Kelly’s Directory of Cornwall 1873

GULVAL is a parish, township and village, 1 mile north-east from Penzance, and 2 west from Marazion, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Penwith, Penzance union and county court district, rural deanery of Penwith, Cornwall archdeaconry, and Exeter diocese. The church of St. Gulwal is of the fifteenth century, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle and porch, north transept, and square embattled tower with pinnacles, containing 3 bells: it was reseated and partially restored in 1857 at a cost of about £600[?] which was raised by subscription: the windows are nearly all of stained glass, some of them being very elaborate; there is also a piscina, and a very curious old monument, erected in 1627, to the Davills family. The register dates from the year 1600. The living is a vicarage, £365 yearly rent-charge, with residence and 20 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. William Wriothesley Wingfield B.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. There are board schools for boys and girls, which are supported by Government grant, board rates, and school pence; and at Carfury is another school for both sexes, which was built by the Misses Carne, and is supported by Government grant and children’s pence. There are three chapels for Wesleyans, and two for Bible Christians. There are charities of about £28 yearly value. Here are extensive ice works, which were built by Frederick Ashwell, esq., and fitted with Harrison’s patent machinery by Siddeley and Mackay, and which are capable of producing 60 tons of ice per week. Trevayler is the seat of Mrs. Ley; Rosemorran, of Mrs. Johns; Pendrea, of Sir John St. Aubyn, bart., M.P.; and Ponsandane, of Richard Foster Bolitho, esq. T. S. Bolitho esq. who is lord of the manor, Miss John, and John Trevelyan, esq, are chief landowners. The soil near the sea is chiefly killas, and is extremely productive, while on the higher side it is rather gravelly, with a subsoil of clay. The chief crops are vegetables for the London and other markets; potatoes and broccoli are grown on the lower ground, a large portion of the higher being in dairy farm; a little wheat, with oats barley and roots, are grown. The area is 4,547 acres (190 of which are water); rateable value, £7,025; and the population in 1871 was 1,668.

Ding-Dong mine, is in this parish: it is one of the oldest in Cornwall, and is still worked.

Post Office, Trevarrack.—Thomas Bond Tredrea, receiver. Letters, through Penzance, arrive at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at 2.40 p.m. Penzance is the nearest money order office

National School, George Spanner, master; Mrs. Spanner, mistress

Carfury School, Miss Emma Smith, mistress

Police Inspector (of the Penwith western division), George Pappin, Chyandour