24 ASTLEY ABBOTTS. SHROPSHIRE. [KELLY'S various sums of money, on St. Thomas' day, to widows Letters through Bridgnorth, which is also the nearest and other necessitous persons of the parish. Stanley Hall, mQIley order and telegraph office a castellated building of red brick with a picturesque and Wall Letter Boxes (opposite the Rectory), cleared at 5. 15 extensive park, is the seat of the Hon. Sir Raym8nd p.m. week days only Robert Tyrwhitt-Wilson bart. William Orme Foster esq. of Apley Park, who is lord of the- manor, the Hon. Sir R. Box, end of Brittons lane, cleared 4. 15 p.m. week days R. Tyrwhitt-Wilson bart. Mrs. Harvey, Mr. John Crump only & Nordley cleared at 4·45 p.m. week days only and Lord Forester are the. chief landowners. Church of England School (mixed), half a mile north The soil is marl and clay; the subsoil is clay and sand- from the village & erected in 1873 at a cost of about stone. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats and tur- £830, & enlarged in 1894, for 120 children; average nips. The area is 3,325 acres; rateable value, £4,447; attendance, 90; & supported in part by Miss Catharine the population in 1891 was 609. Phillips' charity mentioned above; there is a house for Parish Clerk, William Thomas' Faizey. the teachers; John Davies, master; IMrs. Davies, mist. Cox Samuel, Sunnybank, Nordley Cox John, farmer & assistant overseer, Hollins William, grazier, Nordley Harvey Mrs. The Albynes Nordley Jones Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Weaver's Harvey Samuel, The Albynes Crump In. frmr. & landowner, Dunval coppice Stallybrass Rev. Henry Martyn, Can- Darrell Frances (Mrs.), cowkeeper, Kyte Wm. horse breaker, Linley brook treyn cottage Gross Lane end Langford John., farmer, Little Binnal Tipper William, Cross Lane Head ho Davie3 Henry, farmer, Colemore farm Lewis Richard, farmer, The Boldings Tyrwhitt-Wilson Hon. Sir Raymond Davies In. farm bailiff to John Crump Lucus Jeffrey, farmer, Hoard's park Robert bart. B.A. Stanley hall Dickinson Joseph, farmer, Weaver's Maiden Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer~ Warwick Rev. Jo'hn Croft Bridges coppice Apley forge Warwick M.A. Rectory Elcock Joseph Herbert, beer retailer Meredith James, farmr. Nordley com 'Yelch Alfred Phippen, Cantreyn Embrey Jeffery, farmer, Stocking Morgan Williaxn., farmer Wheeler James V. Astley house Embrey William, farmer, Rhodes frm Nash William, carpenter, Nordley corn COMMERCIAL. Faizey Henry Edward, wheelwright Ratcliffe Jsph. grazier,CrossLane head Beddoes John, butBrown Clee hill and 8 miles north-west from Cleobury residence, in the gift of Lord Barnard, and held since Mortimer station on the Bewdley, Tenbury and Hereford 1883 by the Rev. Edwin Francis Lipscombe, of St. Ed section of the Great Western railway, in the Southern mund Hall, OXford, who is non-resident; the Rev. Albert division of the cuunty, Cleobury division of the hundred- of James Warren M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, has been Stottesden, Cleobury Mortimer union, petty sessional divi- curate in sole charge since 1885. The interest of £50 is sion and county court district, rural deanery of Stottes- distributed to the poor in money on St. Thomas' Day. den, archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. Lord Barnard is lord of the manor and ohief landowner. The small river Rea runs through the parish. The church The soil is clay; subsoil, clay and rock. The chief crops of St. Michael is a building of stone, in the Early English are wheat, barley, oats and peas. The area is 2,238 acres; style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, rateable value, £1,749; the population in 1891 was 183. south porch and an embattled western tower containing Bold, or Bould, is a hamlet, i mile north-east. Moor 3 bells: in the aisle is an altar-tomb, with canopy sup- brook, i mile east-by-south; Norton, It miles south. ported on six columns, to one of the Botterels, who for- Charlcotte, I! miles north; and Haywood I! miles south merly held this manor under the Earls of Arundel, and by-west are places here. from "Whom it derived its distinctiye appellation; the Parish Clerk, Benjamin Wellings. tower of the church was rebuilt from the foundation in Letters received through Bridgnorth. iThe nearest money 1884, the cost being defrayed by the late Duke of Cleve- order & telegraph office is at Burwarton land K.G. The register dates from the year 1550. The The children of this parish attend Loughton school (Marked thus * receive their letters Bach William, farmer Miles Ann (Mrs.), farmer & cider through Cleobury Mortimer.) Bryan Edward, cowkeeper St carpenter retailer, Charlcotte Warren Rev. Albert James M.A. Hinckesman John William, farmer, Page William, farmer, Moor rrook (curate in charge), Rectory breeder of pedigree Hereford cattle *Rea William, farmer, Haywood COMMERCIAL. & Shire horses; yearling bulls & Wellings George, shoeing & general Bowen George, Fox inn, & farmer; heifers for sale, Oharlcotte smith,agricultural implement maker good accommodation for travellers, Hughes Arthur, farmer & repairer &c tourists, cyclists &c.; stabling & Kinnish Agnes (Mrs.), frmr. Aston hall Williamson Thomas, farmer, Chatmore posting *Jones John, farmer, Norton Wyer John., farmer, The Bold ATCHAM is a village and parish and head of a union, 11 monument, brought from the ruins of old St. Chad's miles north from Berrington station on the Severn Valley church, Shrewsbury, to Jocosa Burton, ob. 1524: the section of the Great Western railway, and si south. east window is stained, and exhibits three figures, in two south-east from Shrewsbury, in the hundred of Condover colours only, brown and yellow: on the oak reading desk and the Wellington division of South Bradford, county are' some fine specimens of carving, illustrating the parable court district of Shrewsbury, petty sessional division of of the ProdJigal Son: the organ was built by the celebrated Condover, rural deanery of Shrewsbury, arohdeaconry of Father Schmidt: on each side of the chancel is a leper's Salop and diocese of Lichfield; it is pleasantly seated by window. The register of baptisms dates from the year the river Severn, over which is a handsome stone bridge of 1621; and of marriages and- burials from 1619. The living seven arches, built in 1769 and said to be the third bridge is a discharged vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £242, erected over that river: that part of the parish which is net yearly value £260, including 30 acres of glebe, in tile in the hundred of Bradford South is in the Northern divi- gift of John Lingen Burton esq. and held since 1882 by sion of the county, and that part in the hundred of Con- the Rev. Algernon Godfrey Kingsford. The charities ant dover in the Western division; the road from Shrewsbury of the yearly value of £28. Ordericus Vitalis, the great to Wellington passes through the village and until the days historian of the Norman period, was born here, 17 Feb. of railways was the great thoroughfare between London 1075, and received the rite of baptism on the feast of the and Shrewsbury. The church of St. Eata, standing on Passover, 1075. Near the village is Attingham Hall, the the banks of the Severn, and formerly belonging to the seat of Lord' Berwick, a mansion of stone in the Classic abbey of Lilleshall, is a building of red stone, chiefly in style, beautifully situated in an extensive park of 600 the Early English style, the materials of which are sup- acres, well stocked with deer: the picture gallery contains posed to have been brought from Wroxeter, the ancient a fine collection of paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Rem Uriconium: it consists of chancel, nave, south porch and brandt, Murillo, and a priceless portrait of Raphael by an embattled western tower, containing a clock and 6 himself; a mile and a half north is Longner Hall, the re bells: the chancel and nave are separated by a traceried sidence of John Lingen Burton esq.: the house is in the screen, brought from the church of Worfield near Bridg- parish of St. Chad, Shewsbury, but the gr')unds are in north: on the south wall of the chancel is an incised .1teham parish: the dining-room was r _decorated at
