FELKIRK. WEST RIDING . -:338 Shafton is a village and township in the parish of and vegetables. The land chieily belongs to Viscount Gal­ Felkirk, 6 milea north-east from , 2 from Cudworth way lll.P. and F. J. S. Foljambe esq. K.P.; the latter is lord railway station, pleasantly situated on an eminence. There of the manor. The soil is clay and Joam ; subsoil, clay and is an excellent bed of coal in thia township, which supplies sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, barloy, oats and tur­ the surrounding Yillages and which is ~n easy distance from nips. The area is 823 acres; ratfable value, £1,400; and the Cudworth station on the Midland railway; the pro­ the population in 1671 was261. Letter& throughBarnsley;. prietors are Messrs. Proctors and W atson. Here are seYeral the nearest money order office is at Hamsworth market gardens, which supply Barnsley market with fruit . Watll()n William, blacksmith Lovell Thomas, Fo:~: Armitage Miss Watson W!ll!am, farmer Mitchell Richard, farmer Cordeux Rev. Godfrey P. x ..t W~tson Wdbam, gro.cer Wilson J oseph, cow keeper & shopkeeper Dymond James W!lson G~orge, harness mqker Dymond .Mrs Wllson R1chard, farmer Upper Hiendley. Goodwo11.h George, farmer Hoyland John Cold Hiendley. 1\Ioulson John, un. farmer & joiner coMMBRCIAL. Hepworth Charles, farmer Moulson Mary Mrs.), farmer Baddiley George, farmer Rhodes William, farmer Moxon Jacob, armer Bell George, farmer Roberts William, farmer Smales William, farmer Blackshaw Thomas, farmer Totty John, mliltster Broomhead John, shoe maker Havercroft. Corbridge John, shoe maker Beaumont Jamelil Shafton. CrossleyJhn.Windler, frmr. Grimethrpe Hurst William A Day Benjamin, farmer Dearden Samuel, tailor Southall Alfred B. Manor house Dixon John Mark, plumber, Twogates Dunhill Thomas, farmer Cass George, farmer Dunhtll Edwin, farmer Fox George, shoe maker Ellis LaithColliery(Rt.Leather ,prop) Ellis John, market gardener Green Sarab (Miss), farmer Hodroyd Coal Co. (James Beaumont, Freeman John,Fox~ Hounds,Twogates Hanson William, blacksmith manager) GibsonSamuel,market gardener & farmr Hattersley Squire, 6fi"Ocer & draper Monckton Main Coal Co. Lim. (A.B. Hargrave Willlam, farmer HewsonHerbrt. frmr. Brierley Manor ho SouthaU, man.; Arthur Swift, sec) Heap Agnes &:; Mary, drapers Hinchboard John, farmer Pickard Charles, blacksmith J agger Charles, carpenter Horn George,farmer, Grimethorpehall Pickett Jas. market gardener & farmer J agger Timothy, farmer Horn John, farmer, Ringston hill Methley Richard A. farmer J ennett Charles, carpenter South Hiendley. Midgley John, market gardener Kenyon Alfred, market gardener Littlewood Rev. John Henry [vicar] Savage John, farmer Kenyon Henry, market gardener Day Richard, Hodroyd hall . Tomlinson Samuel, farmer Labourham J ames, farmer ,Grimethorpe Hall Thomas Downs Vamplew Rebecca (Mrs.), shopkeeper Little Joseph, market gardener Swift Arthur, Felkirk house Ward Eliza (Miss), shopkeeper Miller Thos.frmr.Old head ,Grimethorpe Armitage Thomas, farmer Ward Peter, chemist, Twogates Rogerson Thomas, stone mason Corbridge John, farrier Wilkinson Joseph,joiner & shopkeeper~ Sunderland Richard, shoe maker Dodson Isaac, Sun Twogates Thackray WiHiam, Three Ho11eshou Guest George, farmer Wood George (Mrs.), farmer Tinker William, farmer Linley William, farmer

FENWICK is a long scattered vilJage and township of of the University of Edinburgh, who resides at Askern. the parish of Campsall, 2 miles in length, 1 mile from MoSi The land belongs to F. B. Frank esq. who is lord of the­ railway station, from 1 to 3 miles north-east from Askern manor, Earl of Sheffield, William Jackson esq. and a few railway station 6 south-west from Snaith and 8 north from smaller owners. The soil is limestone; subsoil, clay. The Doncaster, in the Eastern division of the Riding, Doncaster chief crops are wheat and barley. The area of the town­ union and county court district, upper division of the Os­ ship is 2,371 acres; gross estimated rental, £6,073; rate­ goldcross wapen take, rural deanery of Doncaster, York able value, £4,938; the population in 1871 was 197. archdeaconry and diocese. Fenwick was in 1852 formed into an ecclesiastical parish from the parish of Campsall. The church of St. John was erected by subscriptions and Letters from Doncaster through Askero, which is the grants, and consecrated in 1852; it is in the Early English nearest money order office style, and consists of chancel and nave, with a turret and INSURANCE AGENT-Queen, T. Latham, Jun 1 bell. The register dates from the year 1852. The living Board School, J obn Thomas Fletcber Faunt, master is a vicarage, yearly value £100, in the gift of the Arch­ Clerk to the School Board of Fenwick t Mos&, Thomas bishop of York and held by the Rev. John Harrison D.D. Latham,jun Booth John, 11hoe maker Hall John, farmer Latham Thomas, aen. farmer, Lilly hall Briggs Jonathan, farmer Hall Joseph, farmer Littlewood John, farmer Bulmer Alfred, farmer Hall Hartley, Plough 1.\rawson John, farmer Clapham Thomas, farmer Heap J ames, farmer Moate Mary Ann, Augusta & Caroline Cooper Richard, farmer Hogmon Frederick, blacksmith (Misses), farmer& Freeman Hudson Thomas, farmer Holme Thomas, farmer, Hal1 Northcliffe William B. farmer Gowland George, wheelwright Latham Thoa.jun. farmer, Baxter ho Shipley Ed win, shoe maker

FERRYBRIDGE is a village within the parliamentary tithes commuted at £200, and about 70 acres of glebe borough of Pontefract and, with the hamlets of WATBR lP tdJ in the gift of the sub-chanter and vicars-choral of FRYSTON and WHELDALB, forms the township and parish lork Minster and held by the Rev. Beojamin Eamoll!'On of FERRY FRYSTON or WATER FRYSTON, hut is partly in Metcalfe M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. A the parish of Pontefract; lt is situated 26 miles north-east Sunday BChoolls held at the school-room connected with the from Pontefract and a mile north from Knottingley station church. Here is a chapel for Wesleyan Methodists, with (the junction of the Great Northern and Lancashire and Sunday school attached; and alao a Primitive Methodist Yorkshire railwals), in the Eastern division of the Riding, chapel, erected in 1878. Clarkson's charity conaists of upper division o Osgoldcross wapentake, Pontefract union almshouse11 in four tenements for poor widows, together and county court district diocese and archdeaconry of with a money payment of £10 yearly; and B,.water's of York, and rural deanery of Ponh:fract; it is situated on the £6 4s. ill annuall;r divided by the vicar and churchwardens south bank of the river Aire, "VI hich is crossed by a handsome among the deservmg poor. On the road from lerrybridge stone bridge of3 arches. The church of St• .Andrew ill an to Pontefract is a aolitary remnant of antiqtiity, called ancient fabric of very uncertain date, consisting ot chancel, Stump Cross, being the base of a wayside C1"0681 the shaft nave, north ai&le aud a square tower with 2 bells: this of which has Ionli( since disappeared. Board achools, with church has received various addition11 at different times, house for the master, were opened April9, 1877. Fryston among which may be mentioned the tower, which is built Hall (within the pariah), a mile north from Fen-ybridge, within the nave; at the north-east corner stands the chantry the seat of Lord HoughtonJ is a flne stone building, standing chapel of the Vavasour family· the church was restored in an extensive and well-wooded park: a mile further in 1878. The existing register, in fair condition, dates from north-west is Wheldale, or Queldale farmhouse, formerly the year 1674, an earfier one having been lost. The livln~ a priory, and now the property of Queen's College, Oxford, of Ferry Frylton or Water Fryston ia a 'icarage, with w1th nearly 600 acre& of land, gi•en by the late Lady BeUJ