TORPOINT, a chapelry in the parish of ST-ANTHONY,
southern division of the hundred of EAST, county
of CORNWALL, 3 miles (W.) from Devonport. The population
is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and
diocese of Exeter, endowed with £ 200 private benefaction,
and £ 1700 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Vicar of St. Anthony. There are places
of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists.
The village occupies a peninsula, formed by the river
Tamer, the Lynher, and St. John's lake, from which
the inhabitants derive an abundance of fish. Though
small, it. is highly respectable; and in the vicinity are
many genteel seats, of which, Trematon Castle is the
most distinguished. Sir Coventry Carew founded a
free school, for teaching and clothing ten children:
there is also a National school, supported by subscription.