Camborne has risen more rapidly into wealth and importance than any
other parish in Cornwall. The church tower is so large and well-built,
and it possesses with a market so many appendages of a regular town,
that the prefix church may well be omitted.
Pendarves was given by Mrs. Percevall, surviving sister of Sir William
Pendarves, to Mr. John Stackhouse, second son of Doctor William
Stackhouse, Rector of St. Anne, who married Miss Williams, heiress of
that branch of the Williamses of Probus, which had settled at Trehane.
Mr. John Stackhouse married Miss Acton, with whom he acquired a very
large property in Shropshire: his son, Mr. Edward William Wynne
Pendarves is now the proprietor. Pendarves has become a very handsome
seat in consequence of the successive improvements made by the late
Mr. Stackhouse and himself. He has adopted the name of Pendarves in
the place of Stackhouse, and added Wynne in gratitude of a large
addition made to his fortunes by the late Reverend Luttrell Wynne,
LL.D.
Mr. Pendarves has followed the examples of his two immediate
predecessors, by marrying a considerable heiress, Miss Triste, from
Devonshire. He has been twice elected member for the county, and now
(1833) represents the western division of Cornwall.
Menadarva was purchased by the late Mr. Basset, and belongs to his
son, Lord Dunstanville.
Rosewarne was the residence of Mr. William Harris, who greatly
increased his fortune by skill and success in mining. He served the
office of sheriff in 1773. His only daughter and heiress is married to
Mr. Winchcombe Hartley, a gentleman of Berkshire.
Crane, with several adjoining farms, became the property of Mr. John
Oliver Willyams, of Carnanton, in right of his mother, and the whole,
on his demise, was purchased by Lord Dunstanville.
I cannot close my short additions to Camborne without noticing Mr.
Richard Trevithick. No one, with the exception of Mr. Watt, has
probably contributed in so great a degree to the improvement of
steam-engines, the most important and the most philosophical of all
mechanical inventions. His enterprise has also equalled the abstract
powers of his mind, and for several years he laboured in South America
to give the mines of that great continent the advantage of European
machinery; but civil wars, and the instability of Governments,
defeated his best endeavours, so as to render them, up to the present
time, unavailing either to those mines or to himself.
Camborne contains 5933 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 11,783 0 0
Poor Rates in 1831 2,649 16 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 4811 | 4714 | 6219 | 7699;
giving an increase of 60 per cent. in 30 years.