formerly have been the residence of some gentleman, although the place is now reduced to a common farm.
Gomronson, heretofore the property of the Flammocks, now belongs to Hawkins.
Boswallow was purchased by Mr. John Stephens, of St. Ives, about the middle of the last century, and now belongs to his grandson, Mr. Samuel Stephens, of Tregenna.
The paramount manor of Michell has passed into various families, on account of its political importance. Originally Arundell's, it for some time belonged to the Scawens, an ancient race of Cornish gentlemen now extinct. One of the family held the honourable, and then gratuitous, office of Vice Warden, on the Restoration of King Charles the Second.[1] This manor was finally purchased by the late Sir Christopher Hawkins, and belonged to his devisee at the period of the general dissolution of close boroughs.
St. Enodor measures 6,140 statute acres.
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | £. 5303 |
s. 0 |
d. 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 399 | 12 | 0 |
| Population,— | in 1801, 869 |
in 1811, 881 |
in 1821, 833 |
in 1831, 1124 |
giving an increase of 2913 per cent, in 30 years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. S. M. Walker, collated by the Bishop of Exeter in 1828.
THE GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
Its extreme eastern corner is situated on granite, where it meets with the parishes of St. Columb Major and St. Dennis. The remainder of this parish rests on rocks of the schistose group; the part next the granite belonging to the porphyritic, and that more remote to the calcareous series, conformably, in all respects, to the geology of St. Colomb Major.
- ↑ The last representative of this family resided in Surrey, and died about the year 1770.
