DIRECTORY.) . ECCLESBALL. 157 are held here on the Monday and Tuesday after Trinity House, standing in a well-wooded park, is the seat of .Sunday. A horticultural show is held annually in July. Charles Edwin Lowe esq. j_'he Fire Brigade Station, in High street, was erected Dadnall or Three Farms is a township 2~ miles north. in x8gx; there are two manual engines. The benefactions At Badnall wharf is a goods station on the London and .to the poor are the right of pasturage for 16 poor per­ Nurth Western railway. sons' cows from Lady Day to Michaelmas on 32 acres of Walton is a township xi miles south-east. Walton Hall, land left in 1612 by Sir John Pershall, which has been a large mansion of stone, is now occupied by Henry Arthur 100mmuted to £48 yearly for poor inhabitants of Eccles­ Wiggin esq. D.L., J.P. hall; £1o yearly arising out of an estate at Norbury, for :apprenticing one poor child out of Horsley division, left in Wootton is a township x! miles south. qo8 by Sir Charles Skrymshire; £20 yearly for appren­ Pari-sh Clerk, Peter Seabridge. rticing poor children of Croxton township, and £20 to the Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & minister of Broughton chapel; £5 ss. for the education A & I. 0. High street.-Miss Letitia K. Smith, post­ .of poor ehildren in Charnes township ; and zos. to be mistress. (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have -given to the poor in bread ; Mrs. Deakin left in 1891 the R.S.O. Staffs added.) Letters from London & all parts interest of £ xoo to ibe given every third year to the poor are delivered at 7 a.m. & 3·55 p.m. ; sundays, 7 a.m. ; .of . The poor of Chorlton chapelry have xos. dispatched at 9·40 a.m. & 8 p.m.; sundays, 8 p.m. ; 'in bread annually. Eccleshall Castle, for years the seat telegrams can be dispatched on sundays from 8 to 10 .of reany bishops of the diocese of Lich:field, stands a a. m shorl; distance from the town, but the numerous altera­ Wall Letter Boxes, Elford hill, cleared 7 p.m.; Garme­ .tions and additions itJ has undergone have deprived it of low, cleared 6.20 p.m.; Copmere End, cleared 6.20 "its ancient castellated appearance, and it has now the p.m.; Stone road, cleared at 9 a.m. & 7 p.m. week .aspect of a merely modern mansion; one ivy-covered tower days; Sturbridge, cleared at 6.40 p.m.; Slindo!l, and bridge alone remain to mark the position of the an­ cleared at 6 p.m.; Pershall, cleared 6.35 p.m.; Wot­ -eient fortress, which appears to have been first embattled ton, cleared 6.30 p.m. week days only lly Bishop Geoffrey de :Muschamp (ng8-1214), who ob­ Post &; Parcel Office, Sugnall.-Mrs. Mary Ann Summer­ .tained a licence for this purpose from King John in 1200, field, sub-postmistress. Letters arriv& through ·the structure having previously been but a manor house. Eccleshall R. S. 0. at 7·I5 a.m.; dispatched at 6.15 Waiter de Langton, Bishop of Coventry (1296-1321), re­ p.m. week days only. Postal Orders are issued & paid ~milt the castle, which during the Civil war was hP-ld for here. Eccleshall, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money -the king, but waSI taken and dismantled by the Parlia­ order & telegraph office ml'ntary forces before 1646, and received so much injury that at the Restoration it was no longer available as a COUNTY MAGISTRATES ECCLESHALL PETTY xesidence for the bishops. Bishop Lloyd rebuilt the struc· SESSIONAL DIVISION. -ture, and resided here about 1695, but since then various Fitzherbert Basil Thomas esq. D.L. Swynnerton hall, -additions and alterations have been made ; it continued to Stone, chairman be the episcopal residence until t!he death of Bishop Burns Sambrooke Thomas Higgins esq. Loynton hall, Lonsdale in 1867, when the castle ceased to be an epis­ Newport, Salop -copal palace, and the estate is now the property and resi­ Garde Richard Davis esq. Biana, Eccleshall dence of Francis Vaughan-Williams esq. J.P. who pur­ Bargreaves Robert Halstead esq. Knightley grange, chased it in 1896: the greater part. of the walls enclosing Eccleshall ifu~ moat, and the two-arched bridge which crosses it Harrison Fredc. James esq. Maer hall, Newcastle·under- -are still intact, and one of the four flanking towers still Lyme -.t"~ains: Bishop Hough (1700-17) is said to' have planted Moat William esq. M.A. Jobnson hall, Eccleshall the ~ove, and the grounds were laid out by Bishop Turner W. Derrington esq. Oulton house, Newport,Salop oCornwallis. J ohnson Hall, about I mHe from the town, Vaughan-Williams Francis esq. Eccleshall Castle in a well-wooded park, is the residence of William Moat Vyle Henry esq. Southwell house, Eccleshall esq. J.P. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are Wiggin Henry A., D.L. Walton hall, Eccleshall 1ords of the manor, the Earl of Lichfield, Henry Vyle esq. Yonge Rev. Vernon George B.A. Charnes hall, Eccle~hall Thomas Salt esq. D.L., J.P. of Weeping Cross, , The Chairman of the StoM Rural District Council is Mrs. Chambers and Mr. T. B. Norris are the principal ex-officio magistrate 'landowners. The soil is varied; subsoil, marl. The chief Clerk to the Magistrates, Joseph Samuel Lea, Eceleshall .crops are oats, barley, wheat, potatoes and turnips; there Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall, Eccleshall, the is a large amount of pasturage. The parish is divided second & last thursday in every month, at II a.m. 'into four quarters viz. the Eccleshall quarter, Cotes, Places in the Petty Sessional Division :-, !lorsley and Woodland quarters-and twentv-one town­ Ashley, Forton, Ohebsey, Knightley, Cold Norton, ships. This is the largest parish in the comity, contain­ Eccleshall, , Norbury, High Offiey, Standon, ing 19,755 acres of land, including about 2,300 of wood­ Swynnerton, Weston Jones land and 146 of water; rateable value, £42,993; the -:population in 1901 was 3,799; the population of the dis- PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. -trict attached to the mother church in 1901 was 2,430. Assembly Room, High street, Mrs. Mary Ann Baker,propr Aspley is a township, 3 miles north-east from Eccles­ County Police Station, High street, Edward Currie, ser­ nall and 3 miles south-west from Standon Bridge station geant & one constable t'in the London and North Western railway. Eccleshall Parish Council Fire Brigade, High street, Henry Garlick, captain & n men Horsley is a large township, 2 miles south-west from "Eccleshall. Copmere is an extensive sheet of water cover­ Lonsdale Hall, High street, Rev. Preb. William Alien ing about 40 acres. Horsley Hall, a large mansion of red M.A. chairman fbrick, erected in 1883, is the seat of Mrs. Olegg. Garme­ Market Hall, High street, Hy. Edward Davies, hon sec low, Copme1·e End! and Oflley Hay are 'hamlets in the Town Hall, High street, Mrs. Panting, proprietress township. The school room at OfHey Bay is licensed for Weighing Machine, Stafford street, Bailey, proprietor .divine service. PUBLIC OFFICERS. Pershall is a. township, r mile north-west. Assistant Overseer, Richard Brandon, Stafford street & Slindon is a township, 2 miles north from Ecclesihall and "21 south from Standon Bridge station on the London and Stone road North Western railway. The churchi of St. Ohad, a chapel Clerk & Sec. to the Lighting Inspector, George Hamlet, ()f ease to Holy Trinity, erected in 1894• from the designs Stafford street -of Mr. Basil Cbampneys. architect, at the sole cost of Deputy Steward of the Manor, J. B. Norris, High street John Charles Salt esq. of London, is a building of stone Medical Officer 'Eccleshall District & Medical Officer of in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, Health Eccleshall District, Stone Rural District Coun­ -tram:epts,. south porch and a low embattled central tower cil, Hope Wilkes Gosse M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.O.P.Edin. containing one bell: the stained east window was pre­ High street sented by Mrs. John Salt; there is another to the School Attendance Officer & Registrar of Births &- Deaths ""Founder, and a marble reredos, erected in 1902 by the for Eccleshall District & Relieving Officer, Arthur "Rev. Frederick J. Salt, as a memorial to his parents : Ibbs, High street & Stafford street m a niche on the exterior of the sanctuary is a figure Stamp Distributor, Miss Letitia K. Smith, High street ·of St. Cha.d with a dedicatory inscription: there are 143 Tax Collector, James Parker, Stafford street ~itting&. At Brockton there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, -erected in x867 and seating So. A drinking PUBLIC EL&.--v.I:ENTARY SCHOOLS. 'fountain of stone was erected here in 1884 by John Charles Eccleshall, founded in 1825, rebuilt in 1826 & enlarged in Salt esq. of London. 1887 & 1895, for 350 children; average attendance, 75 Sugnall is a township of scattered houses, 2 miles north­ boys, 72 girls & 93 infants; James Wright, master; -west on the road from Eccleshall to Woore. Sugnall Miss Elizabeth S. Wright, mistress

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