Post Office Directory of 1856 for South Hill Parish

South Hill Parish

Extract from the Post Office Directory 1856

Description. After details of exact location and a description of the church (see page on Church & Chapel) there is the following:-

There is a chapel for Wesleyans at Golberdon, in the parish. There is a large National School at Callington, maintained by subscription; there is a village school, for poor children, at South Hill, endowed with £5 per year from a farm in the parish; and there is a Sunday school held at the church. There are several copper, lead and silver mines in the neighbourhood, and an ancient British encampment called Catsonbury , in the parish of St Ive. The population, in 1851, was 730, and the acreage is 3,459. The soil is on the whole slate and trap; the sub soil is slate and trap rock. Lord Ashburton is lord of the manor, who, with William Strode, Esq., Captain Pode, and William Horndon, Esq., is chief landowner. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and pasture. There are charities of £5 yearly value to the school, and £10 yearly for the labouring poor who do not receive parochial relief; the £5 left by the Knill family, and the £10 by the Hawkings, of Treven, in the parish.

The chief hamlets are, Madus, Mornick, Golbordon and Treoigro. Manaton, Stockaton, Trefinick, Treven, Tregunnet and Trewassick are farms here.

Rice	Rev Horatio MBA JP		Rectory
Traders
bunt	Mary (Mrs)	Farmer	Mornick
clemo	Jeremiah	Farmer	Landsugle
coad	Samuel	Farmer	Trewassick
cook	George	Farmer	Woodland
dawe	William	Farmer	Tregunnet
dunstan	William	Farmer	Meaders
harding	William	Farmer	Cadapit
harvey	Abizer	Farmer	Trewoodlow
hockin	William	Farmer	Meaders
jenkin	John	Machine maker	Golburn
moorshead	John	Farmer	Meaders
mutton	John	Farmer	Meaders
rich	John	New Inn	Golburn
rickard	John	Farmer	Furzedown
rosevear	George	Farmer	Trevigro
rowe	John	Butcher	Golburn
rowe	William	Blacksmith	Golburn
rowell	Thomas	Farmer	Newlandcombe
sanders	Thomas	Farmer	Mornick
sleep	John	Farmer	Meaders
tonkin	Joel	Farmer	Meaders
trease	John	Grocer & farmer	Mornick
trehane	John Honey		Stockaton
veal	John	Honey	Penwarden
wenmouth	Richard	Honey	Treconner
widger	Sampson	Honey	Golburn
School Mrs Elizabeth White, mistress

Source: Transcribed by me from an original copy at Liskeard Library. The complete directory is now available from CD Archive. Lynda Small.