Budock

"BUDOCK, a parish in the hundred of Kerrier, in the county of Cornwall, near Falmouth, a suburb of which it includes. It is situated on the W. side of Falmouth Bay, on the English Channel, and contains Pendennis Castle, and the site of an ancient college, founded near the close of the 13th century. Granite is abundant here, and there is a copper mine. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of St. Gluvias, in the diocese of Exeter. The church contains several old family monuments. There is a chapel for Wesleyan Methodists. The parochial charities, consisting chiefly of a bequest for education by F. Robyns in 1768, amount to £10 a year."

"PENRYN, a post and market town, seaport, municipal, and parliamentary borough in the parishes of St. Gluvias and Budock, hundred of Kerrier, county Cornwall, 26 miles S.W. of Bodmin, and 2 N.W. of Falmouth. It is a station on the Cornwall and West Cornwall railway. It is situated on the declivity of an eminence at the head of Falmouth creek, an inlet from Falmouth harbour, and consists principally of one spacious street, from which several minor streets branch off at right angles. It comprises the manors of Penryn Borough and Penryn Forryn, and was formerly held by the Osbornes, under the bishops of Exeter, who had a seat here, and under whose patronage the town first rose into importance. A college was founded by Bishop Bronscombe, in 1270, for a provost, eleven prebendaries, seven vicars, and six choristers, which continued till the Dissolution, when its revenues were valued at £210 13s. 2d. It returned two members to Parliament first in the reign of Edward VI., or according to others, in the first year of Queen Mary; but since the Reform Bill its bounds have been extended so as to include the borough of Falmouth and part of the parish of Budock. The town was garrisoned at the commencement of the civil war for Charles I.; but being attacked by the parliamentary forces, it surrendered to Sir Thomas Fairfax in 1646. It is a borough by prescription, and received its first charter of incorporation from James I., but which was further extended by James II. in the first year of his reign. The municipal revenue is about £320. Under the new Act, the government is vested in a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve town councillors, the mayor and ex-mayor being justices of the peace, aided by five borough magistrates and a town clerk. The mayor is the returning officer. The petty sessions are held on the second Thursday in every month. The port is a member of that of Falmouth; and there are warehouses on the quay for flour and grain, which are imported from Ireland, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, for supplying the adjoining mineral district. An extensive trade is done in the shipping of granite from quarries in the neighbourhood, chiefly for London. Ship-building is also carried on. There are gunpowder, corn, and paper mills, a woollen cloth factory, also a brewery, tan-yard, &c. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the fisheries and in the coasting trade. The houses are in general neatly built, and the streets well paved and lighted with gas. The town has an abundant supply of water from springs issuing from the neighbouring heights, one of which, in its descent, forms a cascade. The principal public buildings are the townhall and market house, a mechanics' institute, union poorhouse, and an iron swing bridge. The adjacent country is well cultivated, and interspersed with gentlemen's seats. Several new roads have been formed to avoid the steep streets of the town. There was formerly a chapel-of-ease in the town; but it long since fell into decay, and the inhabitants frequent the parish church of St. Gluvias, which is the mother-church, and is only 100 yards distant from the town. There are National schools for both sexes. The Independents and Wesleyans have each a place of worship. A free grammar school was founded by Queen Elizabeth, and endowed with a rent-charge of £6 13s. 4d.; but it is now discontinued, and the endowment applied to the support of the National school, built in 1837. Market day is Saturday. Annual cattle fairs are held on 12th May and 7th July, 8th October and 21st December."