1856 (Just two entries)

Carn Galver Tin Mine Morvah

Is held under lease for 21 years, granted by Henry White Esq., at a royalty of 1-20th.  The known loads on the sett are four.   Cross-courses, several.  The dip is 2 feet 6 inches in the fathom ; depth of engine shaft is 90 fathoms.  Country is granite.  The mine is worked and drained by a steam engine of 30-inch cylinder.  The mine was reopened by present adventurers in 1872/  The company is on the cost book system. 

Purser, T. W. Field                                                                                                                                                   Manager & Agent, John Roach

MORVAH is a parish 6 Miles north-west from Penzance,  and 4 north-by-east from St. Just, near the coast in the Western division of the county, hundred of Penwith, Penzance union and county court district, rural deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter.  The church of St Morvah has a nave, chancel, and a square tower containing 3 bells, and contains some monuments. The register dates from the year 1513.  The living is a vicarage annexed to Madron,  joint gross yearly value £890,  in a gift of, and held by the Rev. Michael Nowell Peters, MA., of St. Peters College, Cambridge, who resides at Penzance ; the Rev. James Aldridge Devenish is curate.  There is Chapels for Wesleyan Methodists and Bible Christians, and a school for boys and girls in connection with the Wesleyans.  John Borlase is lord of the manor and chief land owner. The area is 1,226 acres ; gross estamated rental £1,365;  rateable value, £1,240; the population in 1871 was 356.

Letters through Penzance.  The nearest money order office is at St. Just.

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