Transcribed by Heather Carbis

MORVAH is a parish on the East coast of the Bristol Channel, 6 Miles north-west from Penzance, where is the nearest railway station, and 4 north by east from St. Just, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Penwith,  Petty Sessional division of Penwith West, Penzance union and county court district, rural deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Truro.  The church of St Morvah is a building of granite, in Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, south porch, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing containing 3 bells : the stained east window was presented by the Rev. Michael Nowell Peters MA, a late vicar : there are several monuments : the church has 121 sittings.  The register of baptisms dates from the year 1653; marriages 1617; burial 1655.  The living is a vicarage annexed to Madron, average tithe rent-charge £679, joint gross yearly value £600, with residence, in the gift of Misses Nowell Peters, and hence since 1880, by the Rev. Franklin Tonkin MA., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who resides at the vicarage Madron, the Rev Walter Arthur Taylor, of Cauis College, Cambridge, has been Curate in charge since 1893.   There is a Wesleyan Chapel here.  The Misses Borlase of Castle Horneck, Penzance, are ladies of the manor and MissHichens chief landowners.  On Chûn Hill are the remains of a very ancient castle, consisting of 3 lines of wall, built of loose stones:  in the interior, which has a diameter east to west of 125 feet and from north to south of 100 feet, traces of dividing walls exist, and a well with steps leading to the water:  opposite the gateway to the castle, and at about 200 yards distance, is Chûn quoit, a cromlech, consisting of several upright stones, supporting at an elevation of about 4 feet a huge monolith nearly 13 feet long and 11^1/2 feet wide.  On Kerrow Hill stands a monumental pillar 6 feet high.  The soil is decomposed granite; subsoil rabmen.  The land is principally pasture, and the chief crops are wheat and barley.  The area is 1,226 acres ; rateable value, £1,112; the population in 1891 was 172.

Letters through St. Just R.S.O. arrive at 12 noon.  The nearest money order office is at Pendeen &  telegraph office at St. Just-in-Penwith.

Wall letter box, cleared at 12:30 p.m.

A school board of 5 members was formed June 25, 1875: Richard Davy Daniel, of Rosemergy, clerk to the board; Edward White, Pendeen, attendance officer. 

Public Elementary School (mixed), formerly a Bible Christian Chapel, but altered at a cost of about £200. for 58 children; average attendance 45;  Miss Beatrice Mary Edwards, mistress.

SERRES Mrs, Church Town	TAYLOR Rev. Walter Arthur, Curate Vicarage House
	COMMERCIAL
DANIEL Richd. David, farmer Rosemergy	DAVY William, farmer, Trevowan	NOY William, farmer, Trevean
DAVY John, farmer, Rosemergy & Trevowan	EDDY John, farmer, Trevean	PAUL Wm. Robt., shoe ma., Church Town
	HICHENS John Henry, farmer Carne	QUICK John, farmer, Trevowan
	JENKIN Thomas, farmer Croftow	THOMAS Martin, farmer, Tregaminion
	LAWRY John, farmer, Tregaminion	TREGEAR Thomas, blacksmith, Church Town
	LAWRY John Quick, farmer Chypraze	TREMBATH Humphry, farmer, Merthbye, Church Town
	LEGGO John, shopkeeper, Tregaminion	WILLIAMS William, carpenter Church Town
	MATTHEWS Nicholas, farmer, Chyoon