Milbrook
MILBROOK, a chapelry, and formerly a market-town, in the parish of Maker, union of St. Germans, S. division of the hundred of East, E. division of the county of Cornwall, 7½ miles (S.) from Saltash. The inhabitants are chiefly occupied in an extensive fishery: fairs are held on May 1st and September 29th. Milbrook is said to have anciently sent members to parliament. Courts leet and baron are held about Michaelmas, for what is called the borough of Milbrook and the manor of Inswork, at which officers are chosen. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £50; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe. The chapel contains 600 sittings, of which 357 are free. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.