LELANT or Uny
Lelant is a township and parish, 6 miles north-east from
Penzance railway station, 1 from St. Erth station on the West
Cornwall railway, in the western division, Penwith Hundred,
Penzance Union, Penwith deanery, Cornwall archdeaconry, Exeter
bishopric, West Cornwall. The church is an old stone building;
has a nave, three aisles, chapel, transept, several mural
monuments, a font, and a square embattled tower containing 6
bells. The living is a vicarage, with Towednack annexed, worth
£440 yearly, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter; the Rev.
Uriah Tonkin, M.A., is the incumbent. There is a school for
boys and girls, also a Sunday school held at the church. A fair
is held on the 15th of August, yearly, for cattle. Theer are
numerous ruins in this parish. The population, in 1851, was
2,290. The soil is gravelly; the subsoil is killas and granite.
William Batter[n] Praed,. Esq., is lord
of the manor and chief landowner. The chief crops are wheat.
Trevethoe is half a mile distant, and is the seat of William
Batten Praed, Esq. The following mines are at work in this
parish:—Wheal Margery, Providence and South Providence,
East Wheal Margaret, Wheal Kitty, Lelant Consols, Wheal Mary,
and Wheal Wreath.
Gunwyn and Trink are hamlets.
Longstone, Lock, Wasthway, Trencroom, Trevarrack, Trewartha, Trewellse, Trembethow, Polpear, Boskerras, Trink, Laity, Withen, Minner, Ninnis, Vorves, Carbis, Griggs, Brunnion, and Carntiscoe are places here.
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GENTRY. Andrew Mr. Waldron Hawes Mr. Sampson Praed William Betten, esq. Trewellese Tonkin Rev. Uriah, M.A., J.P. Vicarage TRADERS. Anthony Capt. Arundel, mine agent Anthony John, mine agent Arthur Henry, farmer, Trencron Arthur William, farmer, Longstone Bamfield Thomas, farmer, Trevarrack Bennett Robert, farmer, Boskerras Bennetts Edmund, farmer, Trink Boddinar William, beer retailer Bottrall William, farmer Brush John, farmer Bryant Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Bryant William, shoemaker Carbines Alexander, farmer, Laity Carbines Nicholas, farmer Carbinis Nicholas, shopkeeper & carpenter Carbinis Thomas, grocer Card Henry, farmer, Lock Christopher Andrew, farmer, Gunwyn Christopher William, farmer |
Cornow John, farmer Cooper John, farmer & gardener Cooper Thomas, farmer & gardener Cooper William, farmer & gardener Dunn Richard, farmer, Trink Eddy William, farmer, Withen Edwards Absolom, farmer, Boskerras Edwards Thomas, farmer, Minner Friggens John, farmer Glasson Joseph, farmer, Polpear Harris John, farmer, Ninnes Hawes Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hicks Thomas, farmer, Carn Hocken Ann (Mrs.), ‘Praed’s Arms’ Hocking James, farmer, Gunwyn Hocks John, farmer, Trencrom Holland William, mine agent Hollow James, mine broker Hollow Richard, mine agent Hollow William, mine agent Hosking Andrew, farmer, Gunwyn Hosking Martin, gardener Hosking Mary (Mrs.), farmer Hosking Richard, farmer, Gunwyn James Henry, farmer, Trencrom James Thomas, farmer & gardener James William, farmer |
Jennings Margaret (Mrs.), shopkeeper Jennings Robert, farmer, Vorves Johns John, carpenter Letcher Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Martin William, farmer, Trewartha Michell Sampson, farmer, Trevarrack Nicholas John, farmer Pearce John, shopkeeper Pearce Richard, farmer Penberthy Charles, farmer, Carbis Penberthy James, farmer, Vorves Penberthy James, farmer, Wasthway Permewan Nicholas, farmer, Trewellse Perry Capt. farmer & mine agent Perry Daniel, farmer, Chyangewel Quick John, farmer, Trink Quick Matthew, farmer, Trink Quick William, farmer, Trencrom Richards Bernard, farmer Richards Charles, farmer, Venweyn Richards Elija, farmer, Trencrom Sandow James, farmer, & registrar of births, deaths & marrgs. Trembethow Sandow William, farmer, Trembethow Soddy John, mine clerk Soddy William John, mine agent Sprigg Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper |
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Stevens John, coal agent, Griggs Thomas Simon, mine agent Thomas William, farmer, Wheal Wreeth Trevorrow John, shopkeeper Trewhella —, farmer, Brunnion |
Trewhells Martin, farmer, Brunnion Trewhella Matthew, farmer, Brunnion Trewhella Thomas, mine agent Tyack Thomas, farmer, Carn Uren Francis, farmer, Wasthway |
Uren William, farmer, Carntiscoe Wearne Edwin, shopkeeper Williams Henry, shoemaker Letters through hayle. The nearest money order office is at Camborne |
©2004 (last updated 7 Apr 2004) Rick Parsons, Bristol, England
