1873 St Allen Post Office Directory

Zelah Chapel
Photograph by Steve Beazley, © Copyright 2002 - 2007

ST ALLEN

Rev. George MORRIS M.A.	Incumbent	Rectory
John APPLEDORE	Miller	Lanner Mill
John BASSET	Farmer	Cralso
James BENNY	Carpenter	Henver Turnings
Oliver CARVETH	Farmer	Nancarrow
William CARVETH	Farmer	Boswellick
James COCK	Farmer	Tolcarne
Cornwall Blasting Power Works	(John TONKIN Manager)	Bishops Wood
Richard GILL	Farmer	Trerice
John HOOPER	Farmer	East Downs
Paul HOCKING	Farmer	Bowling Green
Nicholas HOSKINGS	Farmer	Killyvose
John HOSKINS	Miller & Farmer	Gwarnick Mill
Paul HOSKINS	Farmer	Hands
William Henry HOSKINS	Farmer
Cornelius HOTTEN	Farmer	Trefronick
James HOTTEN	Farmer	Trenerry
James KENDALL	Farmer	Honeycombs
William LAMPSHIRE	Farmer	Penglaze
Albert LANYON	Farmer	Lower Town
Elial LANYON	Farmer	Henver
Richard LANYON	Farmer	Polstein
Samuel LANYON	Farmer	Lanner
Mrs Richard SAMPSON & Sons	Farmers	Tolgrogan
Robert VINCENT	Farmer	Roskief

ZELAH

Richard ARTHUR	Boot & Shoemaker
James BENNY	Carpenter & Wheelwright
John BENNY	Farmer
John BORLASE	Hawkins Arms
John DAWE	Farmer & Assistant Overseer
John GREGOR	Shopkeeper
John HOSKINS	Shopkeeper
John JOSE	Half Moon & Farmer
Richard KENDALL	Farmer
Misses L & I LANYON	Grocers & Drapers
Thomas LETCHER	Blacksmith
John RAWLING	Boot & Shoemaker
Abraham REED	Blacksmith
Hannibal ROWE	Shopkeeper
William THOMAS	Farmer
Nicholas TRUSCOTT	Carpenter

St Allen, with the township of Zelah, is a parish and a straggling village, 4 and three quarter miles from Truro station of the West Cornwall railway, and 1.5 from the turnpike road from Truro to Zelah, in the western division of the County, Hundred of Powder, Truro Union and County Court District, Rural Deanery of Powder, Archdeaconry of Cornwall and Diocese of Exeter, and is situated on the river St Allen.

The Church of St Allen is an ancient edifice, chiefly in the perpendicular style: it consists of a chancel, nave, aisles, and porch, with a square tower having 3 bells, and surmounted with a minaret on the north-east corner, and contains and ancient monument to the MARTEN family, of Trefronick, dated 1626.

The register dates from the year 1680. The living is a rectory, endowed in 1314, yearly value £147, with residence and 118 acres of glebe land, in the patronage of the Bishop of Exeter, and held by the Rev. George MORRIS, MA, of Balliol College, Oxford.

The Lay Impropriator, Viscount FALMOUTH, receives £271 5s tithe-rent-charge. There are Sunday schools: those of the Church held at St Allen, and the Methodists at Zelah.

A fair for cattle is held at Zelah in May; and St Allen Feast is held on Rogration Sunday. The Lord of the Manor is the Bishop of Exeter, and the chief landowners are C.T.H. HAWKINS, Esq., of Trewithian, and Charles PRIDEAUX-BRUNE Esq., of Padstow.

The soil is loamy; the subsoil of a slaty nature. The crops are chiefly wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The acreage is 3,501; rateable value, £3,175; and the population of this parish in 1871 was 774.

The township of Zelah is 1 and three quarter miles north west from St-Allen. The Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels are situated here.

Parish Clerk:- Henry SWEET

Letters through Truro, which is the nearest money order office

Assistant Overseer:- John DAWE of Zelah