Tywardreth measures 2967 statute acres.
| £. | s. | d. | |
| Annual value of the Real Property as returned to Parliament in 1815 | 4539 | 0 | 0 |
| Poor Rate in 1831 | 735 | 15 | 0 |
| Population,— | |||
| in 1801, 727 | in 1811, 741 | in 1821, 1238 | in 1831, 2288 |
giving an increase of nearly 215 per cent. in 30 years.
This great increase in the number of inhabitants is occasioned by that parish and the neighbourhood becoming a mining district.
Present Vicar, the Rev. Thomas Pearce, presented by W. Rashleigh, esq. in 1820. The net value of the living, as returned in 1831, was 135l.
The extreme northern part of this parish, in an angular form, extends upon the granite, surrounded on all sides by the granite of Lanlivery. The remaining parts of the parish are composed of schistose rocks, which next the granite are of the porphyritic series, but become of a doubtful nature in the southern extremity; these latter belong perhaps to the calcareous series, as do also some of the rocks in the adjoining parish of Fowey. The felspathic rocks next the granite, like those of St. Austell, are metalliferous, as is proved by the important mines of Lanescot and Fowey Consols.
[14] A list of the Priors of Tywardreth, and extracts from a Calendar of the Priory, now in the possession of Lord Arundell, have been recently published in vol. III. of “Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica,” 1835.