DIRECTORY.] '. STOKE~UPON-TERN. 447 Ridley.Helen(Miss),school(preparatory) IThomas William, builder; orders IWilcox Michael, estate bailiff & wood Thomas William, grocer &c promptly attended to ranger to William Orme Foster esq • STOKE ST. MILBOROUGH is a township and value, exclusive of Heath, £3,933; and the po,Pulation in parish, 6! miles north-east from , the nearest rail- z88z was 468. way station, in the Southern division of the county, lower CLEE DowNTON township is about I mile south-east division of hundred, Ludlow union, petty sessional from the church, on the road from Ludlow to . division and county court district, rural deanery and arch- CLEE STANTON township is about 2 miles south. deaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The church HEATH, formerly a township in this parish, to which it of St. Milburgh, named from Milburgha, a daughter of is still attached as a chapelry, is now for civil purposes a Merewald, king of part of Mercia, who founded the abbey of parish, 9 miles north-west from Lndlow and 7 miles south. Wenlock, in the 7th century, is an ancient building of stone east from station on the Great Western Railway. in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and The ehapel is a small building of stone in the Norman style a large embattled western tower containing 4 bells. The s.nd consists of nave only. The living is a chapelry, annexed register dates from the year 1654. The living is a vicarage, to the vicarage of Stoke St. Milborough; rateable value, with the chapelry of the Heath annexed, and the rectorial £68o; population in z88z, 39· tithes of several farms in Stoke; average tithe rent-charge Letters through (R.S.O.); the nearest money £34o,jointnet yearly value £32o,including 7oacres of glebe, order office is at Burwarton & the telegraph office at with residence, in the gift of and held since 1867 by the Ludlow'. Burwarton is the nearest money order office Rev. George de Gruchy B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Parish Clerk, Thomas Massey. There is one Wesleyan and two Primitive Methodist chapels PosT OFFICE.-George Millward, Stoke St. Milborough, here. A sum of £4oo,invested in Consols by the late vicar, receiver. Letters arrive through Ludlow at 9.30 a.m. & is applied to the purchase of bread, to be given to the poor at are dispatched at 3. 30 p. m. The nearest money order the church fortnightly. Milborough Lodge is occupied by office is at Burwarton, & telegraph office at Ludlow Percival Bowen esq. and Moor Hall by Captain W. T. S. Kevill-Davies :s.P.: both belong to Viscount Boynen.L., :s.P. National School (mixed), built, with residence for master~ who is lord of the manor. The chief landowners are Viscount in 1856, for 104 children; average attendance, 50; Charles- Boyne and Sir Charles Henry Rouse-Boughton hart. n.L., J. West, master J.P. of Downton Hall. The soil varies; some clay, some CARRIERS TO LunLow.-Miss Massey, mon. & sat. ; Georg& sand; subsoil, stone and clay. The chief crops are wheat, Edwards, mon. wed. & sat. ; George Palmer, mon. & sat. ; barley and oats; a considerable portion is laid down in Hall (from Clee St. Margaret's), mon. wed. & sat.; Chas. me:tdow and pasture. The area is 5.750 acres; rateable Francis (Blackford)to Bridgnorth on sat. & Ludlow OD. mon Stoke St. Milborough. Fra~ces Charles, shopkeeper, Blackford Clee Downton. Gwllt Thomas Wm. farmer, The Bush Amphlett· Jonah, farmer & assistant. 13owen Percival, Milborough lodge Henner John, fanner, Moor farm overseer, Gibberidge de Gruchy Rev. George B.A. Vicarage Hodnett John, farmer, Ripletts Groves John, farmer Kevill-Davies Capt. William Trevelyan James John, farmer, Bockleton court WhitemanThos.farmr.CleeDownton frrn. Somerset J.P. Moor hall Jones Charles, blacksmith Clee Stanton. Keysell Edwin, farmer, Kinson farm coMMERCIAL. Marston Charles Bright & William, Beddoes Thomas, farmer Andrews Geo. shopkeeper & shoe maker millers (water) Fletcher James, farmer, Chapel house Burton Henry, farmer, New house Matthews James, farmer, Bold venture Millichamp Francis, farmer Bytheway James, jun. farmer, Red hall Pearce John, shopkeeper, Blackford Sanders John, farmer, Bank farm Cadwallader George, farmer, Henley hl Pearce Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Newton Heath. Carter Edwin, farmer, Bank house Pearce William, shoe maker, Blackford BradleyThos.Head,farmer,Up.Norncott. Carter Thomas, farmer, Pell Rea William, farmer, Mill cottage Lockhart James, farmer Chatham Henry, farmer, Church house Wall George, farmer, J:<'urlongs Steadman Richd. farmer, Heath house Edwards William, farmer, Highleys Welch Henry, tailor Wall George, farmer, Sally copy Evans Richard, farmer, Lower moor Whiteman Edward, farmer, Court Weaver George, farmer, Peckledy STOKE-UPON-TERN is a parish and villa-ge, 1} landowners. The soil is good barley and turnip land ; miles east from station on the Wellington and the subsoil is of various kinds. The chief crops are wheat, Crewe branch of the Great Western railway, 5 south-south- barley, oats and turnips. The population of the parish in west from Market Drayton and 14i north-east from Shrews- 188I was 931, and of the township 520; the area ill 5,6og. • bury, in the Northern division of the county, Drayton divi- acres of land, 34 of water; rateable value £xo,oos. sion of North Bradford hundred, Market Drayton petty EATON is a township, 3i miles south. Mr. Richard sessional division, union and county court district, rural Heatley is principal landowner. The population in 1881 deanery of Hodnet, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of was 1~8. Lichfield. The church of St. Peter, rebuilt in 1874, is an 0LLERTON is a township, Ii miles south. Here is a edifice of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular Congregational chapel. 'fhe trustees of the late William styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, Palmer esq. are the principal landowners. The population chapel and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells: in z88x was nz. in the Corbet chapel is a fine monument to Sir .Reginald is a township, 2 miles north-east. Here Co.rbet kt. a justice of the Queen's .Bench from 1559 till is a Congregational chapel. Mr. Griffin and Mr. Wadham_ his death in 1:566 : there is some good modern stained glass. are the principal landowners. The population in x88i The register dates from the year 1654. The living is a was 172. rectory, average tithe rent-charge £768, net yearly value Parish Clerk, Robert Davies. £719, including 50 acres of glebe, with residence, in the PosT OFFICE, Wistanswick.-John Wild, receiver. Letters: gift of Henry R. Corbet esq. of , and held since through Market Drayton arrive at 7.30 & dispatched at. x869 by the Rev. Rowland William Corbet H. A. of Trinity 5·45 p.m. The nearest money order is at Market Drayton College, Cambridge. There are Primitive Methodist and & telegraph office is at . WALL LETTER Box, Congregational chapels. The charities are of £1:3 yearly Stoke, cleared at 5.3op.m. WALL LETTER Box, Ollerton,. value, arising from the rent of the old poor house, which cleared at4.20 p.m sum is distributed to poor widows at Christmas. There Scil:ooLS :- are the remains of the moat of Stoke Castle, the first resi- A School Board of 5 members was formed February I2p dence in this county of the Corbets of Adderley; some x886; J. G. Pearson, Market Drayton, clerk to the board years ago coins and other relics were found. Henry National, for 180 children; average attendance, So; there Reginald Corbet esq. n.L., J.P. of Adderley Hall, who IS is a house for the master; Thomas Ireland, master; Miss lord of thp manor, Algernon Charles Heber-Percy esq. Marg-~ret Jane Beedles, mistress D.L., J.P. of Hodnet Hall, John Tayleur esq. J.P., D.L. of Primitive Methodist, built in xBsB, for 52 children; aver- Buntingsdo.le, and Richard Whitfield of Hodnet are chief age attendance, 33 ; William Withington, master Stoke-upon-Tern. Draycott Thomas, farmer Nagington William, baker Corbet Rev~ Rowland Wm. M. A. Rectory Dudy William, farmer Parton Lister (Mrs.), farmer Fox John, farmer, Heathcote Powell George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Goodall Philip Henry, farmer, Helshaw Preston William, farmer Adams John, farmer, Woodhouse Good all William, fanner, Grange Rigby Thomas, farmer Adams Thomas, farmer, Stoke park Hu:xley Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Ryder George, blacksmith BagnalJ Richard, farmer, Whitehall Locketb Thomas, farmer Shocker Samuel, boot maker Bellingham Robert, farmer Lunt George, farmer Slack Waiter, farmer, Cotton Beeston William, farmer, Stoke heath Massey George, farmer, Stoke heath Taylor George, farmer Davies Robert, 'shoe maker Massey James, wheel wright,Stoke heath Wadham Benjamin, farmer, Hurst H. & s. 29*