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Post Office, Norbury. Mrs. Lucy Talbot, sub-postmis­ Loynton is a hamlet, 1! miles north-west, in Weston tress. Letters arrive through Newport (Salop) at 6.55 J ones township. a. m. & 4.20 p.m. to callers; dispatched at 8.30 a.m. Sexton, Thomas Williams. & 6.15 p.m. week days only. Woodscaves, 2 miles Wall Letter Box, Weston Jones, cleared at S·So p.m distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1838 & re­ stored in 1874; enlarged in Igo6 at a cost of over WESTON JONES is a township 2 miles west. The /.,Ioo; & will now hold 100 children; average attend· area is 1,249 acres of land and IO of water; rateable ance, 71; Mrs. Jessie Gertrude Crosse, mistress value, {,1,69o; the population with Loynton in 1901 was Canal Carriers. Shropshire Union Railways & Canal Co. 125. daily to Wolverhampton, :Birmingham, Liverpool, New­ port & Shrewsbury &c NORBURY. Parton JtJffrey, farmer Burne Sambrooke Thomas HigginsJ.P. Lambert Rev. Jn. Jeffery B.A.Rectory Sands Thomas, Junction inn, Nor- Loynton ball COMMERCIAL. bury junction Cooper Frank, gamekeeper to S. T. Barratt Thomas, farmer, Shelmore Shropshire Union Railways & Canal H. Burne esq. J.P. Blakemore pool Boffey George, farmer Co. (John Chadburn, district en- Felton James, farmer, Leawood pits Booker J ames,farmer & insurance agt gineer ; Frederick Lovekin, collec­ Bray John (exors. of), farmers, tor; John Talbot, lock keeper), WESTON JONES. Blakemore house Repairing works, Norbury junction Turner Wm. Derrington,Weston wood Harvey George, gardener to S. T. H. White Edward, farmer Felton Ernest Edward, blacksmith Burne esq. J.P Williams Henry .Alfred, wheelwright Gilbert Charles, farmer J ohnson William Hy. farmer, Pool ho J ones Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper OULTON. Liversage George, farmer, Norbury pk Davies Thomas, farmer Oakley Arth. J ames, assistant overseer Oakley J ames, farmer & tax collector Liversage John, coal merchant, Nor- Turner Charles Jn. Derington, farmr bury junction Rutter John, cowkeeper, Blakemore, Major Alfred, farmer, Shelmore farm LOYNTON. Pool house Morley Ida (Mrs.), shopkeeper Bray Juhn, farmer Sharrat Francis, farmer NORMACOTT, see Longton. NORTON BRIDGE, see Chebsey.

NORTON CANES (or Norton-under-Cannock) is a ~orton, and Sir Charles Holcroft hart. of Kingswmford, parish and village, 3 miles north from Brownhills station Dudley, are the chief landowners. The soil is light; on the and Derby section, and 1-3rd east from subsoil, chiefly ~ravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley Wyrley, on the Walsall and Stafford section of the London and turnips. The area is 3,945 acres of land, of which and North Western railway, 6 north from Walsall, and 7 2,6oo are in a high state of cultivation and the rest is west-by-south from Lichfield, in the Lichfielcl division of being inclosed and cultivated, and 123 of water; rateable the county, hundred of South Offiow, Penkridge petty value, {,29,497; the population of the in sessional division, union of Cannock, Walsall county court I9II was s.648, and of the ecclesiastical parish (St. district, rural deanery of Rugeley, archdeaconry of Stafford J ames) 3,040 in 1901. and diocese of Lichfield. The parish is governed by the Little Wyrley is a hamlet adjoining Norton upon the Brownbills Urban District Council. The church of St. south. Mrs. Macpherson, of Wyrley Grove, a curious James is a building of stone in the Early Decorated 17th century mansion, formerly held by the Fowkes of 11tyle, consisting of chancel, nave, north transept, organ Brewood, is lady of the manor. chamber, south porch and an embattled western tower Brownhills, on the east, is a rapidly increasing place, with four pinnacles, containing 6 bells, five having been with extensive coal mines: it is included in the ercle· presented by Miss Hussey in 1887, and one by Mrs. siastical parish of Ogley Hay, under which plare the Macpherson in 1go6: there are tablets to the Hussey names of residents will be found. family and a brass to the Rev. William Blow Collis. Parish Clerk, Alfred Philpots. for 53 years incumbent of this parish, besides other Post & M. 0. Office.-William Street, sub-postmaster. memorials: the church was restored in 1885, at a. cost Letters delivered 7 a.m. & 3· 15 p.ru. ; dispatched of £2,ooo, but in January, 1888, the whole church, with II. Io a. m. & 7-30 p.m. Letters through Cannock, the exception of the tower and outer walls, was Staffs. There is no sunday post. Heath Hayes IS the destroyed by :fire; it was immediately rebuilt at a nearest telegraph office, 2 miles distant. Little cost of £2,478, and re-opened by the Suffragan Bishop Wyrley letters arrive through Walsall of Shrewsbury, 22nd October, 1888, and affords 422 sit­ Wall Letter Boxes, in school house, cleared at II a.m. tings. The register dates from the year 1566. The living & 7·35 p.m.; Norwn Heath, cleared at 7 p.m. &i is a rectory, net yearly value /.,247, including 8 acres of Hednesford road, cleared at 11.20 a.m. & 7.10 pm glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lich­ field, and held since 1910 by the Rev. James Blundell TERRITORIAL FORCE. Pimblett M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. Here is a 2nd North Midland Field Co. Royal Engineers, N 1 ton Wesleyan chapel and several Primitive Methodist chapels. hall, Major William E. Harrison, commanding; The Working Men's Institute, erected at the cost of Company Quartermaster-Sergt. A. E. ShE>rgold .t ~Irs. Macpherson, of Wyrley Grove, in memory of her Sergt. J. S. Duncan, drill instructors father, the late P. H. Hussey esq. was built in 1882 at Public Elementary & Endowed Schools, for 186 boys; an expense of about {,I,ooo, and has a room seating 200 average attendance, 212; Joseph P. Underwood, persons; a billiard 1·oom and two ante-rooms were added master ; the girls' school, built in I 872 & enlarged in in 1895• at a cost of £250. Roger and Phineas Fowke, I8Ro, will hold 200; average attendance, 250; Miss of Little Wyrley, left fifteen penny loaves to be distri­ Margaret Tate, mistress ; the infants' school, built in buted to the poor of this parish at the church ev&ry 1881, for II9 children, has an average attendance of Sunday throughout the year: there are other charities 165; Mrs. E. Kny, mistress; the schools are sup· amounting to £7 yearly. Norton Hall is now occupit'd ported in part by the rent of 50 acres of land in this by the 2nd North Midland Field Co. Royal Engineers. parish Mrs. Lachlan Macpherson and Mrs. Bowring-Hanbury, A new school for 300 girls is now (1912) in course of of Dam Hall, who are the joint owners of the manor of erection PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Baker John, baker Craddock Carolina (Mrs.), shopkeeper Eden Richard Alexander Smith M.B Beach Fred, shopkeeper Doram Joseph, Old Turf P.H Hughes Edward Henry Bennett Thomas, shopkeeper Duncan Sergt. John Stewart, drill J arvis William Henry Benton Jesse, farmer, Little Wyrley instructor to 2nd North Midland Macpherson Mrs. Wyrley grove, Bott Ernest, farmer, Little Wyrley Field Co. Royal Engineers (Terri­ Little Wyrley Bradburne Arthur, farmer, Swan frm torial Force) Pimblett Rev. James Blundell M.A. Breeze Richard, blacksmith DuttLn William, grocer (rector), Rectory Broome Alfred, beer retailer Eden Richard Alexander Smith M.B., Rigby Rev. Joseph (Primitive Meth) Bull George, farmer C.M., D.P.H.Aberd. surgeon, ~ Underwood Joseph P. Ashdene Cartwright J oseph, farmer, Pinfold medical officer & public vaccinator, Wardle George R Cartwright Joseph, jun. farmer district of Cannock Cockayne Charles, cycle agent uniOn• COMMERCIAL. Conduit Colliery Co. Limited (G. R. Emery Harry, grocer W ardle, certificated manager) "Eme··y Ludovico Elijah, butcher Early closing day, Wednesday. Cooper J oseph, greengrocer Evans J obn, shopkeeper & beer retlr Armshaw Chas. farmer, Little Wyrley Cooper Samuel, butcher Gidwell James, beer retailer Bainbridge Robert, baker Cowley George, greengrocer Harris Wm. farmer, Little Wyrley