DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. LELANT. 1051 Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, of Lawhitton was given to the bishopric of Crediton by south aisle, south porch, and an embattled tower on the Edward the Elder in 905, and it has ever since remained in south side, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells: the east and the hands of the Bishops uf Exeter, the ruins of whose west windows and two others are stained; the font has a palace still remain. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are massive square basin formed out of a solid block of Poly- the principal landowners. The soil is cld.yey; subsoil, sandy phant .tone, with carved heads at the corners: the south gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The porch retains a holy water stoup: the pulpit, dated 1665, area is 2,570 acres; rateable value, £3,285; the population bears the Bennett arms; there are also inscribed floor-stones in 1881 was 425. to members of the family, including one to Richard Bennett, Deputy Sexton, George Baddou. ob. 1619, and a monument to Robert Bennett, of Hexworthy, POST OFFICE.-Miss Charity Masters, receiver. Letters esq. ob. 1683: the church was restored about 1860. The through Launceston arrive about 7.45 a.m. ; dispatched register dates from the year 1640. The living is a rectory, at 8 a.m. &. 4.15 p.m. week days &. 9.20 a.m. on sundays. tithe rent-charge £361, net yearly value £389, including The nearest money order & telegraph office is at II2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the !rift of the Bishop Launceston of Truro, and held since 1839 by the Rev. Francis Du Boulay ~ational School (mixed), for 90 children; average attend- M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge, and surrogate. The manor ance, 50; Thomas Golledge, master Du Boulay Rev. Francis M.A. Rectory Gregory Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Scoffern Mary(Mrs.),farmr.Dunscombe Morshead Miss, Treniffie Lower Luckham Scoffern Samuel, farmer, Dunscombe Oakeley Rev. Wm. Pearce B.A. [curate] Harvey Wm.farmer &.landownr. Newtn Symons Richard, farmer &; butcher, Oxley Col. Charles Rawson, Stourscmbe Hocken William, farmer &. miller Tregada (water), Lower Banham Tucker Charles Henry, boot maker COMMERCIAL. Jackman John, farmer, St. Leonard's Vosper Charles, butcher Barriball Charles, Beunett's Arms P.H Lobb George & Nicholas, farmers, Law- Vosper Wm.frmr &butchr.Mid.B<\uhm BarribaIl Willhm, blacksmith hitton Barton Weeks Richard & Sons, farmers, thra~h- Brendon Fraucis, farmer, Newham Martin James, farmer,Higher Luckham ing machine &. tractioa engine pro- Coombe William, carpenter Martin John, farmer, Wishworthy prietors, Sheers Barton Cory In. butcher & farmer, Kensey viI Masters Thomas, blacksmith Weeks Henry, farmer, Hexworthy Dawe William, farmer, Bulsworthy Metters Josiah, farmer, Treniffie Wise Wm. Morshead, farmer, Tregada LELANT, or UNY LELANT, is a township and parish at Lelant Town and Ninnes and Methodist New Connexion situated opposite Hayle, on the estuary of the Hayle river, at CarbisBay. A fair is held on the 15th of August, yearly, and is 3~ miles south-east of St. Ives and 6 north-east from for cattle. The following mines are at work in this parish: Penzance, with a station on the St. Ives branch of the West -Wheal Margaret, Tren-Crom aud "'heal Sisters, now Cornwall (Great Western) railway, in the Western division amalgamated and known as Huel Sisters Mining Co. Tre­ of the county, hundred of Peuwith, petty sessional division vethoe, half a mile distant, is held on lease by Lord St. of Penwith East, I'enzance union and county court dIstrict, Levan B.A., D.L., J.P. of Roger William GifIard Tyringham rural deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall and esq. D.L., J.P. of Tyringham, Newport Pd.gnell, Bucks, who diocese of Truro. The church of St. Uny is an ancient is lord of the manor and chief landowner; the mansion is building of stone, partly Norman, restored or altered in the pleasantly situated, surrounded with plantations, and over­ 13th and 15th centuries: it consists of chancel, nave and looks the estuary of the Hayle; it was almost entirely re­ aisles of equal height, separated by arcades of six arches, built by Humphrey Mackworth Praed esq. in 1761; the south porch, and an embJ.ttled western tower, 60 feet in front, ornamented with a pediment, is constructed of granite height, with pinnacles, and coutaining 6 bells all cast in ashlar: immediately behind the house, rising to a height of 1836: the rood loft remains in the north aisle, and there are 550 feet above the sea level, is Trecl'oben Hill, on the sum­ piscina niches in the chancel and south aisle, and portions of mit of which are the remains of an ancient fortress. The a stoup in the porch: the original font, of Early Engli.::lh soil is gravelly; the subsoil is killas and granite. The chief date, has been disco\'ered in a farm yard: the east window crops are wheat. The area is 3,927 acres, of which 170 is is a memorial to William Praed and William Tyringham water; rateable value, £6,139 j and the population in 1881 Praed, 1848, and there are other stained windows in the was 1,720. aisles: in the church are memorials to the family of Praed, CHY-AN-GWAIL, situated near the Providence mine, 2 miles 1620-1846 ; Pawley, 1635-1721; Cundy, 1799-1802, and north.west, and LELANT DOWN, or Trecl'obeu, on the silleof others: over the entrance of the south porch is an elaborate the hill so called, 1~ miles south-west, are hamlets; at the niche. containin!r a sun dial: the communion plate is dated former is a chapel of the Methodist New Connexion. 1725, but an old Elizabethan chalice is still in USe at Towed- nack: the church was thoroughly restored in 1873, at a cost POST, M. O. & T. 0., S. .B. & Annuity &. Insurance Office of £2,000, when opeu benches for 420 persons were substi- (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have RS.O. Corn- tuted for the former pews; the roof was also re<'onstructed, wall added).-Charles Burt, sub-postmaster. Letters and the chancel decorated and paved: a mortuary chapel arrive 8 a.m. 3 p.m. &. 5. 25 p.m. ; dispatched at 9.50 and additional land for a burial ground, vested in trustees, a.m. 4·50 p.m. & 8.15 p.m were added to the churchyard in 1879. In the churchyard WALL LE'ITER BOXES, Lelant, cleared at 9·30 a.m. 4.25 p.m. stands a massive cross, 5 feet 6 inches high and I foot 7 & 6.45 p.m. ; sundays 9.30 a.m.; CHY-AN-GWAIL, cleared inches broad; the round head is boldly carved with a St. at 12·35 p.m Andrew's cross, and a boss in the centre; outside the SCHOOLS:- churchyard wall is another cross, 3~ feet high and about 1 A School Board of 5 members was formed July 23, 1875 ; foot broad, with an oval head, bearing a Maltese cross, and J. C. Rosewarne, clerk to the board & attendance officer on the reverse a figure of Our Lord. The rezi~ter of bap- Board, Trevarrack (mixed & infants), for 220 children; tisms dates from the year 1684 ; marriages and burials, 1716. average attendance, 58 boys, 43 girls & 24 infants ; The living is a vicarage, with the chapelryof Towednack :Francis Osborne, master; Miss Annie Cardew. mistress annexed, tithe rent-charge (Lelant) [,2°5, joint net yearly National (mixed), for 160 children j average attendance, value £301, including 10 acres of glebe, with resideuce, in 43 boys & 43 girls; William John Taylor, master; Miss the gift of the Bishop of Truro, 'and held since 1869 by the Jessie Morley, mistress Rev. Richard Frederick Tyacke M.A. of Trinity College, RAILWAY STATIONS :- Dublin, and surrogate. There are Wesleyan chapels at Lelant, John Hosking, station master Lelant Town, Carbis Bay and Ninnes; Primitive Methodists Carbis Bay, Alfred Augustus Bodilly, station master St.LevanLord B.A.,D.L.,.J.P. 'l'revethoe: Boundy"-illiam, shopkeeper Harry James, draper &Oxford&Cambridge,Brooks',Travel- Burt Charles, postmastel' Hendra Charles, grocer, Carbis bay lers' & Boodle's clubs, London s w Card John, farmer, Lock Hicks Thomas, farmer, Trencrom Brush John, The Cross Care John, tin dresser, Lock Hollow Matthew, farmer, Boskerras Chads Capt. John HanburyR.N. Wood- Carnall Joseph Henry, frmr.Carntiscoe Huel Sisterh' Tin Mining Co. (T. W_ lands C'arnall Robert, boot & shoe maker Field, purser j Wm.Rosewarne, man) Christopher William, Blackwell villa Congdon Nicholas, boat bldl'.Carninney Martin William, farmer, Ninnes MiIlett John Nicholas, Ven Ayr Craze Francis,farmer,TrevethoeBarton I Martyn Martha (Mrs.), farmer.Trelyon Mitchell Edward Craze Francis, farmer, Vorvas Michell Sampson, farmer, Beersheba Nicholls John, Carninney Edmonds William, butcher Michell Sampson, farmer, Trevarrack Richards Charles, Ven 'Wyn J<'riggens John, farmer Mitchell William & Son,seed merc:hants, Richardson Joseph Gilbert Joseph, coal agent St. Erth station T)'acke Rev. Richd.Fredk.M.A.Vicarage Glasson James, farmer, Polpear Mitchell Edward, auctioneer & valuer COMMERCIAL. Gla!lson James, wheelwright Mitchell James, farmer Ashton Edward, pleasure grounds, Glasson Nancy (Mrs.), shopkeeper Nankervis John, shopkeeper Hawkspoint Glasson Wm shopkeeper, Chy-au-gwail Olds William, farmer & butcher Beckerleg Herbert, carpenter Griffin Matthew, farmer Payne William,farmel',&picnicgrounds Berriman Thomas, farmer Harris Henry, farmer, Ninnes I Carbis bay.