Kelly's Directory 1873

SOUTH HILL PARISH

ST. IVE (locally pronounced St Eve) is a parish and village, 4½ miles east-north-east from Liskeard, and 4½ miles west-south-west from Callington, in the Eastern division of the County, middle division of the hundred of East, Liskeard Union and county court district, rural  deanery of East, archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, situated on the turnpike road from Callington to Liskeard and Bodmin, between the rivers Lynher and Tidi. The church of St Ivo is a handsome medieval building, partly in the Perpendicular and partly in the Decorated style; the chancel was restored in 1845, since which time other improvements have been made in the church; it has a chancel, nave, south aisle, north transcept, and granite tower with a cluster of three pinnacles at each angle, a massive south porch, a beautiful decorated east window, 5 bells, a monument to the Wrey family, date 1597, three handsome sedila, and on each side of the east window a particulary rich niche; there is a memorial window inserted 1852, on the south side of the chancel. The registers date from the year 1685. The living is a rectory, yearly value £437, with about 180 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Crown, and held by the Rev. Reginald Hobhouse, M A of Balliol College, Oxford. There is a National school for boys and girls in the village, as well as an Infant school. There are two chapels for Wesleyans, two for Bible Christians, and a United Methodist Church. There are charities of £12. 8s yearly value. In the south-east corner of this parish is a curious isolated hill, washed at its bases on two sides by the river Lynher; on its summit is an ancient encampment, probably British, called Cadson Bury. The Glasgow Caradon and the Great Caradon mines are in this parish. Sir Bourbier Wrey, bart., who is lord of the manor, Lady Ashburton, D Collins esq., Col. A Coryton, J P., W D Horndon esq., J P., and George Strode, esq., are the chief landowners. The soil is free and light clay; subsoil, clay slate. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is 5,780 acres; gross estimated rental, £6,192; rateable value, £5,???; and the population in 1861 was 2,952.

Pensilva is a large village, inhabited entirely by miners, where there is a school licensed for divine service.

Parish Clerk, William Pollard.

Post Office. John Williams, postmaster. Letters through Liskeard at 8.10.am; dispatached at 2.45.pm. Liskeard and Callington are the nearest money order offices.

Post Office. Pensilva. Richard Browning, postmaster.

Schools. National, Church Town, Alfred Burden, ,aster; Mrs Elizabeth Rowe, mistress.

National, Pensilva, William Edward Kneebone, master; Mrs Ann Bray, mistress; Miss Elizabeth Bray, infants mistress.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS

HOBHOUSE  -  Rev. Reginald MA  -  Rectory  - 

HODGE  -  Rev. William Henry  -  Pensilva  -  Curate

POLLARD  -  William  -    -   

COMMERCIAL

AIRE  -  George  -  Higher Crift  -  Farmer

ANDREW  -  George  -  Low. Keason  -  Farmer

ANDREW  -  Robert  -  Great Leigh  -  Farmer

BALL  -  Anthony  -  Bicton Mill  -  miller

BALL  -  James  -  Bicton Mill  -  Miller

BATH  -  Thomas  -  Tremeer  -  Farmer

BENNETT  -  William  -  Ludcott  -  Farmer

BOND  -  John  -  Heathfield  -  Farmer

BROWN  -  Edward  -  Woodcockseye  -  Farmer

BROWNING  -  Richard  -  Pensilva  -  Shopkeeper & postmaster

BUDGE  -  Edward  -  Bodmin Land  -  Farmer

CANNON  -  George  -  Dinnerdake  -  Farmer

CANNON  -  William James  -  Hay  -  Farmer

CARPENTER  -  Frederick  -  Trebeigh  -  Farmer

CHAPMAN  -  Richard  -  Low. Woolston  -  Farmer

COAD  -  John  -  Tillamoor  -  Farmer

COCK  -  Nicholas  -  Slade  -  Farmer

CRABB  -  Stephen  -  Cross  -  Manager Co  -  operative Store

DAVEY  -  George  -  Trevallack  -  Farmer

DELBRIDGE  -  John  -  Hay  -  Farmer

DELBRIDGE  -  Wm.  -  Little Woolston  -  Farmer

DENNIS  -  Matthew  -  Church Town  -  Carpenter

DENNIS  -  William Stephen  -  Glebe Land  -  Farmer

DINGLE  -  John  -  Cholwell  -  farm bailiff to T T Golding, esq.

DOWNING  -  William  -  Cargibbet  -  Farmer

DRAKE  -  Thomas  -  Midwood  -  Farmer

GOODMAN  -  James  -  Woodfield  -  Farmer

GROSE  -  John  -  Appledore  -  Farmer

HAWKEN  -  Joseph  -  Moordown  -  Carpenter

HIGMAN  -  John  -  Sleeve  -  Farmer

HOSKIN  -  Richard  -  Silva cross  -  Victoria Inn

HURRELL  -  Nathanial  -  Durnaford  -  Farmer

JANE  -  William  -  Fursenapp  -  Farmer

JEFFERY  -  Jane Mrs.  -  Middlehill  -  Farmer

KEAST  -  William  -  Gate  -  Farmer

LAWRY  -  William  -  Slade park  -  Farmer

MARTIN  -  Richard  -  Newbridge  -  blacksmith

MUTTON  -  Edmund  -  Penharget  -  Farmer

MUTTON  -  William  -  Parkfield  -  shoemaker

MUTTON  -  William  -  Middlehill  -  farmer & butcher

OLVER  -  Wm  -  Church Town  -  Butchers Arms

PRIDEAUX  -  Thomas  -  Trevallack  -  Farmer

RICHARDS  -  John  -  Ford  -  Farmer

RICKARD  -  Jsph  -  Lower Penquite  -  Farmer

ROGERS  -  Absalom  -  Slade park  -  Farmer

SAMBELL  -  Benjamin  -  Lower Crift  -  Farmer

SLEEMAN  -  John  -  Scrawsdon  -  Farmer

SNELL  -  John  -  Penquite  -  Farmer

STATTON  -  John  -  Thornton  -  Farmer

STEELE  -  Henry  -  Bicton    -  Farmer

STEPHENS  -  John  -  Gang  -  Farmer

STEPHENS  -  Wm  -  West Trevallack  -  Farmer

STEVENS  -  Josiah  -  Tremeer  -  Farmer

STONE  -  William  -  Cadson  -  Farmer

TAYLOR  -  Wm. Jhn.  -  Tokenbury  -  mine agent

TAYLOR  -  Wm.   -  Tokenbury  -  mine agent

WARNE  -  Matthew  -  Ashlake  -  Farmer

WENMOTH  -  Nicholas  -  Dinnerdake  -  Farmer

WERRY  -  John  -  Venn  -  Farmer

WHITLOCK  -  John  -  Higher Charaton  -  Farmer

WHITLOCK  -  William  -  Byewood  -  Farmer

WILLIAMS  -  John  -  postmaster  -  Farmer

This transcription is taken from a scanned copy of an original directory kindly supplied  by Alan Rowland

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