DlREOrORY.] SHROPSHIRE. KINLET. 109 are wheat and 'barley. The population is included in Mrs. Ellen Margaret Day, sub-postmistress. I.etters Wellington. The area is 774a. 31'. 2!p.; the population arrive from Wellington at 6 a.m.; dispatched at 7.30 of the ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 2,107. p.m.; sundays, 9.30 a.m. The nearest telegra.ph office Beveley is a small hamlet adjoining Ketley, partly in is at Hadley Wellington parish and partly in Wombridge. Wall Letter Box, Potter's Bank, cleared at 7.15 p.m. Ketley Bank is a hamlet, partly in Ketley township, week days; sundays, 9. IS a.m particulars of which will ,be found enumerated under National School, Red Lake, built in 1843, for 200 chil- Oakengates. dren; average attendance, 153; &; supported in part by Mossey Green, half a mile south-east, Potter's Bank the Duke of Sutherland; there is a house for the a quarter of a mile 1Il0rth, Red Lake, a mile east from the master; JHighley station on the register dates from the yoor 1657. The living is Severn Valley branch of the Great Western railway and d a vicarage, Qverage tithe rent-eharge £258, gross yearly north-east from Cleobury Mortimer, and about 5i north value £327, including 45 acres of glebe, with residence, from Cloobury Mortimer station, in the Southern divi- in the gift of Captain Charles Baldwin Childe J.P. and sion of the county, hundred of Stottesdon, Cleobury Mor- held since 1890 by the Rev. Joshua John Case, of Queen's timer petty sessional division, union and county court Oollege, Birmri.ngham. The- church feast is on Mid­ district, rural deanery of Stottesdon, archdeaconry of summer-dtay. Kinlet Hall, a. noble mansion, with fin& Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. John pleasure grounds, and standing in a well-timbered park the Baptist is So venerable cruciform building i)f soone, of about 500 acres, is the seat of Captain Charles Baldwin in the Early Norman style, consisting of chancel, clere~ Childe J.P. who is lord of the manor and principal land­ storied nave of three bays, aisles, transepts, south porch owner. The soil is various; the subsoil chiefly freestone. and an embattled western tower with pinnacles contain~ The chief crops are oats, lbarley, roots and wheat, peas ing a clock and 6 bells; there are several fine mural and beans. The area. is 8,142 acres of land and 22 at monuments to Sir William Childe kt. LL.D. ob. 8 May, water; rateable value £5,034; the population in 1891 1678, and Dame Anne, his wife, daughter and heiress of was 558 in the civil and 433 in the ecclesiastical parish. Rowland Laoon esq. IQI'd of this manor, ob. 28 June, Earnwood is So hamlet or t()wnship, 2 miles east. 1693; Thomas Childe, d. 12 April, 1708; William La.con Button Oak, formerly belonging to Stottesdon, was Childe M.P. for Salop d. 14 Dec. 1757 and Catherine incorporatedi in 1883 with Kinlet for civil purposes, and (Pytts), his wife, d. 29 Nov. 1763; William Childe, d. 3 is annexed to Dowles for ecclesiastical purposes, under­ Feb. 1824, and Annaibella, his wife, d. 21 Jan. 1816; which place the names will ,be found. Besom making Catherine La-oon Childe, d. 2 June, 1750; Cathertine is carried on. Baldwyn, d. 6 July, 1838 and Charles Baldwyn, d. 18 Kingswood, formerly belonging to StottesdlJn parish~ Sept. 18Il; there is also So canopied tomb of alabaster is now attached to that parish for eclesiastical purposes marble with kneeling figures to Sir George Blount kt. and only, but for civil purposes was annexed to Kinlet in lord of Kinlet, a. distinguished soldier and high sheriff of 1883. It is li miles south-oost. Salop, ob. 1581; a memorial to William Otter D.D. vicar Parish Clerk, William Jones. of Kinlet 1816 to 1836, d. Aug. 20, 1840 and Nancy, his Post Office.-Thomas Daniel Pye, sub-postmaster. Let- wife, and two altar tombs of the 15th century; the east ters through BewdIey arrive a;bout 8.30 a.m. k- wandow, inserted under the direction of the Rev. John dispatched at 3 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, Brickdale Blakeway, author (1831) of the" Sheriffs of but not paid. The nearest money order ofli~e is Qt- Shropshire," and vicar in 1814, contains some of the Highley; &; telegraph office, Highley station ancient heraldic glass in the original window commemor- Wall Letter Box, Kinlet, opposite Lodge, cleared at 4 ating the successive families who have been lords of p.m. week days only Kinlet; there is also some very curious old stained glass Wall Letter Box, Button bridge, cleared at 4.40 p.m. in the windows of the transept; the chureh was restored week days only and re-opened by the Bishop of Hereford on 9th June, Police Station, Thomas Buttery, constable 1893: the chancel and transept were reSlliored by Miss There was formed Ocoober I, 1889, for the parish of Childe as a memoria.! of her sister; a handsome carved Kinlet and the Button Oak portion of the parish of oak chancel screen was erected; the lectern was the gift DBewdley, clerk to the board the Misses ChiMe Pemberton, and the choir stalls the National School (mixed), built in 1843 &; enlarged in gift of Henry the late Bishop of Worcester, and Mrs. 1891, for 100 children; average attendance, 60; &> Philpott, his wife. The whole work of restoration was supported in part by Capt. C. B. Childe; Thomas carried out under the directi