DIRECTORY.] STAFFORDSHIRE. CA VERSW ALL. 107 country; the North Staffordshire Railway Company are land is chiefly used for pasturage and dairy produce. The lessees of the quarries: there is also a fine bed of fire clay in area is 1,488 acres and 6 of water; rateable value, £3,457; the parish, of which Mrs. Keys is the lessee. A quarry of the population in 1891 was 2~5. excellent fossil marble was discovered some time since ; and WATERHOUSES, three-quarter.i of a mile north, at the in a field, called .. Big Low," some antique flmt-headed junction of the roads from Cheadle to Leek and Ashborne, is darts and a quap.tity of urns have been dug up. Cauldon a village, partly in this parish and partly in that of Waterfall. Mill and other properties in the parish are mentioned as Parish Clerk, Robert Shilcock. amongst the possessions of Croxden Abbey, in the Ecclesias. Letters through. Ashborne, arrive at 9.30 a. m.; Waterhouses tical Taxation of 1291. The principal landowners are the is the nearest money order office & the nearest telegraph trustees of the late Hon. William Thomas Cavendish, William offices are Oakamoor and Upper Maytield. WALT, LETTER Bromley-Davenpor~ esq. M.P. of Capesthorne, Chelford, Box, Hoften's cross, cleared at 10. IS a. m. week da.ys only Ct1eshire ; Charles Bill esq. J'.P. of Farley Hall, and the Parochial School, Waterhouses (mixed), rebuilt in 1875, for Rev. Canon Edmund Carr M. A. of Ho! brooke Ha.ll, Derby­ IOochildren; average attendance, 75; enlarged in 1889, at shire, and some of the farmers are owners of their farms. a cost of £150; Jn. Clarke, master; Mrs. Alice Clarke,mist The soil is sandy : subsoil, lime, fire clay and rock. The CARRIER.-Francis Salt, to Leek on wednesdays

Booth Thomas, Waterhouses · Cotton John, farmer Richardson Thos. builder, Waterhouses Tyrwhitt Rev. CecilBooth M- A. [vicar], Green Thomas, farmer, Moor end Robinson HP-rbert,shoe maker &farmer, Vicarage Harrison Wm. farmer, Broomyshaw Waterhouses COMMERCIAL. MellorEd.Jsph.Crown P.H. Waterhouses Rushton John, farmer, Broomyshaw Barker James, Co"ch & Horses P.H Oliver Matthew, farmer Salt Francis, farmer Barks John, farmer, Broomyshaw Phillips Wm. cowkeeper, Broomyshaw Shilcock Robert, farmer, Church farm Botham John, farmer Ratcliffe Joseph, farmer, Moor end Simpson Clement, farmer & landowner, Bould Edward, shoe ma. & shopkeeper Redfern Edward, farmer & landowner, Broomyshaw Hould Samuel, farmer, Rooks fiat Middle hills Symcox John, butcher, Waterhouses Bumdred George, Yew Tree P.H Richardson Geo. farmer, Broomyshaw Thompson John, farmer Clarke John, farmer, Barn me

CAVERSWALL, with WESTON COYNEY, HULME and WERRINGTON. CAVERSWALL is a pleasant village and parish, with a station Church of England services are held at the board schools at Meir in the parish on the North Staffordshire branch at Werrington twice on Sundays. The Rev. Thomas Chris­ line from Stoke to Derby, 3 miles east from Longton, 4 topher Bradberry M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, has west from Cheadle and 9 south-east from N ewcastle-under­ been curate in charge since I8g<>. Services are also held at Lyme, in the Leek division of the county, North Totmons­ Adrlerley Green board schools on Sunday evenings. low hundred, Cbeadle union, petty sessional division and EAST V ALE, a suburb and part of the borough of Long· county court district, rural deanery of Cheadle, arch­ ton, becomes a parish under the Local Government Act deaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. The 1894, and comprises a large number of houses, chiefly built church of St. Peter is an ancient edifice of stone, in the by the Longton building societies ; this place is in the par­ Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch liamentary borough of Stoke, and county voters vote in and a low embattled western tower containing 3 bells : a north-western division. Church of England services are stained glass window was erected in 1895 in memory of held in a mission church school twice on Sundays; the Rev_ Thomas Coyney esq. : in 1879-~0 the church was thoroughly David Edwin Bush, of St. David's College, La.mpetcr, is restored at a cost of £ :l, 293, and has sittings for 340 {Hlrtions. curate. [For names of residents see LoNOTON.] The register dates fron the year 1552. The ·living is a Parish Clerk, Rupert Abberley. vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £r91, net yearly value £ 26o, including 26 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift PosT OFFICE, Caverswall.-Ralph Mosley, sub-postmaster, of the Hon. Edward Swynfen Parker-Jervis, and held since Letters from Stoke, arrive at 6.40 a. m.; dispatched at 6 1889 by the Rev. John Gordon Addenbrooke M.A. of Christ's p. m. Postal orders are issue:! here, but not paid. The College, Cambridge. The church of Holy Trinity, The nearest money order office is at Blyth Bridge & the tele­ Meir, built in 1891, at a cost of £2,050, is an edifice of the graph office at Blyth BJ;"idge railway station Late Gothic style, built on a site given by the late Duke of Po~T OFFICE, Werrington.-Alfred Cooke, sub-postm'lster_ Sutherland, and consists of chancel, nave, porch and a Letters from Stoke arrive at 7-IS a. m. ; dispatched at temporary vestry, and the Rev. John Edward Carey has 6. IO p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. been curate in charge since r8g3. Here is a Wesleyan Bucknall is the nearest mon~>y order & telegraph offiee chapel. The charities are of £73 annual value, derived PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Meir from various sources, chief among them being a piece of Lane.-Thomas Weaver, sub-postmaster. Letters from land in Dilhorne parish, 14 acres in extent, annual value ~toke, arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; dispatched at ll.4o £3o, left by Ralph Brown, for the benefit of the poor of the a. m. & 9 p.m. Longton is the nearest telegraph office parish. The works of the Staffordshire Potteries Water SCHOOLS:- Company Limited are here. The Hon. Edward Swynfen Nat'onal, Caverswall (mixed), built in r861, for 153 Parker-Jervis, of Aston Hall, who is lord of the manor, children; average attendance, rso; Benjamin Collett. Waiter Weston Coyney esq. and William Eli Bowers esq. master ; Mrs. H. R. Stone, mistress are the principal landowners. Caverswall Castle, near the National, Ea':lt Vale (mixed), for 220 children, with full church, erected by Sir William de Caverswall in the reign attendance; J. W. Ta.ylor, master; Mrs. J. W. Taylor, of Edward II. and rebuilt by Mr. Matthew Craddock in the mistress ; Mrs. Mary J. Rowbotham, infants' mistress reign of James I. is a large mansion, with a lofty keep and County Industrial, Werrington, built in 1870; Benjamin towers at each angle, and is surrounded by a deep moat; it Horth, snpt was formerly the property and residence of a religious com­ munity of Benedictine nuns, but is now the property and A School Board of 7 members was formed January 19, residence of William Eli Bowers esq. ; in the grounds is the 1875 ; H. Marson, Blythe Marsh, clerk to the board ; Catholic churctl of St. Philomena, a building of stone, in the J oseph 13rassington, W eston Coyney rd. school board officer Early English style. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, Board, Hulme & Werrington (mixed), built. in I876 & en­ clay. The crops are cereals of all kinds. The area of the larged in I8g5, for 300 children ; average attendance, r6o; parish is 5,070 acres; rateable value, £r7,270; the popula­ it is managed by a committee elected from the Caverswall tion in I 891 was 6, I 25. & Stoke-on-Trent school boards; Harry Smith, ma.11ter.; Miss Smith, mistress Weston Coyney a.nd Hulme are hamlets in the Board, Adderley Green (mixed & infants), erected in I884, parish of Caverswall, with an area of 3,579 acres. Weston for 3r:;o children; average attendance, 189 boys & girls & Coyney Hall, an old mansion now occupied by Thomas 145 infaots ; Thomas Cooper, master; Miss Cansell, in­ Storey and John Frederick B.idgway esqrs. is the property fants' rnistress of the Coyney family. Park Hall, a brick mansion, plea­ Board, The Meir (mixed & infants), built in I876 & en­ santly standing on rising· ground, and the property of the larged in I894. for 400 children; average attendance, 1g6 Hon. Edward Swynfen Parker-Jervis, is now used as a boys & girls & 110 infants ; William Frederick F_ Pickles, ladies' boarding school. master; Mrs. J ulia Pickles, infants' mistress WERRINGTON is a hamlet, where there is & County Indul'l­ Catholic (mixed), built in 1872, for 70 children; average trial school. Cellerhead, Adderley Green, Cookshill, Meir attendance, 58 ; Mrs. Sarah Ellen, mistress Lane and Dividy Lane are names of klcalities. Railway Station, Meir, David Waiters, station master