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Kelly's Directory of Devon and Cornwall 1914LANLIVERY RURAL is a parish and
village, on the road from St Austell to Bodmin, and
bounded on the east by the river Fowey, nearly 2 miles
west from Lostwithiel station and 2 miles east from
Luxulion station, on the Great Western railway 6 miles
south from Bodmin and 7 north-east from St Austell, in
the South Eastern division of the county, East division
of the hundred of Powder, petty sessional division of
Powder Tywardreath, Bodmin Union and county court
district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bodmin and
diocese of Truro. Under the provisions of the “Local
Government Act 1894” the ancient civil parish of
Lanlivery was, in 1894, divided into two civil parishes,
Urban and Rural, the former being that part of the
parish in Lostwithiel Municipal borough. By Local
Government Board Order, No. 34.901, March 25th 1896, the
Urban parish was added to Lostwithiel civil parish. The
church of St. Brevita is a fine building of granite, in
the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of
six bays, south porch, south aisle, north transept and a
very fine embattled western tower, with pinnacles,
containing eight bells: the east window is stained, and
there are memorial windows to Nicholas Kendall Esq. of
Pelyn, sometime M.P. for East Cornwall (1878), the Rev.
Francis John Hext Kendall, vicar of Talland (1874), and
to Edward Richard Foster Esq., of Castle, (1869); there
are many monuments, some elaborate and costly, to the
Kendall family, including a brass with effigy to Jane,
daughter of Nicholas Kendall Esq. (1643): there are some
remains of a rood loft: the church was restored during
1878-91, at a cost of £867, and affords 335 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1583. The living is a
vicarage, net yearly value £200, with residence and 24 ½
acres of glebe, in the gift of Nicholas Kendall esq. and
held since 1908 by the Rev. William Edward Wynne B.A. of
Trinity College, Dublin. Here is a Wesleyan Chapel, and
another at Pennant, and there are United Methodists
chapels at Sweets House, erected in 1877, with 180
sittings, and at Redmoor, with 120 sittings. Near Helman
Tor, Lanlivery is a fallen cromlech, consisting chiefly
of one huge monolith, propped up at one end by another
of smaller dimensions. Charities of £18 are distributed
yearly. Castle, the property of Richard Foster esq.,
J.P.of Lanwithan, is a mansion of stone and granite,
beautifully situated in a well-wooded park, 1 mile south
of Lostwithiel, and is at present occupied by Count
Eluhart von Fabrice. The trustees of the late Nicholas
Kendall (d.1888), who are lords of the manor, the Duchy
of Cornwall, Viscount Clifden, the Earl of Mount
Edgcumbe P.C., D.C.L., L.L. John Cosmo Stuart Rashleigh
esq. of Menabilly, Tywardreath, and Richard Foster esq.,
of Lanwithan, St. Winnow, are the principal landowners.
The soil is light, with a great deal of granite, and
near the Fowey, ironstone; subsoil, slate. The chief
crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 6,486
acres of land, 11 of water, 5 of tidal water, and 10 of
foreshore; rateable value, £6,893; the population in
1911 was 607 in the civil, and 1,055 in the
ecclesiastical parish. PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Lanlivery (mixed), built of granite, with master’s
residence, in 1877, for 120 children; average
attendance, 74; Richard Blewett, master; Miss Helena
Higgs, assistant mistress. PRIVATE RESIDENTS Marked thus * receive letters through Bodmin. COMMERCIAL Algar, William, farmer, Lancrow Return to Lanlivery Parish Page
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