Nansloe, the vale leading to the lake, is beautifully situated in a valley near the Loo. It has been for some time the seat of the Robinsons, since they removed there from Bochim in Cury. The last representative of this family in the male line was the late Reverend William Robinson, Vicar of Crowan.
Trelil belonged to Mr. Rowe, steward to Lord Godolphin. His only daughter and eventual heiress married Mr. William Harris, of Rosewarne, in Camburne, Sheriff of Cornwall in the year 1773; and their only daughter, married to Winchcombe Hartley, Esq. of Berkshire, is its present possessor.
This parish has for ages been one of the most productive
of tin in the whole county; and before the improved operations of smelting had placed all ores nearly on the same level as to the quality of their products, the neighbourhood of Porkellis boasted of producing the best tin in Cornwall.
The church is situated nearly at one extremity of this immense parish, and has nothing to distinguish it but a monument to the memory of Warin Penhallinyk, a prebendary of the monastery at Penryn, Rector of St. Just, in Roseland, Vicar of Wendron and of the adjoining parish, Stithyans. The Vicarage-house is a mere hovel. The parish feast is on the nearest Sunday to October the 28th, St. Simon and St. Jude.
Mr. Jago, Vicar of Wendron, was perhaps the last clergyman in the west of Cornwall supposed to exercise supernatural powers; various anecdotes were current about him sixty years ago, and then generally believed; all I apprehend to his credit, being such as laying spirits, discovering thieves, &c. mixed up, however, with frivolities, as seems ever to have happened in those popular legends. Whenever parson Jago got off from his horse he struck the ground with his whip, and a demon immediately appeared to hold or take care of his horse till he wanted it again. The Rev. Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell is descended either from this gentleman or from his father.
This parish measures (including Helston) 12,317 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | ||||
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815, Helson included | 8870 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Poor Rate in 1831, | ||||||
| The Parish | £1766 | 8 | 0 | 2656 | 5 | 0 |
| Helston | 889 | 17 | 0 | |||
| Population,— | ||||
| in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831, | |
| Wendron | 3006 | 3555 | 4193 | 4780 |
| Helston | 2248 | 2297 | 2671 | 3293 |
| 5254 | 5852 | 6869 | 8073 | |
giving an increase on the Parish of 59, on the Town 46½, on both together 53½,—per cent. in 30 years.