TREMAINE, or TREMEAN.
HALS.
Tremaine or Tremean is situate in the hundred of East, and hath upon the north St. Mary Wike and Jacobstow, east North Pederwyn, south Tresmere, west Treneglos. As for those names, they are of one signification, viz. the town of stone, or stone town, a place, it seems, notable for those inanimate creatures. This church was endowed by the Abbat or Prior of St. Stephen’s by Launceston, to which abbey it was wholly impropriated; the patronage was in ——: the incumbent ——; the rectory in ——; and the parish rated to the four shillings per pound Land Tax 1696, for one year £42. 5s. 0d. I take it this church is now a chapel of ease to Egloskerry, altogether wholly impropriated as aforesaid.
TONKIN.
Tremaine or Tremean is in the hundred of East, and is bounded to the west by Warbstow and Treneglos, to the
north and east by part of Devonshire, to the south by Tresmere.
The name in Cornish signifies a dwelling of stone, or the stony town. [Tre-maen, stone-house.]
It is a daughter church to Egloskerry. The great and small tithes are wholly impropriated; and only £5 per annum allowed to the service of the cure out of the sheaf, taxes included, which taxes ought to be paid by the impropriators of the said sheaf.
THE EDITOR.
Mr. Lysons says that the manor of Tremayne belonged to the family of Treise, whose heiress brought it to that of Morshead; it has passed by sale to Mr. John Jolliffe, the present proprietor; but the greater part of the parish is within the manor of Penhele in Egloskerry.
The church of Tremaine, now a daughter church to Egloskerry, was consecrated in 1481, by the name of the chapel of Winwolaus of Tremene, with a cemetery adjoining, since which time it has probably been esteemed a separate parish.
The benefice, as a daughter church to Egloskerry, is in the gift of the Crown. G. W. Owen, esq. is impropriator of the great tithes, which belonged formerly to the priory of Launceston.
Saint Winwaloe, whose festival is kept on the third of March, has been noticed in vol. ii. p. 127.
Tremaine measures 806 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 467 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 43 | 0 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 91 | in 1811, 122 | in 1821, 125 | in 1831, 118 |
giving an increase of 28 per cent. in 30 years.
The rocks of this parish are the same as those of Boyton and Otterham.