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DIRECTORY. J STAFFORDSHIRE. BALTERLEY. 33 ·washington .John, farmer, Peel House Baskeyfield Samuel, Boar's Head P.H. Washington lVilliam, beer retailer farm Alsagers Bank Whitehurst Charle<> He£bert, butcher Whalley Chas. (Mrs. ),grocer Ravens la *Birks Arthur, farmer, Leycett Whalley Fred, draper Burgess Ann (Miss), grcr.Alsagers Bk KNOWLE END. White John, shopkeeper *Burgess Edna (Mrs.), farmer, Red Adams Wm. farmer, Oly Peel farm "Vhitehurst Charles, butcher Hall farm Appleby George, tailor Wood George, grocer, Ravens lane Burgess George, farmer,Alsagers Bank Audley Water ·works (Henry Shuff- :Wooloff Sarah Ann (Mrs.), Bull's llurgess Henry, grocer bethan, engineer) Head P.H Burgess Thomas, farmer Barker Edwin, farmer, Heighley Burks Arthur, farmer Bastford Edward, farmer, Shortfields BIGNALL END. Cooper Thomas, farmer,Alsagers Bank Berks Amy (Mrs.), farrner,Knowle bnk Gater Enoch Cornes Fraderick, stationer Bib by Jn."Wrench,frmr.Knowle End fm Taylor George Dean George, beer retailer Birkin John, Rising Sun P.H Wood Reginald Newcome J.P Dean Joseph, clogger Bloore Mary Lizzie &; Annie Maria Brindley Jabez, refreshment rooms, & Dean Matthew, hair dresser (Misses), farmers post office Dean Samuel Steele, stationer Chalinor Jas. farmer,Knowle Bank fm Crowther William, farmer Downing Ralph, Boughey Arms P.H. Edwards Geo.Hy.Waggon &Horses P.Bi Eardley Peter, cashier, Bignall Hill Alsagers Bank Edwards William, farmer, Heighley colliery Evans Jabez, farmer Ford Mary (Mrs.),farmer,Shraley brk Jackson William, farmer, Boona hill Evans Waiter Rich3rd, shcpkeeper Glover Joseph, farmer, Adderlr farm Kelsall Joseph, farmer Gibson Jn. blacksmith, Alsagers Bank Hodgkinson John, miller (water),Boug· 1\fachin James, manager carbonizing GloveT George, beer retailer hey's mill & farmer,Sh~ey Ho.frm works, Bignall Hill colliery Glover Joseph, farmer, Halmer End hl Mason Thomas, farmer, He1ghley farm. Makepiece Richard,manager of Bignall Glover Matthew, farmer, Finney gm Shuffbethan Henry, engineer to And- Hill colliery Glover Robert, farmer, Wynn bank ley "Vater Works :Proctor John, shopkeeper Hadley Edward, gro~er, Alsagers Bank Steele George, farmer, tfullock's pool Rigby Wm. & Co. colliery proprietors Hambleton John, grocer,Alsagers Bank Tomk~nson Arthur, farmer, ~ooksgate (letters via Stoke-on-Trent) Hancock George, grocer,Alsagers Bank Tomkmson John, farmer, K:n,pwle frm Rows on John (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hawthorne Samuel, grot.:er Smith Jonathan farmer *Heler Joseph,farmer,Craddock's moss PARK END. Thornhill Jame; farmer Holland Tho.onas, stationer Billington Jemima (Mrs.), farmer, Wedgwood Jo~ (representatives of Hollier Daniel, farmer Pru:k Lane house the late), colliery owners & coks Hulse Chas. beer retlr. Alsagers Bank Chall~ner John, farmer, Brook farm manufacturers Bignall Hill colliery Lawrence George, farmer & sub-agent Challiner Samuel, farmer, Moat farm ' to Sir Thos. Fletcher Boughey bart Challiner Thomas,farmer,Domville frm EARDLEY END. Lockett Arthur, grocer Glover Francis, farmer .Edward Charles William Midland Coal, Co11:e & Iron Co.Limited Heler Jsph.(Mrs.), frmr.Brockwood hi Colclough .A bel, farmer, New buildings (The) (William Hill, general mgr. & Hollingshead Thomas, farmer, Park la. .Cooper George, farmer, Eardley hall sec.), Podmore Hall collieries Smith Chas.farmer,Field's frm.Park la Cooper William, farmer Parker Joseph, eartcenware dealer Wright Anthony, farmer,Brockwood hl Edwards Charles, farmer, Moss house Parkes Edwin, Gresley Arms P.H. & :Edwards John, farmer, Foxley farmer, Alsagers Eank WOOD LANE. Harvey Elisha, farmer, Great Oak frm Richardson Thos. & Co.grcrs.& draprs Clewes William, grocer .Beler Thomas, farmer Riley Wm. & Sons, seedsmen, house- Darlington Frederick John, grocer !Iollinshead Charles, farmer, Park fm hold furniture stores, & post office Johnson Elijah, ironmonger HALMER END. Shuffiebotham Henry Burgess,outfitter Johnson Joseph, earthenwar~ dealer & engineer to water works,Alsagers Pepper Uriah, fruiterer (I,etters marked thus * should be Bank . Plant Thomas, carpenter adtfressed Leycett.) Sumnall Joseph, giOcer,Alsagers Bank Platt Aaron, farmer "Barber William,The Drive,Halmer end Tbompson Jn.b~er retlr.Shraley brook Rhodes David, grocer Hill William, Burley house, Apedale Timmis George, grocer, Shraley brook Statham Elizh. (Mrs.),grcr.&post off Simpson Rev. Robert Turner William Hightield, beer retailer Statham William, grocer .Alcock Emma (Mrs.), draper Warburton Thomas, beer retailer White Samuel, blacksmith BAGN ALL is a township formed into a parish from been converted into open benches : the church was re 'Stoke Rural parish in April, 1896, one mile south-east opened 15th .April, 188o, and has 200 sittings. B'agnall ~from Stockton :Brook station (which is in the parish), on is a place of great ·antiquity, and the market cross, which zthe Stoke and Leek branch of the North Staffordshire has been restored, and an ancient column in the church :railway, and about five from Stoke, in the North yard seem to have been in existence anterior to the church :'\Vestern division of the county, North Pirehill hundred itself. It is stated that in the early S·axon times a cross and petty sessional division, union of Stoke-upon-Trent, stood on the green, and that a. large market was held <COunty court district of Hanley, rural deanery and arch- around it. The Bagnalls, who were an influential family tieaconry of Stoke-upon-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. at the time of the Wars of the Roses, resided here, and St. Cha~l's, a chapel. of ease to B~c~nall, is a building of one of them, called "Honest Ralph Bagnall," is a con lltone, m the Gothic style, cons1stmg of chancel, nave, spicuous character in Tennyson's " Queen Mary"; rate south. :porch, vestry and an embattled western tower able value of Bagnall, £3,162; the population in 1go1 contammg one bell; the chancel, porch and vestry were was 533 ; area, 1,712 acres. added in 1879-81, when the church was thoroughly . ~restored at a cost of £soo, a Jych gate and organ cham- Post Offic~, Bagnall.-Mrs. H. Hill, postm1~tress. Let- her erected and an organ introd!uced, under the direc- ters arr1ve from Stoke at 8.?5 a.m.; ~1spatche~ at ltion of Mr. J. Beardmore, architeet, of Stoke-on-Trent: 7·45 P·~· Postal Orders are 1ssued & paid. ~tockton the stained east window was placed in 1883 and there are Brook 1s _the nearest money o.rder ?ffice & Milton th~ others, the gift Of the late rector, WhO• also 'presented a p.e~rest telegraph office, I! ~llll~S distant • smaller one of French glass, purchased· at .Amiens, and Pubh~ Elementary School, bmlt m 1874, for 200 (m1xed there is one given by J. Lovell Hamshaw, esq.: the .. & mfanb); •averajle attep.dance,_ r._7.o ~· Thomas M. frontal of the comtnunion'ta:ble displays a very ex4uisitely I Parry, mallteD; Mrs. Ellen Parry, m1sttess worked figure of St. Chad, executed by the St. Margaret Railway Station, Stockton Brook, Robert Reader, station ,.£isterhood, East Grinstood, Sussex: the old pews have master 13all James, butcher, Clew Lows bank Jack;;on Enoch William, farmer, "'Wood- Perry Elijah, farmer, Greenfields 13all William, butcher head farm Podmore Samuel, Holly Bush P .H. <Jornes Samuel, farmer Johnson George, farmer, Thorney edge Stockton brook Cottrill Ralph, farmer Lomas .Agnes (Miss), farmer Smith Benj. Houghwood Top farm Farester George, farmer, Greenfields Matthew~ Wm. farmer, Lawn farm Thornhill Thomas, farmer Hawkeworth John, farmer, White ho Myatt John, farmer Unwin Richard, farmer, Greenfields Hill Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Myatt Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Williamson Richard,Stafford ArmsP.:S: B A:X.TERLEY is a parish, but for ecclesiastical pur- the North Western division of the county of Stafford, 'POses it is joined to the parish of Barthomley, Cheshire, hundred and petty sessional division of North Pirehill, 3 miles north from Betley Road Station on the London Newcastle union "<!nd county court district. Charles :and North Western railway and 4! miles north-west Wigley Wicksted esq. of Shakenhurst, Cleobury Mor ·Df Audley \Station on the North Staffordshire railway, . timer, Salop, is lord of the manor. The Twemlow family :and 8! north-west-by-west from Newcastle-under-Lyme, in I are the principal landowners. Doddlespool Hall, in this STATl'FS. 3 .