DIRECTORY.] . SHRAWARDINE. 191

Shifnal Provident Dispensary (T. Hutchinson Keough Tuft Thomas, gamekeeper to 001. W. S. Kenyon Slaney L.R.O.P.Irel. & J. L'Oste Brown L.R.O.P.Lond. medical M.P. Hatton officers; Richard Lowe, sec.), Market place Volunteer Battalion (1st) The King's (Shropshire Light; Shropshire Ooal Co. (Herbert W. Bray, agent), coal mer- Infantry) (E. Co. Capt. J. R. Howard McLean, com­ chants, Railway station mandant; Sergt. A. Brown, dTilI instructor), Town Shnker Edward, farmer, Woodside hall, High street Shutt Emma (Mrs.), grocer, High street Wadlow Edmund C. farmer, Stanton hill Smith Thomas, saddler, Park street Wadlow Thomas, trainer of race horses, Stanton Smith Thomas Olarke, saddler, Market place Wakelam Ellen (Miss), dress maker, Old road Smout William Henry, blacksmith, Aston street Wakelam John, cooper, china & glass dealer, High street Society for the Promotion of Ohristian Knowledge,Mrkt.pl Watters George Edward, farmer, Lizard grange Spencer Thomas, blacksmith, High street Wedge Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Timlett Squire Elizabeth (:Mrs.), miller (steam), Manor mill Westbrook John, boot maker &; bill poster, High street Stanway Fanny (Miss), dresS' maker, Ohurch street Whitfield William, Alliance insurance agent, High street­ Summers Richard D. tanner, High street Wilcox Ann (Mrs.), confectioner, Horse fair Symonds Ernest John, ·county inspector of weights & Williams John, wheelwright, Aston street measures (southern division), Haughton grange Williams- William, tinplate worker, High street Thomason Henry, grocer & ironmonger, High street Windsor Richard, builder, High street Thomson Andrew, farmer, Manor farm Woodman Richard, beer retailer, High street Tipton William, cowkeeper, Church street Woodroffe Geo. clothier &c. Market place & at Madeley Tong Mary (Miss), fancy repository, Market place Yates James, plumber, Ohurch street Tudor Mary (Mrs.), White Horse inn, Jrfarket place York John, grQcer, Church street Tuft Eva & Annie (Misses), fancy repository, Park street SHINETON, or Sheinton, is a township, parish and rent-charge £177 net, gross yearly value £2QO, including village, on the south bank ot the , 11 miles 10 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the trusteeg­ east from Cressage station on thelSevern Valley branch of of the late John Anstice esq. and! held since 1878 by the­ the Great Western railway, 3 north-west from Much Wen- Rev. Henry Lee M.A. of Durham. The charities are £5, lock, and 10 south-east from Shrewsbury, in the Western left in 1700 by Mrs. Lacon, and charged on Lord Forester'S' division of the county, Oondover hundred, union, estate. Lord Barnard, who is lord of the manor,. Thomas ShrewS/bury county court district, and in the petty ses- Frederick Kynnersley esq. J.P., D.L. and the trustees of sional division and rural deanery; ot Oondover, arc:h- the late WaIter Moseley esq. are chief landowners. The­ deaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The c'hurch soil is loamy and rich grass for grazing in the lowlands, of SS. Peter and Paul is a building of stone, in the and produces good turnips and barley; the uplands, being Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle~ strong clay, are chiefly cultivated with wheat; subsoil,. south porch and a western tower of wood containing 3 gravel. The area is 940 acres; rateable value, £1,145; bells: a stone figure of the 13th century. supposed to be the population in 1891 was 114. that of the foundress, was discovered in the chancel when Letter Box cleared at 7.30 p.m. No sunday collection. the church was restored: in 1854: the stained east window Letters are received from Shrews-bury; arrive at 8.30 is a memorial to the Rev. George Onions BlF"d %.A. a.m. Cressage is the nearest money order & tele- formerly rector of this parish, who died in 1856: an eagle graph office lectern of oak was presented by the present rector in 1881. National School (mixed), with residence for mistress at- The ;register of baptisms and burials dates from the year tached, built in 1845, for 50 children; average attend- 1711; marriages, 1754. Thij living is a rectory, tithe ance, 27; Mrs. Sarah Ann Morris, mistress Lee Rev. Henry M.A. Rectory 100lebatch John, farmer IHill Charles, cowkeepe!l' Alvis John, farmer Goucher ThQmas Boden, farmer Yates Fredk.W'm.. farmer, Sheinwood SHIPTON, including part of th~ township of Brocton, 1891 by the Rev. Robert Evered Haymes M.A. of Trinity is a. parish and village on the road from to College, Oxford. Near Larden, in this parish, is an old , and bounded on the east by the , 4 encampment, supposed to be British. Shipton Hall, miles south-east from Longville station, on the Wenlock now (1895) unoccupied, t.he property of Robert Jasper and ' branch of the Great Western railway, More esq. is a mansion in the Elizabethan style. Larden 6! south-west from Much Wenlock and 14 soutih-by-east Hall, also the property of Robert Jasper More esq. is now from Shrewshury, in the Southern division of the county, (1895) unoccupied. Robert Jasper More esq. M.P., M.A., npper division of Munslow hundred, Ohurch Stretton D.L., J.P. of Larden Cottage, Stanton, who is lord of the union, Upper Munslow petty sessional division, and manor, Lord Barnard, Mrs. Evan Hippisley and Mrs. Shrewsbury county court district. The church of St. Corser are the chief landowners. The soil is a rich loam. James, is an ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, the subsoil varies from bastard limestone to quarrystone. consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a. wootern The crops are the usual cereals. The area is 1,685 acres; tower of wood containing 3 bells: there are monuments rateable value, £1,910; the population in 1891 was 142. to Thomas Mytton, d. 1762, and his wife Marlha, d. 1770, Parish Clerk Joel AlIen and others of this family, 1864-74; also to Thomas More. ,. . d. 1804, and! his wife, Harriott, d. 1851, and a brass to Letter Box cleared at ~ p.m. Letters are rec~Ived through Robert Henry Cayer More M.A. d. 1880. The register Much Wenlock (RaIlway Sub-O~ce), arnve at 9 a.m. dates from the year 1538. The living is 3 donative cha~ The neareS't money laincy, yearly value £120, in the gift of Robert JaspeT telegraph office at Much Wenlock More esq. M.P. who is lay impropriator, and held since The children of this place attend the school at Broeton Corser Mrs. Moor house Corser Mrs. farmer & landowner, Lewis Thomas, butcher & farmer COMMEROIA.L. Manor house Manning Hannah (Miss), farmer Alien Joel, farm-er, Mogg forest Dorrell John, farmer Mansell Richd. farmr.Moor House frm Bluck William, farmer, New house Dods-on William, mason, Brocton South Robert, blackJsmith, Brocton Bishop William, farmer, Brocton LIoyd George, farmer, Larden grange SHRAWARDINE is a township and parish, on the John Edward Hill M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, who rive-r Severn, 6l miles west-north-west from Shrewsbury, resides at Montford. The charities are of £1 10S. yearly in the Western division of the county, Baschurch division value, arising from land left by a Mr. Bromley, and dis­ of Pimhill hundred, Atcham union, Shrewsbury county tributed annually in coals to the poor. In this parish are court district, petty sessional division of Baschurch, rural the remains of an ancient castle, formerly belonging to deanery of Shrewsbury, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese the Fitz-Alans, and de9troyed in the Civil Wars; it was of Lichfield. The church of St. Mary, rebuilt in 1649, and garriSoQned for the King, September 28th, 16«. by Oolonel the chancel in 1722, is a plain edifioo of stone in the Gothic Sir William. Vaughan; the outbuildngs of the castle and style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and wooden parsonage were shortly after pulled down, and on the 8th turret at the west end, containing 2 bells: in the church of June, 1645, !the church also (as was said), for the iil a brass to Martha Botevyle, ob. 1181, and a stained safety of the castle, was destroyed, the register and other memorial window to Pryoo William Bowen esq. of this books being burnt; the garrison subsequently surrendered parish, who died in 1868, erected by his friends in the to Colonels Hunt and Andrew Lloyd and Mr. Charlton, same year: in 1893 the church was restored and a after only five days' siege of the castle, which, together chancel arch built. The register dates from the year with the neighbouring buildings, was burnt a fortnight 1645. The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Mont- afterwards, and the greater part was pulled down, the ford annexed, average tithe rent-charge £479, joint gross materials being used to repair Shrewsbury Oastle and yearly value £6n, net £375, with 6 acres of glebe, in the the wall on the Severn side and to build the. old Welsh gift of the Earl of Powis, and held since 1887 by the Rev. bridge at Shrewsbury. Near the modern house, now