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Chepstow, in the Forest of Dean division of the connty, SCHOOLS. hundred of St. Briavels, petty sessional division of Cole· Public Elementary, Pillowell, Whitecroft, under the ford;· Monmouth union and county court district, rural Forest of Dean Group Council Schools Committee deanery of South Forest and archdeaconry and diocese (boys, girls & infants), built, with tnaster's residence, of Gloucester. The church of St. Paul, consecrated iu in rBJB, for 393 children, & enlarged in r8g8 for soo r822, i-s an octagonal building of stone, in mixed styles, children; average attendance, ro2 boys, go girls &; witli a pinnacled western tower containing a clock and roo infants; Harry Jones, master; Miss Fanny one bell; it was reseated in 1897 at a cost of about Deacon, mistress; Mrs. Price, infants' mistress _6;3qo, and now affords 450 sittings. The register of Public Elementary (mixed), Park End, for r8o children; bap-tisms and burials dates from the year 1822; average attendance, 135; Jesse Wintle, master marriages, 1836. The living is a vicarage, net yearly vajne :£lJO, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of FUTTERILL is 2 miles south-east from Coleford Gloucester, and held since 1900 by the Rev. Daniel station on the Severn and Wye and Great Western rail Josiah Banham B.A. of St. Catharine's College, Cam ways. Letters through Coleford, which is the nearest bridge. At YORKLEY WOOD are a mission church, money order and telegraph office. seatmg 120 persons, and a Baptist chapel, erected in r86o, with rso sittings. A new Church Cemetery, I acre WHITECROFT, 5 miles south-east from Coleford, is in extent, was consecrated in May, r862. Whitemead situated in the vale betwixt rising ground covered with P~rk is the residence of Vernon Francis Lee se esq. and fine plantations of timber, and has a station on the has an area of 42 acres. The principal landowner is the Severn, Wye and Severn Bridge railway; the inhabitants, Crown. The soil is for the most part of a stiff clayey whose dwellings are scattered with singular irregularity, nature, and the land is mostly nsed for the growth of are mainly employed in the coal, chemical and quarry timber. The area is 4,676 acres; the population in '9" trades. Here is a Wesley:m chapel, erected at a cost was 2,590. of £470, on a site given by Mr. T. H. Deakin. Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Thomas Woo!lcy, sub-post Post, M. 0., T. &; Telephonic Express Delivery Office. master. Letters arrive from Lydney at 7-30 a.m. & B,ichard Thomas, sub-postmaster. Letters through 12 noon; dispatched at 6.15 & 8.rs p.m.; no delivery . Lydney arrive at 7.50 a.m. & r2 noon; dispatched at on sundays 5.50 & 8 p.m.; no delivery on sunday RAILWAY STATIONS. Letters for Speech House Road through Coleford Parkend, Richard J ones, station master Polic'e Station, Arthur Jones, constable in charge Whitecroft, Charles Southam, station master PARKEC'irD. Hughes Jas. & Son, timber merchants Downs O!iver, Miners' Arms inn PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Jones Charles, qnarry owner Ellway Samuel, news agt. Pil!owell Marshall William, blacksmith Elsmm:e Thomas, shopkeeper Ban Lam Rev. Daniel J osiah B. A. Mayne &; Pugh, surgeons GriftHhs Roland, grocer (vicar), Vicarage Mayne William Sidney M.R.C.S.Eng., Hirst Charles, grocer, Pillowell Bl.mch Mrs. Oakland house L.R.C.P.Lond. surgn. (firm, Mayne Jarnes Jim, cottage farmer, Pillowell Deakin Thos. Hedges J.P.Parkend ho & Pngh) James Thomas, beer retailer,Pillowell J ones Charles, Forest vale Parkend Deep Navigation Collieries .Tohnson Read (Madame), milliner Leese. Vernon Francis J.P. (deputy Limited (Thomas Hedges Deakin, Jones Charles, shopkeeper, Pillowell surveyor of the Forest of Dean), managing director) Kear Harry Maynard, butchct Whitemead park Poulton William, beer retailer Mm·se Charles William, beer retailer· Mayne William Sidney Thomas Richa-rd, grocer, Post office Morse Hubert Henry, miller (water & Worthy Ernest Alfred, Woodville United Stone Firms Limited steam) & PublicTelephoneCa!IOffice Ward Enos, New inn Pi!lowell & Y orkley Co-operative COMMERCIAL. Society Ltd. (Tom Price, manager), Bntrsh Red Ash Collieries Limited Pillowell (Graham, Roberts & Co. agents) FUTTERILL. Princess Royal Colliery Co. Limited Foresky, School of (Royal Forest of Banks Louisa (Mrs.), beer retailer (William Morgan, manager) Dean) for Working Foresters (V. F. Clothier Samuel Thompson,stone mer Saunders Henry, com. trav. Park vi! Leese esq. deputy surveyor; C. 0. Watkins & Son, stone merchants Watkins Joseph, boot mal

PATCHWAY, see Almondsbury. ' . ' .'" P A UNTLEY is a picturesquely beautiful parish, con rst Marquess of Worcester; to her sister Anna Caro sisting principally of scattered dwellings, and on the river lina Brickendine, d. I7Jo, and to Henry Blachford Leadon, which here separates the county from Worcester Scudamore (late of Newent), nephew to the above, shire,· 2· miles north-east from Newent station on the d. 1795: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from Gloucester, Ledbury and Worcester branch of the Great the year I53'B- The living is a perpetual curacy, net Western railway, ro north-west from Gloucester and 6 yearly value £62, with q~ acres of glebe, in the gift south-ea.•t from Ledburv, in the Forest of Dean division of the Bishop of Gloucester, and held since rgr3 by the of the county, Botloe hundred, Newent petty sessional Rev. William Swain Irving M.A. of Hatfield Hall, division, union and county court district, rural deanery Durham, who is also vicar of and resides at Oxenha!L of North Forest and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou The rectorial tithes are in chancery, the lay rector being cester. The church of St. John the Evangelist is a a minor. Mr. Charles Griffin left in r878 the sum of small but fine building of stone, in the Norman style, £roo for heating the church, and the further sum of supposed to have been built soon after the Conquest by £,3oo, upon trust, the interest to be divided between W alter de Pauntley, and consists of chancel with chapel six poor persons of Pauntley, Pool Hill and Bran Green, dedicated to St. George, nave, south aisle, north porch to be paid them on St. Thomas' Day. There are springs and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells : the of water of a saline character on the banks of the east" window is a memorial to John Cowmeadow esq. : Leadon, which flows through tbe northern boundary of the chancel arch is a good example of Norman work, the county between p1·ecipitous banks. The manorial and the south doorwav is an enriched specimen of the rights are attached to the Crown. Frank Ricardo esq. same period: a new sotith door was fi::red in r88S: on the is the chief landowner. The soil is in generdl a sandy wall of the south aisle is a mural brass to Elizabeth loam, but in some parts clay; subsoil, rock. The (Whittington), wife of Sir Giles Pole kt. ob. r8 Sept. surface is beautifully diversified and undulating. The 1545: there is also mention of a Thomas Whittington kt. crops are wheat, turnips and orchard produce. The who 'Was related through Elizabeth Pole to Sir Richard area is r,62r acres of land and 9 of water; rateable Whittington (" Dick Whittington ") : there is also a value, £r,3Br; the population in rgrr was '54 in the handsome marble monument to Anne Somerset, ob. civil parish and rBI in the ecclesiastical parish (which 1764, dau,ghter of the Hon. Charles Somers~t. and includes part of O::renhall). grand-daughter of Lord John Somerset, znd son of the