Excursions in the County of Cornwall: Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together With Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Interesting Object of CuriosityStockdale, Frederick Wilton Litchfield
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Excursions in the County of Cornwall: Comprising a Concise Historical and Topographical Delineation of the Principal Towns and Villages, Together With Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Other Interesting Object of Curiosity
Stockdale, Frederick Wilton Litchfield
Cornwall (England : County) -- Description and travel; Cornwall (England : County) -- History
St. Austell, Town, fine Church, Population, &c., 36
St. Michael Penkervil Church, a picturesque edifice, 44
St. Mawe’s Castle, 50
St. Mawgan Church, an antient Tomb in, 55
St. Michael’s Mount, brief description of, 57
St. Neot’s, Village of, noted for the beauty of its Church, Painted
Glass Windows, &c., 116
St. Bennett’s, remains of a Priory, 127
St. Burian, an antient place, College, Church, and antient Cross, 61
St. Germains, a decayed town, remarkable for the beauty of its
Situation, Antient Church, Monuments, &c., 106
St. Just, near the Land’s End, and remarkable as the birth-place of Dr.
Borlase, 63
St. Ives, Town of, Fisheries, Harbour, Church, Population, &c., 66
St. Agnes, Town, Beacon, the birth-place of Opie, the Painter, &c., 72
St. Columb Major, Town of, Church, Population, &c., 76
St. Stephen’s Church, near Trematon Castle, 92
St. Mary Week, Village of, remarked as the birth-place of Thomasine
Bonaventure, 86
St. Cleer, Village of, noted for its Church, and numerous Antiquities,
115
St. Lawrence, Ruins at, 127
Stratton, Town of, Church, Monumental Epitaphs, &c., 86
Stockton, seat of Admiral de Courcy, 106
Steam Engines, their extensive powers described, and great utility in
the Mines, 133
Stow, an antient seat of the Grenvilles, 91
Sun Fish, 14
T
Tehiddy Park, seat of Lord de Dunstanville, Pictures, &c., 70
Thankes, seat of the Graves, 27
Tin, the different Mines described, and the mode of preparing it; Laws
relating to, &c., 15 to 18
—— Wood, highly valuable, 19 and 136
Tintagel, renowned birth-place of King Arthur, antient Fortifications
at, Church, &c., 81
Tolinen, a curious one in Constantine Parish, 51
Touss, Rev. J. born at St. Ives, 68
Trebursye, a seat near Launceston, 96
Tredea, the seat of Davies Gilbert, Esq., M.P., 146
Trespy House, Fowey, an antient building, 31
Trefusis, an antient seat, 51
Treguma, a seat of S. Stephens, Esq., 68
Tregony, Town of, Antient Buildings, &c., 40
Tregothnan, seat of Earl Falmouth, and its fine Park, 44
Trelawney House, Pictures, &c., 29
Trelowarrens, an antient seat, 54
Trematon Castle, a fine ruin, seat of B. Tucker, Esq., 103
Tremere, an antient seat of the Courtenay’s, 127
Trerice, an antient building, formerly the seat of the Arundell’s, 73
Treryn Castle, Logan Stone, at, 61
Trevethoe, the seat of the Praeds, 69
Trewarthenick, a seat, 41
Trewithan, seat of Sir C. Hawkins, Bart., 43
Trewan, seat of Richard Vyvyan, Esq., 76
Truro, Town of, noted as the metropolis of the West of England, fine
Church, Buildings, Population, &c., 44
Turbots, plentiful in Cornwall, 14
W
Wadesbridge, near Bodmin, 80
Werrington Park, seat of the Duke of Northumberland, 92
Wherry Mine, near Penzance, remarkable one, 60
Whiteford House, seat of Sir W. P. Call, Bart, 96
Woodcocks, singular account of their arrival in Cornwall, 160
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