most romantic of any in the west of Cornwall, venerated as a seat of the religion of our remote forefathers, and now about to be truly consecrated by the spontaneous tribute of a whole country, to the merits of a great and good man.
The families chief proprietors of land in Redruth are:
Basset—High lands of the whole parish, as a part of the manor and honor of Tehidy, and possessed of some part in demesne.
Trefusis.
Buller, through the family of Grosse.
The representatives of the late Mr. J. M. Knighton of Greenofen, in the parish of Whitechurch near Tavistock.
Doctor William Pryce, author of the Mineralogia Cornubiensis, one vol. folio, 1778, and of the Archæologia Cornu-Britannica, one vol. quarto, 1790, practised here as a physician, and was, I believe, a native of the place. He took a considerable part in first making Portreath a safe harbour for coasting vessels, from whence Railways are now extended to all the neighbouring mines.
Redruth measures 3763 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property, as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 7631 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 2482 | 2 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 4924 | in 1811, 5903 | in 1821, 6607 | in 1831, 8191 |