DlllECTORY I] . JPLADBURY. 93 Wbeelock Henry, The Lirldens Dunn William, shopkeeper Jones Joseph, carpenter, Wellington rd Willcox Miss, Ashley villas Evans James, greengrocer & parish Juggins George, Dragoon P.H COMMERCIAL. clerk, Aston fields Lane John, blacksmith AlbrightAlfd.Beaumnt.frmr.F'install fm Finney William & Co. Limited, millers Nadin J. &N.&Co.coal mers.Aston fields Albutt Edmund, farmer, Hop gardens (steam), Aston fields Prescott John, shopkeeper Archer Frederick, farmer, Sideslow Fisher Fanny (Miss), dress maker, Price Joseph Thomas, The Cross P.H Archer Frederick, jun. boot maker, & Wellington road . Quinny William, farmer, Finch end coffee house, Vigo Gardner Elizbth. (Mrs. ),farmr, Ford ho Sanders Thomas, beer retailer BnckleyCharles, grocer, Post office Hall James, farmer, Caspage Taylor John, sen. farmer, Dusthouse Cox James, coal agent, New road Harford George, shoe ma. Aston fields Taylor John, jun. farmer,Up.Gambolds Crewe Elizabeth Jane (Mrs.), shopkpr Harries Whitfield & Co. Limited, Turner Hy. & Wm. frmrs. Stoke court Cund Jeremiah, wheelwright clothing manufacturers Usher & Co. coal mers.Railway station Cund Jeremiah, jun. shopkeeper, Post Harris John, haulier, Stone cottage Wheeler John, com. trav. Aston fields office, Alcester road Heath Susannah (Mrs.), farmer, Lower Wilson John Broad, grocer, New road Davenport Henry, manager to the Mid- Gambolds . Workmen's Club (Wait. Taylor, sec) landRailway works,Bromsgrove statn ,Tones John ~ewton, farmer, Buntsford FLADBURY (anciently "Fleodan'h.vrig "-a town by Lower Moor, between Fladbury and , erected the river side) is a village and parish, bounded on the east in 1869 on a site given by Robert Wagstaff esq. was opened and south by the navigable river Avon, with a station on on St. Thomas' day, Dec. :u, and is an edifice of red brick the Oxford and Worcester section of the Great Western with Bath stone dressings, in the Early English style,. from railway, 3 miles east from , 4 north-north-west designs by Mr. Preedy, and consists of nave only, a portion from and 14 south-east from Worcester, in the of which forms a quasi-chancel: service is held here by the Southern division of the county, middle division of Oswald- rector and curates of I<'ladbury every Sunday evening: slow hundred, Persbore petty sessional division, union and there are 120 sittings. Charities-.-In 1403 Thomas Wilcox county court district, rural deanery of I<'eckenham and arch- left to the church land at Fladbury Hill; in 1710 John deaconry and diocese of Worcester. The church of St. Hopkins left to the church 5 acres: the following benefac­ John the Baptist is an ancient and noble edifice of stone, tions have been given at different periods for the relief of the chiefly (with the exception of the Norman base of the tower) poor :-Miss Martin, £5; Nicholas Perk, £5, since increased of the 15th century, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, to £7; and Mrs. Hester Jones, £5, but this bequest cannot south porch, and embattled western tower, with pinnacles now be traced; in 1698, William White, of London, gave £5, and containing a clock and 6 bells: in !865 the chancel was which in 1748 was increased to £10, and in 1843 to £17, and entirely restored under the direction of Mr. F. Preedy, by the placed in the savings bank at Evesham, together with£5o left Rev. John Haviland, M.A. then rector, and John Cartwright by will to the poor of Hill and Moor, by William George, esq. of Craycombe House, who presented the stained east who died in 1841 ; in 1833 the Rev. Stafford Smith, rector, window: the chancel retains a double piscina with canopies left the interest of £x,ooo to be laid out in coats, meat, supported by a central pillar: in the aisles are some ancient bread, and prayer books, to be distributed annually; tiles both lettered and numbered, probably of the 16th Richard Bourne Charlett esq.gave the interest of£100 to poor century; in the south wall is another stained window to the persons not receiving parochial relief; in 1848 Mrs. Joyce Rev. Ji'. Gauntlett, a former rector, and there are several Evans left the interest of £so to the poor; Mrs. Mary other memorial windows, two of which exhibit the arms of Wagstaff in 1885 gave the interest on £2oo for the widows .seven knights slain at the battle of Evesham, Aug. 4, 1265: of Moor, and in the same year Mr. Robert Wagstaff gave in 1871 the body of the church was restored, re-pewed and the interest on £soo for the poor of Fladbury. The Eccle­ re-decorated: a reredos of alabaster and mosaic, with siastical Commissioners are lords of the , manor. The figures of angels, by Boulton, of Worcester, extends across principal landowners are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. the whole east end: the churah contains a fine altar tomb of H.R.H. the Due d'Aumale, of Wood N9rton, Chadbury, t.he polished Purbeck marble, with brass effigies and shields, to trustees of the late B. Workman esq, and the rector. The John Throckmorton (sub-treasurer of ), ob. 1445, soil is chiefly light day, with a little sand; subsoil, gravel and Eleanor (de Spineto) his wife; a tnarble monumental and sand. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley, tablet to John, son of Arthur Charlett esq. 1710: marble and fruit. The population of I<'ladbury in 1891 was 452; tablet and bust to Elizabeth Charlett, daughter of the same, acreage, I ,527; rateable value £4,I95· The population of 1746; half effigy in brass, wearing cope, to Thomas Morden Hill and Moor in 1881 was 337, and in x8gr was 364; acreage LL.B. treasurer of St. Paul's, London, and rector here 1458 : 1,294; rateable value, £2,526, half effigy, wearing chasuble and hood, in bl'ass, to William HILL and MooR form a hamlet of Fladbury, the former Plewme A.M. rector, 15°4; brass with effigy to Edward of which is about r! miles north-west from I<'ladbury, and Peyton esq. I488: a memorial with arms and inscription to the latter about I mile north-west. The land is rather hilly Godith, wife of Robert Olney esq. and another to John and well wooded. Darby, rfio9; at the restoration of the chancel in 1865, the Parish Clerk, Thomas Milton. large marble monument to William Lloyd, successively Bishop of St. Asaph, Coventry and Lichfield, and Worcester, PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office which stood on the north side ()f the chancel, wag. dismem- (telegraph office at the railway station).-George Morris, bered, the inscribed slab being transferred tQ the vestry, sub-postmaster.. Letters arrive from Pershore at 7-45 and the half-length effigy of the prelate pluced high up a.m. & 3·:!5 p.ro.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. on weekdays; ag~inst the wall, under an arched canopy~ supported by no sun clay col!ectwn or delivery marble shafts: he died Aug. 30, 1717; there are monumen- WALL Box, Moor, cleared at 6.5 p.m. Letters are de- tal tablets. of the Parrot family on the walls of the nave, livered at 7· 15 a.m , dating from r8o6 to 1837; the stone font was {~!resented by National School (mixed), erected jn 1864-5 under the direc- Mrs. Margaret M. Pruen. The register dates from the year tion of Mr. Preedy, comprising a school-room, with bell- 1549· The living is a rectory, with the chapelries of turret & porch & a residence for the master &mistress; it Throckmorton and Wyre Piddle annexed, joint net yearly will hold 130 children ; 11-verage attendance; 102; Mrs. value £goo, including 700 acres of glebe, with residence, in Eliza Stanley, mistress. Mrs. Elizabeth Gauntlet in r865 the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1877 by gave the interest on £1oo for the maintenance of the the Rev. William .Pitcairn Alexander Campbell M.A. of school Queens' College, Cambridge. St. Thomas' church at Railway Station, Henry Lampitt, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Goddard William,marketgardenr.Moor Alien Francis, The Laurels COMMERCIAL. Harwood Wm.marketgardnr.HillFurze Bomford Ernest Geo. Cooke, Spring hl Atlams !<'rank, farmer Hundy Albert Thomas, 'fhe Chequers Campbell Rev. William Pitcairn Alex- Barley Richard, market gardener, Moor P.H. & market gardener ander M.A. Rectory Beard Samuel, market gardener Hundy Thomas, wheelwright, Moor· Deakin James Edward Beck Mary(Mrs. ),beerret.&shpkprMoor Jones Thomas, carpenter, Moor Elkington Leigh Harold, Manor house Boulter Wm. market gardener, Moor Knight William, farm bailiff to E. G. C. George Miss, Moor fields Bomford Ernest George Cooke, farmer Bomford esq. Spring hill Lilwall Mrs. The Monastery & hop grower Millward William, shopkeeper & baker Lingard George, Brooklands Bullock Esther (Mrs.),shopkeeper,Moor Simpson William, market gardener Niven Miss, Moor house Burlingham H. & Co. coal mer. Station Smith James, market gardener, Moor Preedy Robert, Avon cottage Clarke Al1red, market gardener, Moor Smith Sidney, market gardener Robarts Arthur Frederick, Craycombe Clarke Charles, dairyman Stephens George, miller (water) & Wagstaff James William, Weston ho DruryChas.(Mrs.),mk,.grdnr.&shpkpr farmer, Fladbury mill Wagstaff Miss Hill Foster Mary Ann (M•·s. ), Anchor P.ll Thomas Joseph, market gardener, Moor WhintieldRev. HerbertE.B.A."(curate], Fryer Thomas, market gardener, Moor Tolley William, butcher Moor Gibbs George, market gardener, Moor Trenfield Sarah Elizh. (Mrs.), sbopkpr Woodward Col. Wait. Wm. The Chantry Gibbs Isaac Waiter, blacksmith, Moor Wagstaff James William, farmer