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Return to Menheniot Parish Page Menheniot entries in Kelly's Directory of Cornwall,, 1883MENHENIOT is a township, village and parish, 3 miles south-east from Liskeard and 261 from London, having a station on the Great Western railway, 1 mile south from the village, in the South Eastern division of the county, hundred of East, union and county court district of Liskeard, rural deanery of East, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The church of St. Neot is an ancient building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches and a western tower 45 feet high, with spire and containing 5 bells, all cast in 1739, except the second, which is dated 1842; in 1887 they were rehung and a new one added : the west window of the south aisle is stained : on the floor of the nave near the chancel steps is an inscribed brass to Sir Ralph Carmynow kt. ob 9 Oct 1386 ; he was sheriff of the county in 1378-9 and M.P. for Cornwall in 1383, 1384, and 1386; according to the visitation of 1620, he was killed while hunting : there are other brasses to the Seccombe family, 1855-66 and Beatrice Doidge, 1859 ; and memorials to Augustine Question M.A. vicar, d. 1753 ; Lady Charlotte Carr, daughter of James, 14th Earl of Errol, d. 1801 ; Rev. W.H. Carr, vicar d. 1836 ; to the family of Trelawney 1724-1813 ; and to Lud. Stephens M.A. 40 years vicar d. 1724 : the font of Caen and Bath stone is octagonal : there are 420 sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1554 ; marriages 1536. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £1,134, including £34 payable from Coldrinninck in St. Germans and 20 acres of glebe; the net value is about £800: the Dean and Chapter of Exeter are patrons, but pursuant to the directions of the donor (Courtenay, archbishop of Canterbury in 1381), must nominate one who is or has been a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford : the vicar appointed in 1883, is the Rev. Louis Woollcombe M.A., formerly fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. On the south side of the parish is a rugged oblong mound called "Clicker Tor", composed of dark compact serpentine, a formation favourable to the growth of a peculiar species of heath Erica Vagans, which is found here as well as at the Lizard. Edmund Hambly esq is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Charles Trelawney esq, George Honey esq and T. Kekewich esq : northward of the church are silver lead mines : the parish is very fertile especially for wheat. The soil is loamy with a stony bottom. The chief crops are grass, wheat, barley,oats &c. The area is 6997 acres ; rateable value £11,844 ; the population in 1881 was 1,373. Merrymeet is a village 2 ½ miles north POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank – John Wills,
postmaster. Letters received through Liskeard, arrive at 7.30 a.m. : dispatched
at 4.5 p.m. ; Sundays, delivered 7.40 a.m. ; dispatched 9.35 a.m. The telegraph
office is at the railway station.
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