Map| Names of Places. | County. | Number of Miles From | +--+----------------------+----------+-----------+-------------+ 8|Austell, or St. }| | | | | Austle[A] m.t. & pa}|Cornwall |Truro 14|Lostwithiel 9| 45|Austerfield to & chap|W.R. York |Bawtry 2|Thorne 11| 7|Austerson to|Chester |Northwich 4|Frodsham 6| +--+----------------------+----------+-----------+-------------+ |Dist.| Map| Names of Places. | Number of Miles From |Lond.|Population. +--+----------------------+----------------------+-----+-------+ 8|Austell, or St. }| | | | | Austle[A] m.t. & pa}|Grampound 6| 243| 8758| 45|Austerfield to & chap|Doncaster 9| 155| 280| 7|Austerson to|Tarporley 10| 177| 69| +--+----------------------+----------------------+-----+-------+ [A] ST. AUSTELL is a considerable market town, which belongs to the north-eastern division of the county, and is one of the polling places. The petty sessions of the hundred of Powder are held here. Considerable quantities of corn and other articles are brought to the market. The town is seated on the eastern side of a hill which slopes gradually to a rivulet which runs along a narrow valley; this stream, and the inequality of the ground, have been rendered eminently useful to the manufactories of the neighbourhood. The water which has been conducted round the side of the hills, in its course impels the machinery of several stamping-mills, which have been erected on different levels. It is also employed to cleanse and separate the tin from the pounded mass. Through its vicinity to the great tin mine of Polgooth, St. Austell has within the last sixty or seventy years, considerably increased in the number of its houses and inhabitants. The holding of the Blackmore Court here, which is the most considerable of the stannary courts, or courts relating to the tin works, have also contributed to augment its prosperity. The old town, or rather village, was at some little distance to the east, and its site is still marked by a few cottages; the present town is the regular thoroughfare for travellers from Plymouth to Falmouth; the streets are very narrow, and not having any pavement for foot passengers are somewhat unsafe. The only blowing houses in the county are at the east end of this town; they are three in number, and very spacious; the old smelting houses are supplied with coals, and are reverberatory; but in these blowing houses the fire is of charcoal, and ignited by air impelled through tubes by cylinders instead of bellows; this mode of fluxing the ore is considered by the workmen far preferable to the other. The inhabitants of this town, from its proximity to the sea, are principally employed in the pilchard fishery and in mining;