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• Kettle William Frederick, Ferndale diddons Stanley, The Highlands Grosvenor Mrs. coal dealer Latham Harold Osborne, The Nook Walker Mrs. Oaken manor *Holloway Titus, market gardener, Lawley Gerard, The Poplars · Yoxall Waiter, Sunny-side Kingswood Common Lea Samuel, Kingsholme Jones Joseph, cattle dlr. Oaken lawn Manby Arthur Maling, Oaken lodge CO.?.JMEBCIAL. *Lockley Jas. farmer,Kingswood Oom Mayall Major Charles Gossett-, The Blurton Edward, coal mer. Chapel la *Pickin George, market gardener, Terrace Burd Reginald Shirley M.B., Ch.B. Kingswood Common • Mullens Frank Birm., M.B.O.'S.Eng., L.B.C.P. Pryce Edward, farmer, Heath house Neve John, The Greenhills Lond. physician & surgeon Bogers William, carrier Rees Edmund S. G. Dunscar Caddick Frederick Charles, farmer *Shaw Jn . .Albt. frmr.Kingswood Corn .Rubery Miss Cotham John Marigold, blacksmith Thurstana Fdk. Wm. farmer,Oaken pk *Shaw Miss, Kingswood Common Evans William, carrier Turner John, beer retailer Shelton Richard Masefi.eld Farmtlr William, grocer COLD NOR TON is a parish on the road from Stone esq. is the sole landowner. The soil is marl; subsoil, to , about I mile north-east from Norton Bridge clay; with, in soone parts, peat and gravel. The .station on the and North Western railway, 2~ area is I,309 acres of land and IO of water; rateable west-by-south from Stone and 4 east-by-north from value, £3,225; and the population in 190I was 63. Eccleshall, which here forms a junction with the North Letters arrive through Stone about 7· 15 a. m. & collected line; it is in the North Western division of about 6 p.m. Norton Bridge, I mile distant, is the the county, South , Eccleshall petty ses- nearest money order & telegraph office sional division and Stone union and county court district, The children of the district attend the schools at -and is ecclesiastically united with Chebsey. Ralph Sneyd & Ball William (exors. of), farmers, Chadderton Albert Edward,farmer,The Elsmore Thos. farmer, Norton Mosa Norton farm Upper Heamies (letters through Hocknell Herbt.Saml. frmr.Norton ho Eccleshall) COLTON is a village and parish, on the north bank of the west side of Colton. Mrs. Horsfall is lady of the :the , 2 miles north from , but the manor, Lord Bagot, the Earl of , the Whit­ Rugeley station on the Trent Valley railway is within greave family, of Burton Manor, near , the Rev. this parish, which is 9 miles south-east from Stafford, in Canon and Professor T. G. Bonney D.Sc. of 9 Scl"()()pe the Lichfield division of the county, South Pirehill bun- Terrace, Cambridge, and Messrs. Myatt are the chief -dred, Rugeley petty sessional division and county court landowners. The soil is a fertile loam, with a large -district, Lichfield union, rural deanery of Rugeley, arch- proportion of meadow land. The &rea is 3,730 acres of -deaconry of Staffo~d and: diocese of Li<:hfield. The church land and 32 of water; rateable value, £II,7IO; the -of St. Mary, rebml~, With the exce'Pt~on of the old tower population in 19n was 689 in the civil and 618 in the and south chancel, ~ 1851, ~fter designs by_ the late Mr. ecclesiastical parish. ~- ~- Street R . .A. Is an edifice ~f ~tone, m the Early I By a Local Government Board Order, which came into and Decorated styles, cons1stmg of chancel, nave. operation March , r88 , a detached part of Colwich, +~.nghsh 25 5 aisles, lad.y cha~el, south pore~ ~nd an embattled western in Stafford union was amal(J'amated with this parish. tower, with pmnacles, contammg 3 bells: there are , '. "'. . . •everal stained windows and 350 sittings: entrance gates 'Ih~ Newlands Is. an outlymg port_IOn of the parish, have been erected by the parishioners to the memory of standmg on an. emmence, near the Lichfield and Uttox­ Miss Oldham. An additional burial ground was given to e~er _road, 2 miles north-east, in county couri the parish by the late Mr. T. B. Horsfall, of Bellamour district. Hall, who also built the present schools. The register Lee Lane is a hamlet, r! miles north. dates from the yea~ I647; The living is a rert?ry, n~t Hamley Heath is in this parish, 1 mile north. yearly value £350, mcludmg 45 acres of glebe, with res1- p · h Cl k Arth Ed d d ence, ID· the gi"ft of M"Iss L an d or, an d h eId smce· 18 74 b y ans er • . ur ' war .s. . the Rev. Frederick Perrott Parker M.A. of Oriel College, Post Office. M1ss Ellen '!Ipper, sub-postmistress. Oxford. The Earl of Lichfield is lay impropriator. There ~tters through Rugeley arriVe 6.40 a.m. & 4· 15 P·~· ; :are eight almshouses, erected in 1884 by Mrs. Harland, d~spatch~d at 1.15 & 7.20 p.m. Rugeley, 2 miles in memory of Miss Oldham, and at Stockwell Heath are d1stant, 1s the nearest money order & telegraph office uther almshouses for the poor of the parish. In the vil- Colton Church of School (mixed), built in lage is a reading room supported by members' subscrip- r862, a school for girls & an infants' school, united tions, but open only during the winter months. The by the Charity Commissioners, with an endowmem; parish clerk has an endowment of about £2o yearly; t·he of £86, & holding togethllr 193 children; average other charities amount to about £10 yearly. Bellamour attendance, 125; the three schools are comprised in a Hall, the seat of Mrs. Horsfall, is a mansion of stone, on single brnilding; Fred Ovenden, master PRIVATE BESIDE:t.'"'TS. Blore Simon, farmer, Colton hall !Radford Edwd.ale. & porter dlr.&frmr Cavenagh-Mainwaring Capt. James Blore Simon, jun. Newlands Radford George, blacksmith Gordon, Calton house Blunn Henry & Co. iron plate workrs Reading Room (Fred Ovenden, sec) Horsfall Mrs. Beiiamour hall Cooper John, farmer, Blithford Richardson Thomas, shopkeeper Lloyd Mrs Donegan Daniel, farmer Rushton Thomas, farmer, Manor farm Myatt Eli, The Newlands Grimley John, farmer, Parchfields Salt Benjamin, beer retailer Norman Mrs. E. Stockwell Heath Haywood Edward, laundry Sampson William, farmer, Parchfields Oldham Major Charles Skinner Dan- Kent Horace, farmer, Crab Tree farm Upton Alfred Ernest, assistant county sey Oldham, Bellamour lodge Kingham Boland, Railway inn court bailiff & assistant overseer Parker Rev.Fredk.Perrott M.A.Rectry Lowndes Geo. Hy. farmer, Lount frm Williscroft Mary (Mrs.), sho.pkeeper Beaton Miss, Colton cottage Lowndes William, farmer, Bellamour Wint John, farmer, Hamley house Timmis Mrs. Colton lodge Meddings Edward, butcher Woolley Mary (Mrs.), farmer,Boughey Morrell wrm. agent to Mrs. Horsfall Hall farm COMMERCIAL. Newton Frederick John, commsn. agt Yates Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Bank hu Archer Fanny (Mrs.), frmr. Lee lane Norman Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Stock- Yates Samuel, farmer, Malt house Ilentley Benjamin, farmer,Hamley cot well Heath COLWICH is a village and parish, delightfully seated O.ow a short distance aouth and south-west of the village. on the road from Rugeley to Stafford, 126! miles from The church of St. Michael is a building of stone in the London, 3 north-west from Rugeley and 6 east-south-eaat Decorated style, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave, from Stafford, in the Western division of the county, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, con­ South Pirehill hundred, Stafford union, petty sessional taining a clock and six bells : George, first and only division and county court district, rural deanery of Ruge- Baron Anson, vice-admiral of England, born at Colwich ley, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. By 23rd April, 1697, and distinguished for his famous voyage Local Government Orders which came into operation round the world in I740-44, died at Moor Park, Herta, March 25th, I885, and March 25th, 1886, detached parts 6th June, I762, and was buried in this church: a brass of Colwich were amalgamated with Stowe, in Lichfield tablet has been erected, by public sub!!cription, to Lord union. and at the former date a detached part was added Anson, and another by the H<>n. and Right Rev. A.del­ to Colton, also in Lich.field union. Here is a station on bert Anson D.D. !!()metime Bishop of Qu' Appelle,Can&da, the Trent Valley section of the London and North Western to his ancestor!: ht>re is also a tomb to Sir Robert railway, which is also the junction of the North Staf- Wolseley hart. ob. 21 Sept. 1646, and a memorial to Mary fordshire line to Stone, The Potteries, Macclesfield and his wife, ob. Jan. 1071; there are {)ther m.~morials to Mancbe;;ter. The river Trent, over which is a stone Thomas, first Viscount Anson, d. 1818, and to Anne bridge of three arches, and the , Margaret (Coke), his wife, d. May, 1843; to Hannah STAFFS. 10