DIRECTORY.] . MIDDLETON-ON-THE·HILL. 141 Post Office, Pencraig.-Alfred Price, sub-postmaster. Let- Wall Letter Box, Brelstone, cleared at 5.45 p.m ters from Ross arrive at 7.30 a.m. & I p.m. ; sundays, National School (mixed & infants), Glewstone, built with II.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.30 p.m. The nearest money residence for mistress, in 1873, for 60 children; average order & telegraph office is at Goodrich • attendance, 43; Mrs. Benton, mistress MARSTOW. Drew George, farmer, Little Whitfield Floyd Jas. jobbing gardener,&post office Clarke Rev. William Shuttleworth M.A. Gwillin Annie (Mrs.). farmer,Trebandy Smith Edward, carpenter (vicar). Thorn Preece Harry, farmer, Ash farm Webb Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hopegood Capt. Wm.Vere,Mount Craig Prewett Hugh, farmer, New court PENCRAIG Woodward Ernest, Daffaluke Roberts George, blacksmith • COMMERCIAL. Rudge Albert, blacksmith & assistant Marriott Robt. Spelman,Pencraig court Addis Charlotte(Mrs.),fll.rmer,TheYeld overseer, Brelstone green Morrell H. J. S. Homestead Addis John, farmer, Brelstone Stock Henry, farmer, Daffaluke Banfield Thomas, farmer Addis Wm. Hy. farmer, GreatWhitfield Williams Eliza (~lrs.), farmer,Daffaluke Heath Joseph, carrier Banfield Allan, farmer, Pidgeon house James Alfred, carpenter Banfield John, farmer, Blacknorle GLEWSTONE. Matthews Roger, blacksmith Bull Fredk. W. farmer, Marstow court Campbell Charles Lee, Glewstone court Price Alfred, shopkeeper, & post office' MICHAELCHURCH ESKLEY is a parish on the rounding country. The parish is in the manor of Ewias' Eskley brook, 8 miles north-west from Pontrilas station on Lacy, of which Henry Randolph Trafford esq. and the' the Newport, Abergavennyand section of the Great Marquess of Abergavenny K.G. are joint lords; they are Western railway and 15 south-west from Hereford, in the also the principal landowners in this parish. The soil is !L' Southern division of the county, Ewias Lacy hundred, clay brash: subsoil, old and new red sandstone. The chief Dore union and petty sessional division, Hereford county crops are wheat, oats, beans and potatoes. The area is court district, rural deanery of Weobley (2nd division) and 4,586 acres; rateable value, £2,583; the population in 1891. archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. was 283. Michael is a small but ancient building of stone, inthe Early Parish Clerk Thomas Watkins English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a ' • western turret containing 5 bells: the church was restored Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Realey, sub-postmistress. Letters-- in 1872 at a cost of £600, under the direction of Mr. G. 1". through Hereford, received at 10.30 a.m.; dispatched at. Bodley A.R.A., F.S.A. architect, of London. The register 3.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid_ dates from the year 1719. The living is a vicarage, annexed Peterchurch is the nearest money order office; & tele- to that of St. Margaret's, joint gross yearly value £197, graph office at Hay without residence, in the gift of Henry Randolph Tl'afford Wall Letter Box, Cross roads, cleared at 3.50 p.m. week esq. and held since 1895 by the Rev. John Frederick days only Walwyn Trumper RA. of St. John's College, Cambridge. This place is included in the Longtown United School Board There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Michaelchurch district, formed I June, 1875 Court, the seat of Mrs. Trafford, is a substantial old build- Board School (mixed), with master's house, foY 100 chil­ iug, well situated and commanding a fine view of the sur- dren; average attendance, 35; Wm. Hy.Thompson,mastr Trafford Mrs. Michaelchurch court Jones Noah, farmer, Cefnkest Pugh lsaac, Bridge inn Trafford Henry Randolph D.L., J.P. Jones Thomas, farmer, Pentwyn Pugh William, New inn Michaelchurch court Lewis George, farmer, Lower house Realey Mary (Mrs.), miller (water)•. Trumper Rev. John Frederick Walwyn Lewis William, farmer, Groves farm grocer & farmer, Post office B.A. (vicar) Lewis William, farmer, Pucha Realey Percy, farmer, New house Lloyd William, farmer, Upper house Roberts Joseph, farmer, Rocky fold COMMERCIAL. Maddy Benjamin, farmer, Great Cefn Shaw William, farmer, Rhyd-y-back Carbery Wm. farmer, Ty-Craddock Maddy Stephen, farmer, Tynag-quint Smith John, farmer, Clothier Hopkin. Christopher Wm.farmer,Brighton camp Mapp George, farmer, Llanbodon Walker -, farmer, Gegfirm Davies Charles, blacksmith Mapp William, farmer, Bridge farm Watkins John, farmer, Old house Gwillim Thomas, farmer, Maerdy Meredith Aaron, farmer, Llwyn-rosser Watkins John, farmer, New house Howalls Jonathan, farmer, Cairon Morris John, farmer, Little Cefn Watkins John, grocer Howard William R. tailor Munkley James, farmer, Ty-Mawr Watkins Richard, carpenter Hughes Chas. farmer &mason, Tan-ho Munkley John, farmer, New house Watkins Sarah (Mrs.), farmr.TheWerrr James Richard, farmer, The Firs Phillips Charles, farmer, Ty-u-Cha Watkins Thomas, farmer, Lower house James Thomas, farmer, Bankfarm Phillips John, farmer, Coed-Robin Whistance Edward, farmer, Blaenan Jenkins Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Vicarage Powell Phillip, farmer, Rhydynog Williams James, farmer, Spring castle Jones Charles, farmer, Birches Price John (Mrs.), farmer, Quakers Williams Jas. farmer, Upper Pen-y-pk Jones John, farmer, The Glebe Price William, farmer, Greyland MIDDLETON-ON-THE-HILL is a scattered parish amounting to about £40 yearly, arising from the rent of extending on the north-east to the border, cottages and land in the parishes of Laysters and Middleton­ 3~ miles east from Berrington and Eye station and 3 miles on-the-Hill. Quarries of old red sandstone are worked west-by-south from Easton Court station on the Shrews- for local purposes, which abound in fossils. Moor Abbey is' bury hnd Hereford (London and North Western and Great the residence of Thomas, Richard and George Edmunds Western joint) railway, 5 south-west from Tenbury and 5 esqs. The trustees of the late Rev. Eusebius Andrewes north-east from , in the Northern division of Uthwatt RA. of Foscot, Bucks, George Rushout Godson the county, Wolphy hundred, Leominster union, petty ses- esq. F.G.S., J.P. of The Court, Tenbury, and - HarrisoIl! sional division and county court district, rural deanery of esq. are chief landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay Leominster (2nd division) and archdeaconry and diocese of and stone. The chief crops are wheat and hops; apples are Hereford. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of also grown to a large extent. The area is 2,097 acres;­ stone, in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting rateable value, £2,385; the population in 1891 was 308. of chancel, nave, south porch and a large western tower Parish Clerk George Bowdler containing 3 bells. The register of baptisms dates from the ' • year 1650; marriages and burials, 1659. The living is a Letters through T~nbury.. The nearest money order & vicarage, annexed to that of Kimbolton, average tithe rent- telegraph office IS at Brnnfield. Letter Box cleared at' charge £171, joint net yearly value £260, in the gift of the 3· 15 p.m Bishop of Hereford, and held since 1841 by the Rev. Thomas Church of School (mixed), built with house for Hutchinson M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who mistress in 1874, for 44 children; number on books, 31 ; resides at Grantsfield, Kimbolton. There are charities average attendance, 20; Mrs. CatherineLandells, mistress: Collins Rev. Joseph Perrott B.A. Davies Aaron, farmer, Town farm Jones Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Yew tree (curate), Lower Withers Edmunds Thomas, Richard & George, Jordan Thomas, farmer, Lower Easton Edmunds George, Moor abbey farmers & landowners, Moor abbey Lems Mary (Mrs.), farmer, The Hills Edmunds Richard, Moor abbey Evans David, farmer, Nurton Maund Wm blacksmith, Five Ashes Edmunds Thomas, Moor abbey Gittins WiIliam, farmer & hop grower, Medlicott Thos. farmer, Upper Withers COMMERCIAL. Ford & Wood Sutton Oliver Richard, farmer, Bull field Acton Edward, farmer, Little Red wood Gough Richard, farmer, Red wood Oliver Sarah (Mrs.),frmr.Middleton frIll. Bathurst Charles, cowkeeper, Easton Haines William, farmer, Hundred Partridge Arthur F. farmer, Mileshope BennettJohn, farmer,ChurchHouse frm Hall Abraham, farmer, Ashley fields Postans Thomas, farmer, Mileshope &. Blake Chas. wheelwright, Laysters pole Holt Henry, wheelwright, carpenter, The Ash Cook George, farmer, Laysters pole builder & cooper, Laysters pole Powell Herbert, farmer, Hood farm Cook George, shoe maker & assistant Holt John, shopkeeper Powen Thomas, farmer, Powell farm overseer, Laysters pole Hyde John, farmer PritchardChristphr. farmr. Sunnybank