DIRECTORY.] STAFFORDSHIRE. .FENTON • 169 .Attached is a library of 200 volumes, presented by J. Bitterscote, I mile north ; Bonehill, hali a mile north- "Eadi& and A. Robotham. west, and Dunstall, 2 miles north-west. Charities, amounting to £2 12s. yearly, are distributed Parish Clerk, Charles Stokes. in bread. The principal business of this village consists Post, l\L 0. & •r. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & .A. Lichfield street.-Levi Mitchell, sub-postmaster. works, and two breweries. .A pleasure and statute fair is Letters received from Tamworth at 6.55 a.m. & I2.25 & beld on the first Monday after the IOth of October; the 7·I5 p.m.; snnday, 6.55 a.m.; dispatched at Io a.m. f!ther iairs have now fallen into disuse in consequence of &; I2.5, 7.25 & 8 p.m.; sunday, w a.m the cattle sales established at Tamworth. Sir Robert Wall Letter Box, Bonehill, cleared at 8 p.m. weekdays; Peel bart. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. IO noon sunday "The soil is rich loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops Public Elementary School (mixed), built in I862, for 3I3 are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,084 acres ; children; average attendance, 3I4; John Harling J ones, Tateable value, £8,0I7; and the population in I90I was master; Mrs. Martha Jones, mistress rr,887 in the civil, and 1,785 in the ecclesiastical parish, Canal Company's Wharf & Crane (for unloading heavy including the liberties of Bangley, 1! miles north-west; goods), Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks, collector PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Eng. surgeon, & medical officllll" & London Central Meat Co. Ltd.butchers Alkin John, Bonehill public vaccinator, Fazeley district, Lunn Charles, blacksmith Allso:p Joseph, Brookfield house Tamworth union, & surgeon to Mid- Millington Frederick William,. White 'Bourne Francis John, Trellis house land Railway Co. & certified sur- Lion inn & farmer 'Bourne Frank geon under the factory acts Mitchell Levi, grocer, & Post office Eurdett John Carter Isaac, farmer, Bonehill Myring Thomas, saddlers 'Buxton Thomas Carter Thomas Rowley, farmer, Mile Nutt Arthur William, fruiterer (Jhichester Lt.-Col. Gerard, Bone- Oak farm Nutt Daniel, market gardener hill house Clarke John, commcl.traveller,Bonehill Platts John, Three Tuns P.H Clarke John, Bonehill Cox Brothers, butchers Powis Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Fidgeon Misses, Bonehill Cox Thomas, shoe maker Richard son W. & J. basket makers Jones Charles, Broomfield Dalton Joseph Ezra, Plough & Harrow Ross James, steward to Lady Emily &botham Ambrose, The Cottage PH. & wheelwright Peel, The Paddocks, Bonehill Smith Mrs. Corrie Roy Daw End Lime Co. lime merchants, Smith Frederick Limited, brewers Steward Lt.-Col. Harry Warry (Ist Wharf Sm-;th Martha (Mrs.), grocer South Staffs), Bonehill lodge Dewell James, beer retailer Smith Thomas, baker Tanner Rev. R<>bert Henry, Vicarage Dickinson Mary (Mrs.), greengrocer Soles John Edward, butcher Tolson Mrs. Fazeley house Donnison Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Sollis Frank, grocer Tolson Richard, Laurel house Freeland Edward, br<'wer, maltster & Stokes Charles, insurance agent (Pru- COMMERCIAL. spirit merchant. Established 1874 dential) & parish clerk .Adkin Henry David, news agent Gas Works (Thos. W. Woodcock, sec) Stringer Sarah (Mrs.), Navigation inn Allton's Stores, grocers, millers & Goodman Thomas,shopkpr. 12 Park pl Sturgess Fredk. Thos.White HmseP.H butchers Green Wm. fruiterer & fi~hmonger Taylor Harry, market gardener :A.rnold William, boot ma. I Mill lane Hicklin Samuel, plumber & grainer Taylor James, farmer, Bangley farm Aucott Benjamin, coal merchant Hicklin Sarah (Miss), dress maker Thompson Thomas,earthenware de::tlcr "Barnes Joseph, grocer Hough John, tobacconist & hair dressr Tolson William !Limited, bleachers "'flarrett Thomas Henry, cab proprietor Jackson Robt. Geo. baker & shopkeepr of cotton yarns, tapes &c. Bonehill & furniture remover, Mill lane Jones & Co. cycle makt>r bleach works "Barrett Walter,shopkeeper,36 Mill lane Kinson John, market gardener & far- Tolson William Limited, small- ~sford .Tames, farmer mer, Cottage farm, Bonehill ware manufacturers Baylis Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher Lea Frederick G. grocer & draper, & Veal Waiter, Jolly Sailors' hotel; good ~oyes William, plumber agent for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, accommodation for cyclists & 13rierley Ezekiel, draper, grocer & wine & spirit merchants motors; teas & dinners provided; coal merchant Lea William, draper & grocer works parties specially catered for llrindley Daniel, Three HorseShoesP.H Lees Frederick, boot maker Victoria Memorial Hall (Jesse Lees, 'Brooks Elizabeth (Mrs.), collector to Lees Henry, boot maker caretaker) Canal wharf Lees Jesse, boot maker Walker Emma & Elizabeth (Misses), "Brown Lorenzo, Red Lion inn Lloyd William, stud groom for Duke dress makers, Park place "fluxton Thos.L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S. of Portland Wilson Mark, shopkeeper
:FEATHERSTONE is a township in the parish of is the chief landowner. The soil is ~ght gravel; subsoil, Wolverhampton, 3 miles north from Bushbury station on various. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. the Wolverhampton and Stafford section of the London and The area is 504 acres; rateable value, £8o7; the popula North Western railway, and 5 north from Wolverhampton, tion in 190I was SI. 1n the Western division of the county, hundred of East .Cuttlestone, Penkridge petty sessional division, union of Letters through Wolverhampton, which is the nearest Shareshill >Cope Henry, farmer I Price Charles, farmer & landowner I Reeve Jane (Mrs.), beer ret.& farmer ~ENTON (or Great Fenton) is a town comprising the I843· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value, [430. joint tQwnship of Fenton Culvert with Fenton Vivian, with residence, in the gift of W. M. Baker esq. and held .and a parish, formed in 184I, 2! miles east-south-east smce 1895 by the Rev. the Hon. Leonard Francis Tyr from Newcastle-under-Lyme, with two stations, Fenton whitt M . .A. • .,r Magdalene College, Cambridge, chaplain :and Fenton Manor, on the North Staffordshire railway, in-ordinary to the King, and surrogate. .Attached to in the North Western division of the county, and within the church is a large public room, erected in I883 at a. 'the parliamentary borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, and in cost of £7oo, by the late Mrs. Hitchman; it is useri -pirehill hundred, petty sessional division of North Pirehill. for meetings and entertainments in connection with Stoke union, county court district, rural deanery and the church and will seat 300 persons. The church of archdeaconry, and in the diocese of Lichfield. St. Michael and .All Angels, a chapel of ease, and erected Fenton was governed by a Local Board from February in 1887 at a cost of £4,500, is of brick with terra cotta. :liOth, 1863, but an Urban District Council was established dressings, in the Early Eng-lish style, and consists of 1lllder the "Local Government .Act, I894" (56 & 57 Vict. chancel, nave, two vestries, baptistery, north and south oeap. 73), the district was, in .April, 18g6, divided porches and bell cote with one bell: there are 400 sit- 1nto four wards, each ward returning 6 members. The tings. The Catholic .Apostolic church, in Whieldon road, town is lighted with gas from works erected in r88•4 by was erected in I895· Fenton cemetery, comprising I6~ the late Local :Board at a cost of about £I2,ooo. Christ acres, is on the north-east side of the town on sloping Church, erected at a cost of £s,5oo under the will of ground near to Fenton Park, and was laid out in 1887 llalph Bourns esq. who died in November, I835, and at a cost of £8,400, under the provisions of the "Public -consecrated in 1839, was entirely rebuilt in 1890-I at a Health (Interments) .Act, 1879," and is under the control -cost of about £7,000 on the same site, and is an edifice of the Urban District Council. The Town Hall, in .Albert df brick with stone dressings in the Decorated style, square, Church street, was opened in 188g, and corn -consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south chapel, north prises all the necessary offices, a petty sessions court and and south porches, organ chamber and vestries, and a an assembly room. The principal landowners are Charles tower, added in I899 at a cost of about £2,ooo, and William Jervis Smith esq. of Brocksford hall, Doveridge, d~dicated May 4th, and contains 8 bells: there are from Derby; William M. Baker esq.; H. Warrington & Son, C]Oo to I,ooo sittings. The register dates from the year and Messrs. Paynter and Best. The area of the Urban
