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M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, R.N. There is a 1 Post &; M. 0. Office, Cleobury road, E.ock. John Sim- Wesleyan chapel at Callow Hill. Richard Hemingway moods, sub-postmaster. Letters through Bewdley esq. of Park J.odge, Bewdley, is lord of the manor. arrive at 5.30 a.m. &; 4 p.m.; dispatched at 11.30 The land is chiefly forest, which formerly belonged to a.m. &; 1 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 5.30 a.m. ; dis- the Crownp but has been -Sold in lots to various pur- patched at 7 p.m. Far Forest, I mile distant, is the chasers : it is believed that there are deposits of coal nearest telegraph office and ironstone to a considerable extent: the Crown still Wall Letter lJox, Wyre Forest Railway Station, cleared holds the mineral rights. The soil is loam and clay. at 5.15 p.m. week days only The chief crops are fruit, principally cherries and Police Station, Robert Henry Tombs, constable damsons, and pasture land. The area is I,8oo acres; Public Elementary School (mixed &; infants), built in the population in 1911 was 656. 1903. at a cost of over £4,000, defrayed by the Rev. Sexton, William Booton. William Lea :M.A. in memory of his parents, for 250 Post &; T. Office, Far Forest. David Green, sub-post- children; average attendance, J:40; William Jeans, master. Letters through Bewdley. Letter Box master cleared at 7.30 a. m. & 6.5o p.m.; sunday, 6.50 p.m. I Wyre Forest Railway Station, Henry Ernest Rogers, Rock is the nearest money order office 1 station master PBIVATB RESIDENTS. Garbett Richard, farmer Pain Alice (Mrs.), Duke William P.H. Betts Alfred Koehler,Goodmoor grnge Green Albert, farmer, Cleobury road Cleobury road Lea John Slade, The Bungalow Green Charles H. Plough P.H Perkins James B. farmer Ogden Miss M. J'. Mount Pleasant Green Timothy, farmer, The Shugars Perkins John, jun. farmer, Lynell Panter Rev. Charles Ed-ward M.A., Hinton Langley, farmer Pound George, draper R.N. Vicarage Johnson Smeeton M.D.Lond., Rogers Jost>ph, grocer, Cleobury road Ravenscroft Major Herbert v. Lam- M.R.C.S., L.B.C.P. physician &; Simmonds John, wheelwright, & post brook lodge surgeon (attends tuesday & satur- office day, 11.30 a.m) Smith Charles, farmer COMMERCIAL. Johnston Matthew L.B.C.P.Edin., Smith Charles, jun. faMrmmer .!.ndrew Arthur, farmer M.R.C.S.Eng. physician & surgeon Stevens William, Green Dra·gon P.B Beech Francis, farmer Keightley Albert Edward, poultry Stokes Daniel, farm bailiff to Rev. Bourne Wm. beer retlr. Cleobury rd breeder, Callow Hill George Frederick Eyre M.A Bradley Thomas, farmer, White house Macefield Leah (Mrs.), farmer Stokes Thomas, farmer, Cherry side Broadway Arthur, farmer Millward Thomas, insurance agent, Summers Henry James, farmer Broadway Thos. farmer, Cook's green Yew tree Tolley Bros. blacksmiths, Finger post Carter Samuel (Mrs.), farmer MilwaTd Thomas, tailor, Cleobury rd Tolley Abner, grocer Dangerfield Daniel, shoe maker Morris James, farmer, Callow Hill Tolley William, grocer Davis Amelia (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Morton George, farmer Wood William Edward, butter dealer, Callow Hill Moule John Amphlett, farmer, Cross- Callow Hill Davis Arth. beer ret. Wheatsheaf inn bank (postal address, Bewdley) Working Men's Institute &; Library Doolittle Thomas,farmer,Worrals frm Noon & Hills, poultry breeders, Oak-J' (Edgar Green, sec) Fletcher Arthur,farmer, Fletcher's fm lands FECKENHAM, with the Hamlets of , and CALLOW HILL. FECKElSHAM, anciently "Fecheha.m," is a parish on distributed by trustees every winter, and in bread and the road from Droitwich to Alcester, 5 miles south-west meat at Christmas. The working classes of Feckenham from station on the Birmingham and Redditch are chiefly engaged in the manufacture of needles and a~ection of the Midland railway, 8 south-east from Broms­ fish-hooks, which affords employmen~ for some hundredr grove, 7! east-by-south from Droitwich, 4! south-west of persons. The wake is held on the first Sunday after from Studley or 4 miles Studley station and 13 north­ St. John the Baptist. A court leet is held at the Old east from Worcester, in the Southern division of the Rose and Crown in October. Feckenham is remarkable county, Upper division of Halfshire hundred, Alcester as the birthplace of John de Feckenbam, alias Bowman, union, Redditch petty sessional and county court dis­ an eminent and learned Catholic divine, chaplain to trict, Feckenham rural deanery, Warwick archdeaconry Queen Mary, dean of St. Paul's and last abbot of West­ and Worcester diocese. The church of St. John the minster : he held a conference with Lady J'ane Grey, .iaptist is a building of stone, in the Geometric Decorated and at Oxford disputed with Archbishop Cmnmer and style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south Bishops Ridley and Latimer, and was the last mitred porch and a low embattled western tower with 4 pin­ abbot who sat in the House of Lords, wheTe he zealously nacles, containing a clock and 8 bells : the tower was defended the interests of his church; on the accession restored in 1903, at a cost of £251 by Mr. Ford Whit­ of Queen Elizabeth he was imprisoned in the Tower, combe A.R.I.B.A. ; the chancel was rebuilt about 1853, and subsequently in Wisbech Castle, where he died in under the direction of Mr. Butterfield, and the south 1585. Dunstall Court is the residence of John D. Bruns­ wall and nave roof and porch were reconstructed in kill esq. and is a modern buJlding of red brick with 1866-7: the stained east window in the chancel is a stone dressings in the Elizabethan style; it commands memorial to George Webb esq. of Astwood Court, and some capital views and is pleasantly situated a little there are others to Mrs. Lucy Haywood, Miss Clara M. north-east of the church, which forms 1L pleasing object Gutcb and Mrs. E. W. Haywood, of Sillins: there was from the mansion. The Earl of Coventry (lord lieu­ formerly in the chancel an altar-tomb with recumbent tenant) is lord of the manor. The principal landowners effigies of a knight and his lady and figures of three are iMrs. Franklin, the trustees of the late E. W. Hay­ children, erected by Lady Joyce Culpeper, and inscribed wood esq. the trustees of the late T. W. Webb esq. to Sir Martin Culpeper, of Deane, in the parish of SiT Harry Foley Yernon bart. of Hanbury Ban, Ool. Spelsbury. county Oxon, her husband, who died 26th E. H. Bearcroft C.B. of Mere Hall, !Hanbury, the June, 1604 ; this monument, it is stated, was, on the trustees of the late James ·Smith esq. of Astwood Bank, rebuilding of the chancel, buried benea~h the floor: the trustees of the late Alfred Gutch esq. Arthur Henry the interior of the church was thoroughly restored in Gutch esq. Mrs. Cheape, of Bentley Manor and Mrs. 1904, when the old gallery was taken down, the total Ingram, of London. The soil is various, consisting of cost being about £1,ooo: n. new organ loft and organ red marl and sandstone Tack. The area of Fecken­ were erected in 1907 at a cost of about £220 : there are ham civil parish is 6,833 acres of land, two-thirds arable sittings for 261 persons. The register dates from the and the rest wood and pasture, and 18 of water; year 1538. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value rateable value, £15,275; the population in 1911 was • £245, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of W or­ 3,858 in the civil and 3,488 in the ecclesiastical parish eester, and held since 1909 by the Rev. William Ken­ m• 1901. drick Roberts M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. There Parish ClP.rk, Arthnr Hawkes (acting). is a United iMethodist chapel here. A Free Grammar 11chool was founded here in 1610 and endowed by Sir The parish comprises Feckenham and parts of Crabb's Thomas Cook with £56 13s. 4d. yearly : 12 children on Cross, Headless Cross and Webheath, which are given this foundation are now taught in the Elementary under separate headings, Astwood Bank, and the hamlets Rchool. Charities : Henry Hewes left 52s. yearly; Sir of Hunt End and Callow Hill. John Hanbury knt. ss. weekly for bread; John Wiggett, 2os. yearly; Robert Hunt esq. the interest of £xoo to CALWW Hl'LL, 2 miles north, HAM GREEN, xi the poor; Christopher Hunt esq. the interest of £xoo to north, form a district of scattered houses in Feckenham the poor; Samuel Watts, the interest of £3o yearly; parish. There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Ham William Butler the interest of £20 yearly and Job Bur­ Green. Sillins is the residence of W. H. Mandeville man xos. yearly. The total amount is laid out in bread, Ellis esq.