1 400 ROWTON. SHROPSHIRE. l KELLY'S x.o. who is lord of the manor, and Mr. George Ore Hopkins. I Letters throun-h Wellington. The nearest money order office 'fhe soil is of a mixed nature and good; l!nbsoil, sand and is at High Ercall & telegraph office at Wellington clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is about 770 acres; the population is included in High Board School, Ellerdine, erected in I883, for 6o children; Ercall. average attendance, 65; William Mills, master Ellerdine. Rowton. Cold Ha.tton. Bourne Erlwin, farmer Hopkins George Ore Ball John, tailor Buttery Charwtte (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wynne Reginald, Rowton castle Clay Richard, butcher Cartwright James, boot & shoe maker . .Adney Richard, farmer Colley John, farmer Cotterill Edwin (exors. of), farmers, Bailey Prances (Mrs.), farmer Icke Robert, farmer New house llnttery Jolm, blacksmith, & deputy Lloyd Thomas, farmer Ferrington William, farmer registrar of births & deaths for En•all Nit!klin Samnt:l, boot & shoe maker Hopwood Wm. Royal Oak P.R. Heath Magna sub-district, Wellington union Pitchford John, farmer, Potford Higginson William, farmer Buttery Thomas, farmer Ridgway George, blacksmith Morris William, farmer Edwards Mary (Mrs.;, shopkeeper Webb John, Seven Stars P.H Pardoe Thomas, farmer Hopkins Geo. Ore, farmer & landowner Whitfield :Francis, farmer Shakeshaft William Robert, farmer & Lewis Richard, carpenter Whitfield John, farmer assistant overseer Price Edward, rate collector Wilkes George, farmer Taylor Hugh, farmer Shakeshaft Joseph, farmer Wr:ght George, farmer Taylor John, farmer RUDGE is a small township in this county, forming part Boycott esq. D.L., J.P. who is sole landowner. The soil is (){ the parish of Pattingham, the major portion of which is clay and sandstone ; subsoil, sandstone rock. The chief in Staffordshire; it is 7 miles east-north-east from Bridg- crops are wheat, barley, oats and rye. The area is 1,542 north, and 7 west from Wolverhampton, in the Southern acres; the population in x88x was I55· division of the county, union of Se1sdun, Wolverhampton Letters through Wolverhampton & Bridgnorth; Pattingham county court district and Chelmarsh division of tl1e hundred is the nearest money order office & Compton the nearest of Stottesdon. The inhabitants attend the church at Patting- telegraph office ham. Rudge Hall is the residence of Cathcart Boycott Wight- The children of this place attend the school at Pattingham Wight-Boycott Cathcart Boycott D.L., Edmunds John, farmer, Lower Rudge Postings Samuel,farm bailiff to Cathcart J.P. Rudge hall Edwards John, farmer, Birchley Boycott Wight-Boycott esq Bowen John, blacksmith & wheelwright Lockley Richal'd, farmer, Nunfields Smith James, Talbot New inn Corbishley Geo. farmer, Rudge Warren Platt Rt. Edwd. farmer, '.l;'he Oaklands York .Albert, farmer RUSHBURY is a village and large parish on the Church 1 wyche Hall, Easthope, are the principal landowners. The Stretton and Much Wenlock road, and ou the Strad brook, soil generally is of a clayey nature; subsoil, clay and rock. with a station on the Wenlock and Craven .Arms branch of The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is the Great Western railway, d· miles east from Church s,oBs acres; the rateable value, £5,360; the population in Stretton, 17 south by road from Shrewsbury and 174 from x88x was 500. London, in the Southern division of the county, upper STONE ACTON township is Ii miles north. division of Munslow hundred, Church S~retton union, W ALL-UNDER-HAYWOOD township is I mile north-east. Shrewsbury county court district, petty sessional division S'l'ANWAY township, including Wilderhope, is 2 miles east. of Upper Munslow, first division of the rural deanery of EAsT WALL township, in this parish, is I! miles north- ·wenlock, archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. east; for ecclesiastical purposes it is partly in the parish of 'fhe church ot St. Peter is an ancient building of stone Eaton. There is a small Primitive Methodist chapel here. in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, PILLAR LETTER Box cleared at -4 p.m oak south porch, vestry and an embattled western tower LoNGVILLE-IN-THE-DALE is a township for civil purposes containing 5 bells: the choir seats are of old oak, finely in this parish, but ecclesiastically in the parish of Eaton, on carved: there is a tablet with arms to Catherine, wife of the the road from Church Stretton to Much Wenlock, 2 miles Rev. Edward Phillips, a former rector, ob. 1717: the church &orth-east from Rushbury, with a station on the Much Wen­ ·was extensively repaired in 1855: in x889 a memorial win- lock and Craven Arms branch railway. dow was erected by the widow and children of the Rev. GRETTON township, partly in this and partly in Cad.ing- Frederick Harry Hotham M.A. 35 years rector of the parish, ton parish, is 3 miles north-east. d. II .April, x887. The register dates from the year I538. Lu.:>CHOTT or LucHCOTT township is 3 miles north-east, The living is a rectory, aTerage tithe rent-charge £3I3, net and I mile north-east from Longville railway station. yearly value £335, including 70 acres of glebe and residence, Parish Clerk, Joseph Corfield. in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since x887 PosT OFFICE, Wall-under-Haywood.-Adam Marsh, receiver. by the Rev. Stephen Browne Bathe M. A. of Balliol College, Letters arrive by foot post from Church Stretton (Railway Oxford. Here is a small Wesleyan chapel. There are Sub-Office) at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 4·35 p.m. The charities of £21 yearly value, derived from land, and known nearest money order & telegraph office is at Church Stret- as the Lutwyche, Tiptun and Miss Baker's charitiP-s, and ton ; postal orders are issued here, but not paid prmcipally given to the poor in bread and coal. There was WALL LETTER Box, Rushbury, cleared at 4.25 p.m formerly a Roman station here; and it is supposed that Parochial School, erected in 1873, at a cost of £375; in 1889 .Bravinium, between Magna (Kenchester) and Uriconium £I2o was spent in-improving the condition of the school; ( Wroxeter) must have been situated here, and not at Leint- for 113 children; average attendance, 58 ; Thomas Wil- wardine as is generally accepted, the recorded distance being liams, master; Mrs. Williams, mistress almost conclusive evidence of this fact. Arthur Sparrow RAILWAY STATIONS:- esq., D.L., J.P. of Preen Manor, Church Preen, who is lord of I Rushbury, William Boulter, station master the manor, and Ralph Beaumont llenson esq. J.P. of Lut- Longville, Anthony Strange, station master Rushbury. Davis George, farmer Woolrich John Arthur, farmer llathe Rev.Stephen Browne M.A. [rector1 Henderson John, farmer · Luschott. Henderson Robert, farme"r COMMERCIAL. Manley Joseph, farmer [Postal address, Much Wenlock.] Blakeway Martha (Mrs.), cowkeeper, Mansell Thomas, farmer Benson Lyde Ernest George J.P Heath common W ooldridge Charles, traction engine & · Stanway. Corfield J &ph. shopkpr. & parish clerk threshing machine proprietor Edwards .Ann (Mrs.), farmer, 'fopley Grainger Edmund, farmer, Feg~ farm Pinch Isaiah, farmer, Blackwood Gretton. Preece Thomas, far·mer1 Wilderhope Ut'8.inger John, farmer, Pear tree Croxton John, blacksmith StoneDanl. farm bailiff toFdk. W ebb esq Johnson William, farmer Esp George, miller (water) Webster John, farmer, Lower Stanway :Marsh Ed win Shaw, shoe m a. Wails bank Hotchkiss John, farmer, Gilberries Pitchford Thomas, farmer, Coats Stone Acton. Preen Edwd. wheelwright, Heath corn Longville-in-the-Dale. Farr James, farm bailiff to John E. l'rice Richard, cowkeeper, Oak wood [Postal address, Much V. enlock J l<'armer esq Ray Edward, farmer, Heath common Bethell Benjamin, Station inn Wall-under-Haywood. Robinson Joseph, farmer, Lily wood Blakeway Edwin, farmer Cleeton Richard Smout Timothy, fartner Hayes Wm. coal, lime, salt & manure merchant; depot, Railway station; COHlllERCIAL. East Wall. & at Much Wenlock& Harton Road Bengree Frederick, blacksmith [Postal address, Much Wenlock.] Madelin John William, farmer Bright Andrew, farmer • -'l'aylor William Watkins George, farm bailiff to Thomas ButcherFnny.(Mrs.),Lutwych.ArmsP.H llray William, farmer R. Shuker esq Elsdene Samuel, shopkeeper .