22 . 'VQROES l'ERSHIRE. [KELLY'S caml'ment may be traced. The chief crops are wheat. Wall Letter Box, ', cleared 4.30 p.m. week

barlev,• oats and beani'. The area is 3,7-73 acres; rate- days only a1.1e ndue, £4,9°7; the population in 1891 was 6,{7. National School (mixed), built in 1861, for 150 children; Parish Clerk & Sexton, George Bint. average attendance, 90; &; has an endowment of £20; Post & M. O. T. O. & S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity Thomas Eden, master; Miss Hannah Lees, mistress &, Insurance Office. John n. Bint., sUb-postmaster. Letters through , arrive at 8 a.m. &; 3.30 p.li. ; Railway Station, Jos-eph Pugh, station master Box cleared at 4.45 p.m_ week days only Corser Mrs. The Grange Fletcher George, Valentia Arms hotel Potter George, farmer, The Meadows Hardwicke Mrs. Nash end Gatehouso George, farmer, Hawks- Preece Elizabeth (Mrs.), boarding ha. Hobbs Captain Simpson Hackett, Hill batch farm Severn lawn Fields house Grantham William, Harbour inn Pugh Joseph, station master Langford Edward T. (sec. to R.Wood- Grazier Wm. farmer, Woodhouse frm Scott In.farmer,New ho. & Bank frm~ ward esq. D.L., J.P.), Arley castle Guy Jabez, farmer, Cherry Orchard ShepherdHumphry.frmr.Whitnells end Wilding Rev. Charles Jas.M:.A.(vicar) Hand Henry, wheelwright,Shatterford Shepherd Sam1. beer rtlr. Shatterford 'Woodward CharleS! Jas. Arley cottll,gc Haycox James, farmer, Arbour farm Simmonds Oharles, pleasure boat propr Woodward Robert M.A., D.L., J.P. Horne John W. farmer, Heatons Simmonds Henry, boarding house Arley castle Horton Edward, shopkeeper,.Pound grn Steward Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, COMMERCIAL. James Henry, blacksmith Nash End farm Bacchus Susan (Mrs.), grocer Kirkham Frederick, beer retailer Wadlow Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Bannut Bell Wm. pleasure boat proprietor Kirkham Mercy (Mrs.), stone quaITY, Tree farm Bint Emma (Mrs.), wheelwright Hextons Waldron Geo. farmer, The Lane farm Bint Geo. gardener to R.1Voodward esq Lewis OswaldPriestley,frmr.The Grove \Valdron Thos. Talbot, farmer,Brettles Hint John Roberts, plumber &; sub- Marks 'I'hos. farmer, Hill House fnn Walford George, blcksmth.Shatterfrd postmaster Martin George, Bellmans Cross inn, \Valker Edward, butcher Brakewell George, farmer, Nib green Shatterford Walker Henry, farmer, Idyates farm Rullock John, farmer, Bromle)" farm Mulliner George, miller (water) Wells Thomas, farmer & aS8istant over- Chillingworth Edward Vincent, faI'mI'. Needham Luke, frmr.High Tree frm seer, Pope House farm Whitnells end Oakey Edward. tailor Wilson William Otway, agent to R. Cooper Alfred, shopkpr. 8hatterforcl Page Thomas, beer retailer Woodward esq. Sandhouse farm Evans Robert, farmer, Page William, farmer, Dutton's farm Yardley Henry, farmer, Home farm ASTLEY is a parish bordered by the navigable. Severn, Brereton Buckle formerly .A. R.I.B..A. The charities are 3 miles south-west from Stourport station on the Severn of £22 annual value. A lecture room was erected in Valley (Great 1Vestern) railway and 7 south from Kidder- 1850 by Thomas Zachary esq. There was hl're a priory minster, in the Western division of the county, hundred of of the Benedictine order, founded before II60 by Ralph de Lower Doddingtree, Stourport petty sessional division, Todeni, as a cell to the abbey of St. Taurinus at Evereux: Martley union, county court, district. it was richly endowed with lands in the parish, which. tlestern division of the rural deanerv of West Worcester after the Dissolution, were successively held by the .and archd'eaconry and diocese of Vforcester. There is a families of Acton, Blount, Winford and Cookes: near Jerry across the Severn at Hampstall. 'fhe church of the entrance to the churchyard is a well, known as thp St. Peter, standing- on a lofty hill, in the midlst of "Prior's well." Woodhampton is at present occupied beautiful scenery. is a very fine and ancient building of by Charles King Harrison esq. J.P.: Oakhampton is the stone, in the Early Xorman style, anciently appropriated residence of John Henry Crane esq. J.P.: The Hill is the to the monastery of Eyereux in l'Iormandy, and eonsist- residence of Thomas Henry Cookes esq. D.L., J.P. and ing- of chancel ami naye ami a lofty embattled western Pool House. of ~Irs. Hill Wallace. William Jones esq. tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: of Abberley Hall, who is lord of the manor, and John in the north chancel ai<;le are two tombs with effigies, Henry Orane esq. are the chief landowners. The soil ancl a shiehl of arm". and inf,criptions to 'Walter Blount varies in quality, and includes rich deep and rich sandy .esq. (1561) and Isabel his wife (IS62) ; in the niches round loams, clay and gravelly loams. The chief crops are the tombs are fig-ures of their children, Richard, Francis, wheat. barley, beans and! green crops, but the land is Isabel Ann, Elizabeth, J oyce and Margaret: the figure of specially adapted for the growth of barley and turnips. Elizabeth being at the head and of Margaret at the foot: 'I'he area is 2.959 acres; rateable value, £4.785; thl' another monument, with effigies of a knight in armour and population in I8gI was 828. The Burff is a hamlet 1~ 'his lady, executed, according to the inscription, by John miles east; at Hampstall, 2 miles east, there is a ferry Gildon, of Hereford~ represents Robert Blount esq. ov!'r the Severn. (1675), and Ann his wife, then living; on the right side Parish Clerk, Charles Wedgbury. of this tomb are white and red roses, on the left the arms Post Office, .-Daniel Trapp, sub-postmaster. ()f .Acton between the figures of Thomas and Waiter Letters are received through Stourport by foot post at Blount; the chancel arch, which is very plain 8 a.m. &, 3.30 p.m. &; dispatched at 5.40 p.m. week days and massive, is considered an unusually fine specimen only. Postal orders are issued here, but not' paid. of Early Norman, and may have been erected some time The nearest money order &; telegraph office is at Stour- . between 1066 and I086, and' the Norman font may be port. Wall Letter Boxes, 'Woodhampton, cleared at coeval with it: the south doorway is probably of some- <:.3 p.m. week days &; lI.I5 a.m. sundays; Pool what later date; there is a marble monument in the 0 cureh hyar d to 1U'.I.uISS Frances R'Id1ey Haverga, 1 youngest House, 5·20 p.m.;. The Church, 5 p.m.. week days only daughter of Rev. W. H. Havergal, some time rector of Endowed School (mIxed), endowed WIth £20 annually by this parish, who was born at .AsUey rectory, and was I Mrs. Mercy Pope, in 1743, rebuilt in 1876 at a cost oi bur!ed here srd June, 1879: there are 430. s.ittings. The I [,4.00 &; ~gain rebuilt in 189, at a cost of £1,5°0, for 160 regIster dates from the year 15':19. The livmg (formerly' chIldren, average at~endance, 120; Henry We~t, a peculiar) is a rectory, net yearly value [,42 3, including master; Mrs. West, mIstres~ 18 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of William Carriers to Worcester. Mrs. Crumpton, &; William Jones esq. and held since 1894 by the Rev. Martin Knight, sat 'Bateman James, farm bailiff to J. H. dealer, draper,corn &; mealman,Post PRIVATE RESIDEl'i"TS. Crane E'sq. Yardhampton . office, Astley cross BartoQn Mrs. Astlex hall Bateman William, farmer, fruit grwr. Humphries William, farmer & haulier Buckle Hev. Martm Brereton (recto~) &; butcher, Wood green Jordan Joseph, estate carpenter tu Cookes Thos. Hy. D.L., J.P. The Hill Bishop William James, butcher Wm. Jones esq. Abberley, Mill ha Cran~ John Henry_. J.P. .0akhampton Bourne Henry, water bailiff to W. .A. Kenwrick Charles Harry, shopkeeper Harr~i'on Charle:" King-, "oodhampton Sparrow esq. Glasshampton & coal dealer, Astley cross HarrIson Mrs. Woodhampton Brown Thomas, farmer, Lowmoor hill Knight WiIliam, m:Irket gardener & 'Wallace Mrs. Hill, Pool hou,e Dance William Stafford, farmer, carrier, Glasshampton Weather lane Nott John, farmer, Yardhampton COAUlERCL\L. Footman Robert, farmer 1& shoe maker Rumney William, blacksmith Gittins J ames Henry, farmer, miller Shepherd Edwin, farmer, Larford frm AEen Edwin, King's Arms P.R I (water) &; fruit grower, Town farm Smith WaIter Harvey, farmer &; fruit Banks Clifford Joseph, farmer &; fruit IGoodman.Alfd.Chas.beer ret.Astley crss grower,Ohurch &; Solhampton farm ~ grower, Syntley,.Astley Town & Lit- Green Robert, farmer, Sandhampton Summarsell Frederick, Hampstall inn tIe Astley Town farms Harley Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper, Trapp Daniel, manager to J. W. Har- Banks Thomas Edward, farmer, fruit The Burff rison, g-rocer, Post office grower .& assistant overseer, Pound lHarrison James Wharton (Daniel Weaver William, farmer, Bull hill farm • Trapp, manager), grocer, provision