DIRECTORY.] . FRANKLEY. 107 Thomas Morden LL.B. treasurer of St. Paul's, London, and Moor, by William George. who died in 1841; in 1833 and rector here 1458; half effigy, wearing chasuble and the Rev. Stafford Smith, rector, left the interest {Jf £1,000 hood, in brass, to William Plewme A.M. reet{Jr, 15°4; to be laid out in coats, meat, bread, and prayer books, to brass with effigy to Edward Peyton esq. 1488: a memorial be distributed annually; Richard Bourne Charlett esq. with arms and inscription to Godith, wife {Jf Robert Olney g-ave the interest of £100 to poor persons nob receiving esq. and another to John Darby, 16°9; at the restoration parochial relief; in \1848 Mrs. Joyce Evans left the of the chancel in 1865, the large marble monument to interest of £50 to the poor; Mrs. Mary 1Vagstaff in 188,; William Lloyd, successively Bishop of St. Asaph, Coven- g-ave the interest on £200 for the widows of Moor, and in try and Lichfield, and Worcester, which stood on the the same year Mr. Robert Wagstaff gave the interest on north .side of the chancel, was dismembered, the in- £500 for the poor of Fladbury. Craycombe is the resi­ scribed slab being transferred to the vestry, and the half- dence of ..lrthur Fredk. Robarts esq. The Ecclesiastical length effigy of the prelate placed high up against the Commissioners are lords of the manor. The principa.lland­ wall, under an arched canopy, supported by marble owners are the Ecclesiastical Oommissioners, H.R.H. the shafts: he died Aug. 30, I717; there are monumental Duc d'Aumale, of Wood Norton, Ohadbury, Joseph Baker tablets of the Perrot family on the walls of the nave, dated Workman e.sq. and the rector. The soil is chiefly light from 1806 to 1837; the .stone font was presented by Mrs. clay, with a little sand; subsod, gravel and .sand. The Margaret M. Pruen. The register dates from the year chief crop:;; are wheat, beans and barley, and fruit. The 1549. The living- is a rectory, with the chapelries of population of Fladbury in 1891 was 452 ; acreage, 1,527. Throckmorton and Wyre Piddle annexed, joint net yearly rateable value, £3,925. value £7~0, including 700 acres of g-lebe, with residence, Hill and Moor form a. hamlet of Fladbury, the former in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1877 of which is about I~ miles north-west from Fladbury, and by the Rev. William PitcairnAlexander Campbell M.A. of the latter about I mile north-west. The land is rathe:r Queens' College, Cambridge. St.Thomas' church, at Lower i hilly and well wooded. The population of Hill and Moor Moor, between Fladbury and Wyre Piddle, erected in 1869 in 1891 was 364; acreage, 1,294; rateable value, £2,455. on a .site given by Robert WagstafI esq. was opened on St. Sexton, Henry Ainge. Thomas' day, Dec. 21, and i:;; an edifice of red brick with Post & M. O. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity Bath >'ltone dressings, in the Early English style, from &; Insurance Office.-George Morris, sub-postmaster. designs by Mr. Preedy, and consists of nave {Jnly, a portion Letters arrive from Pershme at 7.45 a.m. & 3.35 p.m.• of which forms a quasi-chancel: service is held here by dispatched at 5.30 p.m. & 8 p.m. on week days; no the rector and curates of Fladbury every Sunday evening: sunday collection or delivery there are 120 >'littings. Charities-In 1403 Thomas Wil- Wall Lette~ Box, Moor, cleared at 7.25 a.m. & 6.5 p.m. cox left to the church land at Fladbury Hill; in I710 John Letters are dE'livered at 7.15 a.m Hopkins left to the church 5 acres: the following benefac- Xational School (mixed), erected in 1864-5 under the t:ons have been given at different period:;; for the relief of direction {)f ),11'. Preedy, compris~ng a school-room. the poor :-Miss· Martin, £5; Nicholas Perk, £5, since with bell-turret & porch & a· residence for the master &; increased tlo £7; and Mrs. Hester Jones, £5, but this mistress; it will hold 130 children; average attendance. bequest cannot now be traced; in 1698, WilIiam White, of III; ~Irs. Eliza Stanley, mistress. Mrs. Elizabeth London, gave £5, which ~n 1748 was increased to £10, Gauntlet in 1865 gave the interest on £100 for the main- and in 1843 t(} £17, and placed in ihe savings bank at tenance of the S'Chool Evesham, together with £50 left by will to the poor of Hill I Railway Station, Henry Lampitt, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. ' Beck Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer '& shop- Izod Edmund, market gardener AlIen Mrs. The Laurels keeper, Moor Jones Thomas, carpenter, Moor Campbell Rev. William Pitcairn Alex- Boulter Wm. market gardener, Moor Lidser John, jun. frIllr. Machine frm ander M.A. Rectory I Bomford Ernest Ge~rge C;ooke, farmr. Morns George, post offic.e Coates Rev.Frederick SpryB.A.(curate) & hop grower, Spnng hill ~~unders J?h?, tobaccomst Deakin Stephen Henry I Bull?ck Esther (Mrs.), shopkpr. M?or SlI~pson WIlham, market gardener Elkington Leigh Harold, Manor house ~urlinghaIJ?H. ~ ~o. coal mers.Stat~on Sm~th J:~.mes, market gardener, Moor George Miss, Moor fields Chamberlam )VIlliam Hy. Anchor mn SmIth Sldn~y, market ga~dener Lingard George, Brooldands Clarke Alfred, ma~ket gardener, Moor Stephens Elizh. (Mrs.), ~Iller (water) Niven Miss Moor house Clarke Charles, cfa1.ryman & farmer, Fladbury mIll Preedy Mr;. The Chantry F~yer Thomas, market gardener, Moor Street Francis, baker & shopkeeper Preedy Robert, Avon cottage G~bbs George, market garde~er, Moor Taylor C~a:les, market gardener Read Charles Carter, The Monastery GIbbs Isaac WaIter, blacksmIth, Moor Tolley WIlham, bu~c~er Robarts Arlh. Frederick, Craycombe Goddard Ge~r&,e, mrkt. gardenr. ]\.fOOl' W:agstaff ~~n;tes WIllIam, farmer Wagstafl' James WilIiam Western ha Harwood )VIlham, market gardener, Wheeler '" Ilham, farmer Wagstaff Miss Hill' Hill Furze Wilson Thomas, market gardnr. Moor Haynes James, market gardener, Moor Wood John, farm bailiff to J. B. Work- COMMERCIAL. Hundy AIbert Thomas, The Chequers man esq. Hill Fnrze fa;rm Adams Frank, farmer P.H. & market gardener Woodward Jas. market gardnr. Moor Baylis Joseph, market gardener Hundy James, wheelwright, Moor Working Men's Reading Room (John Beard Samuel, market gardener lIrish Charles Edmund (Mrs.),shopkpr Perey Woodwald, sec) FLYFORD FLAVEL, anciently "Flabel," is a small Heward D.e.L., ~I.A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham, who is parish and scattered village on the main road from )Vor- also rector of .A.bberton. )Ir!". Baker-Oarr, of 47 Clarenca cester to Alcester, 9 miles east from 'Worcester, 6 north square, Cheltenham, is lady of the manor and prin­ from Pershore station on the Midland and Great Western cipal landowner. The land is partly sand and partly railway,s, and about 8! south-west frvm Alcester, in the clay, and abound:;; with fossil remains. The chief crops Southern division of the county, upper divis.;on of Per- are wheat, oats and beans, and fruit. The area is 664 shore hundred, union, petty division sessional and county acres; rateable value, £576; the population in 1891 was court district of Pershore, rural deanery of Pershore, and 169. archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The church oJ Sexton, Henry Burbadgt'. St. John the Baptist is a building of stone in the Early Post Office.-Edwin Geor~e Ewins, sub-postma.ster. Let- Eng-lish style, consisting of chancel, nave, wooden south ters received through Worcester, delivered at 6.30 a.m. porch and an embattled western tower containing 2 bells: Letter Box cleared at 6.50 p.m. The nearest money the chancel was repaired in 1845, and the entire church order office is at Inkberrow &. telegraph office is at rrestored in 1883, under the direction of Mr. W. J. Upton Snodsbury Hopkins, architect, of Worcester, and opened Dec. 27, This place is included in the Abberton United School 1883, the cost (£1,500) being defrayed by the late William Board distr;ct, formed in 1874 Laslett esq. of Abberton Hall: there are 120 sittings. The Board School (mixed), built in 1876 at a cost of £600, for register dates from the year 1676. The living i:;; a rectory, 156 children; average attendance, 1°5; Edwd.William~ net yearly value £30, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. master Baker-Carr, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Thos. MOTley Carrier to 'Vorcester. John Cresswell, sat Reward Rev. Thomas ~Iorley D.C.L., Bluck Thomas, mason Long-land Francis, Boot inn M.A. Rectory Cresswell Albert Lamas, farmer Laight John (Mrs.), farmer COMMERCIAL. Cresswell John, farmer & carrier, Smith John Dyke, farmer Church farm Smith lVilliam, farmer Bluck George, painter Cresswell Robert, farmer Young Henry, farmer, Rectory farm Bluck Thomas, cooper & farmer Ewins Edwin Geo. shoe ma. Post office Young William, farmer & shopkeeper FRANKLEY is a parish and small village, about 2~ I east from Halesowen, 6 north-east from and 7 miles nQrth-west from Northfield station on the Birming- I south-west from , in the Northern division of ham and Bristol section of the Midland railway, 3 south- I the county, lower division of hundred, Hales-