The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Every attempt to decipher Tehidy has utterly failed. Mr. Angowe, who
has been brought forward by Mr. Hals in a manner not likely to acquire
for him much respect from posterity, resided at Trevenson, and left a
son, Mr. Abel Angowe. This gentleman was for some time a student at
Oxford, but ultimately preferred the law as an attorney. He married
Jane, daughter of Mr. Henry Phillips, of Carnequidden in Gulval, who
lived but a very short time; and Mr. Angowe died in consequence of a
fall from his horse about the year 1767. His large property became
divided among a great many distant relations, and has almost entirely
disappeared. The Angowes held Trevenson on lease for lives; the
freehold being in the families of Basset and Praed. Mr. Thomas Kivell,
steward to Lord Dunstanville, built a very excellent house there about
the year 1800, which has been still further improved by his successor
in the stewardship, Mr. Reynolds.
Menwinnion existed for centuries as a second house and appendage to
Tehidy; but it is now reduced in size, and converted to a farm.
Few parishes in Cornwall have flourished in an equal degree with
Illogan. It has abounded in the most productive mines of copper; the
dense population consequent to these great sources of employment has
covered the tracts formerly waste, with houses, with gardens, and with
cultivated fields; and a safe harbour has been constructed at
Portreath, for the reception of vessels engaged in the reciprocal
trade of exporting annually more than a hundred thousand tons of
copper ore to Swansea, and of bringing to Cornwall a still larger
quantity of coal.
And lastly, on the 25th of October 1809, when a jubilee was held all
over England, on the epoch of King George the Third commencing the
fiftieth year of his reign, Lord Dunstanville laid the first bar of an
iron tram road, for extending far into the country the facilities
afforded by this harbour and port, which has since been done;
notwithstanding a most illiberal attempt by persons interested in the
trade on the opposite coast, to convert a local Act of Parliament for
improving turnpike roads, the sole object of which must be to render
the conveyance of individuals and of property less expensive and more
commodious, into the means of obstructing this great improvement. See
the Journals of the House of Commons for the year 1817, and
particularly on the 16th of May.
But these, and all other improvements in Illogan, and its general
prosperity, are mainly owing to the continued residence, during six
centuries, of one of the most distinguished among those families,
which, having entered England in hostile array, assimilated themselves
to its laws, its customs, and its institutions; and have been found,
in all succeeding ages, the foremost defenders of its liberties and of
its independence.
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