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 TRURO— UPTON CASTLE ing down the river to Falmouth. But the immediate riverside is not the most attractive part of Truro. iSV. Tiidy (3 m. S.E. of Port Isaac Road Station) has been derived from St. Uda, St. Tudius and St. Tegwy. The two first are probably merely fictitious names ; Tegw}- of Wales is more likely the real founder. In this parish is the Arthurian earthwork of Damelioc ; also Hengar House, the seat of the Onslows. Tywardyeatli (i m. E. of Par Station) is evidently a corruption of Trewardreath, mean- ing " the town - place on the sands ". Par sands fully justify the name. There was here a Benedictine Priory, founded soon after the Conquest as an appanage of the Abbey of SS. Sergius and Bacchus at Angers ; no traces of this remain. A story that the last prior, at the time of the Dissolution, shipped a quantity of its sculptured stones for Angers, has received support from the discovery of carved capitals and mouldings on the neighbouring coast ; and this partly accounts for the complete disappear- ance of the conventual remains. We cannot blame the prior for wishing the beauties of his house to be transported to the parent foundation, instead of being pillaged and mutilated by a too zealous Puritanism. The church (Middle Pointed) contains this prior's tomb ; also some good old carving. St. Uny. (See Lelant, Redruth, Sancreed.) Upton Castle (3 m. S.E. of Five-Lanes, 255