HEREFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's DIRECTORY.] YATTON Is a Chapelry and Township in Much Marcle Calne, Wilts, and L:Aeld Since X8g6 by the Rev

210 1"ATTON•. HEREFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S DIRECTORY.] YATTON is a chapelry and township in Much Marcle Calne, Wilts, and l:aeld since x8g6 by the Rev. Cecil parish, on the old road from Led'bury to Ross, s miles Leigh Money-Kyrle M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, who south-west from Fawley station on the Hereford, Ross 1·esides at Much Marcle. The principal landowner is and Gloucester section of the Great Western railway, Gen. Edward Henry Olive, of Perrystone Court, Foy. 8 eout.h-west from Ledbury, 5 east from Boss, o.nd in The soil is principally heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief the Southern division of the county, Greytree hundred. crops are wheat, beans and peas. The area is 1,452 Boss onion, county court district and petty sessional acres; rateable value, £1,391; population in 1gn, rtio. division, rural deanery of Boss and archdeaconry and Parish Clerk, Claud Davis. di00011e of Hereford. The chapel, erected about 1'll3o, Post Office, Perrystone Hill.-Mrs. Anna Brown, sub is a crucifonn building of white atone in t:Jhe Early postmistress. Letters through Ross arrive at; 7 a.m. Engli$11 style, consisting of chancel, nave, north and & 2.50 p.m.; dispatched 3·45 & 5.30 p.m. ; no delivery south transepts and a western entrance and turret con on sunday. Upton Bishop is the nearest money order taining one bell : the chapel was restored and a chancel office & How Caple, 2 miles distant, the nearest tele added in 1904, in memory of the late Sybella, Lady graph office Lyttelton, of The Chantry. The living is a chapelry Wall Letter Box, Ohurch Wall, cleared at 4·45 p.m. week attached to Much Marcle, with 5 acres of glebe, joint days only net yearly value £256, in the gift of the trustees of the The school is now closed & the children attend Much late Major Audley W. W. Money-Kyrle, of Whetham, Marcle & How Caple schools Wilmot Mrs. Perrystone towers Davis Claud, assist. oversr. School ho Maddox Ernest, farmer, Lodge farm IDavis Geo. cottage farmer, Churchfid /1 Morgan David, farmer, W oodredding COHMERCIAL. Howells John, frmr. Barrell Hill farm farm Cotton Frank, farmer, Dean's Place Jones Wm. farmer, Westnors end 1 Price Morris, farmer, Welsh court Cotton John, fanner, Lower house . Loveridge Jas. cottage frmr. Upper ho, Rosser Ebenezer, farmer, Chapel farm YAZOR i11 a parish on the road from Hereford to £320, in the gift of the Rev. George Horatio Davenport Kington and Aberystwith, 8 mi1es north-west from Here- M.A., J.P. and held since 1907 by the Rev. James ford and 152 from London, in t.he Northern division of Waterhouse Brown M.A. of Queens' College, Cambridge. the county, Grimsworth hundred, Weobley union and Lady Lift is a well-known hill, commanding a magni petty sessional division, Hereford county court district, ficent view. At the death of Sir Robert Price bart. rural deanery of Weobley, and arohdeaconry and diocese sometime lord of the manor and sole landowner, the of Hereford. Moorhampton station, on the Hereford, property was purchased by the late John Davenport, of Hay and Breoon section of the Midland railway, is in Westwood, Staffordshire (died 1862), who rebuilt the this parish. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, an- north transept of the ancient parish church, to serve ciently that of John the Baptist, and erected in 1855, as a mortuary chapel for the whole parish and as a is a building of stone, in the Early English style, con- resting place for the remains of himself and his family. sisting of apsidal chancel, transepts and a western tower The Rev. George Horatio Davenport M.A., J.P. made a with spire containing 2 bells; the lower stage of the gift on July 13th, 1908, of £1,000 to the parish church tower forms a porch: tlhere are monuments to the of Yazor, which is held in trust on investment by the Alien family, including the Rev. James Alien, late rector Hereford Division Finance Association: the interest of Bishopstone, d. 1776, George Alien esq. d. 1796 and varies from £so to £40, and of this £2o is paid to the the Rev. Bennett Alien M.A. d. rnfJ, sons of Rev. organist or applied to the repair of the organ, £ro is James Allen; and one to Robert Price, attorney-general given to the choir fund and the residue is expended on for S. Wales, recorder of Radnor, an alderman of the maintenance of the old churchyard and mortuary Hereford and baron of the Exchequer, 1702, and justice chapel and to the relief of the poor of Yazor and Man of the Common Pleas, I~; he died 2 February, 1733 ; sell Lacy parishes. The mansion at Foxley has under a brass to Uvedale Robert Studd Price esq. of Monge- gone considerable alteration and improvement since its well House, Oxfordshire, d. 1'844• and tablets to other transfer to the Davenport family, and is now the seat members of t·he family of the late Sir Robert Price bart. of the Rev. George Horatio Davenport M.A., J.P. who and a brass to the Rev. R. L. Freer, rector from 1839, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is who built and beautified the church; part of the old loamy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are hops, corn church is now used as .a mortuary chapel; the oak and roots. The area is 2,063 acres; rateable value, pulpit and reading stalls are richly carved, and there £2,389; population in 1gn, 178. are seven stained windows, erected to commemorate the Upperton is a hamlet, hall a mile north-west. marriage in 1866 of the Rev. George Hora.tio Daven- Parish Clerk, William Parry. port M.A., J.P. the owner of the Foxley estate, with Post & Telegraph Office, Moorhampton.-Miss Mary Mist Da.shwood, and that of John Hungerford Arkwright Powell, sub-postmistress. Letters through Hereford esq. of Hampton Court, also in 1866, with Miss Daven- arrive at 8.5 a.m.; dispatched 5 p.m. Weobley is port: the organ was built in 186g. The register dates the nearest money order office from the year 1620; an earlier register appears to have The children of this place attend the schools at Mansell existed, dating from 1555. The living is a vicarage, Lacy & Norton Canon with residence (given in exchange for the glebe), Railway Station, Moorhampton, James Dingley, station anDI~xed to that of Mansell Lacy, joint net yearly value master (Marked thus * should be addressed Davies Chas. frmr. Moorhampton frm Old Radnor Lime,Roadstone & General Yarsop, Hereford.) Davies James, farmer, Claypits Trading Co. Limited (Henry James Brown Rev. James Waterhouse M.A. Dew Frederick, farm bailiff to the Clarke, agent), Moorhampton (vicar), Vicarage Rev. G. H. Davenport !M.A., J.P Parry Margaret (Mrs.), apartments Davenport Rev. George Horatio M. A., *Douglas Edwd. Montague, land agent Pearman Edith (Mrs.), Moorhampton J.P. Foxley to the Rev. G. H. Davenport M.A., hotel, jobmaster & farmer J.P. Yarsop house Powell Mary (Miss), shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Hart William. farmer, Bunn's lane Price John Thomas, farmer, School Breconshire Coal & Lime Co. Ltd. Hart William, 'jun. farmer House farm Moorhampton Morris John, farmer, Upperton Richards Noah, blcksmth.Moorhamptr• Colley Dvd.coal mer,Moorhampton atn Turner John Fredk. frmr. Yazor crt .

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