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DIREC'fORY ~J CORNWALL. BUD.E. 104;) Truro, and held since t887l;>y the Rev. Richard Henry Boles, Chapel, on the western side of the parish, and in a. seques• of St. John's College, Oxford. There is a. mission chapel at tered valley, is an ancient. well ; the structure is dilapidated, Penpont. There is a Free Methodist chapel at Lower Lanke but the arched entrance remains, and there are vestiges neal" and a Bible Christian chapel at Limehead. Fairs are held of ecclesiastical buildings, possibly part of the destroyed on the first Thursday after June 241 and the Thursday chapel of St. James. Sir William Wallace Rhoderic Onslow nearest September 25. The highest eminences in the county, hart. D.L., J.P. of Hengar, St. Tudy, is lord of the manor. The Brown Willy 1,380 feet and Rough Tor, locally pronounced principallandownersareLordRobartes,JohnBevillFortescne "Rowtor," 1,296 feet above the level of the sea, are in this J.P. of Boconnoc, William Henry Pole-Carew esq. D.L., J.P. of parish, which is chiefly situated on a granite formation; both Anthony, George Collins esq. of Plymouth, William Millel" these hills are crowned with rocks and surrounded by ex- esq. and J. R. Morshead Glencross, of Lavethan. The soil tensive moors, relieved in places by patches of cu1tivated is various; toubsoil, granite. The chief crops are wheat and lanj; on the easternmost peak of Rough Tor stood the chapel barley. The area is g,237 acres ; rateable value, £2,762; of St. MIChael, the foundations of which may yet be traced ; the population in t8gi was 779· the stone arch of the doorway, removed in 1836, is now the KEYBRIDGE, 2~ miles south, situated on the river DeLank ; entrance of the Britannia inn, between Camelford and Alter- I HIGHER LANKE, ~~south; LOWER LANKE, 2 south; PENPONT, nun. On Garrah, a tor near, are numerous remains of pre- 2± south; PENQUITE, I south and Sw.ALLOCK, I north-east, historic antiquities, and in the immediate locality, square are hamlets. and circular enclosures of granite and earth, kistvaens and Parish Clerk, Albert Harris. a barrow; several ancient roads, now difficult to trace, inter- PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- sect the parish. The circular head of an ancient cross is Charles Henry Hawken, sub-postmaster. Letters are built into the wall of a house at Great Lanke. Middlemoor received through Bodmin, arrive at 10.2oa.m.; dispatched Cross, a shaft with rounded head, over 6 feet high and 9 at 3·5 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Camelford, inches thick, stands by the road from Swallock to Roughtor ; but it is expected there will be a teleg·raph office here by there are also two bases of crosses in the parish. At Lower the end of the year Lanke are several interesting houses of the Tudor period. National School (mixed), built in 1852, for 130 children; The celebrated Eddystone granite quarries are here. At average attendance, 92; Charles Davy, master Billiug Miss, Penpont Elford Philip, farmer, llametathy NankivelWilliam,farmer,Shallow brdge Boles Rev. Richard Henry, Vicarage Elford H.obert, farmer, Chaple North Cornwall Hounds (J. Ca.mpbell Hawken Miss, Rose cottage I<'ord John (Mrs.), farmer, Swallock esq. master) Miller William, Deaconstowe Green George, farmer, Whitehead Petbick Wm.Hy.farmer,Hantergantick Parsons Mrs. Harley cottage Harris William, farmer, Bradford Pett Ed.ward Geo. carpenter,Keybridge Tom Nicholas, Higher Lanke Hawken Benjamin,farmr. Lower Lankc Philp John, farmer, Belatherick COMMERC£AL. Hawken Henry, farmer, Stanon Polkinghorne Benjamin, Glen-View Bartlett Francis, farmer, Penrose Hawken Joseph, carpenter, Limb head temperance hotel; situated in one of Batten Philip, farmer, Oasehill Hawken Mark, farmer, Penpont the most healthy & picturesque parts Bell Jameg Heland, farmer, Keybridge Haw ken Wm.Hy.carpenter, Limb head of Cornwall, families & tourists will Best Richd. & Thos. farmers, Lanke ho Hosken Archelaus, farmer find every accommodation Broad Edward, Old inn, Church Town Hosken Nehemiah Wm. farmer,Newton Roberts l\Iichael, farmer, Church Town Broad Thomas, farmer, Palmar's Hosken Thomas, farmer, Irish Rowland Joseph, farmer, Ivy Brown Willy Tin Co. Limited (George Hosken Thomas, shoe maker Runnalls Thomas, farmer, Fendavey R. Bella.my, manager) Hosken William,farmer,Middle Candra Runnals Sl.frmr.& miller(water),Comb Campbell Archibald, Wenford inn Inch Frank, farmer, Heneward Spare & Hawk en, drapers & ~rocers Chapman Edwd.blacksmith,Limb head Jasper Richard, farm bailiff to John Spare Zachariah, shopkeeper Cole Jonathan, farmer, Candra Evelyn esq. Vernicar Stephens Joseph, farmer, Swallock Colonel John H. farmer, East Rose Masters William, farmer, West Rose Symons John, farmer, Lamphill Eddystone Granite Quarries Limited Miller William, yeoman, Deaconstowe Wills James, farmer, Camperdown (E. M. Bannerman, manager) Nankivel Richard, stone mason BROADOAK (or BRADOCK) is a parish 3 miles south- M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, hon. canon of Truro. west from Donblebois station on the Great Western railway There is a Wesleyan chapel at West Taphouse, originally and 7 west-south-west from Liskeard, in the South Eastern erected about 1828, and rebuilt in 1883. On Braddock division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division Downs are several ancient barrows in which rude arms have of West, Liskeard union and county court district, rural been found. On January 19, 1643, the forces of Charles I. deanery of West, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of under Sir Ralph Hupton and Sir Beville Grenville, obtained Truro. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of an important advantage here over a much larger Parlia stone and granite, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of mentary force, commanded by Col. Ruthven, governor of double a,isles with chancel, transept and a western tower of Plymouth; on Saturday, August 31st, 1644, Lord Essex, two stages with pinnacles containing 5 bells, all recast in closely pursued by the king, abandoned his army, which 1845 by Mears, from a previous peal of 4• with additional afterwards forced a passage through the royal troop~ and metal: the base of the rood-screen remains, but the upper escaped to Plymouth. John Bevill Fortescue esq. M.A., part is now in Boc·::mnoc church: some of the bench ends n.L., J.P. of Bocounoc, is lord of the manor and chief land bear the arms of the Ringwood family and the uate 1634: owner. The parish is said to be remarkably healthy and its the pulpit is cinque-cento: in the windows are the arms of climate peculiarly favourable to sufferers from ague. The Pitt, Fortescue and Ryder: the font of Pentewan stone, is soil is rather light; the subsoil is spar and clay. The crops Early English: the organ, designed by Sir John Stainer are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,367 11ms.n. axon. was presented by the late Lieut.-Col. C. D. acres ; rateable value, .£,'2,480; the populatian in 1891 was Fortescue in 1887 : the chancel was reseated in the same 285. year, the church having been restored some time previously: WEST T.APHOUSE is a hamlet 1! milPs north-west from the there are sittings for 150 persons. In the churchyard is an church. · originallychgate. The register of baptisms dates from the Letters through Lostwithiel, which is the nearest money year 1571 ; burials, 1555 ; marriages, 16rg. The living is a order office, arrive at 10 a.m. ; telegraph office at Double- rectory annexed to that of Boconnoc, average tithe rent- bois station. WALL LETTER Box at West Taphouse charge, .£3o6, net yearly value {,2og, with residence and 8.-t- cleared at 3.30 p.m acres of glebe,- in the gift of John Bevill Fortescue esq. J.P. National School (mixed), erected in 1875, for 6o children; and held since 1874 by the Rev. Vernon Harcourt Aldham I average attendance, 32; Mi:Js E. A. Edwards, mistress Aldham Rev. Vernon Harcourt M • .A. , Edwards Daniel, farmer, Wheaton Pyne Joseph, West Taphouse inn [hon. canon of Truro & rural dean of Feby Henry, farmer, Bagston Reynolds James, farmer, Pencastle Vrest], Rectory FebyWm.Hy.miller,Crickapit'Naterml Saunders Wm. Jas. farmer, Bedwindle COlllMERCIAL. Hosking Richard, farmer, Babbington Spear William, farmer, Colveton Blewett George Thomis, blacksmith, I\·ey Wearn, farmer, Penventon ~ymonds Jabez, carpenter, Cripston ·west Taphonse Oliver John, farmer, Largingate Symonds Joseph, farmer, Derrycombe BlewettJoshua,farmer,Middle Taphouse Pearce Rd. farmer, Treganver & Penwtr Tuckett Clarence, farmer, Tithe hall Bunt William, farmer, Penadlake Penno Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Drift Vl'illiamsFras.Holman,farmr.Trewindle Burt James, farmer, West Taphouse Porter William, gamekeeper to J. B. Williams James Hy. farmer, Clinnicks Chapman Thomas, farmer, Bellasize Fortescue esq. Kilmanent :BUDE, or BunE lliVEN, is a small seaport and bathing worthy terminal station of a branch of the London and resort at the mouth of the river ~trat, amidst beautUul ~outh Western railway, in the North Eastern division of the coast and inland scenery, and was formed into an eccle- county, Stratton hundred, petty sessional division and siastical parish August :m, 1836, from the civil parish of union, Bolsworthy county court district, rural deanery of Stratton, being 2 miles west from the town of that name, Stratton, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. ln 20 north-west from Launceston and 9! west from Hols- 1888 an embankment and promenade, 500 feet lonJ, was .