Trevilian bridge is the most remarkable spot in this parish. It is
situated in a beautiful valley, with a fine stream navigable for
barges from Falmouth, which conveys large quantities of limestone from
Plymouth, and of coast sand dredged in Falmouth harbour.
In consequence also of the new line of road, completed about four
years ago from Bodmin, and therefore from London to Truro, through
Ladock valley, the Earl of Falmouth has made a private road to his own
house, from the eastern end of this bridge, equal perhaps in beauty to
any drive of an equal extent in the whole county. Some fairs are
annually holden at this place, and it is recorded in history as the
place where the treaty was agreed on for the surrender of the army of
about five thousand men, commanded by Lord Hopton, then lying in
Truro, to the troops of General Fairfax, on the 14th of March 1646.
The church is very small, and, what is quite unusual in Cornwall, has
a wooden edifice, it cannot be called a tower, to contain its single bell.
Merthyr measures 1,492 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 2103 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 230 8 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 305 | 350 | 370 | 411
giving an increase of 35 per cent. in 30 years.