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Maker in Cornwall County England History and GeographyMAKER, a parish partly in the southern division of EAST hundred, county of CORNWALL, and partly in the hundred of ROBOROUGH, county of DEVON, 2¼ miles (S. by W.) from Devonport, containing, with the town of Milbrook, and the tything of Vaultershome, 3018 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £23. 11. 0½., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Macra, is in Devonshire, and, occupying a commanding site on a hill between Mount Edgcumbe and Ramhead, its steeple serves as a land-mark, and in time of war is used as a signal-house. There are some interesting monuments to the Edgcumbe family, whose title of Earl is derived from their noble domain in this parish, which exhibits the grandest and most beautiful scenery, and from which there is an extensive prospect southward, over Cawsand bay and the channel; Eddystone lighthouse, distant twelve miles, being also conspicuous. The commander of the Spanish Armada was so captivated by the appearance of the mansion and grounds of Mount-Edgcumbe from the sea, that he determined on appropriating them to himself, as a reward for the victory which he anticipated. Mount-Edgcumbe house, built in the reign of Mary, was the last garrison but one (Salcombe) which held out for Charles I. The parish is bounded on the south-east by Plymouth sound, for the defence of which there is a formidable battery on the heights above the village of Maker. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. At the populous village of Inceworth, which was formerly a market town, is a fair for cattle on May 1st; and another at Milbrook, also an ancient market town, on September 29th, when courts leet and baron are held for that ancient borough and the manor of Inceworth, at which a portreeve, constables, and other officers, are chosen. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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