Cultivation is, however, introducing itself by means of the potatoe, a vegetable destined to produce most gigantic effects on the condition of mankind; greater perhaps than any other cause arising from the discovery of a new world.
This little settlement was probably attached to the manor of Trebigh in St. Ive’s, where the Knights Hospitallers had a preceptory. Certain it is that the two properties have since travelled together, and are now jointly reposing with the Devonshire family of Wrey. The Rev. B. W. Wrey was instituted to the benefice in 1789.
Temple measures 936 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 156 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 7 | 16 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 15 | in 1811, 18 | in 1821, 27 | in 1831, 29 |
about doubled in 30 years.
THE GEOLOGY BY DOCTOR BOASE.
This little parish rests entirely on granite, which is of the same nature as that of Blisland, Cardinham, and the adjacent parishes.