Cornwall. Polperro

Cornwall. Polperro

• DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. POLPERRO. 271 'There is a Wesleyan chapel, with about 100 sittings. esq. of Newton Ferrers, who is lord of the manor, Willia.m ..A fair for pleasure and cattle is held on Whitsun Tne~­ C<lryton esq. and the Duchy of Cornwall are the princi­ ·day. Pentillie Castle, the seat of William Coryton esq. pal landowners. The soil is clay and slate; subsoil, ISlate .J.P. and master of the DartiiWOr Fox Hound!s, is 2! and freest<>ne. The chief crop.!! are cerea1s, roots and miles eas!J of Pillaton, on the wes~J bank of the Tamar. potatoes. The area is 2,404 acres of lan~ 3 of water, "The mansion is of stone with an embattled parapet and 8 of tidal water and 6 of foreshore; rateable value, .a .square embattled tower, from which a commanding £2,59r; the population in 1901 was• 3•88. -view of the river Tamar and surrounding country is Letters through St. Mellion R.S.O. arrive at 10 a.m. >()bt.ained; it was erected from designs by W. Wilkins The nearest money order & telegraph office is St. esq. architect; the entrance hall has a fine stained win­ Mellion, about 2 miles di1tant -dow ; north of the castle :is a wooded hill called "Mount .A.rarat," on which Sir James Tillie kt. <the original builder Wall Letter Box cleared at 9 a.m. & 6 p.m. week days of Pentillie Oastle, erected! in 1712 a ,!mall tower, within only w:Q.ich, by his own desire, he was buried, his. effigy in National School (mixed), for 75 children; average at­ marble being placed in the upper room. IJJigby Collins tendance, 34; Miss Florence J. BarretJt. mistress Coryton William J.P. Pentillie castle chiselers &c. ; esta.blished nearly roo Pearce John Thos. carpenter, builder Eawk William J.P. Kernock years &general contractor Herring John, sen Elliott James, farmer, Smeaton Pearce William, Royal Oak P.H. & grc:r Hocking Rev. Richard(rector),Rectory Fowell Daniel, farmer, Moditon Prideaux Thomas, farmer, Howton Hawk William J.P. farmer, Kernock Skinnard Simon, miller (water), Pilla-1 COMMERCIAL. Herring Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer ton mill BrooksFredk. steward to W.Coryton esq Herring John, jun. farmer Stevens '\Villiam, farmer & butcher Daw Henry William, farmer Lucas George, farmer Tamblyn Jonathan, assistant overseer Vrown John S. agricultural implement Lucas James, farmer, Brixton Tamblyn William, farmer maker, machine agent & general Netting Isaac Henry, smith Tucker James, farmer, Pillaton farm smith (turn-wrest ploughs), folding Paynter John, farmer Vosper Thomas Dyer, shoe maker horse rakes & lever cultivators & Pearce Charles, farmer, Rouse farm ST. PINNOCK is a township, parish and village, I~ Stone of excellent quality for building purposes is miles south from Doublebois station on the Great quarried here. The manorial rights have been d:istri­ '\Vestern railway and 5 south-west from Liskeard, in buted among the principal landowners, who are Viscount the South Eastern division of the county, hundred and Clifden, Charles Ebenezer Treffrey esq. of Place House, petty sessional division of West, Liskeard union and Fowey, John Bevill l<'ortescue esq. of Boconnoc, Lost­ .county court district, rural deanery ol1 ·west, arch- withiel, and Sir William Lewis Salusbury-Trelawny hart. deaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The rail- of Trelawue, Pelynt. The soil is of a light nature, on a way passes through the parish on several lofty viaducts, stony bottom. The chief crops are grass, wheat, oats, ..one of which i8 15 I feet in height. The church of St. barley &c. The area is 3,486 acres of land and 2 of Pinnock is an ancient building of Pentewan stone and water; rateable value, £2,514; the population in Ig<li .granite in the Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave was 421. <Jf four bays, north aisle, transept, south porch and EAST TA.PHOUSE, in this parish, one mile north­ an embattled western tower of three stages, with pin- west, is on the road from Plymouth to Truro and Fal- nacles, containing 4 bells, all cast in 1803 : there art~ mouth. · Inemorials to Jane, daughter of Emma.nuel Lewis, ob. 1629; .Ames Coplestone, ob. 1629; and the f:unily of Post Office, East Taphouse.-William Henry Buck- Collier; on the outside, very old and now much worn, thought, sub-postmaster. Let•ters through Liskeard are two other memoriais: the church was restored in arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 3.50 p.m. P06'bal r882, at a cost exceeding- £r,8oo, and has 190 sittings: orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest :in the churchyard is a lych-gate. The register dates money order & telegraph office is at Dowlais, 3 miles from the year 1566. The living is a rectory, net yearly distant -value £187, including 39 acres of glebe, with residence, .A. School &ard of 5 members was formerl May 20, r886 ;, in the gift of three patrons in turn, and helrl since 1870 T. C. 'l'amblyn, l'olperro, clerk to the board by the l~ev. John Otho West M . .!.. of St. John's Col- Board School (mixed), erected in r872, at a cost of £450, J.ege, Cambridge. There are Bible Christian and Free for 151 children; average attendance, 78; Hedley 2\Iethodist chapels. The charities amount to IOS. yearly. Lobb, master; M"llss Beatrice Glanville, mistress West Rev. John Otho :M . .A.. (rector), Crago Samuel, farmer, Over Combe Pearse Saml. carpenter,East Taphouse Rectory Ede John, farmer, Lower Penhellick Pendray Thomas, farmer, Bodithiel Ede William, road foreman Pengelly Nicholas, farmer, Lee COMMERCIAL. Greenaway Thos. \Vm. frmr. Calmazg Richards Thos.Jn. frmr.LowerBodrane ..Adams Emrna (Mrs.),shopkeeper, East Haley George V. timber merchant, Rowe Charles, farmer, Nether C<lombe Taphouse East Taphome Russell Louisa (Mrs.),frmr. Penhellick Barnecut Thomas, farmer, East Tap­ IIend.er Samuel H. farmer, Bo8ent Salt Caleb, assistant overseer house .John William, farmer, Penfrane Salt & Son,corn & coal merchants,East J3atten Thomas Davies, blachmith & Little John, farmer, Boturnall Taphouse farmer, East Taphouse Little Thomas, farmer, Higher & Short John, farmer, Bosent "Brown Bryce, farmer, Bodrawl Lower Scawen Tamblyn Jeremiah, farmer, Wilton Brown John. farmer, Bodrane Martyn Edgar & Joseph, farmers & Tamblyn William, farmer, Trago Buckthought William Henry, boot millers, Scawen water mill Vennard Wm. rigrater, East Taphouse maker, Post office, East Taphouse Nicholls '\Villiam, farmer, Penhole Verrin John, farmer, Bodrane Crago Charles, farmer, Trevillis Ough Frederick, farmer, Trevellis POLPERRO is a small and quajnt fishing village, mained private property until r886, when it was tram;­ Jying in a hollow between two rocky hills, in the parishes ferred to the parish of Talland with Polperro: the of Lansallos and Talland (a small stream called " The chapel affords 200 sittings. Then~ ar~ Wesleyan, Free Yol," which runs through the cent·re · of the village Method~st and Bible Chffitlian chapels, and a. Free dividing the two parishes), .the village is 4 miles west from Methodist chapel a;t Mabel Barrow, with a large cemetery Looe station on the Liskeard and Looo railway and rr attached. A cemetery of about an acre was laid out south from Liskeard, in the South Eastern division of at the tiop of the New road in 1Sg7 at a cost of .the county, hundred and petty sessional -division of West·, £230. The Foresters' Hall was erected in r88g. Li.skeard union and county court district. The haven, Mabel Barrow is an ancient place orf .sepulture. There runnin~ up into the land for about a. furlong, is safe for is a. coastguard station, erected in 1894·5, and consist­ vessels of 200 tons ; it is well suited for fishing boats, ing of 8 cottages and an officer's house . .and is protected by two piers and by baulks, which are raised and lowered to meet the stress of weather; these Po~. M. 0. & T. 0 .• T. M. 0., Expres3 Delivery, Parcel were laid. down in 11897• and the Victoria Diamond POISt, S. B. & Annuity &; Jnguranee Office (Railway Jubilee pier was lengthened at the rsa.me time; a new Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Cornwall road was cut to the port in 1849• the expense being de­ added}.-Thomas Braddon, sub-postmaster. Letters frayed by public !Subscription, and the necessary land arrive at 7·35 a.m. ~ 4-10 p.m.; dispatched at 5·5 presented by Nichola.s Kendall esq. Here is a. chapel of p.m. week days; on ilundays at rr a. m. Telegraph ease to the parish church of Talland: it is a building of office open 8 am. to 8 p.m -ntone, and was originally erected by the Rev. W. Raw­ Wall Letter Box. New road, cleared a.t 5.1o p.m.; sun­ lings, a former rector of Llansallos, in I 837, and re- day xr.r5 a.m .

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