Ladock measures 4,859 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 4,566 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 310 | 2 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 542 | in 1811, 651 | in 1821, 806[8] | in 1831, 761 |
giving an increase of 40 per cent. in 30 years.
GEOLOGY, BY DR. BOASE.
This parish is entirely situated on rocks belonging to the slate series; its northern corner, however, approaches very near to the boundary of the granite.
Its different kinds of slates are the same as those of the adjacent parishes of St. Enoder and St. Erme; the rocks of its northern and eastern boundaries resembling those of
St. Enoder, the southern part corresponding to those of St. Erme.
Most of the vallies have been excavated for stream tin, and these have yielded some of the largest pieces of gold that have been found in Cornwall.
[8] This parish presents a very singular anomaly in respect to its Population Return. It would obviously occur that the 8 might possibly have stood for a 7 in the place of hundreds in the return for 1821; but that return at large, as printed by the House of Commons, has