The principal villages in this parish are Lank Major, Lank Minor,
without doubt Lank Vrauz, and Lank Vean; perhaps lank may be lan,
varying with local pronunciation in the absence of all orthography,
when the names will signify the great and small inclosure; also
Swallock. Mr. Lysons states that the ancient manor of Hamethy, or
Hametethy, is situated in this parish, five-sixths belonging to Mr.
Mitchell of Hengar, in the adjacent parish of St. Tudy, and the other
sixth to Mr. Kekewich.
But this parish is distinguished from all others in Cornwall by the
locality of Roughtor and Brown Willy; these hills, pre-eminent from
their elevation, and from the granite crags studded over the whole
expanse of their surfaces, may be seen from an elevation crossed by
the road near Ilfracombe in the north of Devon, and from the high land
in Zennor, about ten miles from the Land’s End.
This parish contains 8552 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property as returned £. _s._ _d._
to Parliament in 1815 2561 0 0
Poor Rates in 1831 289 2 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 513 | 506 | 554 | 627;
increase on a hundred in 30 years of 22-2/10 per cent.
Present Vicar, the Rev. T. J. Landon, presented in 1815 by the Dean
and Chapter of Exeter.