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DONNINGTON .

left for the purpose by Samuel Tingle, Esq., was spent on the restor­ ation, which was carried out by Messrs. C. Hill & Sons, . It has a wooden tower containing two bells. The eastern window is filled with stained glass. The registers date from the middle of the last century. There is no school in the parish ; the children attend Eastnor and Haffield schools. Domzington Hall, the property of the representatives of the late Richard Webb, Esq., is at present void. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mrs. Mary Hook, Sub-postmz''stress, Greenway. Letters are received through Ledbury at 8.35 a.m.; despatched thereto at 4.20 p.m. is the nearest money order office. Ledbury is the nearest telegraph office and post town. Parish Church (St. Mary's). Rev. John Lander, M.A., ; Messrs. G. F. Haines and F. E. Stallard, Churchwardens/ R. W eighall, Sexton. Ass-istant Oversee1·. Mr. Richard Cox, The N urdens.

CARRIER TO LEDBURY. Name Days Stopping Place Return at ]. Fencott (Dymock) Tues. & Fri. The Oak 5 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Haines, George Frederick, farmer, Henry, William Charles, M.D., Haffield Din chill house Hook, Mrs. Mary, sub-postmistress, Lander, Rev. John, M.A. (rector), The Green way Rectory Lilly, William, Smallings farm Stallard, \Villiam Henry, farmer and hop COMMERCIAL. grower, The farm Stallard, Francis Edwin, frmr, The court Cox, Richard, cider maker, farmer and Smith, Charles, farmer, The Vineyard assistant overseer, The Nurdens \Vall, Mrs., farmer, Lower house DORMINGTON', WITH BARTESTREE , DORMINGTON is a parish and straggling village situated on the and Ledbury road, 5 ~ miles E. of Hereford, 9 W. of Led­ bury, and about 2 S.E. of vVithington, and the same distance S.W. of railway stations, on the Hereford and vVorcester branch of the Great Western railway. It is in Greytree hundred, Hereford union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Mordi­ ford polling district and electoral divjsion of the county council. The population of the of Dormington in 187 I was 121 ; in I 881, 108; inhabited houses, 24; families or separate occupiers, 24 ; area of parish, 970 acres; annual rateable value, £1,244. (The ecclesiastical parish contained 307 persons in 1881, and 41 inhabited houses.) The Lady Emily Foley, of Stoke Edith park, is lady of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is red loam, with a sub­ stratum of marl, very fertile, and well cultivated; chief produce, hops, wheat, beans, and pasture. Dormington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weston ; living, a vicarage annexed to Bartestree chapelry; joint value, £239, with residence and 85-! acres of glebe; patron, The Lady Emily Foley; vicar, Rev. Alfred N orris Cope, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge,