Cornwall. Alternun

Cornwall. Alternun

DIREC fORY.] CORNWALL. ALTERNUN. 1!1 Stribley Susan (Miss) shopkeeper & Tredinnick Nicholas, fa.rmer, Goonvrea Mining Co.) (G. C. Hancock, pur­ post office, Church town Tregea Jas. Edwards, frmr. Goonbell ser; John Harper, manager) Thomas Jas. farmer & carrier, Beacon Tregellas Mary J ane (Mrs.), apart- Whitworth Williarn M.R.O.S.Eng., Thomas Thos. shopkpr. Church town ments, Church town L.S.A.Lond. surgeon, medical offi­ Tonkin .Tames, farmer, To wan Treleaven & Co. tailors cer St. Agnes district, Truro union, Tonkin John, farmer, Bawden Tremewan William, farmer & smith, admirality surgeon & agent, Vicar­ Tredinnick & Son, wholesale & retail Goonvrea age road drapers & grocers, flour & corn \Tanstone Jn. carpenter, Vicarage road Williams Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), shop­ factors, Peterville West Kitty Tin Mine (J. B. Reynolds keeper, Peterville Tredinnick J ames, butcher, :Mingoose & Go.) (F. J. Harvey, sec.; John W illiams Ell en (Mrs.), drpr. Vicarage rd Tredinnick Nicholas, shopkeeper, Williams, manager) Williams Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Vicarage road Wheal Kitty Tin Mines (Wbeal Kitty Church town ST. ALLEN, with the township of Zelah, is a slaty nature. The crops are chiefly wheat, barley, oats parish on the river St . .Alien, the church town being S! and turnips. The area is 3,261 acres; rateable value, miles north from Truro station of the Great Western i £2,756; the population of this parish in rgor was 2,756. railway and r! east from the high road from Truro to . Zelah, in the Truro division of the county, hundred of : The township of ZE~~ lS ri miles north~north-west Powder, petty sessional division of Powder West, Truro , from St.- .Alle-?, and IS situa~ed o-? the roam .road to union and county court district, r~ral deanery of Powder, l Truro: It consi~ts of a straggling village e~tending from archdeaconry of Cornwall and dwcese of Truro. The · T;;o Burrow H1ll to ~aunt Pl~asant, a. distance of I, church of St . .Allen is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly m~les: C. H. T. Hawkms esq. lil lord of the manor ~d in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of ' prm.CI~al landowner. Ther~ ~re Wesleyan and Bible six bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled Ohnstmn chapels. The MI~sion church ~nd Sunday western tower of earlier date with beacon turret and school at Zelah was erected m 1883, at which weekday containing 3 bells : there is a ~onnment to John Marten, and S_unday services are held. jun. of Trefonick, ob. 1626; in the aisle is a memorial Assistant Overseer and Clerk to Pansh Coun<:Il, Wm. window to the Lanyon family; another to Edward Coke Carve~h. esq. r657, and various modern monuments: the north Parish Clerk and Sexton, William John Harr1s Oarveth. door, now built up, is probably the oldest feature in the Post Office, Zelah.-Josiah Lanyon, sub-postmaster. church and is believed to date from the early part of Letters received through Callestick R.S.O. arrive 9.40 the 13th century: the church was restored in 1873-4 at a. m. & dispatched 3 p.m. Postal orders are issued a cost of £sso, and affords r8o sittings. The register here, but not paid. Newlyn East is the nearest money dates from the year I68o. The living is a rectory, en- order ~ telegraph office, 4 miles distant dowed in I3'I4, net yearly value £r36, including 118 Letters arrive at St . .Alien Church Town at 9·35 a.m. acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop through Trnro, which is the nearest money order & of Truro, and held since 18go by the Rev. Richd. Eustace telegraph office Stnkely Buck. The lay impropriator, Viscount Fal- . mouth, receives £ 271 ss. tithe rent-charge. The feast A School Board of 5 members was formed April 12th, of St. Allen is held on Rogation Sunday (the sth after r875; W. Carveth, Nancarrow, il;l clerk to the board Easter). The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of Board School (mixed ·~ infants), bUilt in I877-8, at a the manor, and the chief landowners are Christopher cost of £sso, for no children; .ll.verage attendance, Henry Thomas Hawkins esq. of ro Portman place, 73; William John Thomas, master London W, Charles Glynn Prideaux-Brune esq. of Pad- Omnibus to Truro, D. Ball ~ Bennetto pass through stow, Viscount Falmouth and Digby Collins esq. of New- from Newlyn East, on wed. & sat. returning from ton Ferrers. The soil is loamy; the subsoil is of a Truro at 5 p.m ST. ALLEN. Hooper Jn. (Mrs.), farmr. East Downs *Woolcock Charles, miller (water), *Hoskins Alfred, miller (water) & Lanner mill (~larked thus * should be addressed Truro.) farmer, Gwarnick mill *Hoskins Paul, farmer, Hands ZELAH. *Buck Rev. Hichard Eustace Stukely, .T ewell J n. fannr. & butcher, Sixty acres Barrett John, farmer, Nathaniels Rectory Johnson James Thomas, farmer, Dawe William, wheelwright *Carveth Mrs. Oliver, Nancarrow Honey combs Hoskins Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lanyon Elial, Henver *Jose Henry, farmer, Chynoweth Hoskins William, wheelwright COMMERCIAL. Lampshire William, farmer, Polglaze Lanyon Josiah, grocer, tea dealer, Lanyon Mary Ellen (Mrs.), farmer, provision & general merchant & Bassett Chas. & Wm. farmers,Oralso Trevalso draper, bookseller & news agent Benny .Tames, farmer, Mount Pleasant Lanyon Obed, farmer & agricultural Post office *Bunt Fred, farmer, Little Water machine owner ; threshing Ma­ Lanyon Louisa & Isabella (Misses), *Carveth .A.rthur, farmer, Boswellick chines & all kinds of implements on grocers & drapers *Carveth Wm. John Harris, farmer hire, Polstain, Henver & Trefoenick Lawry ·wm. Hy. Hawkin's Arms P.H & parish clerk & sexton, Tretherres *Northey Francis, farmer, Killivose Letcher John, blacksmith Coom James, farmer, Dover row *Northey Geo. Alfd. farmer, Gwarnick Rawling John, boot.& shoe maker Coom Ellen Louisa (Miss), dress mkr. *P.ichards William, farmer, Lanner Reed J abez, blacksmith & farmer Dover row Richards Wm. Albt. farmr. Trenerry Sampson Ozias, farmer Coryn Arthur Hesketh, farmer, Bowl- Sampson Richard, farmer, Tolgrogan Trembath Richard, farmer, Lower • mg green Thomas William, farmer,North Down<;~ Nathaniels Gill Reginald Searle, farmer, Trerice Trevael John Wm. farmer, Lemain Waters John, boot maker ALTERNUN, A.lternon, or A.ltarnnm, is a very large tration of the Holy Eucharist " : the church was restored parish, township and village, on a tributary of the river in 1867 at a cost of £r,z8o, and has 430 sittings. The Inny, 5 miles south-west from Egloskeny station on the re-gisters date from the year 1688. The living is a Halwill Junction and Tresmeer section of the London and vicarage, net yearly value £220, including II3 acres of South Western railway, 8 west-south-west from Launces­ glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter ton railway station and 9 east from Camelford, in the of Truro, and held since 18 87 by the Rev. .Alfred Henry North Eastern division of the county, Lesnewth hundred, Malan M.A. of St. Alban Hall, Oxford, and J.P. The petty sessional division of North Middle, Launceston impropriate rent-charge is commuted at £270, of which nnion and county court district, rural deanery Qf Trigg £13 14s. yearly is paid to the rector of the neighbouring Major, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. parish of Minster. Here are two Wesleyan chapels, and The church of St. Nun (or Nonna) is an edifice of stone one for Bible Christians. Fairs for cattle are held at Five in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of Lanes, on the Mondav• week after June 24th, and on the four bays, aisles, north and south porches and a looty last :Monday in September. The charities amount to £6 embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 yearly. The manorial rights of Penpont and Treglasta bells: it has a very fine oak roof and a handsome rood are held by William Ooryt<Jn esq. of Pentillie Castle, St. screen, panelled and traceried, and restored in 1888 at a Mellion, Charles Gordon Archer esq. of Trelaske, William cost of {,200 : the seats, which are beautifully carved, are Day Hanson esq. of Bideford, and others. The principal of uncertain date, but subsequent t.o 1520: the stairs to landowners are Francis Rashleigh Rodd esq. of Trebartha the rood loft remain in the north aisle, and in the south Hall, C. G. Archer esq. of Trelaske, John Kitto, of aisle is an ancient piscina and bracket : the chancel re­ Vaenor Park, Llanidloes and George Venning esqrs. the tains an aumbry and two very curious paintings, dating Mining Estates Syndicate Limited, and there are many fl'um about r62o, of the " Crucifixion" and the "Adminis- small freeholds. The greater part of the parish is on CORNWALL 2* .

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