KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF DEVON & CORNWALL 1914
Part 3, Page 132-133 GODOLPHIN
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GODOLPHIN is a village and ecclesiastical parish, formed February 6,
1846, from the parish of St. Breage, and is 4 ½ miles north-west from Helston,
and 2 miles south from Nancegollan station on the Helston branch of the Great
Western railway, in the Truro division of the county, hundred of Kerrier, petty
sessional division of Kerrier West, Helston union and county court district,
rural deanery of Kerrier, archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Truro. The church of St. John the Baptist, erected
in 1851, is a building of stone with granite facings in the Gothic style,
consisting of chancel, lofty nave, aisles separated from the nave by arcades of
four arches, north porch and a small turret on the western gable containing two
bells; there are 400 sittings. The
register dates from the year 1846. The
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £195, with residence, in the gift of the
Crown and the Bishop of Truro alternately, and held since 1912 by the Rev.
Robert PRIOR M.A. of St. Peters College, Cambridge. There are Wesleyan Methodist and United
Methodist chapels at Trescowe.
Godolphin House, a quadrangular structure of granite, situated in a
large and well-wooded park and now occupied as a farm house, was the seat (cir.
1706), of the Earls of Godolphin, but the present building is only a
portion of the original. Charles II. it
is reported, slept here when on a journey to St. Michael’s Mount. Sir Francis Godolphin kt. M.P. for
Cornwall in 1588-9, was the first to introduce a stamping machine for tin ore
into Cornwall. A high lordship is paid
by the Duke of Leeds, the present owner, to the St. Aubyn family,
as reeve of the manor of Lamburne, to which family, failing an heir, the estate
returns. On Candlemas Day (February
2nd), before sunrise, the reeve must appear at the outer door and give three
distinct knocks, saying “Oh yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Here come I, the reeve of the
Manor of Lamburne, to demand my Lord’s dues: eight groats and a penny in money,
a loaf, a cheese, a collar of brawn and a jack of the best beer in the house;
God save the King and the Lord of the Manor.”
This must be repeated at the inner door and at the table in the hall,
after which his demand is satisfied. The population are chiefly engaged in
mining. The principal landowners are
the Duke of Leeds, Charles Trelawny, esq. and Lord Churston.
The soil is light, resting on granite and spar. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The population in 1911 was 724.
POST OFFICE, Godolphin Cross – Miss Catherine Rowe TYACKE,
sub-postmistress. Letters, through
Helston, arrive at 9.45 a.m & 3.20 p.m.; dispatched at 3.25 p.m.; no
delivery on Sundays. Helston is the
nearest money order office & Tawnsbend (?), 2 miles distant, the nearest
telegraph office.
POST OFFICE, Trescowe – Mrs Lucretia CARTER,
sub-postmistress. Letters through
Marazion, Cornwall, arrive at 10.20 a.m.; dispatched at 3.45 p.m.; no delivery
on Sundays. Goldsithney is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
Public Elementary School, Herland Cross (mixed), erected in 1876, for
160 children; average attendance, 70; John Mark COWLES, master.
CARRIER – William John POPE to Helston, on wed. & sat.; to Penzance, on thurs. returning same day.
PRIOR Rev. Robt. M.A. (Vicar), Vicarage.
STEVENS Thomas, Durbanin
TRELOAR Peter Quintrell, Godolphin ho
WOOLCOCK Mrs. Elm Cottage
COMMERCIAL GODOLPHIN
ADAMS |
Paul Thomas |
Farmer |
Trenear |
|
ANGOVE |
Henry |
Farmer |
Poldown |
|
ANGOVE |
Samuel |
Farmer |
Pengwedna |
|
BAILEY |
Theophilus James |
Carpenter & builder |
Herland Cross |
|
BENNETTS |
John |
Farmer |
Sparnon |
|
BLIGHT |
George |
Farmer |
Tregoning |
|
BOWDEN |
Wm. Henry |
Frmr |
Chytodden |
|
CHAMPION |
Alfred |
Farmer |
Polladrass |
|
CORNISH |
John |
Farmer |
Redallan |
|
EDWARDS |
Catherine (Mrs.) |
Shopkeepr |
Herland Cross |
|
EDWARDS |
Thomas |
Farmer |
Herland |
|
EDWARDS |
Thomas Hocking |
Carpenter |
Cursluick |
|
EVA |
Wm. Chas. |
Grocer |
Godolphin Cross |
|
HARRIS |
Ernest |
Farmer |
Penhaleandrea |
|
HARRIS |
Stephen |
Farmer |
Wheal Vor |
|
HARRY |
Chas. |
Seed mer. |
Godolphin Cross |
|
HOCKING |
Thomas |
Farmer |
Gwedna |
|
JOHNS |
James |
Smith |
Herland cross |
|
PASCOE |
Thomas |
Farmer |
Pengilly |
|
POLMOUNTAIN |
Isaac |
Frmr |
Lit. Gilley |
|
POPE |
Joseph |
Godolphin Arms P.H. |
X |
|
POPE |
William John |
Bus proprietor |
Herland cross |
|
PRYOR |
John |
Farmer |
Pengwedna |
|
PRYOR |
William |
Farmer |
Pengwedna |
|
ROSEWARNE |
Edith (Mrs.) |
Farmer |
Cursluick |
|
SAMPSON |
Richard |
Farmer |
Sparnon |
|
STEPHENS |
Hugh |
Farmer |
Mary villa |
|
TRELOAR |
Peter Quintrell |
Mining engineer & agriculturalist |
Godolphin house |
|
TYACKE |
Jacob Jn. |
Frmr |
Herland cross |
|
VINGOE |
Elizabeth (Mrs.) |
Shopkeeper |
Wheal Vor |
|
WHITE |
Wm. |
Butcher |
Herland cross |
COMMERCIAL TRESCOWE
CARTER |
Lucretia (Mrs.) |
Shopkeeper, Post office |
Trescowe |
|
LAITY |
Joseph |
Farmer |
Trescowe |
|
LAITY |
William |
Farmer |
Trescowe |
|
LUKEY |
William |
Farmer |
Trescowe |
|
PEACE |
James |
Farmer |
Trescowe |
|
THOMAS |
Elizh (Mrs.) |
Shopkeeper |
Trescowe |
|
TREVASKIS |
John Henry |
Market gardnr |
Trescowe |
|
TREVASKIS |
Johnson |
Farmer |
Trescowe Common |