Tywardreth (St. Andrew)

TYWARDRETH (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of St. Austell, E. division of the hundred of Powder and of the county of Cornwall, 3¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Fowey; containing 3152 inhabitants, of whom 1100 are in the village. The parish is bounded on the south by the English Channel, near which, on Greber Head, is a signal station. Petty-sessions for the district are held on the third Monday in every month. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £9. 6. 8.; net income, £135; patron, W. Rashleigh, Esq.: the great tithes have been commuted for £400. The church has been repewed; and a chapel has been erected by Mr. Rashleigh, about half a mile from his seat in the parish, Menabilly House. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. Here was a Benedictine priory, a cell to the monastery of St. Sergius and Bachus, in Normandy, supposed to have been founded before 1169, by Ricardus Dapifer, steward of the household to the Earl of Cornwall; it was dedicated to St. Andrew, and being made denizen, continued till the general dissolution, when its revenue was estimated at £151. 16. 1. The site is now occupied by a farmhouse.