Kelly's Directory 1893 Warleggan is a parish and village, on the Temple stream, 5
miles north-east from Bodmin Road station on the Cornwall (Great
Western) railway and 6 east-by-north from Bodmin, in the South Eastern
division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of West,
Bodmin union and county court district, rural deanery and arch-deaconry
of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The church of St Bartholomew is an
ancient building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of
chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower containing one bell:
there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1540. The
living is a rectory, average tithe rent charge £150, gross yearly value
£200, including 19 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of F. E.
Remfry esq., and held since 1878 by the Rev. William Edwin Remfrey, of
St Aidens, who resides at Higham, near Hadleigh, Suffolk. Here are Bible
Christian and Wesleyan chapels. Frederick Ernest Remfry esq, who is lord
of the manor, and Lord Vivian K.C.M.G, C.B., F.R.G.S, are the chief
landowners. The soil is peat and clayey loam; the subsoil is part
granite and part clay-slate. Then chief crops are barley and oats, with
some wheat. The area is 2,055 acres; rateable value, £1,433; the
population in 1881 was 232. |
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