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CHIEF TOWNS AND VILLAGES 159 bishop, and in 1880 the present cathedral was begun. Truro possesses a Passmore Edwards Free Library, and it is the seat of the Royal Institution of Cornwall which has here a museum and a library, (pp. 38, 66, 96, 104, 123, 124, 132, 135, 137, 139, 144, 146.) Tywardreath (2215) is a little town where once was a Benedictine priory. It has a coastguard station and a police station, (p. 48.) Wadebridge (2186), a market town on the river Camel, partly in the parish of St Breock and partly in that of Egloshayle. It lias a station on the L. & S.W.R. whence also runs a branch to Bodmin and another to Padstow. A stone bridge originally of 17 but now of 15 arches, erected in 1485, connects Wadebridge with Egloshayle. The chief trade of the town consists in the exportation of granite, china-clay, and agricultural produce, and the principal imports are coal and timber, (pp. 14,