| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 671 | in 1811, 782 | in 1821, 906 | in 1831, 1048 |
giving an increase of 56 per cent. in 30 years.
Present Vicar, the Rev. Percival Frye, who succeeded the Rev. W. Molesworth in 1834, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. Mr. Molesworth had been instituted in 1816. The clear value of the benefice in 1831 was £197.
GEOLOGY, BY DOCTOR BOASE.
The rocks of this parish are similar to those of the adjoining parishes, Broadoak, Boconnoc, and St. Veep.
WITHIEL.
HALS.
Withiel is situate in the hundred of Pider, and hath upon the north St. Breock, east Lannyvet, south Roach, west St. Wenn. As for those names, they are synonymous in Cornish, and signify in that phrase, a place of trees, which heretofore it was; and is so called, for that this church is situate upon the manor of Withell Goose, i. e. Tree Wood, or a place heretofore consisting in its voke lands of a wood of trees (neither is it altogether destitute of wood and trees to this day, though within the memory of man, much of them have been cut down for buildings and charcoal there, and all the parish over).