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Dlll.EGTOltY.] \VELSHPOOL. 44~ fLACES OF WORSHIP:- NATIONAL ScHOOLS;- St. Mary's, Church bank, Rev. D. G. Davis M.A. , Frederick Lewis, master vicar; Revs. F. H. Hawkins M.A. & J. Llew. Jones , Edward Pheby, master M. A. curates Conveyance by Railway: On the Cambrian line-Station, Christ's Church, Mount st. Rev. David G. Davis M. A. vicar Buttington, Edward Beedles, station master Chapel of Ease, Llwynderw, Rev. D. G. Davis M.A. vicar is a village and parish partly in Catholic Church, Mount st. Rev. Firman De V os, priest the hundreds of Mathrafal and Cawrse, county of Mont- CHAPELS :- gomery, in sub-registration district, Baptist, Chelsea lane, Rev. T. Rowson, minister union. Itis3~mileswest-south-westfromWelshpool, and Calvinistic (Welsh), High street county-court district. It derives its name from one of the Congregationalist, New street, Rev. J. Iclrsyn Jones sons ofCunedda Wledig, king of Cambria, who is said to Independent (Welsh), High street, Rev. J. E. Thomas have founded in the year 567. He divided the Primitive Methodist, Brook st. Rev. J ames Wrigh t country among his twelve sons, and to Einion Yrth he Wesleyan Methodist, High street, Rev. William G. gave that part called after him, Caer Einion (Einion's Dawson, minister fort)-he having formed a camp and erected a castle on Presbyterian Church, High street, Rev. Richard Owen an eminence near the village in the year 1151, which was ScHOOLS:- burnt by Owain Cyfeliog in 1166; not a vestige now Grammar street \V. T. Riles head master remains of either camp or castle. It contains a church British-~ ' ' dedicated to St. Garmon. The living is a rectory, Brook 'st. Arc hibald J. Blair master average tithe rent-charge £487, net value £420, with Berriew rd. Saml. Copnall, m~ster ; Mrs. Farr, mistress r~sidence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and ~el,d Mount street (infants'), Mrs. Agnes Swann, mistress smce 1890 by the Rev. W_alter Evans of St. Dav1d s National, Llwynderw, Mrs. J ones, mistress College, Lampete~. There IS also a free_ school. CONVEYANCE BY RAILWAY:- The area ?orn_pnses 6,731 acres, ofwlnch 12 are water; On the Cambrian line-Station, Welshpool, William the populatiOn m 1891 was_ 5~6. Collender station master PosT OFFICE, Castle Caeremwn.-Edward Evan Jones, London&North-Westernry. &GreatWesternry. (joint) postmaster. Letters from all parts arrive through CoNVEYANCEBYWATER:- Welshpoolat6.30a.m & are despatc~ed theret? at To London, Birmingham, ·Wolverhampton, Worcester, 6.40 p_.m. The nearest telegraph office & savmgs Bristol & all ir1termediate places & to Chester, b~nk IS at W elshpool . . . Liverpool, Manchester, Ellesmere & N antwich, the Ass1sta_nt_ Overseer for Castle Caerenuon pansh, Hngh Shropshire Union Railways & Canal Co. (from their R J._ Gtittmfs B. tl --J) d ·1 "'HT"ll" 11"" I d t cgu; rar o 1r 1s &c. Walter Davies, Berriew street, wh ar f , S evern roau , a1 y, n 1 Jam 1.n. re 1an , agen ; \V h 1 1 William Baker, engineer p e s poo "'HT . 1 · · d · LACES OF n OHS HIP :- C ·uT amers, Bus to L anta1r a1ly at 4 p.m ,St . G armon •s Cl 1urc1 1, R ev. n alt er E,vans, rec t or is a pleasant little village and an ecclesias- CHAPELS :- tical parish formed in 1863 from the parishes ofWelshpool Calvinist (English) and , about 4 miles east from.\Velshpool. The Independent church of Saint John the Evangelist has sittings for 250 CASTLE CAEHEINION ScHOOL : Hubert Toole, master persons. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Nearest railway station is at Welsh pool about ~2!i0, with residence, in the gift of Earl Powis, and Guilsfield, a village and parish in the hundred of h;lghs·l·~~.e ~~~ by gie ~~-d· Robert J ones Roberts B. A. Pool, county of Montgornery, is situated 3 miles north from 0 118 s 0 ege, am 11 ge~ . . W elshpool, in Llansaintfl'raid sub-registration district, PosT RECEIVING 0FFICE.-.F re_denck R. Pnce, post- union. The old name of this village is Cegidfa, master. Money orders are 1_ssued here only. All and signifies a place abounding in hemlock. The church o!her postal and tele~aph bnsmess at vy el~hpool . of St. is an edifice in the Decorated style, Assistant Overseer, Dav1d Thomas, for Gmlsfleld pansh, consisting of nave with a cleristory, north and south The Wern aisles and a lofty square em battled tower surmounted Rate Collector, DaVIes. Thomas by a spire.' The registers ' ' date from the year' 1573. The PLACES OF \YousiiiP :- living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £260, with Church of St. John the Evangelist, Rev. Robert Jones 13 ac~es of glebe, ~:·uss income £278, with residenc~, in Roberts B A vicar the g1ft of the Bu;hop of St. Asaph, and held smce Wesleyan Ch~pel, Deep Cutting (various) 1881 by the Rev. J ~mes Sculthorl?e Lewis _M.A. Christ NATIOKAL ScHOOL (Pool Quay) : J uhn Pngh, master Church College, Oxford. It contams aN atwnal school, Conveyance by Rail way: On the Camlwian line-Station, an~ also several ele_gant seats of the gentry. . Pool Quay, Richard Evans, station master The area compn.ses _15,311 acres, of whtch 126 are water; the populatiOn m 1891 was 2,275. Buttington is a village and an ecclesiastical parish PosT 0FFICE.-\Villiam Messem, postmaster. Letters in the hundred of Pool, partly within the jurisdiction arrive (through \Velshpool) at 7 a. m. despatched 6 p.m. of the borough of Welshpool, in Forden union, Welsh- The nearest telegraph, money order office & saving pool sub-registration and county-court district. It is bank is Welshpool situated 2 miles east-by-north from \Velshpool. Some Assistant Overseer, Thos. Davies, The\Vern, Pool Quay of the richest land in the county lies along the banks of Collector of Taxes, Thomas Davies, W elshpool the Severn in this parish. It is called by the Welsh, Registrar of Births, Deaths & :Marriages for Guilsfield, Tal-y-Bont (the head of the bridge), from a bridge crossing John Davies, Llansaintffraid the_ Severn near it. Offa's dyke passes through this PLACES {)F WoRSHIP:- pansh, and here. se~~rates E1:&lan~ from . ~he St. Aelhaiarn's Church Rev. J. s. Lewis vicar church of All Samts IS an edlfi.c.e m the Early Enghsh ' ' style and provides sittings for 300 persons. The registers CHAP~L_s :-:-- . . date from 1723. The living is a cnracy, in the gift of Calv1~ustlc (Enghsh), Groes, Gmlsfield, also at Street the Vicar of W elshpool. Hope, Cletterwood and Trewern Gmlsfield . . are townships in this parish. Rateable value, £6,441 ; Independent (Enghsh), Groes, Gmlsfield & Sarney population, 609. ~ ATIONAL ScHOOL : Robert E. J ones, master :K earest post, money order & telegraph office & saving The nearest railway is Pool Quay & Welsh pool bank Welshpool L · ht · 11 · h · th h d d f · tr' f B" th & D th s- B tt" t & e1g on 1s a sma pans m e un re o R eg1.s ar o u s ea s 10r u mg on C t f M t ·t t d b t 2 'l llfdd lt \V lt D · B d t t awrse, coun y o on gomery, Sl ua e a ou nu es 1 e ~wn, a er aVIes, roa s ree from Welshpool, in Welshpool sub-registration district, PLACES OF WoRSHIP:- Forden union. The church of Holy Trinity has sittings All Saints' Church, Rev. Thomas Hughes M. A for 250 persons. The living is a vicarage with , Primitive Methodist Chapel, Hope gross yearly income £150, with residence, in the gift of