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Menheniot entries in Kelly's Directory of Cornwall, 1889

MENHENIOT is a township, village and parish, 3 miles south-east from Liskeard and 261 from London, having a station on the Cornwall (Great Western) railway, 1 mile south from the village, in the South Eastern division of the county, hundred of East, petty sessional division of West, 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 £986, including £34 payable from Coldrinninck in St. Germans, net yearly value £750, including 20 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the rector and scholars of Exeter College, Oxford, by exchange in 1884 and held since 1887 by the Rev. Charles Edward Hammond 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. The manorial rights have been distributed ; the principal landowners are Edmund Hambly esq. Major-Gen. J. Jago-Trelawney J.P. of Coldrenick, George Honey esq. and Trehawke Kekewich esq D.L., J.P. of Peamore, Exeter. The soil is loamy with a stony bottom. The chief crops are grass, wheat, barley,oats &c. The area is 6997 acres ; rateable value £10,022 ; the population in 1881 was 1,273.
Merrymeet is a village 2 ½ miles north
Parish Clerk, George Hallett
POST &M.O.O., S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office – John Wills, postmaster. Letters received through Liskeard, arrive at 7.40 a.m. : dispatched at 4.30 p.m. ; Sundays, delivered 7.40 a.m. ; dispatched 9.35 a.m. The telegraph office is at the railway station.
WALL LETTER BOX, Merrymeet, cleared 5pm ; not Sundays
SCHOOLS : -
National (mixed), originally built in 1835, burnt down and re-erected in 1885 for 150 children; average attendance, 107 ; George Hallett, master
National (mixed), Merrymeet, built in 1842 for 130 children ; average attendance 70 ; Charles Dennis O'Donaghue, master
Railway Station, William Mugford, station master

 
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