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LETTBR Box cleared at 5.20 p.m. Letters are ~eceived William Groves esq. is sole landowner. The area is 625 from through . Dorrington is acres, and the population in 1881 was 38. the nearest money prder & telegraph office is a small township I mile west, with a few National School, built, with residence for mistress, in r867, scattered houses. It contains 531 acres. for 56 children ; average attendance, 42 ; & supported in Letters are received through Shrewsbury. The nearest part by a half-yearly interest of £210, left by the Rev. money order & telegraph office is at Dorrington Henry Fletcher; Miss Jane Jones, mistress CARRIERS TO SHREWSBURY.-William Griffiths &:i Alfred is .a small township half a mile south-west. Mansell, wed. & sat I Mansell Johs, jun. farmer Jones John, farmer Smethcott. Marsh James, farmer, Bank farm Ellerton Rev. George Mouat Keith M.A. Henry, farmer Picklescott. [rector] Needs George, gamekeeper to the Rev. Bromley Francis, farmer Trocks Mrs. Lawley Hutte St. Ledger F. Hope Edwards Bromley William, farmer Overton John, farmer Chidley Edward, farmer COMMERCIAL. Pinches John, farmer, Bank Gamble Edward, blacksmith Bishop William, farmer, Underhill hall Price John, farmer Greaves Henry, farmer Bromley Alfred, farmer, Newhall farm Pugh Harriet(Mrs. ),cowkeepr.Parish ho Griffiths William, ('.arrier & farmer Davis Edwin, farmer, Wilrick Stephens David, farmer Hotchkiss James, farmer Groves Wm. Hy. farmer, Walk mills Taylor William, farmer, Greenfields Langford Ann(Mrs.),Bottle& Glass P.H. Hill Samuel, farmer Wigley Joseph, wheelwright & shopkeeper Humphrey Thomas, gamekeeper to • Lewis Edmund, farmer Richard Llewellin Purcell-Llewellin Betchcott. Pinches Timothy, farmer esq. M.A. Peas lane Bowdler George, farmer W ellings Mary (Miss), farmer Mansell John, farmer, Coppice farm Jarrett Thomas, farmer· Wigley John, carpenter STANTON, or STANTON-UPON-HINE HEATH, is a parish, The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The township and village, on the river Roden, I mile west of the area is 5,644 acres of land and r8 of water, about z,s6o of road between Shrewsbury and , 9 miles north• which are in the township of Stanton ; rateable value of the north-east from Shrewsbury, 5 south-east from and whole parish, £7,649; the population in r88I was 667. .5~ west from station on the Shrewsbury and Crewe BooLEY is a township, I mile north. Francis Stanier branch of the London and North Western railway, in the esq. is principal landowner. The area is about 750 acres. Northern division of the county, Whitchurch division of HARCOURT is a township, It miles north-west. John North Bradford hundred, Wem union and county court Faulkner Wood esq. of Balsham, Cambridgeshire, is princi­ district, petty sessional division of Bradford, W em ; rural pal landowner. The area is about 250 acres. deanery of Wem, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of HIGH HATTON is a township, 3 miles east. Francis Lichfield. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient building of Stanier esq. is the principal landowner. The area is about stone, the older portions of which are Norman work: it con­ 2, 200 acres. sists of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western MosTON is a township, 2! miles north-north-west. Vis­ tower containing a clock, erected in r854. and 6 bells: there count Hill is the principal landowner. The area is about are sittings for 250 persons. The register dates from the 650 acres. year I65S· The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent­ Parish Clerk, John Cartwright. charge £141, net yearly value £285, including 62 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of F. Stanier esq. and held PosT OFFICE.-John Cartwright, receiver. Letters through since 1872 by the Rev. Patrick Grimes M.A., LL.D. of Shrewsbury, arrive at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched at 4.20 p.m. Trinity College, Dublin. The charities amount to about The nearest money order office is at Shawbury & telegraph £,22 yearly, principally arising from land near Malpas, in office at Wem. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid Cheshire, left in the z71;h century by Mrs. Baddiley: there are ScHoOLS:- . also several small benefactions. Woodlands, the property of National, erected, with residence for master, in 1876, for So Arc:hibald Wood esq. is a modern mansion of brick, standing children; average attendance, 6o; Herbt. Jones, master; in its own grounds and occupied by Mrs. Rivett Carnac. Mrs. Emily J ones, mistress Sir Waiter Orlando Corbet bart. J.P. who is lord of the Village, erected, with a house for the teacher, in 1874, at manor, Viscount Hill D.L., J.P. of Hawkstone Park, Francis an outlay of £7oo, & endowed by Mrs. Baddeley Stanier esq. J.P. of Hall, .Archibald Wood esq. and with £7 IOS. yearly: it will hold 58 children; average George Lewis esq. of Ercall Park, are chief landowners. attendance, 40; Joseph Walmesley Gillett, master; Mrs. The soil is sandy loam; the subsoil is sandstone and marI. Bailey, sewing mistress Stanton. Je:ffreys Edwin, miller (water) Powell Mary (Mrs.), fanner Carnac Mrs. Rivett, The Woodlands Powell Ann (Mrs.), farmer Davies Mrs. The Villa Ray Richard, shopkeeper High Ha.tton. Griffiths Ric:hard, Stone house Reynolds Leonard, boot & shoe maker Adams William, farmer, The Wood G rim· es R ev. p a t TIC· k M. A., LL • n • [ VICS· r] , Ridgeway Richard, blacksmith Burton Ambrose, blacksmith & shopkpr 'fhe Vicarage Shotton William, New inn, & grocer Heatley James, farmer, The Hall Spencer John, farmer, Lodge farm Heatley Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. Vickers William, wheelwright Buttery John, farmer, Coal moor W eston Thomas, farmer Hill Samuel John, farmer, Greenfields Cartwright John, wheelwright,assistant • Rodenhurst Vincent, farmer, Heath ho overseer & parish clerk, Post office Booley Rogers Roger, farmer & miller (water) Covington John Charles, farmer Forrester Samuel, farmer Ruscoe William, farmer Dale William, farmer Foster John, farmer Dytor Joseph, farmer Growcot J abez, farmer Moston. Gaiter Joseph, farmer Hodskins John, farmer Griffi.ths William, farmer Gollins William, farmer, Heath Huxley Clement, farmer Harris Thomas, farmer Griffiths Richard, farmer, Stonehouse Lewis John, farmer Hllmer James, farmer, The Hazels Harcourt. Micklewright Alfred, farmer Heath William, farmer Dale William, farmer I Williams John, farmer is an extensive parish and township, font of the I4th century: the carved stalls in the chancel on the road to and on the , 3 miles and the whole of the wood work is of English oak: the north-west from , 1 north from Bromfield station on stained east window was erected by Dr. Bowles, late vicar, -the Shrewsbury and Hereford section of the London and in memory of his mother : three other stained windows were North Western and Great Western joint railway and 22 also given by him: on the south side of the chancel is a •

.s~uth from Shrewsbury, in the Southern division of the window erected by Sir Charles Henry Rouse-Boughton hart. 0 county, lower division of hundred, Ludlow union, in memory of his sister: in the church is a brass erected to petty sessional division and county court district, rural a former vicar with inscription in Latin, and some stone and deanery and archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Here- marble tablets : the church has been restored during the ford. The church of St. Peter is a fine building of stone, incumbency of Dr. Bowles, late vicar, under the direction consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transept, south porch and of Mr. Thomas Wyatt, architect, of London. The register an embattled central tower containing 6 finely toned bells: dates from the year xs6z. The living is a vicarage, average the nave and transept contain portions of Saxon work, tithe rent-charge £242, net yearly value £250, including indicating the former existence of a cruciform church of 54 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Lord Wind­ that period, and there is also a blocked doorway in the sor, and held since I879 by the Rev. Lewis Richard Charles north wall of the nave : the reredos is richly carved and Bagot M:.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. There are two there is a pulpit of Caen stone, two piscinae and a hexagonal Wesleyan and two Primitive Methodist chapels. The chari-