Kelly's Directory 1906 Warleggon is a parish and village, on the Temple stream, 5
miles north-east from Bodmin Road station on the 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; net
yearly value £139, including 19 acres of Glebe, with residence, in the
gift of F. G. P. Remfry esq., and held since 1901 by the Rev. Carlton
Olive M. A., of Exeter College, Oxford. Here are Bible Christian and
Wesleyan chapels. Lord Vivian, who is lord of the manor, and Frederick
Ernest Remfry esq., 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 2,151 acres of
land and 6 of water; rateable value, £1,413; population in 1901 was 233. |
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