350 WYRE PIDDLE. . (KELLY'S DIRECTORY,) Partington J ames, farmer Prosser Charles, market gardener Shepherd Henry, farmer & aasis'-nt. Payne Charles, market gardener Sharp H. & S. millers (water), Wyre overseer Phipps Ernest, market gardener mill WilmQre Joseph (Mrs.), farm81" with HEADLEY :HEATH and SILVER STREET. WYTHALL was made an ecclesiastical parish August 1841, with 230 sittings, and a Unitarian chapel 26, 1853-. and includes the outlying adjacent portions Wythall Institute was erected in 1889, at a. cost of of King's Norton, Solihull and Alvechurch parishes. £711, defrayed by public subscription, and is used fot Under the Greater Act of 19I1, by Local entertainments, concerts &c. Weatheroak Hall, the Government Board Order (1910) Confirmation (No. 13) seat of the Misses Mynors, was restored in 18841 and Act, zgn, Wythall was formed into a separate civil occupies an elevated position in park-like grounds, J parish, but the boundaries are not co-extensive as mile west of the Alcester road; it commands aome those of the ecclesiastical parish. Wythall is 3~ fine views of the surrounding woodland scenery. miles south from King's Norton station on the Bir­ Black Greve House, a moated farm house f!f consider .. mingham and Bedditch section of the Midland railway, able antiquity, is the manor house of a sub-manor 8~ south from Birmingham, on the North Warwickshire within the manor of King's Norton. William Taylor branch of the Great Western railway;, the parish is in esq. is lord of the manor. The principal landowner, the Eastern division of the county, Upper Halfshire are the Misses Mynors and Richard Burman esq. The hundred, petty sessional division, soil is chiefly strong loamy clay; subsoil, rich -red union, county court district of Birmingham, rural mar!, but contains also tracts of gravel and peat. The deanery of King's N m·ton and archdeaconry and diocese chief crops are wheat, oats and beans, but the greater of Birmingham. Bell brook takes its rise here and runs part is pastural ; a few root crops are also grown, through the parish, extending on the east to the War­ The area is 3,5oo acres; rateable value, £9,652;:. the wickshire border, and flows into Inkford brook. Part of population in 1901 WaS 1,2og, Of Which 995 8r(l Vl Icknield Street, the old Roman road, runs at the bottom Warwickshire. of Weatheroak Hill in the district parish of Wythall. Parish Clerk, Enos Smith. The church of St. Mary, erected in 1862, is an edifice of brick in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 184o' & nave, transepts, south aisle, south porch and a tower enlarged in 1892, for Ioo children; average attendance, with belfry, erected in 1908, and containing a peal 40 ; Miss Annie Ludford, mistress of tubular bells; choir and clergy vestries were added HEADLEY HEATH is 1§ miles north-west from Wythall. as a transept on the north side of the tower in 1go8 : a new organ was erected in 1910 at a cost of £8so: SILVER STREET, I mile south; .Kingsvrood, 2! miles the elaborately carved stpne reredos was the gift of north; Inkford, three-quarters of a mile south; Tan­ the late W. H. Jackson, of Glenfield: the smaller west ner's Green, three-quarters of a mile east, are scatteref window, the gift of Mrs. Mynors and R. Mynors esq. hamlets. of Weatheroak, is a memorial to Robert Edwin Eden Public Elementary School, Silver street (mixed), bum 1896 Mynors, and a new east window was placed in in 1878, at a cost of £4,5oo, for 152 children; average to the memory of R. Mynors esq. : a. memorial west window to Richard Barman esq. of Houndsfield, and attendance, 126; Sydney Yeomans, mast.er one in the south aisle were erected by the family of Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, James Johnstone M. D. of Birmingham; in the south Wythall.-Edward Howard Thornton, sub-postmaster. aisle are memorial windows toW. H. Jackson, inserted by Letters for Wythall & Grime's Hill are received from his widow, and to Mrs. Mynors' sister: the four stained Birmingham; arrive about 7·35 a.m. & 3-45 p.mJ~ windows in the sanctuary are in memory of relatives of dispatched at 7·45 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; no sunday the Misses Mynors, of Weatheroak Hill, and one in the delivery south aisle in memory of the Rev. Ambrose Morris, vicar Wall Letter Boxes.-Headley Heath, cleared at 6.30 p.m. { I892-1907: in the north wall is a window in memory Weatheroak Hill, cleared at 8.35 a.m. & 7.10 p.m. on of Richard Burman esq. of Houndsfield, died 1877, week days only; Inkford, cleared at 7 p.m. week and of Ann, his wife, died 1876: there are 260 sittings, days only & Drake's Cross, cleared at 6.20 p.m all of which are free. The register of baptisms be­ longing to the chapelry of Wythall dates from the year COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE PETTY SES- 1763 ; there is also a marriage register which dates SIONAL DIVISION OF BEDDITCH. from 1854, and of burials from 186o. The living Petty Sessions are held at the Institute on the I&t is a vicarage, net yearly value £330, including 6 acres friday in each month, at II a.m of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of King's Norton, and held since 1907 by the Rev. For list of Magistrates & places in the division see Arthur Henry Phelips M.A. of Hertford .College, Oxford. Bedditch, p. 225. The Mission church of St. Francis, Holly Wood, was Clerk to the Magistrates, Edward Eustace Browning, erected in 1910. There is a Baptist chapel, erected in Church road, Redditch WYTHAJ.J.. DRAKES CROSS. SILVER STREET. Johnstona Capt. Richard, Newbie (Letters received through Hollywood, (Letters received through Hollywood, Nield Bev. S~m~u.el M.A. (Baptist), Birmingham.) Chapel house Birmingham.) Phelips Bev. Arthur Henry M.A. Baker J ames John Thomas, boot ma Yeomans Sydney (vicar), Vicarage Cocks William, farmer, The Paddocks Cranmore John, cowkeeper, Batemans Simpson Robert, Shortlands Cranmore Charles, butcher green COMMBBCUL, Hughes Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Mortiboys Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Archer William B. farmer, Bleak ho Johnson Gharles & Sons, builders Moseley William, farmer • Bennett David, farmer, Grime's hill Morris James, shopkeeper • INKFORD. Burman Richard, farmer,Houndsfield Nash John William, butcher Corbett James, farmer, Grime's bill Ryley Frederick, oak basket maker (Letters received through Alvechurch, Oorbett Jas. Hy. farmer, Tanner's grn Willis Harry Frank, beer retailer Birmingham.) Day Albert, farmer, Wythwood Yerrel Jane (Mrs.), laundry Menzies George, farmer, Up. Inkford Drew Arthur. cycle manufacturer, Yerrel John, shopkeeper Priddin George Edward, shopkeeper Grime's hill Savage Mark, sen. farm.er Fernihough Harvey. farmer, Yew A I':ADLEY HEATH. Snow John, farmer Tree farm Strong Sidney T. fanner Hartle William, farmer, Church grn (Letters- received through King's Mann George, farmer, Pea.rtree farm Norton, Birmingham.) WEATB EROAK AJI.I,, Rouse Frederick, farmer Barley William, farmer (Letters received through Alvechurch,. Smith Enos, parish clerk Johnson Henry, cowkeeper Birmjngham.) Smith James, cowkeeper Morris Joseph, farmer (For remainder of names in Weather- Stinson Edwin, coach bldr.&blcksmth Prescott Richard, jun. farmer, Head­ oak mu, see Alvechurch.) Thornton Edward Howard, shop- ley Heath farm Mynors Misset, Weatheroak hall keeper, Post office Wakeman Charles, farmer Bench William, farmer Tomlin George, fnnr. Low. Honndsfld Wakeman George, farmer Smith Tho•. farmer, Weatheroak frw' Wythall Institute (Miss Mynors,pres) Yoxall James H. farmer Taylor Thomas George, farmer