The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Tredinick gave name and origin to an ancient family of gentlemen.
Christopher Tredinick was sheriff of Cornwall in 22 Henry VIII.; he
gave for his arms, In a field Or, on a bend Sable three bucks’ heads
caboshed Argent. His family and name are now, I take it, both extinct.
In the time of Charles II. this property came by purchase to Lord
Robartes.
[Mr. Hals adds a fanciful derivation of this name; but since “doon”
and “din” are well known to signify a place tenable either by nature
or art, and “ick” is unquestionably water, Tre-din-ick will be either
the fortified town, or the hill town, near a river.]
Trevorder, meaning the further town, or the one most distant; also
Trevorder Bickin, the far-off beacon-town, belonged to the Carmynews
of Fentongellon, having come to them by the heiress of Trenowith, as
Trenowith had acquired it by the heiress of Tregago. It passed by sale
from the Carmynews to Vyell, and has subsequently split between six
coheiresses, who married Prideaux, Vyvyan, Dennis, Grensill, Rinden,
and Smith.
TONKIN.
Mr. Tonkin has not any thing worth inserting that differs from Mr.
Hals, except perhaps his etymology of the name Dunveth, a place
belonging once to Tredinick, and situated near the churchyard, and
therefore named the hill of graves; beth being a grave in Welch and
Cornish, and the labials b and v perpetually changing into each other.
THE EDITOR.
This parish measures 6875 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 6910 0 0
The Poor Rate in 1831 776 14 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 962 | 998 | 1225 | 1450;
being an increase of rather more than 50 per cent. in 30 years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. W. Molesworth, presented in 1816 by Sir W.
Molesworth, Bart.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
On the north and north-eastern parts of this parish, in the vicinity
of the Camel, the land is fertile, resting on a rock which sometimes
resembles a calcareous schist, but more commonly that kind of
clay-slate which abounds in the calcareous series. This slate at
Penquean splits into very thin leaves, and is then quarried as a
roofing slate, but is softer and has less lustre, and is not so
durable as that raised at Delabole near Camelford. The south and
south-western parts of the parish consist of barren downs; the rock
forming the substratum is, however, very similar in appearance to what
occurs in the other division; but it contains more silex and is less
laminated, does not easily cleave, and is less susceptible of
decomposition than the former, and therefore produces only a meagre,
arenaceous soil.
ST. BREOCK IN KERRIER, or BREAGE.
HALS.
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