This parish measures (including Helston) 12,317 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815, Helston included 8870 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831, The Parish £1766 8 0 } 2656 5 0 Helston 889 17 0 } Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, Wendron { 3006 | 3555 | 4193 | 4780 Helston { 2248 | 2297 | 2671 | 3293 { ----------|----------|----------|--------- { 5254 | 5852 | 6869 | 8073 giving an increase on the Parish of 59, on the Town 46½, on both together 53½,――per cent. in 30 years. THE GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE. About two-thirds of this extensive parish is situated on granite, which is the same as that of Camborne, Crowan, and Sithney adjoining; the other third, which forms the southern part of the parish, is composed of slate rocks, which near the granite are felspathic, and clearly referrible to the porphyritic series; but as the sea is approached, the character of these slates becomes obscure, such as they generally are whenever the porphyritic and calcareous series pass into each other. GWINEAR. HALS. Is situate in the hundred of Penwith, and hath upon the north Gwythian, west Phelack, south Crowan and St. Erth, east Camburne. In the Domesday Tax this district passed under the jurisdiction either of Caerton in Crowan, Lewellen in Gwythian, or Hella in Camburne. In the Inquisstion of the Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln into the value of Cornish Benefices, 20th Edward I. 1294, Ecclesia de Sancto Winer in decanatu de Penwid, was valued cxiii_s._ iiii_d._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition, 1521, it is valued 12_l._ by the same name of Winer. The patronage in the Bishop of Exeter, who endowed it. The Incumbent Thomas Paynter. The Rectory, or garbe sheaf, in possession of Howell, under lease from Exeter College, Oxford. And the parish rated to the 4_s._ per pound Land Tax, 1696, 147_l._ 7_s._ 2_d._ by the name of Gwiniar. Lanyon, in this parish, a seat of the Lanyons, the first propagators of this family in Cornwall, came, with many other French gentlemen, into England, with Isabella, wife of King Edward II. and settled themselves in those parts; amongst which Lanyon’s posterity have ever since flourished in gentle degree in Cornwall; and for further proof of this matter, that originally they came from the town of Lanyon, situate upon a sea-haven, or harbour, in France, they give still the arms of that town for their paternal coat armour, viz. in a field Sable, a castle Argent, standing on waves of the sea Azure, over the same a falcon hovering with bells. The present possessor, Tobias Lanyon, Gent. that married Pineck; his father Reynolds.