Illuggan 8,028 acres
Camborne 5,933
Redruth 3,763
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17,724;
and the manor extends into Crowan: so that if a nearer coincidence
were required, land might probably be found there sufficient to
complete the exact amount.
The abbreviation “Decunar.” stands in Mr. Carew’s list before de
Tehidi; but no word beginning with these letters can be found either
in Spelman’s Glossary, or in that of Ducange.
It is impossible for me to turn away from this incidental mentioning
of Tehidy, without adding, that scarcely had the press closed on the
notes respecting Illuggan, containing a most imperfect and inadequate
tribute to the virtues, to the manly character, to the liberality and
steady private friendship of its proprietor, then in a state of bodily
affliction demanding the commiseration of every one, when the final
scene of life came to an end, and he was no more. The event took place
on the 5th of February, 1835.
Lord Dunstanville now claims neither our commiseration nor our pity:
he has nobly performed the part assigned him by Providence, and we
doubt not is receiving the just reward; but by an unanimous impulse
the whole population of Cornwall have resolved on recording to future
ages, not so much his merits, for that would be superfluous, as their
own high sense, consciousness, and estimation of them; and not without
the hope that such memorials may tend to excite all persons in their
different stations and degrees of life to emulate examples so
recorded. Meetings have in consequence been assembled, and
contributions made, amply sufficient for placing a monument on
Carnbre, a part of Tehidy manor, and visible from the house; on a hill
the most romantic of any in the west of Cornwall, venerated as a seat
of the religion of our remote forefathers, and now about to be truly
consecrated by the spontaneous tribute of a whole country, to the
merits of a great and good man.
The families chief proprietors of land in Redruth are:
Basset――High lands of the whole parish, as a part of the manor and
honor of Tehidy, and possessed of some part in demesne.
Trefusis.
Buller, through the family of Grosse.
The representatives of the late Mr. J. M. Knighton of Greenofen, in
the parish of Whitechurch near Tavistock.
Doctor William Pryce, author of the Mineralogia Cornubiensis, one vol.
folio, 1778, and of the Archæologia Cornu-Britannica, one vol. quarto,
1790, practised here as a physician, and was, I believe, a native of
the place. He took a considerable part in first making Portreath a
safe harbour for coasting vessels, from whence Railways are now
extended to all the neighbouring mines.
Redruth measures 3763 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 7631 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 2482 2 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 4924 | 5903 | 6607 | 8191
giving an increase of 66 per cent. in 30 years.
Present Rector, the Rev. J. Webster Hawksley, presented by Lady
Basset in 1835.