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 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 NIpstones 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