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DIRECTORY.) STAFFORDSHIRE. STOWE BY CH.ARTLEY. 34:7 division of Lichfield and Brownbills, Lichfield union and dispatched at 6.20 p.m. (week days only). Postal orders county court district, rural deanery of Lichfield, arch are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order deaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. The district & telegraph office is at Walsall Wood church of St. Peter, standing on an eminence between WALL LETTER Box, Lynn, cleared at 6 p.m Upper and Lower Stonnall, was erected in 1822 at a cost of National School (mixed), Stonnall, built with master's £1,100, and is a building of local red stone, consisting of house, in 1874, at a cost of £ x,40], raised by subscription ; chancel (added in 1843), nave and a small western tower the school will accommodate about 200 children; average containing one bell: the chancel was built at the sole expenRe attendance, 120 ; .Albert Edward Bussell, master; Mrs. of William Leigh esq. late of Little Aston Hall, who also Bussell, mistress gave the interior fittings, originally intended for a church at Adelaide, Australia: the east window is stained and there Little As ton is 21 miles south. Little Aston Hall is a are several others: the church was restored in 1895 at a fine mansion, much enlarged by the present proprietor, the cost of about £sso, and affords 400 sittings. The earliest Hon. Edward Swynfen Parker-Jervis. This place was date in the register is March 1 l, 1823. The living is a formed into an ecclesiastical pa.r;sh Oct. 27, 1876, and con vicarage, gross yearly value£ 175, net£ 170, wit. b. residence, sist.<; of portions of Stonnall, Shenstone and Sutton Coldfield in the gift of the vicar of Shenstone, and held since 1893 by and Hill. The church of St. Peter, erected in 1874 at a the Rev. William Hutchinson B. A. of Sidney Sussex College, cost of £6,soo, wholly defrayed by the Hon. E. S. Parker Cambridge. Stonnall wake is held the Sunday after St. Jervis, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting Peter's day (June 29). The Hon. Edward Swynfen Parker- of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower with spire containing 5 Jervis is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are bells : there are sittings for xso persons. The register dates Mrs. Beard; Miss S. A. Adams, Fillongley Lodge, Coventry; from the year 1876. The living is a perpetual curacy, net Messrs. Ellis, of the Willows, Perry Barr; William Harry yearly value £x2o, with residence, in the gift of the Hon. E. Cooke esq. M. D., J.P. of Druid's Heath, Aldridge; George S. Parker-Jervis, and held since 1891 by the Rev. B.obert Wright esq. and Thomas Brown esq. The soil is light and Lingen Burton. The church and parsonage house were sandy; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are potatoes, tur- erected by the Hon. Edward Swynfen Parker-Jen-is in 1874 nips, oats and barley. The rateable value is included with at a co:lt of £8,ooo. The population in x8gx was 338. Shenstone; the population of the ecclesiastical district in Sexton, James Webster. 1891 was 6xg. LYNN is one mile north-east. Letters for Aston arrive about 8.30 from Sutton Coldfield -Pohce Station, Lynn, J. Brown, police constable WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5 35 p.m Sexton, J oseph Hand. National School (mixed), erected m the year 1874 at the PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Charlotte Webb, sub-postmistress. sole cost of the Hon. E. Swynfen Parker-Jervis, for 75 Letters arrive by foot post from Walsall at 8.30 a.m.; children; average attendance, 57; Saml.Alfd.Heeley,mast. Stonnall Upper & Lower. Cooper George, wheelwright, carpenter Shaw Thos. blacksmith, Upper Stonnall Beard Mrs. Lynn hall & smith, Lower Stonnall Simkins & Co. millers (water), Aston CookeArthur Crowther Wordsley house Dunger Charles, blacksmith, Hilton Forge mill [postal address,Lichfield; Over Stonnall ' ' Hackett Joseph, farmer, Lynn lane telegrams, Simkins, Shenstone] Harrison Frank, Prospect house Hathaway John, farm bailiff to Mrs. Smith Edward, farmer, Hilton Hutchinson Rev. William B. A. Vicara"'e Beard, Lynn Wolferstan Charles, farmer, New Barns Thornes "' ' Hodgkins William, wheelwright, Hilton Wright George, farmer, Over Stonnall Simkins Samuel, Aston Forge mill Horobin Thomas, Swan P.H. & farmer, Yeates George, coal dealer, Hilton [postal address, near Lichfield] Upper Stonnall_ Wright Geo. Manor ho. Over Stonnall Horton James, bncklayer Little Aston. Ingley 'William, farmer, Thornes Burton Rev. Robert Lingen, St. Peter's COMMERCIAL. J ones Thomas, beer retailer & shop- VIcarage0 Bags haw George, farmer, Hilton keeper, Upper Stonnall Goddard Edward D. The Cottage Batkin Ernest, John & .Alfred, farmers, Leadbetter George Holmes, assistant I'arker-Jervis Hon. Edward Swynfen Lower Stonnall overseer,Leigh cottage, UpperStonnall Little Aston hall Brawn James, farmer, Bosses farm· Lead better Sarah (Mrs.), butcher, Lynn [postal address, near LichfieldJ Lee Benj. liairyman, Upper Stonnall COMMERCIAL. Brown Joseph, farmer, Gainsbro' hill, Late Henry, farmer, Shire Oaks hill, Burnett George, steward to·the Hon . .t.. Upper Stonnall Upper Stonnall S. Parker-J ervis · Brown John, farmer, The Laurels, Low- OakleyWm.David, brick1ayr. Up.Stonnall Haines William, head gamekeeper to er Stonnall Orme Geor~e, farmer & dairyman, tbe Hon. E. S. Pa.rker-Jervis Brown Mark, farmer, Hilton Stonnall House dairy farm Ward William, head gardener to the Brown Thomas, farmer, Thornes Fetcher Thomas Shaw, farmer & miller Hon. E. S. Parker-Jervis Craddock John, farmer, Swan farm (steam), Lower Stonnall Webster James1 blacksmith STOWE by CHARTLEY is a pansh and small and! annually, from land and cottages situated at Lea in this pleasant village, with a station cal!ed Chartley and Stowe parish. Earl Ferrers M.A., J.P. is lord of the manor and on the Great NorLhern railway. 7 miles north-east frum principal landowner. The soil is strong loJ.m ; subsoil. Stafford, 8 south-east from Uttoxeter, 8 north-north-west mar! and rock stone The chief crops are oatB and wheat. from Rugeley and 134 from London by road, in the Western The a.rea is .S. 120 acres; rateable value, 1.,'10,oo6; the division of the county, South Pirehill hundred, Stafford population of the parish in 1891 was 441. lly a Loca} 1 union, petty sessional division and county court district, Government Board Order, which came into operation .March rural deanery of Uttoxeter, archdeaconry of Stoke and dio- 25, r885, a detached part of Colwich, in Lichfield union, was cese of Lichfield. The church of St. John the Baptist is an amalgamated with tllis pari1h. ancient edifice of stone in tpe Norman, Early English and Railway Station, Chartley & Stowe, Great Northern rail- later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and an way, William Musson, station master embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: the chancel was restored and reseated in 1866, and the church Amerton is a very pleasant hamlet, on the road from again restored and enlarged in 1879, at a cost of £1~53 7: Rtafford to Uttoxeter, about x! miles east from Weston the chancel arch, north and south doorways and a lancet station on the Stafford and Stoke section of the North window in the chancel are Norman or Transitional: the Staffordshire railway, 6f north-east from Stafford and half remainder of the fabric is in the Decorated and Per- a mile west from Stuwe. pendicular styles: there is a fine altar tomb, with recum- Drointon is a small village about 1 mile east from bent effigies of Viscount Hereford and his two wives, and a Stowe. brass to Sir Thomas Newport, steward to Sir Waiter Grindley is a small hamlet with a station on the Great Devereux, xst Earl of Essex: the reredos pf Caen stone is a Northern railway, !Z miles east from Stowe; John Crockford. memorial to the Rev. William Hides M.A. 41 years vicar of station master. this and the adjoining parish of Gayton, who died in 1884: in the churchyard is an ancient cross in the 13th century LEA. it~ a hamlet r! miles east. style, restored in 1879: there are 300 sittings. The register Letters received through Stafford arrive at 7 a. m. W ALr. dates from the year 1577· The living is a vicarage, average LETTER Box near tlle church cleared at 5-45 p.m. week tithe rent-charge £x7, net value £x8o, including 45 acres of days & 10.25 a.m. sundays. The nearest money order glebe and residence, in the gift of trustees and held since Qffice is at Hixon & the nearest telegraph office is Cha.rtley :r8g4 by the Rev. John Newham M.A. of Emmanuel College, J"<~ilway station Cambridge. The vicarage house was erected in 1895 on National School, for go children; average attendance, 70; land given by Earl Ferrers. The charities amount to £.~to supported by Earl Ferrers; Evan Daniel, master Newham Rev. Johu M.A. [vicar) COMMERCIAL. Stowe. Timmis Mrs. Stowe lodge Askey Henry, farmer Drewry William, Stowe villa- Wat.Bon JO!!eph, Meadow cottage Atkins Emily (Mrs.), farmer, Lea .