ACTON BURNELL PARISH. Acton Pmott Is a Hamlet with One Farm
., ACTON BURNELL PARISH. 499 AcToN PmoTT is a hamlet with one farm and a few cottages, one mile north-east from Acton Burnell. CHARITIEs.-Several sums of money left to the poor by different donors amounting in the whole to £20, were applied in repairing the workhouse, and the inhabitants agreed to pay 20s. yearly out of the rent of the said house, as the interest thereof, to be distributed . in bread. Edward Bayley, in 1789, left a rent charge of 10s. yearly for a distribution of bread. Thomas Smyth, in 1673, left 5s. per annum for a distribution of bread, to be paid "out of his estate to the wol'!d's end, if his estate should so long continue sufficient to make it good." It does not appear that anything has been paid in respect of this charity for a long period. DIRECTORY.-Sir Edward Joseph Smythe, hart., the Hall; John Williarn Benbow, farmer; Edward Everall, shopkeeper; Eli Charles 1\foore, bailiff to Sir E. J. Smythe; Thomas Morris, farmer; Peter Perry, farmer and maltster, Acton Pigott; Thomas Rey nolds, butcher; William Soutball, viet., Nag's head; Rev. Edward Arthur Wainwright, rector. RUCKLEY AND LANGLEY is a small village and chapelry in the parish of Acton Burnell, about one mile east from that place, and five and a half miles west from Much Wenlock. At the census in 1801 there were eighty-two inhabitants; in 1841, fifteen houses and a population of eighty-three souls. The chapelry contains 952 acres of land, which is the property of Sir Edward Joseph Smythe, hart., who is also lord of the manor.
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