Mr. Hals has been singularly unfortunate in his etymology of Tremogh,
which has therefore been omitted. Without all doubt, it means, as Mr.
Tonkin has interpreted, the hog or pig’s town; and the street leading
to Tremogh from Penryn is now called Pig’s Street. The heiress of the
Worth family married an adventurer of the name of Hamilton, who ruined
all his affairs by contested elections and extravagances. Tremogh was
sold about the year 1775; and having passed into the hands of persons
of a nearly similar description, the house remained shut up till the
wood decayed, and the place was disfigured by the sale and removal of
all the trees. The property has, however, at last been secured by a
respectable gentleman, who resides on the spot, has renovated the
house, and commenced planting and other decorations.
The most discriminating feature of this parish and of the immediate
neighbourhood, is the great abundance of granite, not merely in large
blocks, the proper moorstone, but in regular and extensive quarries;
and so great has been the exportation of this most valuable material,
that almost the whole of Waterloo Bridge, and much of the interior of
London Bridge, are constructed of stone carried to the Thames from
Falmouth harbour.
Districts abounding in crystalline rocks are usually uneven, and in
this parish the main road, leading from Helston and all the west to
Penryn and Falmouth, had to descend Mabe-hill; but in this year (1835)
the line has been turned from the south of Tremogh to a vale on the
northern side, which reduces the upper level, and converts a
precipitous descent into one sufficiently sloped for carriages of
every description. The old road has, however, still an attraction for
botanists, as the antirrhinum monspessulanum, a plant very rarely
found in other situations, grows there abundantly on the banks and
hedges.
Mr. Tonkin is mistaken in tracing the family of Tremayne, long settled
at Heligan, in St. Ewe, from the barton in this parish. That family is
unquestionably derived from Tremayne in St. Martin’s, on the Helford
river.
Mabe measures 2029 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 2383 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 317 8 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 387 | 396 | 457 | 512
giving an increase of 32 per cent. in 30 years.