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Lanivet is a township, parish, and
village, included within the parliamentary borough of
Bodmin, from which town it is 3 miles south-west, in the
Eastern division of the county, hundred of Pydar, Bodmin
union and county court district, rural deanery of Pydar,
Cornwall archdeaconry, and Exeter diocese, situated on
the turnpike road from Bodmin to Truro. The church (name
unknown) is an old building, in the Early Perpendicular
style, has chancel, nave, aisles, porch, and tower
containing 6 bells: there is a handsome marble monument
to the Rev. N. Phillips, B.C.L.: the church was restored
and reseated in 1869; a fine organ was subscribed for
and erected at the same time. The register dates from
the year 1670. The living is a rectory, yearly value
£678, with residence and 40 acres of glebe land, in the
gift of Henry Borrow esq., and held by the Rev. Henry
John Borrow, M.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
There is a Charity school for boys and girls, which
receives £80 from the rent of parish lands, which
amounts to £156 yearly, £10 is applied to apprenticing,
and £66 is distributed in bread and fuel. There are six
chapels – three for Wesleyans and three for Bible
Christians. Part of the population is engaged in mining,
there being tin and iron mines in the parish. The
remains of an old house (St. Benet’s) were restored and
repaired in 1844, and now form the residence of Capt.
Charles Eldon Serjeant: the original tower of the chapel
still remains. Lord Robartes, and Peter Hoblyn and John
Henwood esqrs. are chief landowners. The chief crops are
barley and oats, and there are extensive moorlands. The
area is 5,396 acres; gross estimated rental £5,915,
rateable value £5,354; the population is 1871 was 1,196.
Parish clerk, William Marshall
POST OFFICE – Elizabeth Thorn.
Letters from Bodmin arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 3.50
p.m. The nearest money order office is at Bodmin.
Registrar of births and deaths, Jacob Thomas.
SCHOOLS :-
National, Sampson Downing, master; Mrs. Downing,
mistress.
Infants, Mrs. Leuty, mistress.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS
Borrow, Rev. Hen. John, M.A., Rectory
Henwood, John, Tremoor
Murley, Rev. Daniel, [Bible Christian]
Serjeant, Capt. Charles Eldon, St. Benet’s
COMMERCIAL
Allen, Pharoah, miller, Reperry
Barron, John, farmer, Trekillick
Bate, John, coach builder
Bray, John, farmer, Newton
Bray, William, farmer, Reperry
Bullock, Richard, carpenter
Bunt, Hezekiah, farmer, Tremabin
Eyre, Henry, blacksmith
Fowler, William, farmer, Sanders Hill
Gatley, Thomas, farmer, Clan
Grose, Walter, farmer, Tremayle
Hambley, Richard, mine agent
Hambley, Thomas, mine captain
Hawken, William, farmer, Rose Warrick
Hendy, Anthony, farmer, Trebell
Hendy, Ezekiel, farmer, Trebell
Hick, Daniel, farmer, Penburthen
Hick, Sampson, farmer, Penburthen
Hick, Walter, farmer, Lesquite
Higgs, William, farmer, Fenton
Honey, Samuel, carpenter
Hugo, Thomas, mason
Johns, Edward, farmer, Tretoil
Johns, William, farmer, Nanstallon
Julian, Frederick, farmer, Tremoor
Julian, Thomas, farmer, Bodwanick
Keet, Charles John, farmer, Treguller
Knight, James, farmer, Rosewarrick
Knight, Richard, farmer, Bodwanick
Leuty, Eliza Ann (Mrs.), schoolmistress
Lewarne, John, farmer, St. Ingungar
Lewis, Joseph, farmer, Mena
Locke, John, beer retailer, Benton Pitts
Locke, John, blacksmith
Manhinick, Alexander, farmer, Higher Hill Head
Marshall, John, farmer, Tremoor
Marshall, John Charles, shopkeeper
Marshall, Wm., farmer, Church Town
Marshall, William jun., farmer, Lower Reperry
Masters, Edwd., farmer, Lower Hill Head
Masters, Stephen, famer, Hill Head
Morris, James, farmer, Cadwin
Morris, Thomas, farmer, Bokiddick
Mutton, John, farmer, Foxhole
Nute, Robert, farmer, Lamorrick
Nute, Robert, shopkeeper
Pascoe, Robt., farmr & millr, Hooper’s Bridge
Phillips, John, farmer, Bokiddick
Phillips, William, farmer, Bokiddick
Phillips, William, farmer, Trebell
Profit, Thomas, carpenter
Retallick, James, farmer, Tremoor
Retallick, James jun., farmer, Woodley
Saunders, James, farmer, Tregullon
Sobye, Charles, farmer, Treliggon
Sobye, Philip Bennet, boot & shoe mkr
Solomon, Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Higher Woodley
Solomon, William, farmer, St. Ingunger
Sowden, William, miller
Stephens, William, farmer, Tredenham
Stick, James, farmer, Reperry
Stutheridge, Thomas, Prince of Wales
Tank, Edward, Lanivet Inn, cattle dealer, seed merchant
& c
Tenney, John, carpenter
Thomas, Henry, farmer, St. Gelly
Thomas, Jacob, farmer, St. Gelly
Thomas, John, farmer, Bokiddick
Thomas, William, farmer, Cadwin
Thomas, William, farmer, Mulberry
Verran, Richard, blacksmith
Verran, Walter, blacksmith
Wevil, Richard, farmer, Laninval
Williams, William, farmer, Bokiddick
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