l>IRECTORY.] CORNWALL. HESSENFORD. 131 Hartill Rev. Jsph. Rupert, Vicarage Broad Nicholas, farmer, Landare Medlan Joseph, farmer, Coombe Trevillion John, Rose cottage Dingle Simon, farmer, Pendruskit Pearn William, coal dealer East Cornwall Gunpowder Co. Lim. Pengelley William, machinist COMMERCIAL. (Cha.rles lsaac, manager), Manu­ Pomeroy Edwin, boot maker .Algar Richard, farmer, Killagorick factory ; offices, Liskeard Richards George Albert, farmer .A.rthur John, farmer, Killagorick Green John, stone mason Wins James, farmer, Trewen Broad Charles, farmer, Carglennon Hambly Richard, farmer, Bephillick Wills James, jun. farmer, Trevawden Broad Jahn, farmer, Ooombe Mallett Edwin, farmer, Pendrnffie Yeo William, farmer, West park HESSENFORD is a village and ecclesiastical parish, Post Office.-Mrs. Jane Ruth Hoskin, sub-postmistress. formed March 26, 1852, from the civil parish of St. Ger­ Letters arrive from St. Germans R.S.O. at 7·35 a.m. & mans, and is in a deep valley on the river Seaton, over 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 7.50 a.m. 12.5 & 5.30 p.m. The which there is a bridge of 3 small arches, 4 miles west from nearest money order & telegraph office is at Downderry. St. Germans station on the Great Western railway and Postal orders are issued here, but not paid .() south-east from Liskeard, in the South Eastern division of the county, southern division of the hundred of East, DOWNDERRIY, 3 miles south, is a small fishing place, petty sessional division of East .South, union of St. Ger­ pleasantly situated above Whitesand Bay and backed by a mans, county court district of Liskeard, rural deanery of range of hills, from which a good view of Rame Head and East, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The Eddystone lighthouse is obtained; it has improved of late church of St. Anne, built in 1832, and ·consecrated Sep­ years, and has a. coost guard st-ation, and is much fre­ tember 26th, 1833, is an edifice of stone in the Ear:y quented by summer visitors. The Mission chapel of St. English style, consisting of c4ancel, nave, aisles, south Ni~olas, built in 1883-4, at a cost of £x,ooo, by :the Rev. porch and a small western tower with spire containing one J. T. Fisher B.A. late vicar of Hessenford, is an edifice of bell: the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. stone in the Early English style, and has a belfry contain.. G. Golding, formerly viear of Hessenford and the west ing one bell, ereeted .as a memorial to the Rev. J. H. S. window to Mrs. .Abraham ; there are other memorial Staveley, a former curate: an oak pulpit was provided in windows to the Rev. John Turner Fisher B.A. vicar, 1893: there are xoo sittings. The Wesleyan chapel and who died in x885, and to Sir Oharles Watson­ schoo1room were built in x89o, at a cost of £6so: the Copley, 3rd baronet, d. 1888, and Georgina. (Tred­ chapel affords sittings for about xso persons. The Down­ -crdt), his wife, d. :r892: the reredos is of carved stone derry Working Men's Club and Reading Room, erected at inlaid with mosaic and the choir stalls were presented by a cost of £4oo, and opened in 1891, is a structure of local the late Sir Wager Joseph Watson-Copley, 4th and last sandstone with brick dressings, and is well supplied with baronet: the church was rebuilt in 1871 : the nave at local and general newspapers and has a library of several the cost of the vicar and the chancel by Lady Cornwallis : hundred volumes ; bagatelle and other games are also there are 300 sittings. The ·register dates from the year provided: Major Bria.n. Williams ~s president. 1832. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £283, with Post, M. 0., T. 0. & S. B., Downderry.-Miss Gertrude residence, in the gift of the vicar of St. Germans, but Parker, sub-postmistress. Letters from St. Germans pro h!c vice, the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, and held R.S.O. arrive at 8.20 a.m. & 4 p.m.; dispatched II.5o since x886 by the Rev. Ho::ace Newman Wheeler M.A. of a.m. & 4.15 p.m. & during summer months, June to Trinity College, Dublin, and ad eundem of Oxford. The September, at 6 p.m Wesleyan chapel, Minard Cross, was erected in r86o. In Wall Letter Box, Deviock, cleared at 12.xo &; 4.30 p.m. Hessenford woJd are some remains of an ancient chapel. week days only The Working Men's Institute, erected at a cost of about £rso, defrayed by Somers Cocks esq. was opened Dec. 3, SOHOOLS. 1896; the building is of slate stone, with a clock, and is National, Hessenford (mixed), enlarged in 1895, for 70 well supplied with local and other newspapers and has children; average attendance, so; Mrs. Mary Peggy -a good b.'brary; bagatelle and other games are also pro­ Horwill, mistress vided. The Earl of St. Germans, who is lord of the ~ational, Deviock (mixed), built in 1844 & enlarged in manor, and Mrs. Somers Cocks, of 24 Barkston gardens, r895, for xoo children; average attendance, about 55; London S. W. are the prineipal landowners. The soil is .Albert Marshall Harding, master; Mrs. Graee 0. Hard­ marl and clay; subsoil, freestone and slate. The chief ing, mistress ~rops are corn, roots and potatoes. The area is 6,ooo National, Catcbfrench (mixed), built in 1858, for 73 chil­ acres: the population in 1891 was 948. dren; average attendance, 49; Mrs. Rebecca Barrett, Sext-:m, James Webb~r. mistress HESSENFORD. Lower John, farmer, South Bake Williams Mrs Pole Miss, St. A.nne's cottage Lucas Richd. Oliver, farmer,Bonivalva COMMERCIAL. Pole Mrs. St. Anne's cottage :\Iatthews Robert, farmer, Trewall Andrew Richard & John, carpenter.s 'Wheeler Rev. Horace Newman M.A. Matthews William, farmer BAndrdewEWli mb. bhlac(kMsmi)th&& ~?opkfeeper (vicar) Moore Erlwin, boot &; shoe maker rqa za et rs. , nm. rmrs Morcombe Richard,Cornish Arms P.H. Coast Guard Station (Frederick Chap- Wither Mis·s, St. Anne's cottage & miller (water) man, chief boatman in charge) COMMERCIAL. Mortimer Richard, farmer, Minard Foot James, builder Banbury Richard, farmer, Treliddon Raby Hugh Snell, farmer, Triffie Harfoot Thomas, tailor Bennett William, farmer, Trerieve Raby John, farmer, Hendl'a Harris John Dove, apartments Body Edwin, farmer, Milladon Roberts Joseph, agent for Mrs. Cocks, May Isaac, apartments Bray Brotherts, farmers, Treyone St. Anne's villa Mitchell Francis, builder & apartmnts Bray Jessie (Mrs.), Copley Arm~ P.H Roberts William M. farmer, Bake Mitchell William, builder, contractor Bunny Thomas, boot maker, Narkurs Scantlebury John, farmer & apartments, Oak Bee cottage Carpenter Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Screech Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper Mitchell Wm. Henry, wagonette propr CaTracawn Stanton Charles, farmer, Carcoe Parker Elizabeth (Ml's.), & Sons, Clark Job, wheelwright Stanton William, farmer, Treyone grocers & drapers Clog Elizh. (Mrs.), frmr. Tregunnick Stephens Benjamin, farmer, Penquite Sambell Florence Mary (Miss), Sea Coad William, farmer, Trerule Thomas Wm. Hy. farmer,Catchfrench View hotel Couch Jas. blacksmith, Bake Lane end Working Men's Institute(Albert Light- Smith Fanny (Miss)& Moyle Gertmde Couch Robert, blacksmith & shopkpr foot, sec) (Miss), apartments Couch William, blacksmith, Narkurs Tiltman Frederick, apartments Foot Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Narkurs DOWNDERRY. Tiltman Henry, apartments Foot James, carpenter, Narkurs Heelas James M.D.S Toms Jane (Mrs.), apartments HancockElizh. (Mrs.),frmr.Bonialva ml Hill Arthur Wakeham William, apartments Hancock Samuel, farmer, Care Jarvis Mrs Warne William, apartmPnts Hessenford Dairy Co. Limited (A. R. King Rev. Henry Hugh (curate in Whaler Angelina & .Jemima (Mi~es), Boucher Trenean, sec) charge) preparatory school Hoskin Jane Ruth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Nettle William Working Men's Ch1 b & Reading Room Post office Phillips M'l's (Major Brian Williams, president; Kitt William, carpenter Rickeard William Wills, Tremorham Albert M. Harding, hon. sec.& treas) ST. HILARY is a parish, township and village, 3 county, hundred of Penwith, petty sessional division miles east from Marazion Road station on the West of Penwith West, Penzance union and county court Cornwall section of the Great West ern railway and 6 district, rural deanery o~ Penwith, archdeaconry of Oorn· e8$t h·IJm Penzance, in the Western division of the wa.ll and diacese of Truro. The church of St. Hilary, COR~WALL 9,. .