DIRECTORY.J . STOTTESDON. 449 Blake William, coal merchant Gittins Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Oweu J. & Ratcliff, coal merchants Blower Joseph, chemist & seedsman Green Joseph A. grocer Phillips 'fhomas, grazier & bricklayer BRIDGWATER FREDK. WILLIAM1 Griffiths Thos. carpenter & wheelwright Partridge Charles Adam, printer & BOOT WAREHOUSE, Dale street GrindleySaml.plumbr.&painter,Dalest bookseller, Dale street Brown George H. wheelwright & car- Groves Elizabeth (Mrs.), postmistress Robinson Angusta & Ashmore (Misses), penter, Market street HIDE WILLIAM, Craven Arms family ladies' school, Market street Chester Samuel & John, coal merchants & commercial hotel; good posting Robinson Margaret (Mrs.), dress maker Coleman Thomas Meredith, draper accommodation Robinson William, boot & shoe maker Craven Arms Gas Co. (William Belton, HotchkissEdwd.boot&shoema.&farmr Rogers&Farmer ,auctnrs.& vlurs. Dale st Shrewsbury, manager) Howe William, ironmonger, Market st Rogers Geo. P. corn merchant, Dale st Davies Emma (Mrs.), milliner & dress Hyles George Hy. refreshment rooms Salmon Charles S. draper maker, Market street Jones Darid, tailor & woollen draper Sprigings George, Red Lion P.H DAVIES .J. W. Ill. WATKINS, AUC• Jones Thomas, blacksmith Smith David, butcher TIONEERS Ill. VALUERS Jukes Henry, shoe maker Smith Francis, baker & confectioner Davies Samuel, weighing machine man LEE H. AUSTIN, general & furnishing Smith George, saddler, Dale streeli DAVIES ROBERT EDWARD, WATCH ironmonger, Dale street Smith Gains & Co. supply stores MAKER &. .JEWELLER, Dale street Lloyds Bank Limited (sub-branch) ; Thomas Jn. refreshment rooms, Dale st DAVIES WILLIAM, TAILOR1Market st attendance from Ludlow on fair & Tredinnick Ernest L.R.C.P.Edin. physi- Edge Thomas, commercial & family auction days & fridays ( George Wells, cian & surgeon, & medical officer & temperance hotel, adjoining Railway manager), Dale st. ; draw on Lloyds public vaccinator, Stokesay district, station ; good accommodation for Bank, 72 Lombard st. London E c Ludlow union & 2nd district, Church commercial gentlemen; every comfort Market Hall ( George P. Rogers, sec) Stretton union & Clunbury & Hope­ for tourists; horses & traps for hire; Matthews Matthew, cooper say district, Clun union, Penlu house terms moderate Medlicott & Bankes-Price, solrs. Dale st WhitfordJsph. refresbmnt.rooms, Dale st EDWARDS PRYCE, agent for C. H. Miller Thomas, stone mason, Dale st Kynaston, brewer, maltster, wine & Nicholas Alfred, toy dealer, Newton st Wettleton. spirit mer. Wem, Salop, Market st Overton James, fishmonger Beddoes Dervis, farmer Eyton, Burton, Lloyd & Co. bankers Owen Elisha Edwin, shopkeeper Smout Sarah (Mrs.), lime burner, (open friday & fair days) Owen John, butcher I W ettleton pool STOTTESDON is a parish and village, 5 miles north The following townships are in this parish :-BALDLEY is from Cleobury Mortimer and equi-distant 6 miles from 2~ miles south-east-by-east : Captain C. Bald wyn Childe Cleobury Mortimer station on the Tenbury and is lord of the manor : DUDLICK or DunDLEWICK is xi branch and from Hampton Load station on the Bewdley miles west-north-west' the Duke of Cleveland ,K.G. is lord and Ironbridge branch of the Great Western railway, in the of the manor : CHORLEY is r! miles east-north-east : the Southern division of the county, Cleo bury division of Stottes­ Baptists have a chapel here; Henry Crompton esq. is lord don hundred, Cleobury Mortimer union, petty sessional divi­ of the manor : HINTON is r! miles west ; the Duke of sion and county court district, rural deanery of Stottesdon, Cleveland K.G. is lord of the manor: NEWTON is 2! miles arch deaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The river north-west; Viscount Boyne is lord of the manor: PRESCOT Rea flows through the parish, and works several corn mills. is x! miles south : OVERTON is 2! miles north ; Vis­ The church of St. Mary is a large edifice of stone in theN or­ count Boyne is lord of the manor: BAGGIN's WooD is tl man and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, miles south-east-by-south: W ALTON is I! miles south : aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing W ALKERSLOWE is 3 miles north-west : PICTHORN is Ii miles a clock and five bells, one being nnhung: the circular stone north: NoRTHwooo is 1 mile north-east-by-north: WRICK• font is an elaborately ornamented example of Norman art: TON is 3 miles north-west; Viscount Boyne is lord of the the stained east window was erected in r887 to Miss Elizabeth m~~onor: there is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Wrickton Lateward, late of this parish, who died in 1888: there is a Saxon doorway at the west end, and some fragments of old The township of BuTTON OAK, 6 miles east-south-east, glass of the 12th century taken from the old east window still formerly belonged to this parish, but was for civil purposes remain: the church was restored previous to 1879, at a cost of annexed to in 1884; it is ecclesiastically annexed to £2,100, and has sittings for 447 persons. The registers date Dowles parish and the names are given under that parish. from the year 1565. The living is a vicarage, average tithe THE HowE A.~D INGARDINE, formerly townships of this rent-charge£423,grossyearlyvalue£6r9,including27acresof parish, now form part of the parish of Farlow, under which glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Cleveland I.G. head they are given. and held since 1846 by the Rev. Charles John Maddison, who Sexton, William Lane. resides in the Isle of Man; the Rev. Haywood Morris M. A. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, has been curate in sole PosT 0FFICB, Stottesdon.-Albert James Jones, sub-post- charge since 1873. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, master. Letters are received through Bewdley at IO a. m.; erected in I849, a Primitive Methodist chapel, at Wrickton, dispatched at4.35 p.m. Burwarton is the nearest money and a Baptist chapel at Chorley. 'fhere are charities of thP: order office & Cleobury Mortimerthe nearest telegraph yearly value of .£4 ss. od. Chorley Hall is the property of office. Postal orders issued here, but not paid Henry Crompton esq. and in the occupation of Lieut.-Col. WALL LB"M'ER Box, Baggin's Wood, adjoining Mr. J.Davies', John Macclesfield Heathc.M.G. The Duke of Cle\"'eland K.G. beer retailer, cleared at 4.50 p.m. week days only who is lord of the manor of Stottesdon, Viscount Boyne and Letters for Kingswood & Button Oak are through Bewdley Captain Charles Baldwyn Childe J.P. of Kinlet, are the district, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office. principal landowners. The soil is various; subsoil, chiefly Letters for names given in Chorley, Wrickton, Overton & rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, peas and Newton townships must be addressed through , beans. The area is 11,443 acres, of which I,483 are in which is the nearest money order & telegraph office Farlow; rateable value, £6,933 ; the population in r88r Church of School, Stottesdon (mixed'•, with resi- was t,145, including 35 officers and inmates in Cleobury deuce for master-, built in 1872, for r65 children; average Mortimer workhouse. attendance, 6o; George Holbeche, master ; Mrs. Sarah HARCOURT township is I mile east; Captain Charles Holbeche, mistress Baldwyn Childe is lord of the manor. ORETON township is for ecclesiastical purposes annexed to Police Station, Samuel Evenson, constable Farlow,. under which head it is given. CARRIERS TO:- KINGswoon township, 8 miles south-south-east, belongs BRIDGNORTH-Mole, from Chorley, sat to this parish for ecclesiastical purposes only, having been KIDDERMINSTER-John Sayee, from Oreton, on thurs annexed to Kinlet in r884; besom making is carried on. I LunLow-John Sayee, from Oreton, on tues Stottesdon. Hooper Allan, shoe maker Howells Ed ward, farmer Baggin's Wood. Morris Rev. Haywood llt:.A. [curate] Jones Albert James, grocer, tailor & Bowen John, Crown P.H COllt:liiERCIAL. ironmonger, & post office Davies Joseph, beer retailer Jones Emma (Mrs.), Cock inn Page Edwin, farmer Bache Wm. farmer & overseer, Manor ho Lane Jas. carpenter & buildr.& coffin ma W1lson John, farmer Beddoes Martha (Mrs.),farmer,The Hall Parton Arthur, wheelwright Beddoes Thomas, farmer Powell John, farmer, Hardwick Ba.rdley. Bright Wm. farmer & overseer, Day ho Speake Eliza (Mrs.), shoe maker Clarke John, farmer, Mass house Cleeton Fanny & Ehzabeth(The MiS!!es), Taylor John, farmer, Blnndell Hewitt Horace, farmer, Bardley eourt farmers & landowners, The Forge Thomas John, farmer Mitchell H.obert, farmer, & jockey to Dorrell William, farmer, Wall furlong Wa.ll William, farmer, Woodhouse Capt. Childe, Myers farm Farmer Mary (Mrs.),I<'ox& HonndsP.H Wellings Humphrey, blacksmith Shineton Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Goodman John, farmer WyerRichd.farmer& landowner,N ew ho Shineton Wm. thrashing machine owner