 4 miles south from Camborne station Wesleyan chapel with a cemetery attached. on the West Cornwall section of the Great Western railway, R h I · 1. il b · h and near the Praze and Nancegollan stations on the Helston ALEATH am et 18 12 mi es sout -east, Wit a Wesleyan branch of the same line, in the North Western division of the chapel. county, Penwith hundred, petty sessional division of Pen- TowNSHJTruro. The church of St. Crewena, restored and repewed village on the road from Hayle to Helston, 3 miles west from in I!l72 at a cost of upwards of £2,000 (exclusive of the Crowan church, and 4 miles south-east of Hayle. The chancel, restored by the patron), is a building of granite, in mission church of St. James, opened in August, I882, by the Gothic style, with soma incongruous Classic additions, Dr. Benson, late Bishop {)f Truro, is a building of stone in consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western the Earty English style, and consists of chancel, nave, north tower, 70 feet high, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells, re- porch and a bell turret containing one bell: the church was hung in 1882 at a cost of £too: the north aisle contains built by subscription at a cost of £soo, the font being given several monuments to the St. Aubyn family, and also the by the builder, Mr. William Carah, of Praze, and has sittings ancient brasses of the St. Aubyns (1400-1599), of which en- for IOO persons. Here is also a Wesleyan chapel and a Bible gravings are given in Polwhele's "History of Cornwall;" Christian chapel. these were in I893 bedded in slate and replaced in the aisle: PRAZE, or Praze-an-beeble, is a village I mile north-west, the existing memorials range from 1629 to 1839 : in the south with a station on the Helston branch of the Great Western ·aisle is a memorial window to Henry Jenkin of Kerthen, railway. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels. r86o; the stained east window was given by Mrs. H. J. A yearly cattle and pleasure fair is held here on the I5th Molesworth-St. Aubyn, in memory of her husband; another July, and a feast is also held on the nearest Sunday to _-at the end of the south ais'1e is a memorial to the wife of Candlemas (2nd February). · George Hickman Johns esq. of the Indian civil service and Parish Clerk, Rev. St. Aubyn Hendar Molesworth-St. son of the late vicar, who died at Poonab, India, in 1876, Aubyn M.A. and J. Tremenheere Johns, also a son of a former vicar, wbQ PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, was drowned at Oxford in 1855: on the exterior east wall is Praze.-Samuel Webb, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive a memorial to Richard Tregeare, with a quaint inscription, via Camborne at 10.35 a.m.; dispatched at 2.55 p.m ~668: in 1892 a vestry and organ chamber were built by thP. 1 PosT OFFICE, Leeds Town.-John Row ling, sub-postmaster. patron of the living, and an organ erected by Mrs. Moles-, Letters arrive via Hayle at I0.35 a. m. ; dispatched at I.so worth-St. Aubyn, in memory of her father and mother: there p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Praze :are sittings for about 400 persons. The register of baptisms is the nearest money order & telegraph office dates from the year 1692; marriages, 1696; burials, 1697. PosT OFFICE, Nancegollan.-Thomas Henry James, sub-

The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £3571 postmaster. Letters arrive via Helston at II.5 a.m.; net income £323, with residence and 40 acres of glebe, in dispatched at 1.35 p.m. week days only. l'ra.ze is the the gift of the Rev. St. Aubyn Bender Molesworth-St. nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders Aubyn M.A., l.P. of Clowance, and held since 1889 by the are issued here, but not paid Rev. Charles Rowland Wynne de Cerjat. Here are reser- PosT OFFICE, Townshend.-Peter James, sub-postmaster. voirs for the supply of the parishes of Crowan, Camborne Letters arrive via Hayle at 1r.5 a.m. ; dispatched at I.25 and Illogan, and holding about 26,ooo,ooo gallons. The in- p.m. Praze is the nearest money order & telegraph office. habitants are chiefly occupied in mining and agriculture. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid 'Clowance, the seat of the Rev. St. Aubyn Bender Moles- WALL LETTER Box, Crowan Churchyard wall, cleared at worth-St. Aubyn M.A., J.P. is a mansion of granite, situated 2.20 p.m. week days only. Letters through Camborne in a well-wooded park containing a lake formed by one of the ScHOOLS :- branches of the river Hayle and surrounded by a high wall A School Board of 5 members was formed January I31 -about 4 miles in circumference: the mansion was twice 1874; J. White, clerk to the board burnt down within 6 years (1837 and I843), but has been Board (formerly National) (boys), built in I813, for 216 rebuilt : it contains a collection of pictures by eminent boys; average attendance, 73 ; Lorenzo Trevethan, masters. The Rev. St. Aubyn H. Molesworth-St. Aubyn master: (girls) built in 1844, for ISO ; average attend- M.A. who is lord of the manor, the Duke of Leeds and Lord ance, 52; Miss Hannah Warne, mistress Churston are the chief landowners. The soil is loam; sub- Board, Leeds Town (mixed), built in 1878 & enlarged in soil, principally granite. The chief crops are wheat, barley, 1893, for 250 children; average attendance, 189; Charles oats and roots. The area is 6,504 acres; rateable value, Harvey, master; Mrs. Harriet Berryman, mistress £8,478; the population in 189I was 2,468. Praze Board (infants) (formerly the Improvement Society's CROW AN BEACON rises to an altitude of Bso feet; near it building); average attendance, so; Mrs. Mary Barbary, is a large mass of stone called " Black Rock : " here is a W es- mistress leyan chapel. RAILWAY STATIONS:- - BENNERTON, 3 miles west ; BOLITHO, 2~ mile9 east; CARN Praze, William Pearce, station master TREMAYNE, I~ miles north-east; and DRYM, 2 miles west- Nancegollan, Philip Brenton Hancock, station master south-west, with the remains of an ancient encampment, are OMNIBUSES (passing through) :- all hamlets. CAMBORNE TO HELSTON-Thos. Davey, morning & evening HoRSEDOWNS is a hamlet 2 miles west, with a Wesleyan CAMBORNE-Richard James, from Horsedowns -(lhapel. HELSTON-R. J. T. Berryman, from Townshend, on sat KERTHEN is a hamlet 4~ miles south-by-west from Crowan PENZANCE-William Berryman, from Townshend, tues . .Church. tburs. & sat. ; & Richard James, from Horsedowns, thnrs. NANCEGOLLAN is a hamlet I! miles west-by-south on the via St. Erth 'l'oad from Camborne to Helston, with a station on the Hels- REDRUTH-William Berryman, from Townshend, on fri Crowan. Hill Thomas, farmer, Halgarrack Trevenen Kate(Miss),registrar of births de Cerjat Rev. Charles Rowland Wynne, James Peter, farmer, Dower & deaths for Crowan sub-district, Vica\'3-ge Jenkin George, farmer, Clowance wood South Crenver Molesworth-St. Aubyn Rev. St. Aubyn Jennings John, farmer, Carn Trevenen W illia m, jun. farmer, Crenver Render M.A., J.P. Clowance Lavers Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Dower Waiters Edward, farmer, Carne COMMERCIAl .. Noble John, farmer & butcher, Gurnick Waiters Richard Jas. farmer, Bolankan Abraham Samuel, farmer, Cardinham Orchard William, blacksmith Webster William, farmer, Clowance wd Bennetts Richard, farmer, Bodrivial Rapson Wm. & Sons, farmers,Clowance White John,builder,& clerk to the school Berryman Henry, farmer, Cargenwen Reynolds Samuel, farmer,Skewes Coose board Berryman William, farmer, Poleo Roberts Christopher, farmer, Carne Williams Harry, butcher & farmer, Bree Albert, farmer, Skewes Roberts John, farmer, Carne Bnscaverran CarahJohn, butcher&farmer,Cargenwen Roberts Peter, boot & shoe maker 'Williams Matthew, farmer, Gew Cory Richard, farmer & butcher, Lower Rodda Thomas, farmer, Carvolth Williams William, farmr.Newton round Cargenwen Rowe Hannibal, farmer, Hellogan Dennerton. Edwards William, builder Rowe William, farmer, Trevoole Hosking John, farmer Eva James, farmer, Hellogan Stevens William, farmer, Borthog Ivey VVearne,farmer Eva Michael John, farmer, Trenoweth Symons Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Rodda Thomas, farmer, Benner down Faull Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Oatfield Tenby Jas. Hy.&Jn. farmrs.Trenoweth Rogers Francis, farmer, Benner down Gay William, farmer, Borthog Tenby William, farmer, Carvolth Semmens Edwin, farmer,Lit.Bennerton Glasson John, farmer, Trevoole ThomasHannibal, farmer, Bnscaverran Yates Henry, farmer GluyasElizaElln.(Mrs. )MinersArmsP.H Thomas Henry, Cornish Mount inn Hampton Jarnes, farnaer Thomas Wm. Hy. farmer, Glebe farm Bolitho. IlicheiiS Christopher, farmer, Tregear Thomas William James, miller (water) Champion Bennet, farmer •