292 MAVESYN RIDW ARE. . [KELLY's

Psrochial School (mixed), built about t8Io & enlarged in CARRIE J h H t L" hfi Id f · 1877, for 70 children; average attendance, 55; John R.- 0 n arvey, 0 Ic e every n.; to Hugeley Jordan, master every thurs Mycock James, farmer, Priory farm Bannister Thomas, farmer Mavesyn Ridware. Onion Frank E. blacksmith DerryFrederick,wheelwright&carpenter Jaggard Mrs. Old Hall . Plant Joseph, farmer Done Waiter, farmer, Cawarden Spring Quintan Henry, Mavesyn house Potts J oseph, farmer Godwin Joseph, shopkeeper, Post office Bartlam James, shopkeeper Robinson John, farmer Grimley Edward (Mrs.), cowkeeper God win Arth. farmer, Manor House frm Tenney John, Bull & Spectacles P.H Harvey John, farmer & carrier Moorcroft Seth, baker, Eastfield Waiters Thomas, farmer Holland John, cow keeper Holland Thomas, cowkeeper Blithbury. Hill Rid ware. Leadbetter William, farmer COMMERCIAL. Bridgeman-Simpson George, Hill Rid- Mills Millicent Mary (Mrs. ),shopkeeper Astbury Jos. threshing machine owner ware house Orgill Frank, farmer, Bentley Bevin Jacob, builder Sanders Avarne Quinby John, farmer Degge John, farmer Underwood Miss Robinson Sampson Joseph, plumber &c Gildart Sarah (.Mrs.) & Willia.m, farmer Walker .Mrs Robinson Thomas, Royal Oak P.H God win Thomas, cow keeper WhiteRev. Francis de Lacey B. A. Rectory Sharratt John, farmer Martin William, farmer COMMERCIAL. Solman Edward, Chadwick Arms inn Mycock George, farmer, Black flats Bansford Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wood Thomas, farmer PIPE RID WARE is a parish on the north bank of the the Bishop ofLichfield; the Rev. Joseph William Kewley 1ti.A. river Trent, 2 miles north from Armitage station on the of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and rector of Armitage, is Trent Valley section of the London and North Western rail- appointed by the Bishop of Lichfield as sequestra tor and way, 5 east from and 6~ north from Lichfield, in officiates here. The charities are of about £3 yearly value. the Lichfield division of the county, hundred of North Offiow, Lord Hatherton, who is lord of the manor, the Hon. Edward Lichfield union, Rugeley petty sessional division and county Swynfen Parker-Jervis, of Little Aston Hall, Stonnall ; court district, rural deanery of Rugeley, archdeaconry of Charles Tnnnicliff esq. of Newton, Blithfield, and William and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St. J ames, Perk ins esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy rebuilt in I842, is a small and plain building of stone, in and strong clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. the Nor man and later styles, consisting of chancel and nave The area is BI6 acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, and a western turret containing 2 bells, and has an early £x,o53; the population in 189I was 84. Norman font: the east window is stained, and the chancel Parish Clerk, James Hodgkinson. contains a monument witb. a Latin inscription dated r684, ; Letters through Rugeley, arrive at 9 a. m. The nearest and another to the memory of Frances and Bridget White- ; monoy order office is at Armitage, & King's Bromley is hall, who died 1716 and I743 reepectively: there are Bo the nearest telegraph office sittings. The register dates from the year 157I. The The children of this place go to Hill Ridware & Hamstall living is a vicarage, average yearly value £6o, in the gift of Rid ware schools Gould Henry, farmer Lawley George, farmer, Church farm Timmis Jsph.Edward,farmer,Hall farm Howett William, farmer Lees Ernma (Mrs.), cowkeeper Woolley Mary (Mrs.),farmer,Quinton's Jones Thomas A. Littleron's Arms P.H Sale William1 jun. farmer orchard is a parish and small town in Churn et Valley were estimate-! at £ II2 yearly. Woodseat, the pleasant and has a station with junction for Ashborne on the North residence of John Fitzherbert Campbell esq. J.P. on an Staffordshire rail way, 21 ~miles from Stoke, I 8 from Burton, eminence above the confluence of the Dove and Churnet, is 4~ north from , 7 south-east from Cheadle and a mile south-west of the village, and one mile north, on an I40 from London, in the Leek division of the county, bun- eminence facing the south and overlooking an extensive dred of South Totmonslow, Uttoxeter union, petty sessional landscape, is Barrow Hill, the mansion and estate oi Captain division and county court district, rural deanery of Arthur Finch Dawson. Rocester Lodge is the residence of Uttoxeter, archdeaconryof Stoke-npon-Trent and diocese of Charles William Lyon .J.P. The principal landowners are Lichfield. The rivers Churnet and Dove join a mile below Captain A. F. Dawson, John Fitzherhert Campbell esq. who the village. The village is lighted with gas. The church is lord of the manor, Waiter .John Lyon esq. of 'futbnry, of St. Michaelis a modern edifice of stone in the Gothic style, Charles William Lyon esq. and William Atkins esq. of consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, north porch and an Rocester. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel. The land is embattled western tower with spire, containing- a clock and almost entirely devoted to grazing and dairy produce. The 6 bells: the east window, painted by Mr. De Morgan, repre- area is 2,514 acres of land and 58 of water; rateable value, sents scenes from the life of Christ, and there are other [7,384; the population in 1891 was 1,288 in the civil and stained windows: the church was restored in 1873, at a cost I,rso in the ecclesiastical parish. of [3, Boo, and has 444 sittings. In the churchyard are two CoMB RIDGE is one mile south-west, on the road from coffin sla'bs much defaced, and there is also a fine shaft of a Uttoxeter to Ashborne. cross with interlaced work. The register dates from the year Parish Clerk, Ernest Cordon. 1564. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £3, net yearly value i,"I74, including 30 acres of glebe and residence, PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office in the gift of John Fitzherbert Campbell esq. and held since (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Staffordshire I892 by the Rev. Maurice George Lascelles M.A. of Merton added).-Thomas Titley, postmaster. Letters arrive College, Oxford. The Primitive Methodist chapel was from Stafford at 6.5~ a.m. i Stoke, 3·5 p.m.; dispa.tched erected in I888 in place of the old one on the opposite side to Stafford at 7 p.m. • Stoke, 1 1.5 a.. m. Letters t? callers of the street, at a cost of (including site) about£ 1,400, and bet~een 12 & I on sunday. Letters for Combndge are will seat xso persons. There is also a small Wesleyan chapel. received through Ut~o~eter S.O The poor of this parish have j,"I2 yearly from several small I WALL LE:rTER Box, Statwn, cleared at 6.;,o p.m. & that at benefactions. The wake is held on the Sunday after Combndge at 6. 20 p.m. week days only October uth. Here are a cotton mill for producing sewing ScHOOLS:- yarns, worked by the Mill Company, who employ National (mixed), erected in 1830 for Ioo children & en- about 350 hands ; the stoneworks of Messrs. Stanton & larged & improved in I88o for 220; average attenda.nce1 Bettany, and the brick works of Mr. ArGhur Hewins. I25 ; John Gandy, master Rocester was a Roman station, and in 1795 remains of Infants', erected in I852 for Ioo children; average atten- Roman works, probably baths, were discovered, together dance, 65 ; Miss 1''. M. Bindley, mistress with some copper coins and a spear head of brass, skeletons The above schools prior to 189I were supported by voluu- and fragments of pottery : in a field adjoining the church tary contributions, but are now under the management is a sunk earthwork, about 45 yards square, with a circular of a school board of 5 members, formed June, IBgi; .r·. J. mound in the centre and a vallum on three sides. In 1146 Ridley, Rocester, clerk to board Richard Bacon founded here an abbey of Austin Canons and Abbotsbolme, for boys, Cecial Reddie, head master dedicated it to St. Mary ; the revenues, at its dissolution, Railway Station, Frederick Ridley, station master Atkins William Lyon Charles William .;r.P. The Lodge Birch James, farmer, Dove flatts Bettany Thomas Stanton Alfred Blood Charles, farmer, Mince Pie hall CampbellJohnFitzherbert l.P. Wood seat coMMERCIAL. Bott John, blacksmith, Comb ridge Dawson Capt. Arthurl•'inch l.P. Barrow Abbotsholme School for Boys (Cecial Bould William, farmer, Cambridge hill; & Army & Navy club, London Riddie, head master) Bowd Thomas, pork butcher Greenslade George H. n Atkins Ernest, farmer Braddow Ed win, saddler HRrtley Charles Atkins William, farmer & landowner Brain William, blacksmith Hurt Theodore Octavius, Holly bank Bassett James, farmer, Cambridge Burtou Joseph, insurance agent Keeling Samuel, Riversfield Beard Hezekiah, shopkeeper Burton William, corn & cake merchant