TYWARDRETH, a parish in the eastern division of the hundred of POWDER, county of CORNWALL, 3 miles (W. N. W.) from Fowey, containing 1238 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £ 9. 6. 8;, endowed with £ 600 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £2100 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of W. Rashleigh, Esq. The church' dedicated to St. Andrew, has a richly-ornamented screen. A chapel has been erected by William Rashleigh, Esq., about half a mile from his seat, Menabilly House. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The parish is bounded on the south by the English channel, where, on Greber Head, is a signal station. The petty sessions for the eastern division of the hundred of Powder are held at this place, on the third Monday in every month. Here was a Benedictine priory, a cell to the monastery of St. Sergius and St. Bacchus in Norrriandy, supposed to have been founded before 1169, by Ricardus Dapifer, steward of the household to the Earl of Cornwall. This house, which was dedicated to St. Andrew, survived the suppression of Alien priories, and continued till the general dissolution, when its revenue was estimated at £ 151. 16. 1: the site is now occupied by a farm-house. There is an almshouse for four poor widows, founded by one of the Rashleigh family.