192 STOCKTON-ON-TEME. . (KELLY'S • Atthill Mrs. Aniceford Grovner William, wheelwright Morl'iH George, miller (water) Miller Mrs. Stock ton house Hadland Reuben, farmer, Hough Morris Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Pemberton Rev. Waiter, Rectory Harris Prudence (Mrs.), dress maker Pearson Wm. Jn. farmer, Stocktonct. Farley Henry, blacksmith ~Iatthews Charles, farmer, The Wharf Walker Charles, farmer, Ridney Freeman .A.llen, farmer, Lower farm STOKE PRIOR is an extensive parish and village on chief of which are butter salt, used in curing provisions; the and Worcester canal, with stations on the table salt for domestic purposes; broad salt for fertilizing: Midland and Great Western railways, 2 miles south from and other purposes, and fishery salt, the differene& , 4 north-east-by-north from Droitwich, xoi between these consisting only in the process of manufac­ north-east from Worcester, 15 south-west from Birmingham, ture: the works comprise four pits, sunk at a cost or 29 from Cheltenham and 129 from , in the Mid £wo,ooo, during a period of many years, and yielding: division of the county, Middle Oswaldslow hundred, Hales- 4,000 tons of salt per week : there is storage on the premises owen petty sessional division, Bromsgrove union and county for nearly 8o,ooo tons, and attached to the works are iroa court district, rural deanery of Droitwich and archdeaconry works, where the pans and reservoirs, as well as railway . and diocese of Worcester. The river , which rises trucks for carrying the salt, are made: t.here are nearly 22~ in the hills, flows through this parish, and after cottages for the workmen, from 500 to 6oo in number, a passing Droitwich and Salwarpe falls into the Severn at dispensary and workmen's club, all provided by the pro­ . The church of St. Michaelis an ancient building prietor. There are flour mills and a stone quarry. 'fha of stone in the Norman, Early English and later styles, Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. Joha consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south chapels, Corbett esq. of Impney, 1\I.P. for the Mid Division of the­ south porch, and a south-eastern tower of the Early English county, is the principal landowner. The soil is clay and period, with an octagonal broach shingled spire and contain- light loam; subsoil, clay, marl and gravel. The chief crops ing 6 bells : the stained east window was inserted by sub- are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 3,622 acres; scription in the year 186o, in commemoration of the abolition rateable value, including Fins tall, 23,028 ; the population in of female labour at the salt works, in this parish, by John 1891 was 2,740. Corbett esq. M.P. the proprietor; all the other windows are , formerly a district of this parish, was formed. also stained: in the church are monumental brasses to into a separate ecclesiastical parish Dec. n, 1868, Robert Smith esq. citizen of London, 1609, and his wives, Sexton, Edwin Perry. Thomasin (Dedicote) and Susan (Pipe), daugher of Sir PosT OFFICE, Stoke Pric.r.-Mrs. Mary Rowkins, receiver. Richard Pipe knt. and Lord Mayor of London, 1578; and Letters through Bromsgrove by foot post, arrive at 7 to Henry Smith, citizen of London, who died November nth a.m. '; dispatched at 6.20 p.m. & 9.40 a.m. on sundays. 16o6, and gave the proceeds of £1oo for educational purposes, The nearest money order office is at Stoke works & tele· and 40s. yearly for six sermons to be preached by strangers: graph office is at Stoke Works station an organ was erected in 1870: there are 400 sittings. The PosT & l\1. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. register dates from the year I539· The li\•ing is a vicarage, Stoke Works.--Joseph Hope, receiver. Letters from net yearly value £243, including 143 acres of glebe and Bromsgrove arrive at B a. m. ; dispatched at 5.50 p.m. t some funded property, with residence, in the gift of the Dean 9· 10 a. m. sundays. The telegraph office is at the railway and Chapter of Worcester, and held since r888 by the Rev. station Charles Stockdale B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. The WALL LETTER Box&s.-Stoke Heath, cleared 6.50 p.m.; school house and school, erected in 1871 by John Corbett sun. ro.Io a. m.; Stoke Pond, cleared at6.so p.m.; ~harp· esq. M.P. at a cost of about £3,000, is also licensed for way gate, 6.30 p.m divine worship. The Stoke fann reformatory for boys, at ScHOOLS :- Ryefields, established· by the late Mr. Joseph Sturge, is A School Board of 7 members was formed June 2, r88o, for managed by a committee under Government inspection, and the united district of Stoke Prior & Dodder hill ; F. Holy· contains on an average about So ihmates, their principal oake, Droitwich, clerk to the board; James Nosworthy. ()ccupations being gardening, tailoring, shoe making, car· Droitwich, attendance officer pentry and general work on the adjacent farm of 76 acres. . Reformatory for Boys, Ryefields, John McGilchrist, supt This place is the principal centre of the salt manufacture: Board, Stoke Works (mixed);built in 1871 by J. Corbett,. the " Stoke Prior Salt works," belonging to John Corbett esq. lii.P. at a cost of about £3,000, for 250 children; esq. M.P. cover an extent of about 30 acres, and have been average attend. r6o; & 250 infants, aYerage attend. So~ erected at a cost of about half a million sterling ; the great Thos. Cooper Williams,mast. ; Miss Helen M. Lambie, mist. chimney, 312 feet high, serves as landmark: the brine is National (mixed & infants), built in 1840; transfered f,l) pumped up from the salt springs (the source of which lies the School Hoard & enlarged in r884, for 188 boys &girl& at a depth of many hundred feet below the surface) and & 72 infants; average attendance, 132 boys & girls &63. deposited in reservoirs, to which heat is applied to evaporate infants; l>avid Hemingway, master; Mrs. Hemingway,. the water, when the salt rises in crystals to the surface, infants' mistress and is thence collected and pressed into moulds, or dried Midland Rail way & Great Western Stat.ion, Thomas Wayne~ in bulk : various descriptions of salt are thus produced, the station master Davis John Richard, Mount Pleasant Hadley Thomas, farm bailiff at the Rogers William, shoe maker, Stoke hth Dickinsou Mrs. The Cottage Reformatory Shirley Edwd. toll collector,Stoke whrf Didden Robert, Field view Hall Joseph, farmer, Woodgate Sproston Jsph. beer ret. Sharpway ga.IB­ Dixon The Misses, The Grange Harper Albert, tailor Stanworth Isaac, blacksmith Grafton Martin William, The Elms Harrell Samuel, tailor Stoke Farm Reformatory for Boys­ Hobrough Wm. Fras. c.E. Stoke wharf Harris Albt. Edwd. beer ret. Stoke hth (John McGilchrist, supt.), Ryefields Poison Hugh S. The Priory Hobrough William Francis, civil en- Stoke Works Dispensary (Percy Austia Stock.da!e Rev. Charles B.A. Vicarage gineer, Stoke wharf Roden M.:B., c.M. Droitwich, medical coM~IERCIAL. Hollington Wm. Geo.farmer, W eston hall attendant) ; dispensing days, tues­ Abbott Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Piper's hl Hope Jsph. grocer & draper, Post office day & friday in each week, from 2.3D­ Bate Alfd.Chas.EweLambP.H.Stokehth Jones John, farmer, The Tan house to 4.30 p.m Bate Jn. beer ret. & blcksmth.Stoke pnd Knight Edmund (Mrs.), coal, hay & Stoke Works Workmen's Club (William Beddoes Thomas, The Gate P.H straw dealer Solven, sec) Bishop William, shopkeeper Lacey Thomas, beer retailer, Woodgate Thompson By. shopkpr. Stoke pound Bray Henry, farmer, The Elms Lakin Thomas, farmer, Stoke heath Wall George, farmer, Woodgate Col1eySarah(Mrs. ),dress ma. Stoke w hrf McGilchrist John, superintendent of Wall Louisa (Mrs.), miller (water) Ao. Corbett John, salt manufacturer, Stoke Stoke Farm reformatory for boys farmer, Stoke Prior mills Prior salt works Mortou John, wheelwright, Stoke heath Wall Thomas, farmer, Vicarage farm. Gardner John, engineer, Meadow bank Moss Charles, shoe maker, Stoke heath Weaver Thomas, wheelwright Gibbons George, saw mills Pearce Charles, shopkeeper, Stoke hth Weston William, blacksmith GibbsEdwardGeorge,miller (water) & Petford Thomas, farmer, Sharpwaygte Wild Thomas, shopkeeper farmer, Sugar brook Petford William, farmer, Beesley Wormington Wm. farmer, Woodgatn Gibbs John, farmer, Intall fields Potter Selina (Miss), grocer & beer re- Wright 'fhomas, Navigation P.H Gittns Edwin, sawing mills tailer, Stoke wharf Zealley Amos, miller (water) & b&ker Green John George, farmer, The Pools Pratt Edwin, farmer, Sharpway gate Stoke Chnrch mill Goodyere Jn. Alfd. Boat inn, Stoke wks Reynolds Wm. shopkpr. Sharpway gate STONE is a parish, on the road from to and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The church of :Bromsgrove, 2 miles south-east from Kidderminster station St. Mary is a building of stone, erected in 1&31 on the si1e and north from station on the Great Western of an older church, and consists of chancel, nave and • railway, in the Mid division of the county, Lower western tower, with spire and pinnacles, containing 6 bells~ hundred, union, petty sessional division and county court in the nave is a mural tablet to John Peel D.D. dean of War­ district of Kidderminster, rural deanery of Kidderminster cester and formerly vicar of this parish, d. 20 Feb. 1875~