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At Treravall, in this parish, lived George Bere, the representative of a very ancient family. There was formerly in the hundred of West a family of the same name, of great wealth and account in Henry the Eighth's days; but whether or not related to this family, I cannot resolve. Their great estate went with a daughter audand [sic] heiress to John Bevill, Esq. Sheriff of Cornwall 16th Eliz. and was no small advancer of that gentleman's estate, at that time much impaired, by the elder brother's daughter. Their arms are to be seen in the windows and seats of Leskeard church, where they had much lands.

In this parish is a manor called Trenowith, or the new town; and on it resided for many generations the family of Hare, who give for their arms, Azure, on a bend Argent three Torteauxes.

This parish measures 3,034 statute acres. giving an increase of about 26 per cent in 30 years.

Present Rector, the Rev. W. Molesworth, instituted in 1817.

The southern part is a barren down, a continuation of that of St. Breock, with which this parish is parallel, and has a similar geological structure. The northern part is fertile, gradually passing into the calcareous series.