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)
One part of the parish is drowned in the sands, and that promontory of
land is called Kelsey, famous for feeding the sweetest mutton (though
but small) in England.
THE EDITOR.
This parish contains 2009 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 2552 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 185 2 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 269 | 289 | 322 | 487
giving an increase of 81 per cent. in 30 years.
The parish feast is celebrated on the Sunday next after the 4th of
October.
Present Vicar, the Rev. Thomas Stabback, instituted in 1809; he is
also patron of the vicarage.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
This parish is contiguous to Crantock, and has precisely the same
geological structure.
ST. CUBYE, alias TREGONY.
HALS.
Is situate in the hundred of Powdre, and hath upon the north Probus
and the Val river; east, St. Tue; west, Ruan Lanyhorne. This new name
is taken from the tutelar patron and guardian of this church after it
was erected; for in the Domesday Tax, 1087, this district passed under
the names of Trigony, Tregny, and Tregony Medan.
At the time of the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and
Winchester into the value of Cornish benefices, 1294, it was rated by
the name of Ecclesia de Tregny, cvi_s._ viii_d._ Vicar ibidem xx_s._
in dec. de Powdre. In Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, 10_l._ 4_s._ by the
name of St. Cuby and Januarius. The patronage formerly in the prior of
Bodman, who endowed it, now Prideaux; the incumbent Bedford; and the
parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, 91_l._ 13_s._
9_d._ The borough of Tregony 71_l._ 10_s._
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