DIRECTORY.] CHESHIRE. CONGLETON. 241 factories. Coach, chair and nail making and wood turn­ of about 25 acres, is traversed by the river Dane, over ing are also practised, and there are ropewalks, iron and which there is an iron bridge, and the park affords ample brass foundries, agricultural implement and machine facilities for boating, cricket and bowls during the sum­ works, and in the vicinity, corn mills, gravel pits and mer months ; in the park are two pavilions, one for stone quarries; these, nnitedly, afford employment to a picnic parties and the other for the use of different athletic great number of the inhabitants. clubs. A newspaper, called the " Congleton Chronicle" (with The objects of interest in the neighbourhood of Congle­ which is incorporated the "Congleton & Macclesfield ton are Moreton Hall, Astbury church, Biddulph Grange, :Mercury," established in 1855), is published in the town. Eaton Hall, Bath Vale mineral spring, Moreton Hall, the The Cottage Hospital, established in 1866 and supported Old Mill, Cloud End and Mow Cop. Cloud End is 1,190 by voluntary contributions, has 8 beds. feet and Mow Cop 1,ogr feet above the level of the sea. The charities, for distribution in bread, clothing and Sir Charles Watkin Shakerley bart. C.B. of Somerford money, amount to about [270, yearly; including £62 Park, is the lord of the manor. from Holford's charity, and [93 yearly for the gene,ra~ The area is 2,549 acres of land and 23 of water; rateal>le uses of the poor from tJhe Alsager's charity; the latter value, [3o,687; the population in 1891 was 10,744, viz.: furnishes in addition £n for apprenticing and the same :North ward, 3,825 ; South ward, 2,749 and Wea;t ward, for education; Parnell's gift of £2 yearly is for the clergy. 4·170. The public park and recreation ground, which consists

OFFICB.L EST.ABLISHME~TS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, :M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Government Annuity & In­ Warrington F. W., M.D. Lawton street surance Office, Mill street. Webb J ames, High street A.rrivals.-Letters arrive from all parts at 4 a.m. 2.40 Clerk to the Magistrates, George Sprosto:n, Chapel st & 6.30 p.m Dispatches. Morning mail to London & all parts, 8.50 CORPORATION 1895-96. a.m. (extra stamp, 9 a.m.); day mail to London & the Mayor Alderman Robert Shepherd. South, Potteries, Crewe, Liverpool & North Wales, 11.30 Deputy-Mayor-Alderman Samuel Maskeory. a.m. (extra stamp, 11.35 a.m.); to Manchester & Mac­ clesfield, 1.20 p.m. (extra stamp, 1.30 p.m.); night Aldermen. mail to London & all parts, 9· 15 p.m. (extra stamp, tWilliam W orrall Fohn Worrall 9·35 p.m.) ; only one dispatch on sundays, at 9.30 p.m. +Robert Shepherd I §Thomas Ge(J'ge Sheldon . (extra stamp, 9-50 p.m) tSamuel~askery I §Isaac Salt Letters delivered at 7 a.m. 3 & 6.45 p.m.; on sundays at 7 a.m. only Councillors. Money Orders granted & paid & Savings Bank & Annuity business transacted from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; money West Ward. orders (telegraph), 7 a.m. to 9 p.m *Paul Thomas Barlow tThomas W orrall *Alfred William Radley tDavid Itickson Telegraph Office open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; on sundays • I from 8 to 10 a.m. only tC. W. Jackson I tC. Dennis Bradwelt Parcels Post.-Parcels are dispatched to all parts at 8.50 a.m. & r, 7.30 & 9.15 p.m. Pareels are delivered at 7.30 North Ward. a.m. & 3 & 7 p.m. (sundays excepted) *Hugh )loss M.D. I t Daniel Barnett Town Sub-Offices.-L3wton street, West road, Rood Hill, *Samuel Wright tDavid Cotterill High Town & Buglawton t Herman Williams I tGeorge Pedley There are sub-offices at Bradley Green, Bosley, Brindley Ford, Swettenham, Asthury & Biddnlph Moor South Ward. Rural messengers are dispatched to Eaton, Hulme, Wal­ *J. H. Thorougood I +Edward Pemberton :field, Somerford Booths, Swettenham, Buglawton, ~o\.st­ *W. Lindsay Carson I tLuke Burgess bury, Moreton, NoTth Rode, Biddulph, Biddulph Moor, t Joseph Birks I tWilliam Tagell Timbersbrook, Bradley Green & Brindley Ford,at 6 a.m. daily (sundays excepted) Marked thus * retire in 18g6. Marked thus t retire in 1897. COU~TY MAGISTRATES. Marked thus t retire in 1898. .Acting at Congleton for the Northwich Petty Seqsional Narked thus § retire in 1901. Division (Congleton Section); for full list of Magis­ Officers of the Corporation & Urban District Council. trates for this Division, see Sandbach. Wilbraham Gen. Sir Richard K. C.B. Rode hall, Stoke-on- Town Clerk & Clerk to the Urban District Council, Alfred Trent (chairman) Steele Sheldon, Albert chambers Bak~r George Barring-ton esq. Rode hall, Stoke-on-Trent Treasurers, Manchester & Liverpool District Bankin"' Co Bradwell Dennis esq.Daisv bnk.Hulme Walfield,Congleton Medical Officer of Health, Patrick Moir Davidson M.D. Hogg Capel Wilson esq.Davenshaw ho.Buglawton,Cngltn West street Shaw Anthony esq. Bank house, Buglawton, Congleton Borough Surveyor, Water Works Engineer & Inspector of Solly Arthur Isaac esq. Heathfield, Congleton Nuisances, Randle Burslam, Market place Swetenham Clement '\V'm.esq.Somerford Booths,Congletn Inspector under Contagious Diseases (.Animals) Act,James Clerk, Henry Lister Reade, West street Laithwood F .R. C. V. S. High street Sub-Clerk, .A.rthur Andrew, Wagg street Inspector of Weights & Measures, Jonathan Hall,Borough Police station Meetings at Town hall, every 3rd Wednesday in the month, Borough Rate Collector, Henry Porter, Antrobus street at 11 a.m. The places in the district are :-Buglawton, Davenport, Manager of Gas Works, William H. Orme Borough Controller, John Booth Hulme Walfield, Kernlincham, Moreton-cum-Alcumlow, Mace Bearer, Samuel Kitchenman Newbold Astbury, Odd Rode, Radnor, Smallwood, Somerford & Swettenham PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. BOROUGH MAGISTRATES. Borough Police Station (the force was augmented to Shepherd Robert (mayor), The Meadows, Congleton Government requirements May, 189o), Market place, Baird James Thomas Wilson M.D. West st. Congleton J onathan Hall, chief constable, with 2 sergeants & . 8 &.rlow Paul Thomas, West street, Congleton constables Berisford Charles, West road, Congleton Cottage Hospital, The Park, J. T. W. Baird M.D., P. M. Bradweli Dennis, Daisy bank, Hulme Walfield, Congleton Davidson M.D., L.R.C.P.Edin., Hugh Moss M.D. & Carson William Lindsay, Wagg street, Congleton Francis William Warrington M.D. medical officers; Conder Arnold Clarkson, Bath vale, Congleton J obn Booth, hon. sec Farrington William, High street, Congleton County Court, Moody street, His Honor L. Yate Hogg Cape! Wilson, Davenshaw house, Buglawton Lee, jud~e ; H~~ry Latham, Moody street, regis­ Mas.k~ry Samuel, The Brooklands, Congleton trar & h1gh bruliff. The county court is held at M()Ss Hugh M.D. Moody hall the Town Hall, monthly; office, Moody street. The Reade Henry Lister, West street following places are within the jurisdiction of the county Salt Isaac, Westbourne villas, West heath, Congleton court of Congleton & Sandbach :-Alsager, Arclid, Ast­ Sheldon Thomas George bury or Newbold .Astbury, Betchton, Biddulph, Black­ Solly Arthur Isaac, Heathfield, Congleton den, Bradwall, Brereton, Brownlow, Buglawton, Church Swetrenham Col. Robert Warren, Swe~tenbam ha:J, Hulme, Church Lawton, Congleton, Cotton, Cranage, Conglet