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t)JRECTORY.) ·CORNWALL. .. ,.. · .. 'MOR~AL. ·.. "").3·-. I w;illiam Borlase Tremenheere. M.A. of Oriel College, Ox- high. · The soil is decomposed 'grailit~.;· ·subsoil~ :rab­ lfolld,. who resides at the Vicarage, Madron. There is· a men. The land is principally pastune, ··and the chiei Wesleyan . chapel here. The Misses Borlase, of Oastle crops are .wheat and barley.· The area •is '1,210 acres of Ho meek,. Penzance, who are ladies of the manor, and land, 1 of water and 14 of foreshore;· rateable· value, Mrs. Hichens are the chief landowners. On Chftn Hill £989; the population in 1901 wa•s N6.' · . , are- the remains of a very· ancient castle, consisting of Letters through Pendeen S.O. a'rriVe· at n• a.m. ·'The three lines of wall, built of loose stones: in the interior, nearest. money order & telegraph office is at Pendeeu, which has ~ diameter from east to west of 125 feet and about 2 miles distant · . · ., -from north to south o~ 100 feet, traces of dividing walls Wall Letter Box, cleared at 1.5 p.m exist, . and a well, with steps leading to the water : op- · . · :posite the gateway of the castle, and at about 200 yards' Pascoe Grenfell, St. Just,. school attet;ld,ance otliqer , -distance, is Chftn quoit, a cromlech, consisting of several Public Elementary School (mixed), formerly ·a Bible upright stones, supporting at an elevation of about 4 Christian chapel, but altered at a cos.t of. about £200, feet a huge monolith nearly 13 feet long and IJ~ feet for 58 children; average attendance, 38; Miss E. wide. On Kerrow Hill stands a monumental pillar 6 feet Sennens, mistress Jenl;in Thomas, farmex, Croftow Quick John, farmer~ Trevowan · l COMMERCIAL. Leg-g-o John, shopkeeper, Tregaminion Thonias Martin, farmer, Treg'aminion Berryman John, dairyman, Rosemergy Matthews Nicholl:ls, farmer, Chyoon Tre.gear Henry, farmer, Tregaminion Davy Thomas, farmer, Trevoyan :'\oy William, farmer, Trevean Trembath Humphry, frmr.Church twn Davy William, farmer, Trevowan Oats Thomas, dairyman, Carne Warren Thomas, farmer; Chypraze .Eddy John, farmer, Trevean Paul Wm. Robt. shoe ma.Church town MORVAL is a scattered parish, through which the pied by Mrs. H. H. Tremayne, is pleasantly situat~d at river Looe flows, 4 miles south-west from Menheniot the head of a beautiful wooded valley leading to the sea -station on the Great Western railway, and I mile to .at Looe. Here was born, March 17, 1746, l"rancis Bull~r • .Sandplace station on the Liskeard and Looe railway, 6 the distinguished judge, who wa:o made a judge of the -south-south-east from Liskeard, in the South Eastern King's 1Bench in rn•B, being then only 32 years· of age; division of the county, hundred and petty sessional in 1790 he was created a baronet and in 1794 transferred -division· of West, Liskeard union and county court dis- to the Common Pleas; he died June 5, 1800. Mrs. H. H. trict; rural deanerf of Wes·t, archdeaconry of Bodimin . Tremayae, who is lady of the manor, Major M. Wyn~ll­ and diocese of Truro. A single line of rail from Looe Mayow and Mrs. Somers-Cocks are the principal land­ to Liskeard and the granite quarries Bnd mines of owners. The soil is generally light; subsoil, chiefly Caradon passes through the western part of the parish shelf and spar. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats with a stat.ion ab Sandplace for passen2'ers; there is and roots: The area is 3,556 acres of land, 12 of water, ,a,lso a canal from Looe to Sandpla~e : the latter affords 4 of tidal water and 7 of for2shore; rateable val~e, very good trout fl3hing in the season. The church of £3,86g; the populat.ion in 1901 was 6oo. St. Wenna is a building of stone, erected in the 15th Parish Clerk, Isaac Jeffery. -c:ntury and consists of chancel, nave of five bays, north Deputy Sexton John Webb. atsle, south transept, south porch and a western tower ' of three stages, with low crocketed pinnacles, containing Post & T. Office, Sandplace (Sub-Office. Le~·ters should :5 bells, all cast in 1715, except the treble, dated 1858 and have Sandplace S.O. Cornwall adde~).-Richard Edg· 'the .tenor in 1878: in the western wall of the transept c~mbe, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 6.30 a.m. ; -'is a curious incised slab to Waiter Coode (ob. 1637), the dispatched at 5·55 p.m.; ~undays at I1.5o a.m. The last of the Coode family who lived at and possessed nearest> money order office ts at Looe ·:\forval House and its lands, which passed in 1637 to the Post Office, Widegates.-M11s. Caroline Soady, sub-post- Buller family, ancestors of the present owners: the east mistress. Letters received through Hessenford, St. window is stained and there are memorial windows in Germans S.O. at 8.20 a.m.; dispatched 5.10 p.m. 'the transepts to t.he family of Buller, 1793-1849: a sun- He•ssenfo.-d is the nearest money order office; Sand- ·dia.I on the gable of the south porch is dated 1671: there place the ntares-t telegraph office ·-are 230 si.ttings. The register.s date from 1538, and are Wall Letter Box Leyland cleared at 5.25 p.m in' an excellent state of preservat.ion. The living is a ' ' . vicarage,· net yearly value [r52, including 121 acres of PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, These schools ar2 under control of the Liskeard & Fowev and held !'lince 1876 by the Rev. Ernest Henry Glencross District Education Committee; John Strong, Barn sf. M.A. of Christ's College, Cambrid.ge, surrogate and J.P. Liskeard, clerk (Jornwall ; the trustees of the lat.e Lady Duckworth, of Knig-h:tleys, Exeter (d. 1902) and Mrs. H. H. Tremayne Morval, the property of Mrs. H. H. Tremayne & until are joint lav re'Ctors. There is a W~·sleyan Association recently supported by her; average attendance, 36; -chapel at Widegate, and at Sandplace a chapPl, built in Samuel Martin, mast,er 1s64, and now ( 19o6) the property of Mrs. H. H. Tre- · Trenode, built in 1872, in memory of the Rev. James , mayne, who lends it to Mr. Richard Ed.Q"cumbe for th~ Buller Kitson, a former vicar; average attendance, 42; ·purpose of holding religious services. Here is also a the s·chool is 2. miles distant from the other s~hool & reading room, well supplied with daily and weekly papers the church, & IS ~lso used as a school ch~pel, bem~ sup- and periodicals. Four almshouses for the poor were re- ported by ~he VIC~r, Mrs. Cocks _& MaJor :M. ~ ynell· 1milt in 186o by the late J. F. Buller esq. a descendant j Mayow; M1ss Be•ssie Brownsey, mistress "Df the founder. Morval House, the property of and occu- Sandplace StaMon; the guard of train issues tickets · . Marked thn!; * ref'Pive their letter!' *CoHings John, butch.er, Widlake *Nicholls Philip, farmer, Tredinnick through Hessenfrd.St.Germans S.O. *Col will Hy. & Albt. famners,'fregastic Olver John, farmer, Lydcott Marked thus t receive their le-tters *Crabb Henry, farmflr, Trenode Olver Thomas Henry,farmer & butchr. through Liskeard. *Deeble Robert, farmer, Widegate Tregarland Beynon Rev. Edward AJlan M.A. Edgcumbe Richard, coal & manure Ough Henry, farmer, Holland (curate) . merchant; all kinds manures stof'ked *Paul Mary Jane & Emma (Misses), '*Bouchel' Mrs. Trenean i at Sandplace, & a~rent RDyal Fire & !'bopkeepers, Widegate Glencross Rev. Ernest Henry M.A., Life & 0f'ean Aec-idents Corporation, *Pearoe Jn. Hy. farmer, Cutperrett J.P.(vicar & surrogate),TheVicarage Sandplace *Pearce Samuel, farmer, Tredinnick, *Nicholls William Henry, Shortcross tGill Thomas, farmer, Tre<browne bd.g *Philp Sidney, farmer, Bray *Sneyd Mrs. Bray house *Goyns Jethro, blacksmith,Short cross *Pot:t William, farmer Tredinnick Tremavne Mrs. H. H. Morval house tGuest William, farmer, Colvase wd Reading Room (Thomas Webber R.X. Wake Mrs. Polraen Hamley Wil[~am, farmer, Dowland & !;er.) *Williams John, Wlidlake Wringworth Rohert>< Goor~re.a~~i~tant land steward *Harding John, carpenter & farmer, Searle Edwin blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Shortcross Searle William, farrier *Best .T a ne ('~irs.), farmer, Trenode Harding Robert, carpenter, Torwell *Taylor John, farmer, Twinaways *Best William John, farmer & miller Hill John, farmer & assistant over­ *Tooley John farmer, Widlake (water), Joaps mill seer, Cleese Vosper Arthur lValters, farmer, Mor- *Blight John, shoe maker, Widegate Hoskin Maria (Mrs.), farmer, Wring- Vfl.l Barton worthy Webber Thomas R. N. insurance agt Blight Richflrd, !Oboe maker ~ Broad Rosalia & Eva (Misses),shopkprs Lean Edwin, shoe maker West James, farmer, Colvase farm *Clinnick John, farmer, Trenean *Macquire Charles, farmer, Widlake White Ellen (Mrs.), shopkpr.Tregrlnd *Collings Alfred Matthew, farmer, Martin Samuel, schoolmaster Wyatt Francis Charles, carpenter, Tre- Tredinmck *Martin Wm. farmer, Vinten vanes garland *Collings Hedley, farmer, Polgover Matthews Edwd. frmr .. Wringworthy .

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