110 BUTTERTON. STAFFORDSHIRE. (KELLY's heads and other objects of.. antiquity have been found. days excepted. Postal Orders are isSIUed here & paid. A. J. Hambleton esq. and Mrs. Burnett, of Clayton Wetton is the nearest money order office; Warslow is House, are the principal landowners. There are also a the nearest telegraph office, 2 miles distant number of freeholders. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay Public Elementary School, built about 1848 & enlarged and rock. The land is nearly all pasturage. The acre- in I895, for 93 children; average attendance, 45; & age is I,499; the population of the civil and ecclesiastical endowed with a house & land left by William Melior, (St. Bartholomew) parish in I9DI was 263. now let for £I5 a year; the school is the property of Parish Clerk & Sexton, William Burnett. the trustees <Jf William Melior's charity; John Bart~ ley, master Post Office. John Salt, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive Carriers to Leek.-Ernest Frith & William Salt, on wed. from Leek at 8.25 a.m.; dispatched, 4.40 p.m.; sun- nesda.y Burnett Mrs. Clayton house Edge Richard, farmer & grocer, corn Poyser Selina (Miss), farmer, Butter- Crump Rev. Roberb John (incumbent) & provision merchant, wholesale egg ton moor Hambleton .Arthur Jn. Middleton ho & butter factor, Churchyard ~ide Salt John, shopkeeper, & post office & Wardle Sir Thomas F.G.S., F.C.S., Frith Ernest, carrier overseer J.P. Swainsley Goldstraw John (Mrs.),farmer,Moor ho Salt Joseph, farmer, Bank house Williams Mrs. Greenlow Gould John, farmer, Butterton moor Salt Joseph, Red Lion P.H Gould Thomas, farmer Salt Richard, farmer, Bollandshall Hambleton Jas. farmer, Heathy roods Salt William, farmer & carrier, Water COMMERCIAL. Hambleton John, joiner Slacks Allcock Dina (:\Iiss), farmer, Stt~ps ho Hambleton William, Black Lion P.H Shenton William, farmer, Ivy hous~ Alston John, farmer, Butterton moor Harrison Harriet (Miss), farmer, Stubbs Mary (Mrs.), shoe maker Bagshaw Thomas, butcher Bank house Stubbs Thomas, farmer, Lane farm Beresford Ralph, farmer, Lane farm Melior Frederick, farmer Stubbs William, farmer, Back lane Boden Thomas, farmer, Swainslow hd Mollett Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer,Brook ho Taylor John, farmer, Twist farm Burnett John, farmer, Moor end Mollett Joseph, farmer, Kirksteads Thompson Ann (Mrs.),frmr.Broadmdw Burnett William,parish clerk & sexton Naylor Richard, farmer, .Acton Leigh Titterton 'fhos.farmer,Butterton moor Cook William, farmer, Moor end Poyser Reuben,farmer,Butterton moor Twigg William, frmr. Butterton moor Critchlow James, farmer, Wallacre Salt Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Twigg William, farmer, Far moor BUTTERTON (near Newcastle) is an ecclesiastical of Jesus College, Cambridge. Butterton Hall, the pro­ parish, formed in 1845 from the civil parishes of Trentham, perty of the Pilkingtons, but now occupied by Robert Stoke-on-Trent and Swynnerton, and including the hamlets Lewis Johnson esq. is an elegant mansion of stone erected or t<Jwnships of .Acton and Milston Green, in the North in I849, and principally in the Tudor ·style. Sir Thomas Western division of the county, North Pirehill petty E. M. Swinnerton Pilkington bart. of Chevet Park, near sessional division, Stone union, Stoke-upon-Trent county W akefield, Yorks, is lord of the manor and principal court rlistrict, rural deanery of Trentham, archdeaconry of landowner. The soil is clayey; subsoil, sandstone. The Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. Butterton is 3 land is chiefly under pasture. The area is 3,000 acres ; miles west-by-north from Trentha.m station on the Stoke th~ population in 1901 of the ecclesiastical parish (St. and Stone section of the N<Jrth Staffordshire railway and Thomas) was 373· 3 south from Newcastle-under-Lyme. The church of St. .Acton, a hamlet, I mile south, is in the parish. Thomas, erected in 1845, is a cruciform building of stone Parish Clerk, Thomas Goodall. in the Transitional style, consisting of chancel, nave, tran­ £epts and central tower containing one bell; the cost, Letters through Newcastle-under-Lyme, by messenger, amounting to £ 3,000, was defrayed by the late Lady arrive at 7 a.m.; Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.50 Pilkington, then lady of the manor: there are 200 sittings. p.m.; no sunday collection. The nearest money order The register dates from the year I845. The living is a & telegraph office is at Whitmore vicarage, net yearly value £420, with residence, in the Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1865, for 70 gift of Sir Thomas E. M. S. Pilkington bart. and held children; average attendance, 59 ;• M.rs. Jan~ Skid- since 1875 by the Rev. William Whitridge Tyson M . .A. more, mistress BUTTERTON. Matthews Ephriam, farmer, The Downs Joseph, jun. farmer, New house Johnson Robert Lewis, Butterton hall Limes Fairbanks David, cowkeeper, The Pleck Tyson Rev.Wm.WhitridgeM. .A.(vicar) Randles William, cowkeeper Fairweather John, cowkeeper Wheatly Samuel W Thompson Thomas, head gardener to Goodall Henry, wheelwright Chatterley Philip, cowkeeper R. L. Johnson esq Keates Henry, fatmer Foster John, farmer,Butterton grange Knight Charles, farmer, Shutelane hd Go6dall Arthur, cowkeeper AOTON. Knight Thomas, farmer, .Acton faxm Harvey William, cowkeeper Beardmore James, cowkeeper Podmore Henry, cowkeeper Hope John, head gardener to S. W. Birchell Samuel, farmer,Shutlane head Wain John, cowkeeper Wheatly esq Chatterley Saml. far:rr.er & gravel mer Ward John, farmer, The Pleck Lea Alfred, farmer, The Hayes Downs Joseph, farmer, Acton Hijl farm CALTON (formerly a free donative chapelry) was con- of Calton Green, bequeathed the following annual sums: stituted a township and parish in I9o2; it is situated on I os. to the curate and IOS. to the poor of Calton; 2os. an eminence, near the Leek and Ashborne roads, 5 miles to Sheen, and £3 to the poor ; 2os. to the curate of north-east from .Froghall station on the Churnet Valley Ipstones and zos. to the poor of Croxden. .A fair is held section of the North Staffordshire railway, 6 north-west on September 2oth. The wake is held ()n the last sun­ from Ashborne and 9 south-east from Leek, in the Leek day in August. The principal landowners are Hugh division of the county, South Totmonslow hundred and Richard Sleigh esq. of Eversley, Leek, and T. Langford Ashbourne union and county court district, but in the esq. ; there are also a number of small freeholders. The Leek petty sessional division, and in the rural deanery soil is varied; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are '()f Alstonfield, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and dio- grass and pasture for dairy purposes. The area of Calton • cese of Lichfield. The church of St. Mary is a small township is I,505 acres of land and 3 of water; rateable building of stone, consisting of chancel and nave, south value, £z,Ioi; the population in 1901 was 229. porch and a low western turret of wood containing one Dog Lane forms part of the chapelry of Calton, though bell: it was thoroughly restored in 1875• at a cost of a liberty in the parish of Croxden . .£6oo, and affords ISO sittings. The register of baptisms Sexton, Benjamin Gerrard. dates from I8 13 only, but the benefice has been in Letter·s received through Ashborne arrive at 9 a. m. ; ~xistence as a chapelry for about 300 years. The church Waterhouses is the nearest money order office &; Church is licensed for the solemnization of marriages, but not Mayfield the nearest telegraph office for burials. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Wall Letter Box, near the school, cleared at 4·Io p.m. £98, including 58 acres of glebe, with residence, in the week days only gift of the inhabitants, and held !!ince Igoz by the Rev. Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), built in Joseph Wattson Payton L.Th. & B.A. of Durham Uni- 1875 & used as Sunday school till r88I, for so versity. The living was bought by IH freeholders in the 1 children; average attendance, s6; Miss Clara Stream, third year of the reign of King Edward VI. Here is a mistress small Wesleyan chapel. In 1722, the Rev. John Ashton, Carrier to Leek: George Twigg, on wednesday Brunt Mrs Barker 'l'homas, farmer Cotton Frederick, farmer, Grange Payton Rev. Jo·seph Wattson B.A. The Beresford Richard, cowkeeper Hambleton Arthur John, farmer, Oliffe Vicarage Bold Chas. Thos. farmer, Stoney rock Hampson John, farmer, Lathams hall COMMERCIAL. Braddock Alfred, fanner Hayes Abel, farmer, Dog lane Allau Frank, farmer Braddock Jobn, farme.r. Milk gate How11on Edward, farmer .