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Rowney Green (infants), built in x884, for 30 children; , Frederick W1tts, station master average attendance, 20 ; Mrs. Gillies, mistress CARRIERS TO BIRMINGHAM.-Mrs. Sarah Smith, mon. & RAILWAY STATIONS:- thurs. & Brornsgrove, sat.; John Reading, mon. & thurs.; , James Hemming, station master James Newbould, from Rowney Green, thnrs

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. I Busbell Emma (Miss), dress maker Manning Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ashmore Mrs. Rowney green i Butcher George, shopkeeper MartinHy.farmr.&beer retailr.Forehill Baker Miss, The Elms Cole Thomas, blacksmith, Hopwood Matthews Richard, builder, Lea end 1 Boulton Mrs. Mill house : Edwards John, boot & shoe maker,: MillmanWm.Hy.VictoriaP.H.Barnt grn

ElkingtonJ as. Balleny J. p .Bordesley hall ! Weatheroak hill More by J oseph, shopkeeper Everitt Ernest M. Cooper's Hill house : Faithfull Alfred, insurance agent Morris Thomas, farmer, Lea End house Fletcher Rev. George Henry Ridley · J.isher George Timmis, farmer, Long- Newbould Frederick John, Swan inn B.A. [rector of Sturmere, Essex] field, Rowney green Newbould James, carrier & farmer, Gaunt John Penn, The Old house Fletcher Rev. George Henry Ridley B. A. Alcot farm · Gaunt Mrs. The Cottage private school Parsonage Geo. boot ma. Withyhed grn

Gell Rev. Francis M.A. The Rectory I Foster Charles, saddler Partridge James, land agent & clerk to Gorse Arthur Edmund, Vine cottage Foster William, blacksmith the commissioners of income & land Grubb John, Uplands Fox William, farmer, Forehill taxes for the division of Northfield & Hammond Charles Henry Freeman John, farmer, Lane house agent to Lloyds Bank Limited Hem us Mrs Furber Thomas, builder PartridgeReubn. blacksmith&whlwrght Hunt John, Hopwood Gaunt JohnPenn L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon, Penzer Job, farmer & assistant over- Impey Robert Levitt, Cooper's hill & medical officer & public vaccinator I seer, Barnt green Izod Thomas, Mill Bank cottage Alvechurch district, Poynton Samuel Quiney, nurseryman, James Henry Field, Arrowside house union & surgeon to the Birmingham Rowney green Jeffenes George Lincoln, Westheath Midland Counties sanitorium, The Poynton Thos.nurseryman,Rowney grn Kendrick John Harold, Cooper's hill Old house Quinney George, farmer, Siechem Merry Mrs Gibbs Selina (Miss), lodg.ho. Barnt grn Reachill George, farmer & coal dealer, Parry Rev. John M.A. The Hayes Gibbs William, needle scourer Scartield wharf Roberts Charles George, The Shrubbery Griffin John, farmer, Rowney green Reading John, carrier Smith Miss, Rowney green Griffiss George, farmer, Black pits Reading William, butcher Smith Mrs. Ann, Ferndale house Griffiths Estb.er (Miss), shopkeeper, Roberts Alfd.Edwd.farmer,Barnt green Stevens James, The Grange Rowney green Ryland Thomas, stationer, Post office Stokes Kesia (Mrs.), Arrow cottage Grosvenor Thomas, farmer, Scarfield Satchwel!William,shoe ma.Rowney grn Taylor Thomas, Longfield cottage Grubb John, farmer, Cooper's hill Savage Mark, farmer, Fon•hill Vincent Miss Gwynne Frederick, pig killer Siddons John, farmer, Westheath Whitehouse Mrs Hanks James, baker Smith Sarah (Mrs.), carrier Yarrington Miss Hanson Henry, farmer, Hopwood Southan Thomas, Wharf inn, & shop- COMMERCIAL. Harber Martha (Miss), shopkeeper keeper, Hopwood Andrews Harriet & Jane (Misses), Harris George. farmer, Wasthill Stevens William, farmer, Wasthill shopkeepers, Rowney green Hemus Edwin,farmer, Moor Green hall Th11mpson Waiter Arnold, farmer Ashmore "'m. farmer, Rowney green Hemus George, farmer, Round R

ARELEY KINGS is a small parish adjoining Stour- 1 Capells, Earls of Essex), which bears the following inscrip­ port, I mile west from the navigable Severn, a quarter of a tion :- mile south-west from Stourport station on the Worcester 1 LITHOLOGEMA QVARE and Shrewsbury section of the Great Western railway 1 REPONITVR SIR HARRY. and 5 miles south from Kidderminster, in the Western ! This quaint memorial is supposed to have been written by division of the county, Upper Doddingtree hundred, Stour- : the knight himself, who lived a recluse life at a house in the port petty sessional division, Martley union, county court parish called "The ::)turt:" a piscina and aumbry and district of Kidderminster and western division of the rural remains of the rood sta1rcase were discovered in course of deanery of Worcester and archdeaconry and d10cese of: the restoration: within the Norman doorhead in the north Worcester. The church of St. Bartholomew is a building wall of the nave was found walled up on either side the of stone, in the Decorated style, but has a Norman doorway original oak door greatly decayed, but the large C-shaped in the east wall of the vestry : it consists of chancel, nave, hinges were tolerably perfect : a massive wooden bolt 2ft. 4in. north aisle, with vestry and organ chamber, and a tower on long was still in its natural position: fragments of a Norman south side with pinnacles and containing 6 bells, renewed in font were also found, with traces of letters on its base which, x867 at a cost of about£ 350: the church, with the exception after removal of paint and whitewash, were found to be of the chancel and tower, was rebuilt in 1885-6, at a cost of "TE\lPORE LA [Y] AMANNI: SANTI:" it is on record that £3,000, raised by subscription, under the direction of Mr. the poet Layarnan was priest of Earnley by Severn, c 1200, F. Preedy, architect, of London: the stone used in the work and it is assumed that Earnley was the old name of Areley and obtained from Astley quarry, was presented by John Kings: there is a mural tablet to Layaman's memory in Russell Cookes esq. D.L., J.P. of Woodhampton: the pulpit, the chancel, but it is held that this discovery places the a memorial to the Rev. Henry James Hastings, some time poet's connection with Areley Kings beyond doubt: there rector, is constructed from old oak, formerly in the roof; the are also memorials to the Zachary family, 1802: there are organ was presented by Edward Alfred Broome esq. of sittings for 3I8 persons, 152 being free. The register dates Areley House: the design on the altar cloth is reproduced from the year 1530. The living is a rectory, average tithe from an old Elizabethan pattern found on the rood beam: rent-charge £276, net yearly value £3IO, including 44 there is a memorial in the chancel to W. Walsh esq, a con- acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the rector of nection of William Walsh M.P. the poet, and friend of Martley, and held since 188o by the Rev. Daniel Vawdrey Dryden, who lived at Abberley, and died in 1708 : in the M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Oxford. The charities churchyard is a very curious monument to Sir Henry Con- amount to £33 yearly. Sampson Zachary Lloyd esq. is ingsby knt. (ancestor ofJThomas, Earl of Coningsby and of the lord of the manor and principal landowner, and resides at.