Rialton is the object of highest importance in this parish. Its
antiquities are not much known; but when Mr. Sidney Godolphin was
created Earl of Godolphin, his son, who had married Henrietta
Churchill, eldest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, assumed the
appellation of Lord Rialton, and Lady Rialton was one of the ladies of
the bedchamber to Queen Anne.
A small print is given of the south entrance gate still remaining, in
C. S. Gilbert’s History of Cornwall, vol. ii. p. 673.
The property belonged to the late Mr. Thomas Rawlings of Padstow,
having probably been acquired when lands were sold by the duchy to
redeem the land-tax, but it was alienated on his decease.
New Quay, mentioned by Mr. Hals as a pretty safe road and anchorage
for vessels, and also as a convenient place for establishing a
fishery, is become a successful station for sea nets. In Lord
Dunstanville’s edition of Carew, p. 357, it is stated, “The place was
called New Quay, because in former times the neighbours attempted to
supply the defects of nature by art, in making there a quay for the
road of shipping, which conceit they still retain, although want of
means in themselves or in the plan have left the effect in nubibus.
The quay has now been many years constructed, but I apprehend it is
not capable of receiving any other than small vessels.”
This parish measures 4759 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 6238 0 0
The Poor Rate in 1831 783 3 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 999 | 1126 | 1297 | 1406;
giving an increase of about 40¾ per cent. in 30 years.
The parish feast, like that of St. Columb Major, is on the Sunday
nearest to the 17th of November.