This parish measures 7973 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815 6010 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831 2084 17 0 Population,――{ in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, { 1153 | 1237 | 1524 | 1608 giving an increase of 39½ per cent. in 30 years. Present Rector the Rev. C. Lethbridge, presented by the Prince of Wales in 1805. THE GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE. The southern part of this parish includes the whole of the granite of Kit Hill, which is for the most part of the coarse-grained crystalline variety so common in Cornwall. Proceeding northward, the rest of the parish is found to belong to the schistose rocks; those next to the granite are felspathic, and contain beds of porphyry, but those more remote, which form the greater part, must be referred to the calcareous series. STRATTON. HALS. Stratton is now situate in the hundred from thence denominated Stratton, (formerly Major Trigshire Cantred) and hath upon the north Powghill, east Lancells, south Marhamchurch, west Bude Bay and the Channel. As for the name, after the Saxon, it is compounded of Strat-ton, i. e. street or highway town, a lane or public road, derived perhaps from the Latin strata, a street or Roman highway; and by this name of Stratton, it is taxed in the Domesday Book 1087. In the Inquisition of the Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester aforesaid 1294, Ecclesia de Stratone, in decanatu de Major Trigshire, was rated £7. 13_s._ 4_d._ vicar’ ibidem 20_s._ In Wolsey’s Inquisition 1521, it was valued £10. 11_s._ 6½_d._ The patronage formerly in the prior of Lancells, who endowed it as I am informed; now ――――; the incumbent ――――; and the rectory in possession of ――――; and the parish rated to the four shillings per pound Land Tax 1696, £290. 18_s._ The town of Stratton is privileged with a weekly market on Tuesdays, and Fairs annually on the 8th of May, 28th of October, and 30th of November.