DIRECTORY.] . J..LVESTON. 17 Ryder William Charles Dumbleton Jim, blacksmith Mills George, blacksmith, Eastern green Sutton Rev. John Lucas M.A. St. An- Eagle Meigh John, farmer X ea! William, farmer, Eastern green drew's vicarage, Eastern green Elton Frank ( :.\1rs. ), farmer North John, farmer Smith Miss Errington Charles Huton, farmer Palrner Mary Abbots (Miss), farmer, St.evens Harry · Falconbridge John Edwin, carpenter Eastern green Vickers Thomas Rawson J.P. Holly­ Falconbridge Luke, farmer Parker Wilham, farmer, The Oaklands berry hall Falconbridge Thomas, carpenter Powers Frederick, farme-r, Pickford la COM:MERC'IAL. French John, family butcher & grazier Price William, carpenter .Allesley Cricket Club (Hrbt. West, sec.) Gardner William, farmer Ravenhall Arthur, grocer & provision .Anthony Samuel, Rainbow P.H. & Gilbert Charles, farmer, Hollyfast dealer & baker &c horsn dealer Gilbert William, farmer Sammons Thomas, carpenter Baldock John, farmer, Eastern green Green George, blacksmith Scambler James,mole catcher, Browns- Bates Ann (Mrs.), farmer Harris .Albert, grocer hill green Beacham Alfred, jun. builder & con- Harris Arthur, farmer Smith William, farmer tractor, carpenter & joiner Harrod William, market gardener Topp John, farmer Reacham William Henry, farmer Rollick Ed ward, florist Vale Harry, police constable Burbridge Henry, butcher Rollick Joseph (Mrs.), farmer Walker Jacob, farmer, Pickford Burgess Elijah, farmer Holmes Eusebius, wheelwright & coach Warden Robert, farmer, Windmill farm Camwall Thomas William, farmer bnilder,carpenter&joiner,Eastern grn Worden Septimus, farmer, Pickford ho Cox John, farmer Jones George, farmer Wills Arthur (Mrs.), Unicorn inn, Dawkins Edward Clifford, farmer Kemp Thomas, farmer Eastern green Dawson Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Pickford Kerby Edward, farmer, Pickford Wilson Daniel, farmer grange Kerby Waiter, farmer Wise Bertha Ann (Mrs.), Eastern green Docker William, farmer Kinder Joseph, schoolmaster, assistant Wood James, farmer & refreshment Dowell Thomas, farmer overseer & clerk to the parish council room, every accommodtn. for cyclists Dowell William, farmer King John, farmer W right Thomas, farmer Downs William, builder & contractor, Lloyd John, farmer Wright Thomas, jun. farmer carpenter & joiner Miller Andrew, farmer Wright William, farmer, Eastern green is a parish, on the river Alne, from Berks, the trustees of Daniel Rowlinson Ratcliffe esq. J.P. which it derives its name, and has a station on the branch of 24 Lancaster Gate, W, who are lords of the line of the Great Western Railway from to , manor, and Ralph Bennett esq. of Westgate, Handsworth, 2i miles north-east from Alcester and 100 from London, Birmingham. The soil is sand and marl ; subsoil, sand and in the South-Western division of the county, Barlichway clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and beans. hundred, Alcester petty sessional division, union, county The area is 1,694a. 2r. qp.; rateable value, £2,572; the court district and division, rural deanery of Alcester, and population in 1891 was 358. archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The chapel of St. Sexton, Caleb Wall. Mary Magdalen is a small and plain building of stone in Post Office.-Edwin Edward, sub-postmaster. Letters ar- mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, west porch, and rive from Redditch by foot post, at 7· 15 a. m. ; dispatched a low western turret containing 1 bell ; the east window is at 5.25 p.m. No arrival or dispatch on sundays. The stained and there are 243 sittings. The register dates from nearest money order & telegraph office is at Alcester. the year 16n. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the Postal orders are issued here, but not paid rectory of , average tithe rent-charge £3o6, joint A School Board of 5 members was formed September 19th, gross yearly value £351, including 102 a.cres of glebe, in the 1883 ; S. A. Gothard, Alcester, clerk to the board; Wm. gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1877 by the Cook, attendance officer Rev. Henry Bloxam Purton B.A. of Christ's College, Cam- Board School (mixed), with mistress's house, situated on bridge, who resides at Kinwarton. The manor formerly the confines of the parish & serving also for the parish belonged to the Abbey of Winchcomb, in Gloucestershire. of Kinwarton; it will hold 120 children; average attend- The principal landowners are Sir Nicholas William George ance, 45; Miss Helena Augusta Angell, mistress Throckmorton hart. D.L., J.P. of Buckland, Farringdon, Railway Station, John Taylor, station master & goods agent Bayliss The Misses Edwards Edwin, assistant overseer & Moore Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Chance Arthur Lucas J.P. GreatAlne collector of rates, Post office Phillips Thomas, farmer. Alne hills hall Green George, Boot P.H Rutter Eliza (Mrs.), dress makel' Elvins Thomas Harper Thomas, farmer, Wood farm Sale Frederick, farmer, Alne hills Gibbs Misses Jeffcoat William, farmer Shaw Thomas, farmer, Alne hills Goff Charles Johnstone William,Mother HuffCapP.H Smith. Aminda (Mrs.), dress maker Jackson Miss Lawrence Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper Spencer & Elvins,millers(water&steam) Spencer William, Manor farm Mason Frederick, blacksmith Spencer William, farmer, Manor farm ALVESTON, in Domesday, "Alvestone," and later wheat and teans. The area is 2,709 acres; rateable value, "Aulston,'' is a parish and village, on the banks of the £6,380, the population in 1891 was 954· Avon, 2 miles north-east from Stratford-upon-Avon, in the Tiddington Ii miles south-west, on the road from Strat­ South-Western division of the county, Stratford-upon-Avon ford-upon-Avon to , and Bridgetown are hamlets in union and county court district, division of this parish ; for the names of residents in the latter, see Barlichway hundred, petty sessional division of Stratford Stratford-upon-Avon. and Snitterfield, rural deanery of North Kineton and arch- A quantity of old Roman coins have been found in deaconry and diocese of Worcester, to the west of the Tiddington. district are the Welcomb Hills. The church of St. James, Verger, Waiter Needle. • anciently belonging to the abbey of Tewkesbury, rebuilt in Post, M, 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & :r839, and again restored in 1876 at a cost of £4,000, is an Insurance Office, Alveston.-Thomas Lane, sub-post· edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of master. Letters arrive from Stratford-upon-Avon at 8 chancel, transepts, nave and an embattled western tower a.m. & 5.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 5·45 p.m.; with pinnacles containing a clock and 3 bells; the east sundays, 9,40 a. m. only window is stained, and there are two others on the south Post Office, Tiddington.-George Hemming, sub-post- -side. The church affords 620 sittings. The register dates master. Letters arrive from Stratford - upon - Avon from the year I539· The living is a vicarage, gross yearly at 6.45 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; dispatched at 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.; value £190, including go acres of glebe, in the gift of the sundays, 10 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not rector of , and held since 1856 by the Rev. paid. Alveston is the nearest money order & telegraph William Barnard B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. office There is also a school chapel at Waterloo, a district of the Schools:- parish, with 8o sittings. Among the principal residences National, Tiddington (mixed & infants); the school build­ are Hemingford House, the residence of Mrs. Alfrey; Avon ing, erected in 1867, is the property of Miss Harriet Cliffe, of Major Sir Frederic Harding Anson Hamilton Townsend, of Avonmore, Alveston; it will hold 130 boys bart. ; Alveston House, of Charles John Townsend esq. & girls, & 50 infants ; average attendance, 100 boys & J.P. and Baraset House, of Francis James Coleridge Boles girls, & 48 infants. George A. Smith, master ; Miss esq. The trustees of the late Major Edward Francis Florence Oreton, infants' mistress Knottesford Fortescue, Lieut. Henry Harding R.N. Major Carriers:- Elias John Webb J.P. Thomas Thompson Knight esq. Mark Taylor, from Tiddington to Stratford-npon-Avon, Proctor Vernon Wadley esq. and W. B. Gibbons esq. are daily, who also runs omnibuses daily there for passengers the principal landowners. The soil is chiefly of a light Franks passes through daily from Leamington & nature ; subsoil, various. The chief crops are roots, barley, to Stratford-upon-Avon WARW. 2