Post Office Cornwall Directory 1873 Warleggan is a parish and village, 5 miles from Bodmin Road
railway station, 6 north-east from Bodmin, in the Eastern division of
the county, hundred of West, Bodmin union and county court district,
rural deanery of West,Cornwall archdeaconry, and Exeter diocese,
situated on the Temple stream. The church (name unknown) is an ancient
building in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave and
south porch and a square tower containing 1 bell. The register dates
from the year 1542. The living is a rectory; yearly value £170, with
residence and 19 acres of Glebe land, held by the Rev. Dalston Clements,
B.A., of Queens College, Canbridge, who is also the vicar of Temple, in
which the church is ruinous, though the church-yard is still used. G. F.
Remfry esq, who is lord of the manor, and Lord Vivian, are the chief
landowners. The soil is peat and clay loam; the subsoil is part granite
and part clay-slate. The chief crops are barley and oats, with some
wheat. The area is 2,055 acres; gross estimated rental, £1,616; rateable
value, £1,512; and the population in 1871 was 301. |
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