246 OTTERHAM. • CORNWALL. (KELLY'S OTTEBHAM is a parish on the ·main roid between· and the list of rectors goes back to 1:278. The living Stratton and Camelford, 6 miles north-north-east from i'! a rectory, net yearly value £140, including 68 acres Camelford and 14 west-north-west from Launceston; a of glebe, with residence, in the gift of H. M. Wyer station was opened here in August, 1893, on th& new Daw esq. and held since 1904 by the Rev. Philip branch of the London and South Western line from Laun;- Latham Phelps M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cam­ , ceston to Wadebridge; the parish is in the North Eastern bridge. 1'he trustees 'af the .Jate lL P. Leschallas esq. division of the county, hundred and petty sessional divi­ (d. 1903), who are lords {)f t1fe manor, Charles Chiches­ sion of Lewsneth, Camelford union and county court ter esq. of Hall, Bishop's Tawton, D~von, H. M. Wyer district, rur!ll deanery of Trigg Minor, archdeaconry of Daw esq. of Stapleford, Cambs. and William Henry Yea. Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The church of St. Denis John Houtly and William Moyse esqs. are chief land­ is a building of stone in the Early English style, con­ owners. The soil is dark loam ; the subsoil 1s clay sisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, south and slate. The chief crops are wheat and oats. The porch, and an embattled western tower of three stages, area is 3,295 acres of land and I of water ; ratea-ble 46 feet in height, with pinnacles and containing 3 bells, w value, £1,208; the pe>pulation in 1901 W:ls 171. which the first and third have inscriptions in Old English Post Office, Mrs. Elizabeth Tucker, sub-postmistress. · letters ; the second is plain,: there is an inscribe"d slate Letters through Camelford S.O. arrive at 10.45 a.m. ; slab to John Moyse, J ohan, his :wife, and three of .their dispatched, 2.30 p.m. ; no delivery on sundays. The children, IJ00-21, to the family of Prest, :t710-63, Abel nearest money order office is at Davidstow, . & French gent. otf. 166o, and others : the church was telegraph office, 1St. Gennys, 4 miles distant · entirely rebuilt in 188g-9o, at a cost Of £6o4, and has 130 sit.tings. The register dates from the year 16871 Railway Station, Edwin Harris, station master Phe'lps Rev. Plhilip Lat•ham il.LA.. Hockin William John (Mxs.), fa.rmer Nottle "\Villiam George, frmr. Cansford (rector), Rectory & miller (water), Otteroam .mill Parnell John, farmer, St. Tiney • Ho skin ·Albert, farmer, Marsh gate Pauling JoJ:m,. farmer, Marsh gate COMMERCIAL. Hoskin John, farmer, Kernick Perkin Charles, farmer; Hal'lgarden Barriball James, farmer, Tregrey Jose William, tailor · Ridgman Thomas, farmer, West Boose Bartlett Richard, farmer, Newham Langford John Hy. farmer, Tregrey Routley John, farmer & landowner~ Cocks Roderick, farmer, Churchtown Marshall William, farmer, White. hill Carwitbam Cowlin.g Fred, fr.mr. Otterham Down Medland John, mason . Yeo vVilliam Henry, farmer & land- Heard Samuel, farmer, Cairo Moyse William, farmer & landowner, owner, East Roose ' Small hill PAD STOW (i.e. ·Petrocstow) is a market town and j to William Rawlings, so years vicar; and Richard seaport, with a terminal station on the North Cornwall Tyacke, vicar, 1836: at the west end, connected with branch of the London and South Western railway, on the tower, is the vault of the Prideaux-Brune family, sur­ the eSituary of the rivers 'Camel and Alan, and bounded rounded by an embattled wall of masonry, ~nd over the {)n the north ·by wbout three miles of cliff, open to the entrance thereto is an old stone cross, discovered in the North Channel, and on the east and south-east by grounds of Prideaux Place: the church was restored and · about 4· miles Olf diff and •beach ; it is 5~ miles west• richly ornamented, at a considerable expense, principally . north-west from Wadebrid-ge staJtion on the Great West- defrayed by Miss Mary Prideaux-Brune, of Prideaux ern and South Western railways, and 8 miles ·by road Place, about 1855: in 1888-9, the chancel was completelJI from that place, 44 from Plymouth, 243 from London, restored, under the direction of Mr. J. D. Sedding, 8 north from St. Columb and 16 west-north-west from architect, when it was repaved, the sanctuary and vestry Bodmin; the parish is in the Mid division of the enlarged and the communion table and reredos raised. county, hundred and petty sessional division ·of Pydar; choir stalls of oak, carved by Mr. H. Hems, of Exeter, St. Columb union and county court district, rural and brass communion rails were erected, and the organ deanery of Pydar, archdeaconry of ·Cornwall and dio- moved from the west end to the north chancel aisle; a' cese of Truro. An extension of the main line of the the same time the nave seats were .' lowered and London and South Western .railway from Launceston to widened: a handsome crucifix, carved in sycamore at Wadebridge, and thence to Padstow, beg-un in July, 1884, Oberammergau, was placed at the west end of the was completed in 1897 as far as Wadebridge, and opened church about 1901: there are- Boo sittings. The regis­ to its terminus at Padstow, 22 March, 1899. Iri 1583, the ter of baptisms dates from the year 1611 ; marriages 25th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Padstow was and burials, I599· The living is a discharged vicarage" incorporated by Royal Charter, dated 26th February, by net income £tr6o, including 18 acres of glebe, witb the title of "The Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of· residence, in the gift of Charles G. Prideaux-Brune esq. Padstow "; but in what year it ceased to be a corpora- and held ·since 1904 b)~ <the Rev. Mont ague Blamire tion is not known: the government of the town; formerly Williamson .M.A. of ,St. .John's College, Cambridge. vestoo in a Local Board, formed 1864, is now, under the ·The Bible Christian chapel, erected in 1840, has 200 provisions of the Local Government Act of 1894 (56 sittings, and the Wesleya.n chapel, built in 1827, and 57 Vict. c. 73), in the hands of an Urban DistriM will· ,seat 6oo persons. A Cemetery of 2 acres was­ Council of 9 members. By the same Act, the ancient formed in 1881 at a Mst of £8oo, and is unde.r the parish has been ·divided into two, known as Urban and control of a Burial Board of 5 members. A monas­ Rural, the former comprising the area {)f the Urban tery was founded here A.D. 520 by 'St. Petroc, but District. The town is well lighted with gas by a company in 997 the place was destroyed by the Danes and the­ formed in r868, from works in Church Lane, and has community was then transferred to Bodmin.. Before the a good supply of water. The harbour was deepened Reformation there were in existence here nine chapels or and the piers rebuilt about 1854, under the provisiom oratories, two of which were dedicated to St. Cadoc anct of an Act for improving the port and harbour, passed St. Sampson; the site of the latter now forms part of May 23, 1844. The port. of Padstow extends from the grounds of Prideaux Place, and some remains of the Castle Rock in the parish of Perran-Zabuloe, St. Saviour's chapel also exist on the brow of the hill: being the north- eastern limit of the port of Pen- attached to these chapels were cemetro'ies of considerable zance, to Dazard Point in the parish of St. Gennys, extent. In 1632, Nicholas Watts gave some property to which is the southern limit of the port of Barnstaple. the poor of Padstow, to commemorate which a funeral Padstow, in the "Cornu-British" tongue, is said to have peal is rnng every year on the xst of September, for been called "Lodenek ; " in the visitation of the Bishops which the bell ringers receive I2S- : in 1635, 1\falachi of Winchester and Lincoln, in 12gr, it is described as Martyn gave by will the sum of £2; and in I7'II, William "Aldestowe; " in 1326 a Royal Order was addressed to Swymmer gave some land by deed, which, together, pro­ Aldestowe, among other places in Cornwall; in 1401, an duce about £8o yearly, and this sum is distributed order was addressed to Padlystowe and two other places, alll:ong ruch poor .~ersons as are not receiving parochial about building a Balangerd. The church of St. Petrock rehef: these chanties are regulated by a scheme of the­ is an interesting building of stone, in the Late Decorated Co";;rt of Chancery dated February 2~th, ~859, under style, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave. aisles, south which almshouses were erected in 1875, m Middle street, porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock at a cost of £I,ooo, for 8 widow women of the second' and 6 bells: there are two piscinre, one of which bears a poor, each of whom receives in addition £Io a year. The figure of St. Petroc, and the rood stairs also remain : the public rooms are in Church lane, and will hold 300 per­ font of Catacluse stone is very curious, and has arcaded sons. The members of St. .Petroc's Masonic Lodge,. sides and sculptured effigies of the 12 apostles: there M! a No. 1785, hold meetings at ~heir hall, in Church monument to Sir Nicholas Prideaux kt.