1 18 ABBOT'S JJROMLBY. STAFFORDSIDRE. [KELLY 8 Webb Frederick Edwarcf, painter & Dester William, farmer Bagot's Bromley. school attendance officer Fenton John, farmer COMliiRRCIAI,. White Joseph, farmer, Bromley park Finnamore William, farmer Abberley Samuel, farmer Willetts George, farmer & carrier Hall Arthur, farmer Ball J oseph, farmer, Broomfields Wilson Charles, saddler Harley George, farmer BrandrickGeo.&Edwd. farmers, Hea tley Wilson George, butcher Harvey William, tailor & farmer Brandrick William, farmer, ,Heatley Wilson Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hill Frederick, farmer Brown Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Heatley Working Men's Club & Reading Room Hill Thomas, farmer, Bentilee Cope Charles, farmer, Mar! pits (William Oswald, sec) Howson Henry, farmer, The Forge Hinckley John, farmer Hughes Thomas, farmer Holcroft Thomas, farmer, Oak .field!! Hulme Edward John, farmer Ibbott John, farmer Bromley Burst. Parton William, farmer Jackson William, farmer COliiMRRCIAL, Phillips James, farmer Miller Tom, farmer, Heatley Phillips William, farmer Ridout Charles, fa.rmer, High trees Ault Henry, farmer Sm1th Henry, farmer Stevenson Charles, farmer, Marsh farm Brown Nathan, farmer, Herds farm Tomlinson George, farmer Tunicliffe John, farmer, Dunstall Brown Walter, farmer Tompson James & Charles, farmers Williscroft Clam (Miss),farmr. Heatley Charles J oseph, farmer Ward Samuel, cowkeeper Wint J oseph, farmer

ACTON TRUSSELL with : is a town- average tithe rent-charge £I63, net yearly value £~go, ship and parish formed in 1867, from the of including 3:i acres of glebe with residence and grant from Baswich, in the Western division of the county, hundred ot the Alport trust, in the gift of Hulme's trustees, and held East Cuttlestone, Penkridge petty sessional division, Can- since x88o by the Rev. Arthur Richard Alsop M. A.. of Brase­ nock union, Sia:fford county court district, P~nkridge rural nose College, Oxford. The Earl of Lichfield is lord of the deanery, archdeaconry and Lichfield diocese. Acton manor. The principal landowners are Lord Hatherton, the is 2§ miles north-east from Penkridge station on Wolver- Earl of Lichfield,. Charles Chetwynd esq. of Brocton Hall, hampton and Stafford line of the London and North Baswich; Samuel Wright esq. of Aberdovey and Mrs. Western railway and 3! south-east from Stafford: Bednall Heath. The soil is stiffish clay, and in some parts gravel; is 3} miles north-east from Penkridge and 4i south-east subsoil, rock and sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, from Stafford. The and the and barley, oats, turnips, seeds and clover. The area is 2,567 canal pass through the parish. The church acres of land and 27 of water; rateable value, [4,6I9; the of St. James, Acton, formerly belonging to the Priory of St. population in x8g1 was 490· Ma.ry, Stafford, is an ancient building of stone in the Early Parish Clerk, George Watwood. Decorated style, and consists of nave with sacristy, north PosT OFFICE, .-Charles Barker, sub-post- transept, south porch and an embattled we!ltern tower with master. Letters arrive from Stafford at 7.45 a. m. ; dis- pinnacles and a small spire containing 3 bells : it was re- patched at 6. xs p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but stored in I87o at a cost of [62o, under the direction of the not paid. Penkridge is the nearest money order & tele- late G. E. Street esq. R.A. and contains much beautiful graph office stained glass and an interesting monument to Richard Neville, of Rickerscote, I728. The church of All Saints, PosT OFFICE, ,Bednall.-Edwin Cope, sub-postmaster. Bednall, rebuilt about the year 1 944, is an edifice of stone in Letters arrive from Stafford at 9 a. m. ; dispatched at the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north 5-30 p.m. Penkridge or Milford are the nearest money aisle, north porch and a western belfry with spire, containing order & telegraph offices one bell and clock, given by Mrs. Heath and Miss Stokes, by National School, Bednall (mixed), built in I856, for 120 whom also a stained east window was presented : the organ children ; average attendance, g6 ; David Parnham Bass, was erected in I887, at a cost of [170 • the church was master i infants, 30; average attendance, 20 restored in 1874 and 1888 at a total cost of [1,100. The CABRIERS.-Goorge Cook to Stafford everythurs. fri.& sat. i register dates from the year 157I. The living is a vicarage, John Evans t.o Stafford every sat Acton Trussell. Nash Ephraim, wheelwright Heath Mrs Fisher Clement Ireby Pass Thomas, farmer, Roseford Baggott John, farmer Harrison Miss, Ivy house Patterson Robert George, farmer Dewsbury Edward, fa..,..,nnmer Price Re"tlf Henry Hugh H.A. Acton hill Price George Corser, farmer, Acton hill Foden William, blacksmith Sant Henry, cowkeeper Harper David, farmer COlllliiERCI.A.L. Wall William, shopkeeper HarperEphraim, wheelwright & farmer Bennion Owen, farmer, Mill farm Watwood Thomas, shopkeeper Johnson Joseph Henry, farmer Buckle George, Seven Stars P.H Whilton Mary (Mrs.), farmer Lees John, farmer Cook George, carrier Wilcox Herbert, New House P.H Marshal! Arthur, farmer Evans John, carrier Tomlinson George, farmer Harris Henry, farmer Bednall. Watwood George, farmer Hill William, farmer Alsop Rev. A.rthur Richard M.A.. [vicar] Weatherer George, farmer

ADBASTON, a parish, 7 miles from Newport (Salop) 3 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lich­ 5tation on the London and North Western railway and 5 field, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Thomas Lapp Butler from Eccleshall, in the North-Western division of the county, M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. All Saints' Mission church, extending west to the borders of , North Pirehill at Bishop's Offiey, opened in 1894, is a structure of brick and hundred, Eccleshall petty sessional division, Newport (Salop) was formerly a Non conformist chapel : it will seat ~oo per­ union and county court distiict and in the rural deanery of sons. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Offieymar11h1 Eccleshall, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of erected about I872, with 100 sittings. There are several Lichfield. The Shropshire Union canal passes through the small beaefactions for the poor: £:a xos. is given away parish, and at Knighton there is a reservoir for supplying the annually in bread on the first three Sundays in the year. canal. The church of St. Michael is a building in the Perpen­ At KNIGHTON, one mile south-west, there are 1,000 acres dicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, north of land left by William Adams, a member of the Haber­ and !Kluth porches and an embattled western tower with pin­ dashers' Company in London, for the support of the Gram­ nacles, containing a clock and 4 bells: there is also a priest's mar school at Newport, in Shropshire. The Lea, pleasantly bell: in the church is a tablet to Willia.m Wakeley, d. I7IS. at situated, is the residence of Leonard Knollys Ilaywood the age of I25 years, as appe!irs from the register of deaths: Shoobr1dge esq. J.P. There are no manorial rights. The the stained east window was placed by Miss Newton in principal landowners are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, memory of her mother, whose remains lie in the chancel, Colonel Robert Taylor Masefield J.P. of Ellerton Hall, New­ which has also been restored chiefly at Miss Newton's ex­ port, Salop; John Sidney Burton Borough esq. l.P. of pense: "Reginaldus Dominus de Adbaston" was interred Chetwynd Park, Newport, Salop; John Gerard Heath here in I440 ; his at ms, with those of his wife, still remain in Lander esq. Donaldson Hudson esq. and Williarn Stephen the windowa of the church, which was restored in 1888 by Shoobridge esq. ;r.P. of Albury Hall. Little Hadham, Herts. Miss Newton, and further restored and reseated with oak in The soil is various ; subsoil, clay. The chief CTops are IBC}O, at a total cost of £I,8oo, and re-opened by the Bishop of barle"y, oats and turnips. The area is 4,610 acres of land Shrewsbury, 29 Oct. I8C}O: the tower was restored in 1893, and 28 of water; rateable value, £5,832 ; the population and in I 894 a south porch of stone and carved oak was erected in I ~9I was 568. and a new oak pulpit, on a pedestal of alabaster, presented by DoLEY is a hamlet I mile north-west. Miss Newton, who has now spent nearly £3,000 upon the BISHOP's 0FFLBY is a township 2 miles north-east and church: there are sittings for 2_50persons. The register dates 6 from Norton Bridge station on the London and North­ from the year 16oo. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent­ Western and North Staffordshire railways; the population charge £55 ; average £4e ; net yearly value £27I1 including is included with that for Adbaston.