MAKER, the "Macretone" of Domesday, is a parish 2 miles south-west
from Devonport on the opposite shoe of Plymouth Sound, in the Eastern division the
county, south division of the hundred of East, St. Germans union, county court district
of East Stonehouse, rural deanery of East, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro.
The church of St. Macra is a building of stone in the Late Perpendicular style,
consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north transept, south porch and an embattled
tower, 65 feet high, with crocketed pinnacles, and containing 6 bells, rehung in 1888:
the font of Caen stone is a reduced facsimile of the Norman font at Bodmin, and was
brought from St. Merryn's, the church of which now has the font formerly belonging to
the ruined church of St. Constantine, near St. Merryn: there are numerous monuments
to the Edgcumbe family from 1607 to 1839, and n the churchyard is a granite cross
to Ernest Augustus, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgecumbe D. 3 Sept 1861, and memorials to
the families of Triiggs, 1664 ; Salmon 1682; Ingram, 1669 ; Boger, and others: the
church was restored in 1874, at a cost of £1,700, and will seat 450 persons. The
register dates from the year 1630. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge
£167, net yearly value £162, with residence and 10 acres of glebe, in the gift
of the Crown, and held since 1890 by the Rev.Edward Williams Evans L.Th. of University
College, Durham. Messrs. Waterman Brothers, steam launch and yacht builders, have a
building yard at Creymell, where about 100 hands are employed. On Maker Heights,
400 feet above the' sea level, are military barracks, affording a fine panoramic
view: in the parish are also a number of forts, and a new battery was constructed
in 1889. The local charities are of nearly £100 yearly value. On the high road,
near the: church, is a fountain, called "St. Julian's well," and on the bank above
is an ancient baptistery, which has been restored. The desecrated chapel of St.
Juliet or Julitta, belonging to the ancient mansion of Inceworth, now a farmhouse,
is an elegant and lofty building of the Decorated period, with a sacristry on the
north side, used as a granary, and an under-croft-" croft, now a stable. Mount Edgcumbe,
the seat of the Earl, of Mount Edgcumbe P.C., D.C.L. lord lieutenant of Cornwall,
occupies the whole of a hilly promontory, nearly 600 acres in extent, which juts out
into the sea on the west side of Plymouth harbour, and is one of the most beautiful
and picturesque seats in the kingdom; the park and grounds alone are about 3 miles
in circumference and contain French, Italian and English gardens, with an avenue of
trees, a conservatory about 100 feet in length, and many statues; the mansion, erected
by Sir Richard Edgcumbe kt. in the 16th century, is built of local limestone, with
granite dressings, and has a lofty entrance hall, with columns and pilasters of marble;
in the French garden is a memorial to the Hon. Sophia (Hobart-Hampden) wife of Richard,
the second earl, d. 17 Aug. 1806, and in the cypress grove a monument to Timothy Brett esq.:
fine views are obtained from the Gothic tower, including the Sound, the English Channel,
the Breakwater, Drake's Island and the surrounding country: the magnificent park is open
to the public every Wednesday, and on other days upon application at the manor office at
Stonehouse. The parish of Maker contains two manors: the tithing of Vaultershome, formerly
in Devonshire, was annexed to Cornwall by the Acts 2 and 3 William IV. cap. 64, and 7 and
8 Vict. cap. 61; of this manor the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is the lord, and holds the court
baron. Lord Clinton, who is lord of the manor of Insworke, and the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
are the chief landowners. The soil is loamy on the hills and clayey on the lower grounds;
the subsoil is stony. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and potatoes. The area is
(including Vaultershome tithing) 2,365 acres of land, 232 of water and tidal water and 758
of foreshore; rateable value, £8,176 ; the population in 1891 was 3,444, which includes
2,116 in Millbrook, including South Down, and 770 in Kingsand.
Parish Clerk, Peter Phillips.
Kingsand is a hamlet in the tithing of Vaultershome and parish of Maker, 3 miles south-west from Devonport, in the county court district of East Stonehouse; it was formerly partly in Devonshire, but is now incorporated with Cornwall. The chapel of St. Paul at Egloshayle in Kingsand, erected in 1882 as a chapel of ease to Maker, is a plain building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a turret containing one bell: it has two stained windows and sittings for 250 persons. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.
MILLBROOK, in Maker civil parish, formerly a municipal borough, is now an ecclesiastical parish, and will be found under a separate heading.
POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Kingsand.-Thomas Cleave, sub-postmaster.
Letters arrive from Plymouth at 7.50 a.m. & 4.10 p.m. ; sundays, 9.15 a.m. ;
dispatched 9.10 & 11 a.m. & 5.40 p.m.; sundays, 11 a.m. The nearest telegraph office is at
Millbrook
WALL LETTER Box, cleared 9 & 11.5 a.m. & 5.45 pm.; sundays, 11 a.m
PILLAR LETTER Box, Anderton, cleared 7.30, 11.15 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; sundays, 11.15 a.m
WALL LETTER Box, Creymell, cleared at 9.50, 10.55 & 11.55 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ;
sundays, 11.55 a.m
Church School, Creymell (infants), for about 55 children; average attendance, 36 ; partly maintained by the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe; Mrs. Richards, mistress.
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Mount Edgcumbe Right Ron. Earl of P.C., D.C.L... (lord lieutenant of Corn-wall), Mount Edgcumbe; & Carlton club, London s w Evans Rev. Edward Williams [vicar] Sandercock John (land steward to the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe) Waterman John Frederick, Creymell Waterman Thomas Henry, Creymell Clarke Wm. head gamekeeper to the Earl Evans Edward, house steward to the Earl, Empacombe cottage Marshall John, shopkeeper Michell P. C. & Sons, canteen proprietors & government contractors, Maker Barracks & Picklecombe Fort ; & at Kingsand Richards Samuel John, head gardener to the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Waterman Bros. steam launch, yacht & boat builders ; contractors to the Admiralty & War departmnt. Creymell |
Kingsand
Boyle Major-Gen. Robert R.M., C.B. North Rock house Boyle Harry Lyne J.P. Cliff house Gillard Misses Glinn Miss, North rock Gray France COMMERCIAL Ashton John, blacksmith Avery Thomazine (Mrs.), beer retailer Barnes John, mason Bennett Mrs. Rising Sun P.H. Blair Peter, London Inn Bounsall Jane Ann (Mrs.), apartments Carne W m. Benj. &Son, bldrs. & contractrs Clark George, cowkeeper & apartmnts Cleave & Trethowen, grocers & drapers |
Cook John, grocer
Cotton Rosa (Miss), apartments Cullis Samuel, grocer Hay Jessie (Miss), apartments Hill Charles, coal mer. & cab proprietr Hoyle John, boot maker Kingdon Frederick, carpenter Littleton Simon, Davenport Inn Medland Jane (Mrs.), apartments Michell P. C. & Sons, carriage &'bus proprietors, government contractors & caterers & general carriers Michell F. F. (Mrs.), apartments & tea gardens ; every accommodation for visitors, terms moderate, Egloshayle house (detached) Ritty Thomas, apartments Smale Hy. King's Arms P.H. & carpentr Tea Gardens (Mrs. F. F. Michell,proprietress), Egloshayle house Westlake Thomas Jasper, grocer |