• 366 MILSON. . [KELLY'S west division, archdeaconry of and diocese of Here- University, is curate in charge and resides at Neen Solars. ford. The parish is watered by the Millbrook s-tream, a There are charities left by Messrs. Hill and Nash amounting feeder of the Rea. The church of St. George is a small but to £.3 18s. and distributed annually. Lady Northwick, who ancient building of stone, in the Early English style with is lady of the manor, and Henry James Christie, of Michaels some traces of Norman work, consisting ot chancel, nave, Grove, Brompton, London, are chief landowners. The.- soil south porch and a small western tower, surmounted by a is chiefly clay, with gravel subsoil. The chief crops are turret and contaming 3 bells. The register dates from wheat and beans. The area is 11025 acres; rateable value, the year 1700. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the £,881 ; the population in 1881 was 121. rectory of N een Solars, joint average yearly value from tithe Sexton, Thomas Penny. rent-charge £.364, including 93 acres of glebe, with resi- Letters are received by foot post from Cleobury Mortirner deuce, in the gift of Worcester College, Oxford, and held at 12 p.m. ; dispatched at 3.30 p.m. since 1855 by the Rev. Joseph Baker M.A. formerly fellow of is the nearest money order & telegraph office that college, who is non-resident; the Rev. Thomas Major The children of Milson attend the National school at Neen Dunn Ph.n. of the University of Rostock and B.A. of Oxford Solars COMMERCIAL. Brown John, farmer, Lower Langley Horton Benjamin, farmer & overseer, Bdtcher Stanley Holisey, farmer, Nicbolas farm Break well Israel, farmer, Oak farm Churchouse farm Moore Frederick, farmer, Lea fields Brown Benjamin, farmer, Paddock Edwa.rds :Fras.farmer & O\"erseer,Hill ho Smallman Richd. carpntr.&wheelwright Brown Thomas William, farmer & Edwards Jane(Mrs.),farmer,Haybridge Wyer Edward, farmer, Little down guardian, Upper Langley . English William, blacksmith Wyer Mark, shopkeeper MINDTOWN is a parish on the western side of the residence built in 1878, in the gift of the Earl of Powis, and Longmynd range of hills, 5 miles north-east from Bishop's held since 1877 by the Rev. John Wright M.A. of Christ's Castle and rl east from Eaton station on the Bishop's College, Cambridge. William Francis Plowden esq. n.L .• Castle and railway, in the Southern division J.P. of Plowden Hall, is lord of the manor and sole land­ (){ the county, Bishop's Castle division of Purslow hundred, owner. The soil is light loam; subsoil, limestone. The Bishop's CJ68tle. county.court district and petty sessional chief crops are wheat, oats, barley &c. The area of the division, union, rural deanery of Clun, archdeaconry parish is 920 acres, including 347 acres of common land ; ()f Ludlow and . The church of St. John rateable value, £1,487; the population in r881 was 38. the Baptist is a small building, consisting of chancel, nave, .south porch ~d a small western turret containing 2 bells : AsTERTON is a township, 3 miles south-east from the it was re-pewed, new roofed and re-floored in 1 859, when an church, and civilly connected with Mindtown, but ecclesias­ ()B.k porch was also built, The register dates from the year tically remains in Norbury parish. There is a small Primi- 1813 only, the earlier records, which dated from 1607 tive Methodist chapel here. having been lost.. The living is a rectory, average tithe Letters through Bishop's Castle (Railway Sub-Office), rent-charge £,42, gross yearly value £,1421 including 33 which ilPalso the nearest money order & telegraph office .acres of glebe here and 33 in the parish of Cleoqury, and The children of this place attend the school at Plowden Mindtown. Asterton. , I Harvey Adam, farmer Bowen Robert, farmer, Barns farm Home Edward, farmer & landowner Wright Rev. John M.A. Rectory Bowen William, farmer & landowner Home Richard, farmer & landowner Medlicott Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Crumpton Edward, farmer JonesCharles, wheelwright &carpenter Shuker Thos. farmer, Mind Mill farm 1 GwilliamRichard, farmer,Asterton hall Pinches Thomas, farmer MINSTERLEY is a township and village, on the road &c. : that portion of the mine known as " Snailbeach '' from via to Montgomery, and belongs to the Marquess of Bath, and that called " Vessons" bounded on the north by the river Rea, 10 miles south-west to the Earl of Tankerville: the smelting operations of the irom Shrewsbury, n north-east from Montgomery, 13 north company, removed from Pontesford in 1863, are now carried from Bishop's Castle and 162 from London, in the Western on at Snailbeach in this township, from which there is a divisionofthecounty,ForddivisionofFordhundred,Atcham line of railway joining the main line at Pontesbury. At union, Shrewsbury county court district, petty sessional SNAILBEACH is a mission church, erected in 1872: it is of division of Cruckton, rural deanery of Pontesbury, arch- brick and stone, and consists of chancel and nave and a turret -deaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The Shrews- containing one bell : divine service is held twice every Sun­ bury and Minsterley branch of the London and North day. In the year 1851 a Roman pig of lead, 20 inches long Western and Great Western joint railway has its terminal and of the same thickness and weighing 173 pounds, was station here. The church of the Holy Trinity, strictly found by some workmen while engaged in sinking through speaking a parochial chapel of ease, with the rites of christen- a slag heap of of smeltings, on which appears the following ing and burial, is an edifice of brick, erected iu the last inscription in raised letters : .century, and consists of cha;n':81, nave, south porch and a IMP. HADRIANI AVG. western turret of wood contammg a clock and 2 bells : there :are some fine specimens of carved oak : an organ was pur- A stock lair is held here on the second Monday in each .chased by voluntary subscriptions in 1sa4 : the interior, month ; and an annual fair for cattle on the second Monday considerably altered in 1865 and reseated in 187o, affords in September. The Marquess of Bath is lord of the manor :sittings for 200 persons. 'fhe separate register dates only and chief landowner. The soil is strong loam ; subsoil, <;:lay. from the year 1847, pl'evious to which registrations were made The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area at Westbury. The living is a perpetual curacy, tithe rent- is 2,637 acres; rateable value, £4,524 ; the population in charge £6o, net yearly value £87, with residence, in the l88l was 926. gift of the Marquess of Bath, and held since 1890 by the Parish Clerk1 Robert Hughes. Rev. Francis Lewis J ulian, of Jesus College, Cambridge. The PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Offi.ce.- parsonage house was built in 1872. There is a Congregational John Evans, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Shrews- chapel and a Primitive Methodist chapel, with minister's bury via Pontesbnry at 6 a.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m residence, and graveyard, and at SNAILBEACH there are WALL LETTER BoxEs:- Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, the latter having a Near church, cleared at 5.50 p.m. ; sundays, 11.50 a.m graveyard attached. Minsterley Hall, renovated in 1:872 Plox Green, cleared at 5.30 p.m.; sundays, n.3o a.. m .and now occupied as a farm-house, incorporates the remains Snailbeach, cleared at 5 p. m. week days only of the fine old timbered manor house, held in 1691 by the Police Station, Sergeant John Davies, in charge Ladies Thynne. The lead mine, partly in this township and National School (mixed), built in 1843 & enlarged in 1874, partly m Westbury, is about 500 yards from the top of the with residence for a master, for 16o children; average at• shaft: it was formerly one of the most productive in the tendance, no; endowed with £1,059 by the late Joshua kingdom, and now yields about 1,000 tons yearly: the lead Williams, of Worthing, Sussex: the Marquess of Bath & from this mine is of fine quality, and is especially adapted the Snail beach Mining Company are annual subscribers, & to the manufacture of flint glass ; the mine also produces the funds are increased by the weekly contributions from quantities of blende ores, carbonates and sulphates, baryta, the pupils; William H. Colley, master and other minerals, principall} carbonate of lime, quartz Railway Station, Robert Frost, station master Birchenough Rev.Albt.Ailen[Primitive] COMMERCIAL. ICroft Charles, farmer, Wood Davies Miss Blakemore Benjamin, miller (water) Davies George, farmer, Plox green Hutton Thomas, Minsterley hall & farmer, Hogstow mill Davies Richard, farmer, Bank house Jenkins Rev. Wm. [Baptist],Snailbeach Blakemore Richard, builder, contractor Davies Thomas, shopkeeper, Snailbea.ch J ulian Rev. Francis Lewis [incumbent], & decorator ; estimates given for 1 Del bridge J abez, cab proprietor; horses, Parsonage general repairs traps, carriages & wagonettes for hire Moore Thomas, Sna1lbeach Brumbell Richard, farmer, Lady oak Dickin Thos. Embrey,grocer & outfitter Nealor Mrs Cliffdale Barytes Co. (William Yelland, Dorricott Isaac, farmer, Price Rev. Waiter [Congregational] managing partner), Water wheel Ellis John, butcher