Rose-an-Grouse (Roseangrouse), St Erth

   
      After describing the course of the Lyd from its source among
the hills of Towednack to the sea below Marazion Bridge, Borlase gives
an account of the parish bounds, which is reproduced here in an
abbreviated form with the names unchanged:—
      From the sea to Marazion bridge the Lyd divides Glasenith
Green in Ludgvan from Marazion, and above the bridge it is
the bound to where it receives the waters of Trewall ; thence by
Trewall water and the east parts of Chivelin to Chivelin bridge;
thence by the eastern edges of Trewall Tregyllijowe and Ros-
vynny Vros to the long lane butting on Trewinnard in St. Erth .
Thence north-west round a croft of Rosvynny Vian called the

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Island, thence by the north limits of Polgrene up a little old
disused lane to a water near the old chapel of St. Thomas on
Calorian. Thence north with Rosangrows hedge down the great
road to Rosangrows water; thence west past the edge of Calorian
to Carges, thence along the brim of Carcorrian butting Lelant to
the Lyd, which divides Ludgvan from Lock in Lelant and
Necledre and Amalebreh in Towednack. Thence by the Lyd
again past a disused stamping m i l l called Stamps an Teg to a
marshy bog called Pol an Hygie north of Castel-an-Dinas downs.
Thence by the limits of Castel-an-Dinas crofts butting on Gulval
south along the west edges of Treassow Tremenhere Wartha
and Woolas and Tregerthen down Tolver Water to the sea at
Gobies; thence a mile along the sea to the mouth of the Lyd.
      Of the three bridges on the boundary, that at Marazion was
repaired by Ludgvan parish and Marazion town equally; that at
Chivelin half by Ludgvan and half by Marazion and the parish of St.
Hilary jointly; and that at Nancledra (Necledre) by Ludgvan and
Towednack parishes equally.
      Borlase next describes a most interesting division of the parish
into Morrep — the low-lying land near the sea — and Guendran or
Gueindarn — the less fertile uplands (Cornish morrep, seaboard, from
mor, sea, and gunran, from gun, down, moor, ran, part).    He says that
this distinction was made in most parishes of West Cornwall with
similar topography to Ludgvan ; his elder contemporary Tonkin describes
( MS. Parochial History at R.I.C. I 460) the Manor of Lanisley in Gulval
as extending " from the Moreps to the Gundrons, that is from above the
sea to the hills," and the name " Morrab " still survives as that of part of
the town of Penzance above the modern promenade.   Borlase states that
in few parishes was the division more distinctly marked out than Ludgvan.
The bound was a small stream rising at Chellew well and joining
Vellanoweth water and eventually the Lyd ; 14 tenements west of this
formed the Morrep, the remaining 19 to the east, the Guendran. T h e
division was " more noted anciently, when the old Cornish pastimes of
hurling and wrestling prevailed, than at present; and in the memory of
man the Guendran used to hurle and wrestle against the Morrep, and
vice-versa, with as much eagerness, and attachment to their division, as
one parish did, and still does, wrestle and hurle against another."
      Next comes a list of the tenements of the parish, with their lords
and occupiers, compiled from a rating valuation made in 1755.   The
largest landowners were the Earl of Godolphin (lord of Truthwall) and the
Duke of Bolton. Grist mills are noted at Boskennal, Cucurrian,
Carvossow, Truthwall and Vellanoweth (Cornish melyn, mill, noweth,
new), the first two lately erected, the last in ruins, and at Ponsehan on
Ludgvan-Lees there was a large smelting house w i t h several tin stamping
mills.   Two hamlets are noted on the " great road " eastwards, Cockwells

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(named from the builder of the first house) and Whitecross (named from
the ancient roadside cross which at the present day is still kept white-
washed).