I>IRY.CTORY.] WORCESTEUSHIRE. LONGDON. 173 to be given to the poor quarterly in bread and money, Post & Telegraph Office, South Littleton. Rober\: The family of Littleton; ancientay of Coulesdon, iu Emms, sub-postmaster. Letters through Eveshat* Upton-Snodsbury and Frankley, took their name from arrive at. 6.40 a.m. & :z.2o p.m.; dispatched at 12.25 a manor here, but Sir John Littleton sold the property & 6.20 p.m. week days only. is the nearest in the reign of Elizabeth. Long Hyde is the residence money order office of Thomas A.dkins esq. J.P., F.R.G.S. Lady Northwick Post Office, North Littleton.-Dharles Wheeler, sub-post- is lady of the manor of North and Middle Littleton; master. Letters arrive from at 7.30 a.m. &. Lieut.-Col. Robert Bourne D.L., J.P. of Cowarne Court, 2 .45 p.m.; dispatched at 12.15 & 5·45 p.m. week days Ledbury, who is lord of the manor of South Littleton, only. Badsey ~s the nearest money order office &. and the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, South Littleton the nearest telegraph office are the principa.I. landowners a.t South Littleton. The Wa.I.l Letter Box at North Littleton is cleared at 5.40 p.m. soil is clay; subsoil, blue lias. The chief crops are Letters arrive at 9 a. m wheat and bea.ns ; there are also market gardens. Tht> parish of North and Middle Littleton contains 1,697 Public Elementary School (mixed), Middle Littleton, re- acres of fertile arable and meadow land and 9 of water; built & • teacher's house added in ~873, at a cost oi rateable value, £2,034; the population in 19II of North upwards of £I,ooo;. the school was enlarged in I894 Littleton 1lnd Middle Littleton was 357· The parish of & ag-din in 1 903• & will hold x6o children; average South Littleton contains 813 acres of fertile land; rate- attendance; 1-44; George H. Fletcher, mastc>r able value, £2,045; the population in 19II was 438. Littleton & Badsey Railway Station, Albert Harvey, sta- Parish Clerk, Robert Emms, South Littleton. tion master NORTH LITTLETON. Moore Thomas Giles, wheelwright Bidford Industrial & Provide.Q.i Co- Osborne Anne (Mrs.), beer retailer operative Society Limited (John Heming Misses Sarah & Edith, The Tombs Arnold, market gardener Howell, manager) Poplars ·rombs Henry, market gardener Bubb Frederick, market gardener COMMERL'IAT., Wakefield Hi£rford Thos. market gdnr Bubb James, market gardener Ballard John, farmer Wheeler Frederick, farmer Bubb Thomas, market gardener Ballard Mary (Mrs.), frmr. & butcher Bubb William,. market gardener Ballard Eli, market gardener MmDLE LITTJ.ETON. Careless Robert Henry, King Edward Ballard William John, market gardnr Mumford Thomas, market gardener VII. P.H Cook CharleS; market gardener Sollis Albert, market gardener Careless William, farmer Cook Frederick, market gardener Warner Alfred, farmer, Manor farm Dowler Waiter, farmer, Norval farm. Cook John, market gardener Wheeler Benj. bricklayer &market gdnr Emms Charles, market gardener Cook Owen, market gardener Emms George, market gardener Evans Ernest John, Fish & Anchor . SOUTH LITTLETON. Emms Robt, parish clerk & postmsb P.H. The Ferry Adkins Thos. F.R.G.S.,J.P.Long Hyde Emms Waiter, jun. baker Gisbourne Charles, market gardener Ashworth Rev.Fras. Gerald Edwardes Emms Wa.I.ter John, baker Gould Samuel, carpenter M.A.. Vicarage Harrison Albert, market gardener Harris Samuel, market gardener Ca~less Thomas Harrison Henry, market gardener Harrison John, market gardener Fowler Daniel Henry, Rose cottage - Harrison Maurice, market gardener Heming Jonathan, market gardener COMMERCIAL. Howley George William, assistant Heming Jonathan, jun. baker AllchurchArth. & Colin,market gdnrs overseer & collector of rates & taxes Heming Richard, market gardener Allchurch Frank, market gardener Mumford Elizh. (Mrs.), market gdnr Heming Thomas, market gardener Allchurch Colin, market gardener Mnmford George, market gardener Heming William, baker Allchurch Wilson, market gardener Randall Henry, market gardener Lloyd William, wheelwright Ashwin Bellwood, farmer Rose George Herbt. market gardene• Moore Giles, market gardener Averill Frederick, market gardener Rose John, market gardener - Moore John Claude, market gardener Bickerstaff Frank, market gardener Salisbury Solomon, blacksmith Moore Jn. Hy. farmer & market gdnr Bickersta:ff Oliver, market gardener Wheeler George, bricklayer Moore Samuel Careless, beer r.etailer Bickerstaff Samuel, market gardener Wheclflr Percy, builder LONGDON is a village and parish on the road from of Capt. Willie Harry Stone, and the residence of CoJ_ Upton to Gloucester, about 2 miles west from the Ellis Charles Fletcher Holland R.A. Eastington House,. ,.navigable Severn, si north-west from Tewkt>sbury and the property of Capt. W. H. Stone, and now a farm 3 south-west from Upton, in the Southern division of house, is a timber-built manor house of an earlier dat& the county, hundred of Lower , Upton petty than any other of any importance in the county, and sessional division and union, Tewkesbury county court was probably built in the reign of Henry VII. the general district, rura.I. deanery of Uptoo. and archdeaconry a.nd design being remarkably good; the principal front diocese of Worcester. The church of St. Mary is an exhibits several picturesque gables, the upper storey edifice of brick, chiefly in the Italian style, and re- projecting and being supported on traceried brackets ; erected, with the exception of the tower (which dates the barge boards are richly carved, and the spandrils from about 1290), in 1786, on the site of an earlier of the porch have grotesque heads; the dining hall church: in 1869-70 a new chancel and vestry, designed .retains an elal.orately carved roof and screen. The Dean by the Rev. Anthony Cottrell Lefroy M.A. vicar 1868-85, and Chapter of Westminster are the lords of the manor. were erected, and the church refitted: it now consists The principal landowners are the Rev. E. R. Dowdes­ of an apsidal chancel of stone in the Romanesque style, well M.A. of Pull Court, Bushley, Capt. Willie Harry nave, south porch a.nd a western tower, with pinnacles Stone, of Redland, Bristol, Eliot George Brom]ey Martinr and spire, containing 6 bells, and a clock, erected in esq. of St. Cloud, Powick, the trustees of the late Mr. 1887 at a cost of £120: the five windows of the apse are John Rayer and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The­ all stained, and over the communion table is a repre- soil is mad and sandy loam; subsoil, marl and rock. sentation of "the Crucifixion," executed in pyrography, The chief crops are wheat, barley .and beans. The area by a former cnra.te: there is a brass to William is 3,932 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable Ta.l.ue,. Brydges esq. and his wife, dated 1523: the church £4,46o; the population in I9II was 402. affords 210 sittings. The earliest register dates from Post & T. 0. Mi86 Mary Newman, sub-postmistress. about the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Letters arrive from Tewkes1mry at 7.30 a.m. & 2.30 va]ue £230, including 16 acres of glebe, with residence, p.m. week days &; 7.30 a.m. su:t~days; dispatched at in tke gift of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 5.50 p.m.; >Sundays, 10.30 a.m. Upton-on-Severn, 3- antl held since 1889 by the Rev. A.rthur Green M.A. of miles distant, is the nearest money order office Hertford College, Oxford. There are charities of £42 Letter Boxes. Piper's end, 10.35 a.m & 5·55 p.m.; yearly, derived from land in the parishes of Longdon, snndays, 10.35 a.m. & Longdon Hill end, 7·45 a.m. &; Berrow and Pendock; £21 is applied towards the 5.50 p.m. week days only support of the school, and the balance is distributed to Public Elementary School (mixed); the school-house,. the poor on St. Thomas' Day. The mission room at together with a residence for the mistress, was. "Qpper Green was erected in 1890, and will seat 75 rebuilt in 1842 &; enlarged 1894, for Ioo children; &Ter- persons. The church owns property in addition to the age atteadanee, 6o; Miss Margaret Cleminson, eerti- present value of £28. Chambers Court is the property :ficated mistress (Marked thus • receive their letters Rayer Harry, Hillworth court Brewer Thorley John, farmer through Upton-on-Severn.) Reiss Capt. Edward L. White house Bruorton A.Ibert, farmer, Slade's ~n Birt Shir1ey H. Wood house - *Clarke Geor~ & Caroline (Miss),. Green Rev. Arthur M.A. (vicar), COlDIERCIAL. farmers, Whitefields · Vicarage Abel Peter, beer retailer *Green Hy. Jas. farmer, Hill End lo Holland Col. Ellis Charles F~etcher Best George, farmer, Piper's end *Gui1ding Heury Bateman, farmeJ' R.A. court .... Bibbs William Charles, Plough inn Eastington .