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DII' BO'l'OBY •] . IATLINGEOPE. 199 QU.A.TT is a village and pal'ish, comprising the town­ £4 ss. 4d. annually, which is given to the most needy ships of Malvern and Quatt Jarvis (the latter persons at Christmas in flannel : George Green be­ within Bndgnorth municipal borough), in the Southern queathPd, in 1852, £,zzo Con<:ols, which produces £,5 1os. division of the county, Chelmarsh division of Stottesdon annually, which is dio;tributed in bread every Sunday hundred, union, petty sessional division and morning to aged and necessitous persons attending the county court district, rural deanery of Bridgnorth, services of the church; Anna Maria Carr, in 1869, left

archdPaconrv• of and diocese of . Quatt the sum of £220, the yearly interest of £5 ss. being is on the Bridgnorth and Kidderminster road and applied to the support of the clothing club; Mary bounded by the Severn to the west, I~ miles north-east Elizabeth Carr, by will dated 1867, left the t;um of from station on the and £sco, the intere~t to be devoted to the increase of the branch of the Great Western railway, and 4 salary of the master or mistress of the village ,chool, south-east from Bridgnorth. The church of St . .Andrew but under the Education Act of 1907 this interest is a venerable fabric of freestone and brick, consisting is now paid over to the County Council to the relie! of chancel with north chapel, nave, north aisle, west o; the rates; also £,10:>, the interest devoted to rewards porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles to the best scholars educated in the village school. containing 6 bells and a clock (the gift in 1871 of Miss Here is a stone drinking fountain, presented to this Carr, dau~hter of a former rector): the north or parish in r869, in memory of Mary Elizabeth Carr, by Wolryche chapel belongs to the Decorated period, the her brother and sisters. , the property windows in the chancel being Late Perpendicular ; the and residence of Francis Alexander W olryche-Whitmore nave, north aisle and tower "ere either rebuilt or cased B.A., J.P. lord of the manor and principal landowner, in brick in the Georgian period, but the Tudor arcade is a mansion of brick and stone in the Queen Anne remains: in t:ile chapel are monuments, with recumbent style, standing in a park of 150 acres, with five sheets ' figures in alabaster, to Francis Wolryche esq. ob. July of water, one covering about 19 acres. The soil varies :r, 1614, and his wife, Marg-aret; also to Lady Maria from extreme lig-ht sand to strong clay ; the subsoil is Wolryche, ob. June 13, 1678; altar tombs to Sir similar. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. Thomas Wolryche, ob. July 4• 1668, and Sir Francis The area of Quatt Malvern township is 1,332 a~res of Wolryche, ob. June 12, 1689, and other monuments land and 47 of water; Tateable value, £r.s6r; the Qf the Wolryche and Wbitmore families: an organ population in I9II was 136. was pr6vided in 1896: the interior was restored in 1877 by the late rector and Miss Carr. The register QUATT JA.RVIS is a township included in Bridg­ dates from the year 1672. The living is a rectory, net north municipal borough. The area is 1.333 acres; yearly r.~lue £195, with residence, in the gift of Francis rateable value, £r,454; the population in 19II was 140. Alexander Wolryche-Whitmore esq. of Larden Hall, The population of the ecclesiastical parish in rgu, and held since 1907 by the Rev. James- Stuart Roper. which comprises the townships, was ~77· The parish room was erected in rgo8 as a memorial to Susan, wife of Geoffrey Charlton W olryche-Whit­ Parish Clerk, William Weale. more esq. Charities :-Thomas Dovey left in r6or Post & T. Office.-George Head, sub-postmaster. Letters two cottages, in Pound street, Bridgnorth, leased for through Bridgnorth arrive a.t 7.30 a.m.; dispatched two periods of 99 years each, at ss. yearly; the last at 9 5 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; no sunday delivery. period expired on Lady Day, r8B7, and the property is the nearest money order office • then reverted to the parish and is now let at a yearly Letter Box, Dudmaston lodge, cleared at g.ro a.m. & rent of £rr:,; Humphrey Dovey, in the last century, 5·30 p.m. week days only bequt>athPd certain lands in Worfield to the poor of the Wall Letter Box, Mose, cleared 5·35 p.m. week days only paT'ish of Quatt; these lands were sold in r8or, and the value, £no, deposited in a bank, which shortly after Public Elementary School (mixed), for 50 children; suspended payment, paying only 4s. in the £; the average attendance, 41; Miss C. Barber, mistress amount recovered was invested and allowed to accumu­ The village school in Early Ene-lish style was built en- late nntil it rt>ached .{.171 _r:,s. rd. which sum is invested tirelv bv the late Rev. F. H. Wolrvche-Whitm{)re, at l,l in 2i per Cent. Consolidat-ed Stock, and produces cost. of nearly £6oo, in 1894 • Bowen Misses Goff Thomas,farmer & cattle breeder, Munslow Alfred, farmer, Mose farm Frank Philip Ernst.B.A.The Dower ho Quatt farm (postl.address,,Bridgnorth) Roper Rev. James Stuart (rector), Head George, estate carpenter to F. Peters John, carper.ter to F. A. Rectory A. Wolryche-Whitmore esq. J.P W olryche-Whitmore esq. J .P W olrycbe-Whitmore Francis Alex­ Icke John W. farml!l', Little Bolt Pilsbury Herbert, blacksmith to F. ander B.A., J.P. Dndmaston hall J ones George, ferryman .A. Wolryche-Whitmore esq. J.P 1\-'olryche-Whitmore Geoffrey Charl­ Lucas Alfred, grocer & baker Pryke George, head gamekeeper to ton J.P Mt>redith Harriet G. (Mrs.), farmer, F . .A.. Wolryche-Whitmore esq. J .P COMHBRCIAL. Lodge farm Simcocks Hugh, farmer, Bolt farm Bowen Harry, groom to F. A. Wol- Meredith William Ernest, farmer, Williamson Joseph, farmer & agPnt ryche-Whitmore esq. J.P 1 Wootton grange for Carter's seeds & Proctor & Croxton John Gwilt, blacksmith Minnifie William, farmer & tax col- Rvlands• manures, Mose (postal Dyas Neville, farmer, Park farm lector, Wootton address, Quatford, Bridgnorth) Giles John, head gardener to F. A. Morgan William, farmer, Old hall Wolryche-Whitmore Geoffrey Chad­ Wolrycbe-Whitmore esq. J.P Mottershead William Hale, fa1mer, ton, land agent to F. A. W olryche­ Giles John, jun. farmer, Mose Lye Hall farm Whitmore esq. J.P RATLINGHOPE is a , 4 miles west and during the winter season is frequently impassable. from station on the Shrewsbury There are many tumuli and fortified camps in the neigh­ and Hereford, London and North Westt>rn and Great bourhood. William Edward Montagu Hulton-Harrop e!!q. Western joint railway, 8 north-east from Bishop's Castle of Lythwood Hall, who is lord of the manor of Gatten, and 12l south from Shrewsbury, in the Southern division and MI1!. Scott, of Margate, who is lady of the manor of the county, Bishop's Castle division of hundred, of Ratlinghope, are the landowners. The &ail is sandy union, Bishop's Castle C'Onnty court district and petty and clay; subsoil, rocky. The chief crops are barley, sessional division, rural deanery of Bishop's Castle, arch· oats and turnips. The area of the parish is 5,530 acrl's rleaconrv of Lndlow and . The church of land and 3 of water; rateable value, .[2,429; popu­ of St. Margaret is a small but ancient building of stone lation in I9II was 198. in a plain style, consisting of nave, south porch and Sexton, John J ones. wooden turret at the west end, containing 2 bells : the church affords go sittings. The register dates from the Stitt and Gatten are 2 miles north-west. :\-Iarehay. year 1700. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Pollardine and Far Gatten are places here. £86, with glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. Scott. Letters are received from Shrewsbury via Pontesbury. The Rev. Thomas Robert Glenn L.Th. of Durham The nearest money order & telegraph office is ail University, has been curate in charge since 19II, and Pulverbatch resides at Habberley. There was ancientlv here a Wall Letter Box at The Bridges cleared at 4.20 p.m. Priory of Augustinian or Black Canons of St. Victor, week days only; & Pillar Letter Box at Stitt cleared foundeil in the reii?Jl o( King John as a cell to the priory at 4·35 p.m. week days only ~f St. James, at Wigmore, in HPrefordshire: at its dis~ "olntion there were 29 canons. Between thiR place and Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with residence Chnrch Stretton rnns the Porliway, an old Roman road for master, in 18g8, at a cost of £Boo, for 'JO children; whiC'b is continued in a north-easterly din>ction along the aver~e attendance, 28; Miss Eleanor Davies, mistress crest of Longmynd. The appi'Oach to this place fi'Om The School is controlled bv• the Clun Local School Chnrf'b Stretton is across the Longmynd range of hill~:, Attendance Committee