DIRECTORY.) SHROPSH IRE. DA WLEY MAGNA . 85 sisting of chancel and nave and a western tower with Seifton hamlet is 1 mile north-west, and has a Primi- an unfinished octagonal spire, terminating in a small tive Methodist chapel. spirelet of wood and containing 3 bells, dated respectively Parish Clerk, Charles Raiswell. [663, i629 and x663: the tower was restored in 1897 Post, M. O. &: T. Oflice, Seifton.—Mrs. Sarah Morris. at a cost of £400: the chancel retains a fine double piscina and the stained east_window is a memorial to sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through Craven Mrs. Sandeman: there are sittings for 200 persons: in Arms, Salop, at 6.50 a.m.; letter box cleared at 6.25 :90: a memorial window and an inscribed brass were p.m.; no delivery on Sunday erected to Gordon E. B. Wood and in 1902 oak choir Letters arrive from for part of Seifton and stalls and a pulpit were provided by the parishioners as village at about 9 a.m. the remainder a memorial to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. The are delivered from ; those for the register dates from the year 1575. The living is a rec- hamlets of The Bache, Norton 85 Burley are received tory, net yearly value £488, including 38 acres of glebe, through Craven Arms, Salop. Letter Box cleared at with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late 6.20 p.m . Herbert John Allcroft esq. and held since 189: by the Wall Letter Boxes—Rectory wall, Seifton, cleared at Rev. David Erskine Holland M.A. of Worcester College, 4.35 p.m. St Culmington, cleared at 5 p.m Oxford. In the parish is Norton camp, usually regarded as a Roman work, and near the church is another but Public Elementary Schools. smaller camp. Culmington Manor is the residence of Culmington (mixed), with residence for the master, Thomas Wood Shaw esq. who is lord of the manor, and built in 1857, enlarged in 1879 &7 again in 1894, for with the trustees of the late Herbert John Allcroft esq. 110 children; average attendance, 80; John Robert the principal landowner. The soil is gravelly loam and ' Carruthers, master clay loam; subsoil, gravel and sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is Vernolds Common (infants) was built in 1874. sit is the 3,549 acres of land and 9 of water; assessable value, property of the trustees of the late H, J. Allcroft J€3,333; population in 1911, 493. esq.; average attendance, 10; Miss Selina Lane, mist The Bache, 1; miles west, Burley, I mile west, and Carriers to Ludlow.—William Pheysey, of . on Norton, 2 miles west. are hamlets, of which Herbert mon. &i set; Frederick Freeman, of Aston, mon. John Allcroft esq. is lord of the manors. wed. it sat CUI *Sherifl William, head gardener to *Morris Sarah (Mrs.), stationer, Post MINGTON' ’ T. W. Shaw esq oflice Marked thus * receive letters through Tomkins Richard, boot maker a regis- Overton Benjamin, assistant overseer Graven Arms, Salop; the remainder trar of births 8L deaths, vaccination through Ludlow. officer for sub-district of Letters throughBACHE'Craven Arms, Salop. Bowen Miss, The Cottage Ludlow union Woolley Thomas, head gardener to Evans Job, farmer *Shaw Thos.Wood,Culmington manor Matthews Thomas, farmer Worrall Henry, Culmington house H. Worrall esq NORTON. SEIFTON. Letters through Craven Arms, Salop. COMMERCIAL. Marked thus * receive letters through Davenport tadrach,head gamekeeper Cammell Thomas, cottage farmer l Craven Arms, Salop; the remainder through Ludlow. to Mrs. Herbert John Allcroft Holt John William, Royal Oak inn Lewis Thomas, farmer Howard Thomas, farmer, Medley prk Holland Rev. David Erskine M.A. Lockhart John, farmer Jones Jn. Hy. shoeing 8D genl. smith (rector), Rectory Lockhart Joseph William, farmer *Alderson Price, farmer, New house BURLEY. Morris Arthur William, farmer l Jones John (exors. of), farmers Letters through Craven Arms, Salop. Overton Charles B. tax collector for Luther Ernest, shopkeeper Price Thomas, wheelwright Culmington 86 district Marsden Thomas, farmer Roberts Charles Barlow. farmer CYNYNION is a hamlet in the of Os- Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn bart. C.B. of Wynnstay, uestry, and with Pentre-gaer, and a portion of the is the principal landowner. The soil varies from gravel parishes of Llansilin (Denbighshire), Llan—y-blodwel, to clayey loam; subsoil, partly on the lime rock and Rural, Selattyn and Syehtyn, was formed in gravel and shale. The chief crops are wheat, barley, 1844 into an ecclesiastical parish, under the name of oats and turnips. The area of the ecclesiastical parish Rhyd—y-Croesau: it lies in a mountainous district, on is 2,105 acres, and the population in 1891 was 401, the verge of the county, adjoining Denbighshire, 3% chiefly Welsh. The area of the hamlet is 785 acres; miles west from Oswestry, in the Western division of the population of Rhyd-y—Croesau ecclesiastical parish the county, hundred, petty sessional division, county in 1911 was 33, which extends into Denbighshire. court district and incorporation of Oswestry, rural deanery of Oswestry, archdeaconry of Montgomery and PENTRE-GAER is a hamlet 35 miles west from Os- diocese of St. Asaph. Christ Church, at Rhyd-y-Croesau, westry. The scenery is varied and romantic, and the erected and consecrated in 1886 in place of a previous Whole district mountainous. The soil is strong, mostly church built in 1838, is a small building of stone in a upon limestone. The area is 1,045 acres. debased Gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave Deputy Parish Clerk, John Wilkes. and an embattled western tower containing 2 bells: divine service is conducted in the Welsh and English Post Office, Rhyd-y-Croesau.—Thomas Evans, sub-post- languages. The register dates from the year 1838. The master. Letters through Oswestry arrive at 7.30 a.m. living is a rectory, net yearly value £181, including 9 &: dispatched at 6.5 p.m. Llansilin is the nearest acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop money order 85 telegraph office of St. Asaph, and held since 1908 by the Rev. William Public Elementary School, Rhyd-y-Croesau (mixed), Arthur Morris B.A. of St. David’s College, Lampeter.i built in 1-850, for 70 children; average attendance, The Earl of Powis is lord of the manor. Sir Herbert, 32; Miss Kate Elizabeth Brotherton, mistress CYNYNION. Edwards Catherine (Mrs), farmer PENTBE-GAEB. Evans Thomas, shopkeeper, Post of Charles Robert, farmer, Gwerniduon Morris Rev. William Arthur B.A. Foulkes Peter, farmer, Forest Edwards Edward, farmer (rector of Rhyd-y-Croesau) Guillam Thos. farmer,Pandy Newydd Edwards Walt. frmr. Tan-craigy-rhiw Hughes Lloyd, farmer Evans Edwd. farther, Nant-y-gollen COMMERCIAL . Jones David, farmer, Brongoll Grifliths Thomas, farmer Davies John, farmer Jones Jane (Miss), farmer Jones Thomas, farmer, Hemblas Edwards David & John, farmers Lloyd John. farmer, Cefn—y-maes Morris John, farmer. Pen—y-bryn Edwards Bichd. farmer, Cefn-y-maes Morris Hugh, farmer Roberts Edward, farmer, Tan-y-coed Williams Hy. Cross Foxes RH. Lawnt Williams John, farmer MAGNA. is a town and parish on the rural deanery of , archdeaconry of Salop and road from Wellington to , with a statiOn at diocese of Lichfield. The town is lighted with gas in this parish on the Wellington and Severn from works in Chapel street, built in 1857, and belong- Junction branch of the Great Western railway, 4. miles ing to the Dawley Gas Co. Limited. In 1909 an south-east from Wellington, about 21} north-west from arrangement was made with the Madeley and Madeley and 5 south-west from Shifnal: it is in the Water Co. of Harrington, for the supply of water at Mid division of the county, in Wellington division of a cost of about J£15,000; the pumping station is at. South Bradford hundred, Madeley union and county Little Dawley; the engines are of the Producer type court district, petty sessional division of Wellington, and force the water to the two reservoirs at Lawley Bank 86 DAWLEY MAGNA . . [sun’s for distribution to the district. The parish was formed Ofiicers. into a. Local Government District in 1876, but under the Clerk, Henry Revell Phillips, solicitor, Shifnal “Local Government Act, 1894” (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), Treasurer, J. S. Barker, Lloyds Bank an Urban District Council has been established. The Medical Ofiicer of Health, Maurice Gepp L.R.C.P. so S. church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1845, is a Edin., D.P.H.R.C.P.S.Eng. Thorneycroft house, Coton building of freestone in the Gothic style, consisting of hill, chancel, nave, transepts. baptistery and an embattled Surveyor 85 Sanitary Inspector, R. Lewis Price, Heath hl western tower containing 6 bells: there is a. font of Norman date. The register dates from the year 1666. Market Hall, The living was declared a Vicarage Dec. 11, 1866, net Police Station, Sergt. George Reynolds, 85 2 constables yearly value £290, including 3 acres of glebe, with Town Hall, residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, and held PUBLIC OFFICERS. Jince 1888 by the Rev. Thomas Richard Joseph Fawkes. Assistant Overseer, John J. Bailey, 63 King street There is a. Mission church in Hinkshay; a Baptist Collector of King’s Taxes, R. Lewis Price, Heath hill chapel, erected in 1846, seating 550 persons; also Wes— Collector of Poor’s Rates, Urban Callear, 73 King street leyan Methodist, United Methodist and Primitive Customs, Excise 86 Old Age Pension Ofiicer, William Jn. Methodist chapels. The Town Hall, a commodious Hawkins, 3 Myford cottages, Dawley Parva building, the property of the Urban District Ocuncil, Medical is available for public meetings. The Market Hall, Ofiicer, Dawley District, Madeley Union, Herbt. Clement Woodhouse M.B., Ch.B., J.P. 30 King street erected in 1867 and also the property of the Urban Public Vaccinator, Dawley District, Madeley Union, Council, is an oblong structure of red brick, with an Frederick Howard Davis L.R.F.P.S.Glas., ornamental frontage and vaults underneath, and is sur- L.S.A. 74 King street mounted by a turret containing one bell and a. clock, presented in 1867 by the late Lieut.-Col. William Registrar of Births, Deaths 35 Marriages 87: Vaccination Kenyon-Slaney. A piece of ground of about 2 acres in Oflicer, Dawley Sub-district, Madeley Union, John Thomason, 49 High street; deputy, William Taylor, extent was given by the late Rt. Hon. 001. William 33 Chapel street Slaney Kenyon-Slaney M.P. and H. C. Simpson esq. to Relieving Oflicer, No. 1 Dawley District, Madeley Union, be used as a. public park, and was opened in 1901. In James Clement Mole, Dawley bank the High street is a monument, erected in 1910, in memory of Capt. Webb, born in this pariSh in the year PLACES OF WORSHIP with times of Services. 1848, and who lost his life in an attempt to swim the Holy Trinity; 11 a..m. 80 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m. ; Holy Niagara rapids in 1883. The market day is on Satur- Communion, 1st sunday in the month, at midday; 2nd, day, for the sale of 'meat, vegetables and provisions, 3rd 65 4th sundays at 8 a.m.; Rev. Thomas Richard and is well attended. A charity of £7, derived from Joseph Fawkes, vicar land, was left in 1684 by Richard Hodden, gentleman, Mission Church, Hinkshay; 11 a.m. a 6 p.m.; holy of Ludlow, and a third of this is distributed to the communion, 3rd sunday at 8 a.m poor of this parish on St. Thomas’ Day. Lewis’ charity Baptist, Bank; 10.45 a.m. 8t 6 p.m.; tues. 7 p.m.; Rev. of £200 was left in 1887, and the interest is given to Arthur Lester the poor annually in blankets: Greenhalgh’s charity of Primitive Methodist, Dawley; 10.30 a.m. 65 6 p.m. ; wed. £1 yearly, left in 1892, is also for the poor. The soil 7 p.m.; Finger road, 10.30 21.111. in 6 p.m.; thurs. 7 is various. The minerals are ironstone and coal. The p.m.; Horsehay, 10.30 a.m. 85 6 p.m.; tues. 7 p.m.; chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is Rock, 10.30 a.m. «Sn 6 p.m.; tues. 6.15 p.m.; Rev. 2,745 acres of land and 35 of water; rateable value, John Henry Gesson J€17,619; the population in 1911 was 7,701 in the civil United Methodist Church, Brandlee; 10.0 a.m &; 6 parish and Urban District and 2,613 in the ecclesiastical. p.m.; wed. 7 p.m.; Lightmoor, 10.30 a.m. a: 6 p.m.; Parish Clerk, John Birch. wed. 7 p.m.; Bank, 10.30 a.m. St 6 p.111 Post, M. 0. at T. Office,Dawley, Salop.——John Thomason. Wesleyan, High street; 10.30 a..m. & 6 p.m.; thurs. postmaster. Letters arrive at 6 a.m. &3 1.30 p.m. 85 7 p.m.; Dawley Parva, 2.30 St 6 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m.; are dispatched at 10.20 a.m.; box closes at 9 p.111 Bank, 10.30 3.111. at 6 p.m.; tues. 7 p.m.; Horsehay, Post 8?: M. 0. Office, Dawley Bank.-—Mrs. Annie Jones, 10.30 21.111. 85 6 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m.; Stirchley, 10.30 sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Dawley, Salop, 3.111. 85 6 p.m.; thurs. 7 p.m.; Rev. Ebenezer J. M. at 7.10 a.m. an 3 p.m.; sundays, 7.10 11.111. 85 are Thomas, 37 Chapel street dispatched at 9.10 a.m. 85 7.5 p.m.; Sundays, 9.10 PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. a.m. Dawley, 1 mile distant, is the nearest tele- . graph oflice Langley (Council) (boys, girls &: infants), built in 1876, Wall Letter Boxes.—Daw1ey Green, cleared at 7.15 p.m. at a cost of £3,000, for 471 children; average attend- week days only; Finger road, cleared at 7.15 p.m.; ance, 349; William Edgar Gough, master; Miss sundays, 9.15 a.m.; Hinkshay, cleared at 7.25 p.m. ‘Florence M. Moss, mistress; Mrs. L. Jackson, infants’ week days only mistress Pool Hill (Council) (mixed 86 infants), erected in 1844 by the Coalbrookdale Company, for 623 children; URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. average attendance, 268; Albert Phillips, master; Members. Mrs. Julia A. Ball, infants’ mistress. This school is All retire April, 1914. now (1913) being reconstructed Chairman, H. 0. Simpson. Dawley (Church of ) (mixed 8:: infants), built Vice-Chairman, John Clayton. in 1841, «St enlarged in 1893, 1899 at 1904, for 310 E. Attwood William H. Martin children; average attendance, 310; Alfred Scoltock, H. R. G. Bayley Rev. Edward Parry master; Miss Elizabeth Briscoe, infants’ mistress A. E. Evans R A. Rhodes Railway Stations, Horsehay (G.W.R.), Wm.Geo.Rickard, Edward Fellowes Herbert Simpson station master & .Stirchley (L.N.W.R.), Edwd. Palmer, A. D. Lewis J. R. Smith station master Thomas Rev. Ebenezer J. M. (Wes— Barker John S. manager of Lloyds DAWLEY. leyan Meth.), Wesley ho. Chapel st Bank 815 treasurer of the Urban Dis- pnrvs’rn RESIDENTS. Woodhause Herbert Clement J.P., trict Council M.B. 30 King street Barratt John, greengrocer, George st Bailey John James, 63 King street Bartlam Charles, photographer, see Barker John S. Pool hill COMMERCIAL Baldwin Brothers 8t Bartlam Barker Miss, Pool hill Early closing day, Tues. 1 p.m. Bemrose Weightman, chemist, 46 Davis d.Howard,The Grove,King st Addison Richd. Ernest,painter,New rd High street Dean Herbert, Doseleigh Andrews George, grocer,34 Finger rd BOunds John, herbalist, 12 Burton st Fawkes Rev. Thomas Richd. Joseph Bailey John James, accountant 55 Bray Jefirey, shopkeeper, 9 Finger rd (vicar), Vicarage assistant overseer, 63 King street Breeze Simeon, wheelwright,Bank rd Gesson Rev. John Henry (Primitive Bailey Maria (Mrs), servants’ regis- Briscoe Hy. fried fish dlr. 34 High st Methodist), 71 King street try office, 6 King street Briscoe Jas. fruitere'r, 10 Burton st Greenhalgh William Henry J.P. Bailey Wm. G. butcher, 16 High st Briscoe Robert, fruiterer, 32 High st Spring hill, Chapel street Baldwin Brothers & Bartlam, photo- Britannic Assurance Co.Ltd. ; district Lester Rev. Arthur (Baptist), Bank graphers, 01d Vicarage road office (John Arden, supt.),1 New st Price Robert Lewis, Heath hill Banks Chas. carpntr. Old Vicarage rd Brown Joseph, grocer, Old Vicarage Rhodes R. Alma, King street Banks Martha (Mrs), dress maker, road 55 butcher, 14 Chapel street 81 Sandlands Mrs. Chapel street Old Vicarage road 15 Burton street Taylor Mrs. 33 Chapel street Barber Alfred, shoe ma. 1 Chapel st Brown Saml. beer retailer, George st DIRECTORY.] SHROPSHIRE. DAWLEY PABVA. 87

Brown William, carpenter, Burton st Ketley Francis William,Queen’s Arms Reynolds John 85 Son, shopkeepers, Bryce John, shopkeeper, Bank P.H. 3: Finger road 41 Bank 85 Bank road Bullock Arthur, beer ret. 4 Finger rd Latham Roger, shopkeeper, New st Roberts Diana (Mrs.), beer ret. Bank Bush Charles William T. insurance Lavender T. Geo. builder, 88 King st Roberts Harry, shopkpr. 15 Chapel at agent, 89 King street Lee Harry, hair dresser. 28 High st Roberts Jas. Wesley, painter,Bank rd Buttery Wm. beer retailer, George st Lewis Clara 86 Laura (Misses), con- Roberts Roht. shopkeeper, 58 King st Butterm.Arth.shopkpr.5oa,High st fectioners, 59 High street Roberts Sarah (Mrs.),drapr.36High It Callear Frank A.insur.agt. 63 King at Lewis Alfred D. butcher, 30 High at Rock John, cycle dlr. 5 New street Callear Urban, collector of poor’s Lewis Rd. Wm. shopkpr.3o Chapel at Roden Thos. F. beer ret. Dawley bnk rates, 73 King street Lloyds Bank Limited (sub-branch) Rounds Ethelbert, insurance agent, Campbell Geo. Lord Hill P.H. Dawley (John S. Barker, manager), High 25 Finger road green street; open on mondays &: thurs- Royal Windsor Variety 55 Picture Cheadle John, beer retlr. 43 High st days from 10.30 am. to I p.m.; Palace (Thomas Bannister, proprie- Clayton Mary (Mrs) (exors. of), draw on London office, 71 Lombard tor), Town hall, New street grocars a pork butchers,67 High st street, London E C Ruscoe John, grocer, 24 Finger road Colley Ernest, tobacconist,18 High st Machin Pattie (Miss), draper, 58 Simmonds Walter,» football manufac- Collins Delilah (Miss), midwife, High street turer, 17 Chapel street Meadow road Machin Samuel, boot ma. 34 King st Smith Harry, draper, 40 an 42 High st Crocker Walter, hair drssr.1I High st Marks Samuel, farmer, The Wallows Smith John R.grocer,22 £1; 24 High st Darrall & Co. grocers, 47 85 6 High st Martin William H. Crown inn P.H. Smith William, Elephant 81. Castle Davies Joseph. confectnr. 49 King st 44 High street P.H. 1 High street Davies Wm. V. grocer,63 High street Merrington Bros.blcksmths.Finger rd Smith Wm. hair dresser, 65 High st Davis Frederick Howard L.R.F.P. & Mills William, painter 10, 65 grocer Stanley John, shopkeeper, New street S. Glas. .5; L.S.A. surgeon at public 12, King street Stead Arthur Price, Dun 00w P.H. vaccinator, 74 King street Millward Albert Edward, blacksmith, New street Dawley (The) Gas Co. Limited (John 3 King street Stephens James, beer retailer, 34 Clayton, sec.; Wm. Hughes, man— Mole James Clement, relieving oflicer Hinkshay road ager), Chapel street No. I Dawley district, Madeley Summers Ed. D. Currier, 2 High st Dawley Bank Institute (Albert Tay~ union, Bank Taylor William, deputy registrar of lor, sec.), Bank road Morgan Richard. shopkpr. Church rd births, deaths 85 marriages, 33 Dawley LiberalSGLabour Club (Edwin Morgan William, boot ma. Finger rd Chapel street Williams, sec.), King street Morgan Wm. carter, Old Vicarage rd Teece Thos. Jas. beer ret. 75 King st Druce William, assistant insurance Owens Edward Hugh, tobacconist, 38 Thomason John, stationer, £5 registrar superintendent, 27 Finger road High street of births, deaths 85 marriages 85 Duce John, grocer, 20 Heath hill Palmer Elizabeth (Mrs.). fishmonger, vaccination ofiicer for Dawley sub- Dunning Albt. insur. agt. 5 Finger rd 23 High street district, Madeley union, to post- Edwards Alfd. shopkpr.7 Hinkshay rd Pascall Jn. Thoe. beer ret. 27 High st master, 49 High street Evans Reuben, draper, 6 High street Perry Joseph, boot repairer, Bank rd Town Hall Follows George, shoe ma. 45 High st Phillips Henry Revell, solicitor, & Tudor Henry, shopkeeper, 18 Bank Green Emma. (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 9 clerk to the Urban District Coun- United Counties Banking Co. Ltd. Burton street cil (Shifnal), High street (sub—branch) (Alfred Turner, man~ Greenhalgh William Henry, grocer, Phillips Saml. shopkpr. 28 Bank rd ager), open on mondays an wed~ 35 d: 33 High street Phillips Wm. shopkpr. 1 Hinkshay rd nesdays from 10.30 to I p.m. 60 Groucott Edward, butcher, Bank Phillips Wm. Ernest, general dealer, High street; draw on Williams Hall Joseph A. beer ret. 47 High st 61 &3 57 High street Deacon’s Bank Ltd. London E0 Harper Walter, White Hart P.H. Phillips Wm. H. builder, Burton st Vaughan Enoch, shopkpr. 110 King st Hinkshay Phillips’s Stores Limited, grocers 8: Waddilove Thomas, butcher,Finger rd Hilton Stephen 8; Sons, boot 85 shoe tea. dealers, 19 High street Wall William Ernest, saddler, Old makers, 48 High street Picken Isaac Jn. beer ret. 5 Bank rd Vicarage road Hiscox Matthew, watch repairer, 28 Picken Richd. Talbot P.H. 26 High st Watkiss Jas. baker 85 grocer, Bank rd High street Plant Jsph. WhiteHorse P.H.Heath hl Weaver Eliza (Mrs.),millnr.39 High st Hockley Harry, castrator, 3 High st Plimmer Enoch Howard, butcher, 89 Weaver Thos. stationer, 37 High at Hollis Edward, grocer, Bank road Bank West Reuben Edmund, butcher, 5 James Harry John, insurance agent, Plimmer Thos. Wm. beer retlr. Bank High street 28 Chapel street Poole Wm. H. beer ret. 6 Burton st Whettall Edwd. beer ret. 5 Burton st Jones Benjamin, builder, 3 Brandlee Powell George T. painter, 27 Chapel Williams Benj.maltster, 8 Chapel st Jones Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 54 street 81: general dlr. 13 High st Williams Edwin, insurance agent, 57 King street Powis Elizabeth (Miss), boot at shoe King street Jones Herbt. S. ironmngr. 53 High st dealer, Bank road Williams Jsph. beer retlr.32 King st Jones Horace C. grocer, Ban Preece Benj. M. shoe ma. 4 High st Williams Wm. greengro. 20 High st Jones John, beer retailer, 56 King at Price Richard G. confectioner 14, 85 Woodhouse Herbert Clement M.B., Jones Mary (Mrs.),genl.dlr.50 High at hardware dealer 21, High street Ch.B.Vict., J.P. surgeon, & medi- Jones Minnie Lucy (Mrs.), china dlr. Price Robert Lewis, surveyor, sani— cal oflicer to the Urban District 55 High street tary inspector, collector of King’s Council, 30 King street Jones Wm. Hy. shopkeeper, 88 Bank taxes 85 collector to Urban District Wooding Fredk.prov. mer.67 King st Ketley Fras.jun.butcher,31 Finger rd Council, Heath Hill Wrekin Chemical Co Pugh David A.draper,10 a 12 High st Yates Harry, butcher, 52 High st

DAWLEY PABVA is an ecclesiastical parish formed belonging to the Horsehay Co. Limited. The minerals Oct. 24, 1845, from the parish of Great Dawley, and are coal and ironstone. The Earl of Craven is lord of includes Little Dawley, Doseley, Horsehay, Lightmoor, the manor and principal landowner; part of the property Stoneyhill, The Potteries and Burrough’s Bank, in the has been divided into sections and sold. The chief Mid division of the county, South Bradford hundred, crops are wheat, oats and barley. The soil is various; Madeley union and county court district, petty sessional the subsoil is clay. The area is 900a. 1r. 3813.; the division of Wellington, rural deanery of Shifnal, arch- population in 1911 was 1,617. deaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. Dawley Parva is 1 mile from Horsehay station on the Wellington, Shif- Post a M. 0. Office, Little Dawley—William Tom Jones, nal and Craven Arms section of the Great Western rail- sub~postmaster. Letters arrive from Dawley, Salop, at way, 5 west from Shifnal, 4 from Wellington and 3 7.20 11.111. ; dispatched at 7 p.m. Dawley is the nearest from Madeley. The church of St. Luke (locally at telegraph office Doseley, and erected in 1845), is an edifice of brick in Post, M- O. 8; T. Ofl'ice, Horsehay, Salop,—Ebenezer the Norman style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, Dabbs, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 3.30 am. a south porch and a stone turret at the south end contain‘ 1.30 13.111. 35 are dispatched at 10.55 a.m. St 7.55 85 ing one hell : there are 508 sittings. The registers date 9.30 p.m from the year 1846. The living is a Vicarage, net yearly Letter Box, Railway station, cleared at 8.40 p.m. week value J€236, including a. quarter of an acre of glebe, days only with residence, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop Wall Letter Box, Doseley, cleared at 8.45 a.m. 85 6.45 alternately, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Francis p.m. week days; sunday, 7.45 am: Archie Smith. The Vicarage house was considerably enlarged in 1899 at a cost of over £800. Attached to The children of this parish attend the Pool Hill Council the church is a Sunday school, erected in 1912 at a cost 56 Elementary schools at Dawley Magna of about £700. At Horsehay are extensive iron works 88 DAWLEY PARVA. SHROPSHIRE. [KELLY’S

.Everett Alfd. Rd. White ho. Doseley HORSEHAY. Horsehay Co. (The) 'Ltd. engineers Simpsou Herbert, Greenhurst,Doseley PRIVATE RESIDENTS. an iron founders, bridge builders &; Smith Rev. Francis Archie (vicar), Bayley Harry Richard Griffiths, My- gas plant manufacturers; sole The Vicarage, Doseley ford house makers of Wilson’s producer plant. Clayton John, Station road T A “Bridge, Horsehay; ” T N 15 COMMERCIAL Lowe Albert J. The Hollies Wellington Barnett George, beer retlr. Doseley Simpson Hy. Chas. J.P. The Cottage Hughes Jeremiah, beer retailer Bright 8t Jones, grocers, Post oflice Simpson Joseph, Woodlands Innes David, beer retailer Fox Jas. Crown P.H. Little Dawley Soame :Sir Charles Buckworth-Herne- Ircnbridge 81: Coalbrookdale (Io-opera- Gough Jane (Mrs.),girls’ schl.Dose1ey bart. Ivy house tive Society Limited, Old row Greaves Samuel Mansell, shoe maker, COMMERCIAL. Jonea.Le0nard,traction engine ownr Little Dawley Ball Joseph, shopkeeper, Poolside Machin CecilHarry,ForestersArmsP.-H Powell Matthew, farmer, Lit. Dawley Chilton Thos. Herbt. frmr.Woodlands Miles George, greengrocer, Bridge rd Price John, farmer, Little Dawley Coalmoor (The) Sanitary Pipe 00 Passey George, butcher Reynolds John, shopkpr. Lit. Dcwley Days’ Limited, drain pipe makers John, farmer Sheward Jn. blacksmith, Lit. Dawley Hawkins William John, customs, Poole Jsph. Herbt. grocer, Station rd Watts Charles Harry, Red Lion P.H excise it old age pension officer, 3 Theobald William J. beer retailer Wilde Richard, Unicorn P.H Myford cottages Williams William, grocer is a very small parish on the road from similar. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. Bridgnorth to Bewdley and Cleohury Mortimer, 4i The area is 481 acres; rateable value, £366; the popu- miles south—by-west from Bridgnorth station, Severn lation in 1911 was 40. Valley section of the Great Western railway, in the Letters received through Bridgnorth at 8 a.m.; letter Southern division of the county, liberty of the borough carrier passes through at 4.50 p.m.; Bridgnorth is of Wenlock, Chelmarsh division of Stottesdon hundred, the nearest money order office, 4} miles distant; Bridgnorth union, petty sessional division and county Billingsley is the nearest telegraph office, 11; miles court district, rural deanery of Bridgnorth, archdeaconry distant of Ludlow and . The church, a small The children of the parishes of Billingsley, Deuxhill, but ancient building of rubble stone, has been pulled Glazeley, Scriven 8t Sidbury attend this down; the living is annexed with Glazeley to the rectory school of Ghetton and the inhabitants attend the church at County School (mixed), built in 1879, an enlarged in Glazeley. The trustees of the late William Bunney esq. 1908, for 100 children; average attendance, 96; Wm. of Meolbrace, Shrewsbury, are lords of the manor and Amstrong, master; Mrs. Fanny Armstrong, mistress, principal landowners. The soil is clayey; the subsoil is who have a house attached Harrison Isaac, farmer, Hall farm Jones Herbert, farmer DIDDLEBUBY is a parish intersected by the river Atherden esq. J.P. of 27 Broad street, Ludlow, and Corve, 6 miles north-east from Craven Arms station on Percy Giles Holder esq. of Hall. The soil on the Great Western and London and North Western joint the west side of the Corve is good turnip land, on the railway, and 8 miles north from Ludlow, comprising the east bank a stifi clay; subsoil, sandstone and clay. 12 hamlets of Diddlebury, Westhope, Great and Little The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. Sutton, Lawton, , Broncroft, Middlehope, Corfton, The area of the entire parish is 8,690 acres; assessable Sparchford, and Earnstrey Park (annexed to the parish value, £6,011; the population in 1911 was 690 in the of Abdon in 1881) and (transferred from Hol- civil and 649 in the ecclesiastical parish. gate in 1881 and added to this parish for civil purposes), Corfton hamlet is 1 mile south—west. P. G. Holder in the Southern division of the county, lower division esq is lord of the manor. of Munslow hundred, Ludlow union, petty sessional divi- Lawton hamlet is 15 miles south-east. sion and county court district, rural deanery and arch— BBONCROFT is a, hamlet comprising Upper and Lower deaconry of Ludlow, and diocese of Hereford. In 1882, Parks, about 3 miles north-east and about 5 south-by- by the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Cul— east from station. Broncroft Castle, a remark- mington was added to Diddlebury, and a detached part ably picturesque structure of the 14th century, has of Diddlebury transferred to Munslow. The church of been restored and converted into a handsome residence, St. Peter is an edifice in mixed styles, the north side and is now the seat of Henry Ernest Whitaker esq. of the nave and part of the tower being of pre-Norman date; it consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, north BOULDON is a hamlet transferred from Holdgate to chapel, south porch and a western tower containing a this parish in 1881 for civil purposes only. PJG. clock and 4 bells: there are five stained windows, a Holder esq. is lord of the manor; here is a small iron carved oak eagle lectern, and several marble tablets and church, served from Holdgate. monuments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Carrier to Ludlow.—Bouldon, ‘Star,’ man. do sat and in the chancel are alabaster inscriptions with arms Wall Letter Box is cleared at 4.35 p.m to Thomas Bawdewin, 1623, and Margaret, his wife, and a monument to Charles Baldwyn, 1674: there is MIDDLEHOPE hamlet is 3 miles north-by-west and also a cast iron slab in the floor of the chancel to 2 east from Harton Road station. P. G. Holder esq. is Mary, wife of John Baldwyn, ob. 1659: the tower was lord of the manor. restored in 1899-1900, with a. sum of £1,300, com— PEATON hamlet is 1% miles east, on the Pye brook. prising £800 left for this purpose by Thomas Lloyd T. H. Atherden esq. of Ludlow, is lord of the manor and Roberts esq. and the accumulated interest thereon: a sole landowner. In this hamlet are the remains of the lych gate was erected in 1908, at a cost of J£25: the old castle of Corfham, surrounded by a double moat; in church affords sittings for 400 persons. The register making excavations in 1880, a quantity of old tiles and dates from the year 1583. The living is an endowed pottery were found, and built into the coach house is a Vicarage, net yearly value about J£250, with residence, stone bearing the figure of a dog and a Stafl'ord knot. in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, to A detailed and complete history of the Castle from the whom the rectorial tithe belongs, and held since 1907 by 11th to the 17th century is in the possession of the the Rev. Reginald Cotton Bolton M.A. of Selwyn Col— representatives of the late J. Groome esq. Here is a lege, Cambridge. In the hamlet of WESTHOPE, about small Primitive Methodist chapel. 4; miles west from the church and 3 south from Harton Road station, is a private chapel, dating from the year Sparchford hamlet is 2:} miles south-by-wcst and 5 1140, and belonging to Leonard Swinnerton-Dyer esq. north from Bromfield station. lord of the manor of Westhope, and containing several Great and Little Sutton are hamlets, 2} miles south- east and 5 north from Bromfield station. stained windows, some old carved oak and a Saxon font. The charities comprise the interest of £1,000 left WESTHOPE hamlet is nearly 4 miles west and 3 by Mrs. Mary Valentine, and given every Sunday in south from Harton Road station. Leonard Swinnerton- bread to persons not receiving parochial relief; the Dyer esq. is lord of the manor. interest of £100 at Christmas to widows, left by Mrs. Letter Box, Westhope, cleared at 5 p.m Badnor; and a fund of about £3 yearly for educational Parish Clerk, Thomas Edwards. purposes, and the interest of £200, left for distribution Post Office, Diddlebury.—Char1es Edwards, sub-p0st- amongst the poor of Corfton estate. Delbury (or master. Letters arrive from Craven Arms, Salop, Diddlebury) Hall is close to the church, and is the at 7.25 a.m.; dispatched at 5.40 p.m Munslow is property of Capt. H. V. Wingfield-Stratford. Corfton the nearest money order & telegraph oflice Hall is a red brick mansion, now occupied by Percy Wall Letter Box, Cox-(ton, cleared at 6 p.m Giles Holder esq. The principal landowners are Thomas For the hamlets of Sparchford, Great Sutton, Little Powell esq. Henry Ernest Whitaker esq. Leonard Sutton, Sutton Court a Lawton, letters arrive from Swinnerton-Dyer esq. of Westhope Manor, Thomas Henry Ludlow at 9 a..m 0133010311.] SHROPSHIRE. MALINSLEE. 149

MAESBBOOK ISSA & UCEA, see Kinnerley. MAESBUEY, see Oswestry.

MAIN STONE is a wide and thinly-populated parish Lieut.-Col. N. A. Lowry-Corry D.S.O. (who owns most and township, partly in Salop and partly in Mont- of Edenhope), Mrs. Sankey and Jarvis Beddoes esq. of gomeryshire, comprising the hamlets of Castlewright, Southampton, are the chief landowners. The soil is Edenhcpe, Knuck and Reilth, in the Southern division chiefly loam; the subsoil is stone and gravel. The of the county, hundreds of and , Clun chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area of the union, Bishop’s Castle petty sessional division and entire parish is 4,993 acres; rateable value, £2,273; county court district, rural deanery of Bishop’s Castle. the population in 1911 was 175 in the civil and 294 in archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. Main- the ecclesiastical parish, including :19 in Castlewright, stone is south-west from the road from Bishop’s Castle Montgomeryshire. to Clun, 4; miles west-by-south from Bishop’s Castle railway station. From Bishop’s Moat (an ancient earth- Edenhope, 1 mile north, Knuck, adjoining work) a commanding view of the country for many on the south, and Beilth, half a mile south-east, are miles round is obtained. Ofl’a’s Dyke intersects the hamlets. parish. The church of St. John the Baptist, built in the reign of Charles I. and rebuilt in the year 1887. Castlewright is a hamlet 2 miles north, in the parish is situated in a narrow valley at the foot of ; of Mainstone, but in the county of Montgomery. it is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells. The Parish Clerk, John Sherry. cast stained window was erected in memory of Richard Letters are received by foot post through Bishop’s Sankey esq. d. 1871, and his brother John. d. 1890. Castle, Salop; arrive tues. thurs. 86 sat. 10.10 a.m. & by Susan Sunkey, of Bishop‘s Castle, and there is mon. wed. 65 fri. 10.40 a.m.; Bishop’s Castle is also also a window in memory of her son, (1. 1903. the nearest money order an telegraph office, 4; miles The register dates from the year 1604. The living distant is a rectory, net yearly value £226, including 5 acres Wall Letter Box, Mainstone, cleared 4.25 p.111 of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1892 by the Rev. William Edmund Glenn, who Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1881. en- resides at Bishop’s Castle. The charities, of £5 yearly larged 1894, to hold 80; average attendance, 38; value, are distributed on Easter Monday. Here is a Miss Lily Crump, mistress Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1892. The Earl of Powis is lord of the manor, and William McLean The School is controlled by the Bishop’s Castle Local Garnett-Botfield esq. of The Hut, Bishop’s Castle, School Attendance Committee

MAINSTONE. ' Jones John, farmer Williams Thos. farmer, Cwmfrydd Marked thus * receive letters through *Lewis Thomas, farmer, Pantglas Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire. Lewis William, farmer, Dolfawr EDENHOPE. Lloyd Dav1d, smallholder Jones Edward L farmer COMMERC‘AL' Mar-pole John, farmer, The Knock ‘ Davies Arthur, farmer, Cwmcolebatch Morris Edward, wheelwright BEILTH Edwards Richard, farmer, The Cwm Morris John, blacksmith ' Evans Thomas, farmer, The Ashes Morris Stephen, blacksmith Davies Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Francis John, smallholder Sherry Joseph, smallholder Reilth top 'Gough Edward, farmer, Pantglas Venables Edwin. farmer, Hill end Davies Thomas, farmer, Henhouse Hudson Herbt. farmer, Cwmcolebatch Williams Richard Morgan, farmer, Deakins Edwd. Jas. iarmr. Beilth fm Hudson William, farmer,Mainstone ho Mainstone farm Deakins John, farmer, Reilth house

MALINSLEE, or Dawley Nova, is a township, and apparel amongst the poor and deserving widows. The was tor-med into a parish July 28, 1843, from the parish soil is loamy; subsoil, gravelly. The minerals are coal of Dawley Magus, which township it adjoins; it has a and ironstone. The area is 890 acres; population in station on the branch of the London and North 1911, 3,346. Western railway, and is 3 miles north from Madeley, 4 Parish Clerk, Albert Woodvine. west from Shifnal, and 4 south-east from Wellington, Sub-Post Office, Dark Lane—Thomas Payne, sub—post- in the Mid division of the county. South Bradford hun- master. Letters arrive irom Shifnal at 8.30 a.m.; dred, petty sessional division of Wellington, Madeley dispatched at 5.45 p.m.; no delivery on sundays. union and county court district, rural deanery of Shifnal, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The , 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order 85 telegraph office church of St. Leonard. erected in 1805, is an octagonal building of freestone in the Classic style, consisting of Post Office, Old Park—Noah Bailey, sub-postmaster. chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western tower con- Letters arrive from Dawley at 8.30 a.m. &; are dis- taining 6 bells and a clock. The register dates from the patched at 6.30 p.m.; no delivery on nundays. year 1844. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Nearest money order oflice at Dawley Bank as tele- £248, including about i; acres of glebe, with residence, graph office at Oakengates, 2 miles distant in the gift of the vicar of Dawley Magna, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Edward Parry. There are also Wes- leyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Here are the Public Elementary Schools. remains of an ancient chapel, supposed to have been Mixed, built in 1835, for 230 children, &. fully attended; connected with the Cluniac monastery of St. Milburga. Frank Clayton, master at ; it is a plain rectangular building of Infants’, for 92 children; average attendance, 90; Mrs. the 12th century, of which the walls and a portion of F. Clayton, infants’ mistress the east window still remain. The charities are of Infants’, Old Institute, opened August, 1895, for 94 about £7 yearly value, being the aggregate interest of children; average attendance, 89; Mrs. Merringtou, Walthall’s charity, £1 73.; Hodden’s, £2 155. 8d.; mistress Greenhalgh’s, £1; Purcell‘s, £3, and Lewis’s of J€200 Reduced Consuls, the dividends of which are to be dis- tributed yearly in the purchase of blankets and wearing Railway Station, Alfred Noel Buckley, station master

MALINSLEE. Dorricott John, farmer Attwood Ernest, grocer Marked thus I- receive their letters Jones Thomas, farmer,The Spout frm Bailey Noah, shopkeeper, Post omce through Dawley. *Jones Thos. Wm. shopkpr. Ivy ho Darrell George, shopkeeper Payne Thomas, shopkeeper, & post. Egerton Noah, boot repairer Ferriday James, Abbey villa oifice, Dark Lane Isherwood Albert, shopkeeper, Will- *Parry Rev.Edwd. (vicar), The Vicrge *Bowley Mary (Mrs), shopkeeper, mot road Plum Misses, Malinslee hall Church lane Jones Thomas, farmer Terrot Rev. Gerald Ellison (curate) Tonks Thomas, undertaker Old Park Unionist Club (William P. Watkiss William Parsons, coal mer Watkiss, sec) comncun. “'illetts Richard, farmer, ‘Malinslee fm Watkiss Ernest, shopkeeper, Spring- *Bailey Fredk. beer retr. Church 1a OLD PARK. field place “Bailey Jn. New Church Wickets P.H Watkiss William, shopkeeper *Crawford Adela (Mrs), shopkeeper, COMIEBCIAL. Willetts William, butcher Forge Bow Archer William, shopkeeper