27. THE CHIEF TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF CORNWALL. (The figures in brackets after each name give the population in 1901 and those at the end of each section are references to the pages in the text.) Bodmin (5353), now held to be the county town. Formerly there was a priory here, founded in 938. The church, the largest in Cornwall, is Perpendicular, except the tower and a part of the chancel, which are earlier. In it is the fine monument of Prior Vyvyan (1533). Bodmin is a municipal borough, market, and union town, and head of a county court district. The Assizes are held here. The town is pleasantly situated nearly in the centre of the county. A branch of the G.W.R. leads from Bodmin Road station on the main line. The L. & S.W.R. has also a branch to Bodmin from Wadebridge. The prison stands about half a mile north-west of the town ; and the County Lunatic Asylum a little to the west. Bodmin has also a Hospital and Dispensary, and Barracks for military, (pp. 9, 14, 18, 24, 67, 96, 102, 104, in, 131, 132, 135, J37J I39-) Bude (see Stratton). Callington (1714), a small market town, formerly a parlia- mentary borough returning two members. Callington is in the ecclesiastical parish of North Hill, and the church is merely a chapel of ease. It is in the Perpendicular style, and has the un-
