~84 . WORCESTERSHIHE. (KELLY'a

foot ot W oodbury hill, is a. mansion in the Italian on the Great Western railway, 8 north-west from Wor­ .style, erected by Lord Foley in the I8th century, cester, 6f MUth by west from Stourport and 126 fro111 when the park and woods of 200 acres were laid out; London, in the hundred of Lower Oswaldslow. Th6 ~uring the years I843-6 it was occupied by the late chapelry of Holy Trinity here, formerly dedicated Jto Dowager Queen Adelaide, and afterwards became the St. Michael, was almost wholly rebuilt in I867, in the ,property of the late Earl of Dudley, by whom it was Transition Norman styli:~, from designs by Mr. Perkins, enlarged and rendered almost palatial, by an expendi­ at the expense of William, ISt Earl ol Dudley, and ia Jture, it is said, of more than £25o,ooo: there are I2 a building of stone, and consists of apsidal chancel, Ionic columns on the -south and eight on the noTth nave, south porch and an open western turret containing front-, and a corridor connects the house with the one bell: the roof and fittings are of English oak: the .church ; on the south and east. wings are superb gar­ stone carving was executed by Mrs. Sale, wife of • -dens, laid out by N esfield, and covering an area of 10 former rector : there are go sittings. The aTea is 1,007 :acres, inte-rsperseWitley Court & Holt Heath, 2 miles distant, is the nearest tele· and near to the and Woodbury Hills. Stock graph office :sales are held here in April, August and October. In Public Elementary School, erected in I874• for so chil­ the parish is an anci~>nt encampment. The Earl of dren; average attendance, 28; Miss Agnes M. A. 'Dudley is lord of the manor and princ:;ipal landowner. Lewis, mistress 'The soil is new red sandstone and clay; subsoil, gravel :and broken marl. The chief cTops are wheat, barley, COUN'l'Y MAGISTRATES FOB THE HUNDRED hops and fruit. The area is 2,642 acres of land and 30 HOUSE PETTY SESSIO~AL DIVISION. 'Of water; rateable value, £3,9I2; the population in Taylor Montagu Charles Harry esq. Court house, Shelsley I9II was 373 in the civil and 488 in the ecclesiastical Walsh, Worcester, chairman ;parish in I90I. Davies Edward Smith esq. Seed Green park, StouTporl Parish Clerk, J oseph Smith. Davis John esq. Hope house, , Worcester Hingley George Fredk. Handel esq. , Worcester 'REDMA.BLEY is a hamlet, I mile north. On Wood­ The Chairmen, for the time being, of the Martley &; buTy Hill is a. camp. which Owen GlendowPr, the Rock Rural District Councils are ex-officio magistr-ates famous Welsh chieftain (I359-I4I5), held against the Clerk to the Magistrates, Chas. Hugh Watson,Stourprl English for some weeks. Petty Sessions are held at the Court house on the first HIT..LHAMPTON is a township, I mile east, formerly monday in the month at 11 a.m. The places in the a part of Martley parish, now a part of Great Witley division are: Abberley, Clifton-on-Teme, , parish; it is on the east side of Witley Park, 4! miles Martley, Pensax, Rock, Sapey Pitchard, Shelsley Beau· south-west from Stourport, in Martley union and champ, Shelsley Kings, , , Worcester county court district : it cor. sists of a few Stanforrl, Stockton, Great Witley & 'farmhouses. The area is 794 acres of land and 6 of Police Station, Redmarley, Sergt. Gustavus Gray, & I water; rateable value, £875 ; the population in 1901 was constable "'98. 'Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Annie Isabel Prattley, Clerk to the Hundred House Sub-Committee of Wor­ sub-postmistress. Letters from Worcester arrive at cestershire Local Pension Committee, H. T. Cla.rke, 30 6.10 a.m. & 4 p.m.; dispatched at g.so a.m. & 6.25 FQregate street, Worcester p.m.; sundays, 6. Io p.m Wall Letter Boxes, at Hillhampton & Redmarley Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in I895, at the cost of the Earl of Dudley, for I2o children; aver- LITTLE WITLEY is a chapelry, 2 miles south-east of age attendance, 85; Willi~m Henry Wall, master Great Witley, to which ecclesiastical parish it is now Carriers to Stourport & Kidderminster pass through on :annexed; it is 8! miles west from Droitwich station thurs. & sat. & to Worcester, mon. wed. & ·sat GREAT WITLEY. cal officer & public vaccinator, Odd Fellows M.U. Lord Ednam Lodge PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Martley district, Martley union & (Lodg~ ofJuveniles)(Wm.Butler,sec) medical officer of hPalth to Martley Prattley A.L(Mrs. ),shpkpr. Post office Dudley Earl of P.C., G.C.B., Rural District Council Proudman Garner Richd. jun, farmer, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., T.D., D.L., Edey William, house steward to the Redmarley & Vauxhall farms J.P. Witley court ; 7 Carlton gar- Earl of Dudley Proudman Robert Albert, farmer, Hill dens S W & Carlton & Royal Farquharson Alex. farmer, Structons House farm Automobile clubs S W, London Heath Sullivan Michael, coachman to Earl 'Banks Herbert, Vauxhall Fryer Edward, blacksmith of Dudley "Bartlett Charles Henry, White house Gilchri~t James, farmer, Hillhampton Taylor William Fossett J.P. land lUackwell Edward J.P. Hillhampton (postal address, Astley, Stourport) agent to the Earl of Dudley,Estatea 'Dykes David G Gomm John, miller (water) office Leonard Rev. John B.A. (curate) Goode Charles, dairy farmer & in- Tolley Sarah (Mrs.) & William, McGeagh Mrs. Wm. Hillhampton ho come tax collector farmers, Easthope 'Taylor Wm. F., B.A., J.P. Woodbury Goodwin Andrew William, tailor & Wall Wilham Henry, assistant over- Wilson Rev. Rowland Alwyn M.A. breeches mal•er seer & clerk to the Parish Council (rector), The Rectory Great Witley Cricket Club (William Witley & District Farmers' Club (A. COMMERCIAL. Henry Wall, hon. sec) W. Goodwin, sec) .Austen Wm.Geo. Hundred Home htl Great Witley Institute (W. Cooke, Young Arthur, head gardener to the Averill Leonard, farm bailiff to Earl of hon. sec) Earl of Dudley Dudley, Home farm Green George, baker & grocer 1Jartlett Charles Henry, cashier Earl Hayward Geo.E. farmr. Lippetts frm LITTLE WITLEY. of Dudley's estate office Hodgetts William & John, farmers & Bishnp f'redk. GPo. farmer, Well .h·m Beddard Jsph.engnr. to Earl of Dndley hop growers, Walsgrove BradlAy George, farmer, Chapel fa.rm "Braid John Barnes, head forester to (,awrence Walter,farm bailiff to Edwd. Colebatch Richard Poladore, farmer, the Earl of Dudley Blackwell esq. Hillhampton Thomas farm .Colwill James, farmer, Park farm Limerick JamPs, carpenter f'oleb:1tch Thos. Chas. frmr. Bank fm .Colwill Bd.farmer, Dingle fa.rm(postal London City & Midland Bank Lim. Edwards Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeepr address, Little Witley, Worcester) (sub-branch from Bewdley) (John Glover Pe1·cy A. relieving & vaccina- .Cook Geo.H.head grdnr. to S.Lamb Psq Green, manager); open wednesday tion officer for No. I district, Mart- .Cooke William, clerk of works to Earl only, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ; draw on lPy union, Tegistrar of births &I of Dudley head office, 5 Threadneedle street, deaths for Martley sub-district &I 'Dudley (Earl of) Estates Office (W.F. London E C assistant overseer for Holt & Little Taylor, agent) Martin William & Edwin, farmers, Witley Dykes David Garfield M.B., B.Ch. farm Wall Sarah Jane(Miss),shpkpr.Post off Glas. physician & surgeon et medi- Norwood William, farmer, Hill farm White ·\.lfred J. farmer LITTLE WITLEY, see Great Witley. WOLLASTON, see Stourbridge.