KELLY'S DIRECTORY

SHROPSHIRE

1917

KELLY'S DIRECTORIES LTD. 182, 183 & 184, HIGH HOLBORN, , w.e.I.

BRANCH OFFICES: lHRMINGHA~: 118, COLMOR. Row. I LIVERPOOL: lOA, SOUTU O'&'STLlI STIlIrT. GLASGOW: 21. WATERLOOSTRUT. ,\LANCllESTER: I, ST. J41UII'8 8Qu.&.aa. LBBD8: 12, IbsT PARADE. SHBFFIBLD: I, B')WA.RD STRUT. :SEW YORK: (KaLLY POBLISHING CO.), 70, FIrTH Al'aNUE. PA.RIS: (A.GKliCY), ~3. RUE DE VAUGfRARU.

PRIOE TWELVE SHILLINGS. DIRECTORY. ] SHHOPSHIRE. MAGNA. 77

Public Elementary Schools. Vernolds Common (infants) was built in 1874, & is the property of the trustees of the late H. J. Allcroft Cn!OlingLon (mixed), with residence for the master, I esq.: Miss Selina Lane, mistress built. in 1857, enlarged in 1879 &, again in 1894, for I Car riers to .-WiIliam Pheysey, of Munslow, on rIO children; John Robert Carruthers, master I mono &; sat. ; Deakin, of Aston, man. wed. &; sat CULMINGTON. IOverton. Charles ~' t!lx collector for Oy-erton Benjamin, assistant overseer Marked thus" receive letters through: •• Cuh:nm~n. &; district, The Cottage 'I'ipton Wllham, shopkeeper , Salop; the remainder' Bheriff Wllham, head gardener to B!.CHE. L dl T. W. Shaw esq th roug h u OW. ILetters through Craven Arms, Salop'. ' G- L 1 SElFTON Co11mg s eorge, ang ey . ••.. 1 Evans Job, farmer Lawley Thomas, Oakdene . Marked thus receive letter~ through i Matthew8 Thomas farmer *Shaw Thos.Wood,Culmington manor. Craven Arms, Salop; the remainder! • Worrall Henry, Culmington house through Ludlow. ! NORTON. ; ·Edwards Charles E. Mount Seifton iLetters through Craven Arms, Salop. COMMERCIAL. : Holland. Rev. David Erskine ?LA. .Duvenporf Shadrach.head ~amekeeper Cammell Samuel, wheelwright I (rector), Rectory i to Mrs. Rotton Holt John William, Royal Oak inn :McCartney H. Stanley, Pool cottage ILewis Thomas George, fa:rmer Howard Thomas, farmer, Medley prk i *Alderson Price, farmer, New house Lockhart John, farmer Jcnes In. Hy. shoeing &; genl. smith ;Griffiths Emily & Mary(Misses),lndry Knox James A. head gardener to H.: Jones Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer I DURLEY. Worrall esq I Marsden 'I'homaa, farmer Letters through Craven ATms, Salop. Lockhart Joseph WiJliam, farmer I *Morris Sarah (Mrs.), stationer, Post! Pryce Thomas, wheelwright Morris Artbur William, farmer i office IBoberts Charles Bar low, farmer CYNYNION is a hamlet in the civil pariah of 08- Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn barb. C.B. is the principal westry, and with Pentre-gaer, and a portion of the, landowner. The soil varies from gravel to clayey loam; parishes of Llansilin (Denbigbshire), Llan-y-blodwel, subsoil, partly on the lime rock and gravel and shale. Rural, Selattyn and Sychtyn, was formed in l Ths chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. 1844 into an ecclesiastical parish, under the name of I The area of the ecclesiastical parish i8 2,105 acres, and Rhyd-y-Oroesau : it lies in a jnountainous district, on i the population in 1891 was 401, chiefly Welsh. The area the verge of the county, ad'joining Denbigbshire, 3~ i of the hamlet is 785 acres; the population of Bhyd-y- miles west from Oswestry, in the Western division of I Croesan ecclesiastical parish in 191I was 33, which the county, hundred, petty sessional division, conD~YI extends into Denbighshire. court district and incorporation of Oswestry, rural deanery of Oswestrr, archdeaconry of Montgomery and PE..'fl'RE·GAER is a hamlet 3i miles west from Os- diocese of St. AMph. Christ ChUTCh,at Bhyd-y-Oroesau, Iwe8try. The scenery is va.ried and romantic, and the erected and consecrated in 1886 in place of a previous whole district mountainons·. The soil is strong, mostly church built in 1838, is a small building of stone in & upon limestone. The area. is 1,045 acres. debased Gothic style, consisting of chanoel and nave Deputy Parish Clerk John Wilke8. and an embattled w~ltern tower containing 2 bells: I • divine service is conducted in the Welsh and English I Post OffiCII,Rhyd.y.Oroelau.-Thomas. Evans, sub-post- languages. The regrater dates from the year 1838. The ~aster. Let~~s ~hrough Oswestry ; no sunda.y de- living is a recto~y, net. yearly .value £~40' includi~g 91 hvery. Llansilin 18 the nearest money order a; tele- acres of glebe, WIth residence, ID the gift of the BIshop graph office of St. Asaph, and held since 1908 by the Rev. Williarn 1 Public Elementary School, Bhyd-y-Croesau (mixed), Arthur Morris B.A.. of St. David's College, Lampeter. j built in 1850, for 70 children; Mis~ Isabella Mary The Earl of Powis is lord of the manor, Sir Herbert Brotherton, mistresa CYNYNION. )Enns Thomas, shopkeeper, Post off ! PENTBE-GAER. Morris Rev. William Arthur B.A. Guillam Thos. farmer,Pandy Newydd Edll'ards Edward, farmer . . (rector of Bhyd-y-Croesau) I Hngbes Lloyd, farmer Edwards WaIt. frmr. Tan-cralgy-rbrw 1Jones David, farmer, Brongoll IEnDS Edwd. farmer, Nant-y-gollan CQlonmCIAL ! Lloyd John. farmer, Oefn-y-maea I Griffitha Thomas, farmer Davies John, farmer ,.Morria Hugh, farmer ,Jones Thomas, farmer. Hemblas Edwards David &; John, Iarmers Weston Richard Henry, Orols Foxes I' Morris JohD, farmer, Pen-y-bryn Edwards Richd. farmer, Oefn-y-maes P.R. Lawnt Roberk Edward, farmer, Taa-j-coed Edwards Catherine (Mrs.), farmer I WillilUIlI John, farmer DAWLEY MAGNA. is 11 tOll'D and pari"h on tht I tetan Me~hodist. United Methodist and Primitive road from Wellington to , with a station at Methodil!t chapels. The Town Hall, a commodious Horsehay in this parish on the Wellington and Severn, building, the property of the Urban District Council, Junction branch of the Great Western railway, 4 mile. i is available for public meetings. The Market Hall, south-east from Wellington, abou,t 2! north-west from i erected in 1867 and also the property of the Urban lfadeley and 5 south-west, from Shifn&l: it is in the! Council, ill an oblong structure of red brick, with an lfid division of the county, in Wellington division of , ornamental frontage and vaults underneath, and is sur- South Bradford hundred, Madeley union and county i mounted by a turret containing one bell and a clock, court district, petty sessional division of Wellington, I presented in 1867 by the late Lieut.-Col. William rural deanery of , archdeaconry of Salop and '1 Kenyon-Slaney. A piece of ground of about 2 acres in diocese of Lichfield. The town is lighted with gas ! extent was given by the late Rt. Hon. Col. William from works in Ohapel .trect, buil~ i!l 1857, and belong- Slaney Kenyon-Slaney M.P. and H. O. Sim:pson esq. to lng to the Da.•.•ley Gas Co. Limited. In 1909 an be used as a public park, and was opened In 1901. In arrangement 11'118 made nth the Mlldeley and the High street is a monument, erected in 1910, in Watu Co. of Harrington, for the supply of water at memory of Capt. Webb, born in this parish in the year !I cost of about £15,000; the pumping station is at 1848. and who lost his life in an attempt to swim the Little Dawley; the engines are of the Producer type ! Niagara. rapids in t883. The market day is on Satur- and force the water to the two reservoirs at Lawley I day, for the sale of meat, vegetables and provisions, Bank for distribution to the district. The parish was I and is well attended. A charity of £7, derived from formed into a Local Government District in r876, but I land, was left in 1684 by Richard Hodden, gentleman. ll~d\lr the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 of Lndlow, and a third of this is distributed to the VIcL. c. 73), an Urban District Council has been estab- poor of this parish on St. Thomas' Day. Lewis' charity h~hed. The church of the Holy Trinity. erected in lof [200 was left in 1887, and the interest is given to I 84.~, is a building of freestone in the Gothic style, ; the poor annually in blankets: Greenhalgh'a charity of con~isf.inA'nf chancel, nave, baptistel'Y and lionpmhntt,lpo i £1 yearly, left in 1892, is also for the poor. The soil western tower containing 6 bells: there is a font of I is various. The minerals are ironstone and coal. '1'he Norman date, The register dates from the vear r666. chief crops are .••.heat, oats and barley. The area is The li"ing was declared a vicarage Dec. Il,' 1866, net: 2.745 acres of land and 35 of water; rateable value, }'ea.rly value £290, including' 3 acres of glebe, with: [17,856; the population in 19!I was 7,701 in the civil r~sldencp., in the gift of I,he Bishop of Lichfield, and held I parish and Urban District and 2,613 in t.he ecclesiastical. ·~lJ]ce18813 by the Rev. Thomas Richard Joseph Fawkes. Parish Clerk, John Birch. There is a Mission church in Hinkshay ; a Baptist I: Post, M. 0., T. &; Telephonic Express Deliverv Office, chaps}, erected in r846, seating 550 persons; also Well- Dawlay, Salop. John Thomason, postmaster' 78 DAWLEY MAGNA. . [KELLY'S

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DAWLEY. IBarnett Geo. beer retlr. 4 Finger rd I Greenhalgb. WiIliam Henry, grocer, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. . Bemrose Weigbtmlln, chemist, 46, 35 &. 33 High street Bailey Mu. 63 King atreeb I Hig-h street . i Groucott Edward, butcher, Bank Callear Prank, A. 65 King street. !Bower. Mary Eh~abetb (Mrs.), con- Hall Joseph A. Elephant &; Oastle Davis Fdk Howard,The Grove,King st' fecttoner, 52 High str~t I P.H. 1 High street. Pawkes Rev. Thomas Richd. Joseph: Br~9Ze Suneon .• '9I'heehrrlght,Ba~k rd Harper WaIter, WhIte Hart P.H. (vicar), Vicarage IBr~scoe Hy. frle~ fish. dlr. 34 High at; Hmkshay . Greenhalgh WilliBm Henry J.P. i Br~scoe J83. frU1te~, 10 Bur~on at .Guest John. beer ret.34 Hinkshay I'd Spring hill, Chapel street ,B~scoe .Robert, fruiterer, 32 HIgh ~t i Htlton Stepben.IL Sons, boot &; shoe Lester Rev. Arthur (Baptist), Bank i Britannic Assurance Co.Ltd.; district : m~kers, 48 HIgh street Price Robert Lewis Heath hill office, I New Rtreet ! HollIs Edward, grocer, Bank road Reed Rev. J. Gardham B.D. (Primi-I Brown Joseph, grocer, Old Vicarage James Harry John, insurance agent, tire Methodist), 71 King stteet . road k butcher, 14 Chapel street &; 28 Chapel street Rhodes Rev. Charles W. (Wesleyan; 15 Burto~ street .Johnson Mary A. (Mrs.), sbopkeeper, Methodist), Wesley ho. Chapel it. .Brown WIlliam, carpenter, Burton st 28 HIgh. str~et . Rhodes R. Alma KinO' street Dryce John, shopkeeper, Bank IJones Benjamin, builder, 3 Brandlee Sandlands Mrs. Chnpel street I Bush Charles William T. insurance J ones Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 54 Scoltock .Alfred ElmhuTst Burton st! agent, 89 King stteet . King street Smith John R. 'The Mouni i Bnttery Wm. bee~ retailer, Geo~ge .tiJonell Herbeyt S. jro~monger, &; Taylor Mrs. 31 Chapel street .Oallear Frank A. lnsUl'.agt.6s Kmg It I deputy .regIstrar ~f births, deathi Woodhouse Herbert Clement J.P., Oallear Balph Urban, collector of & marrrages, 53 High street M. B. 30 King street ! poor's Tates &; asst.ov8rsr·73King st I Jones Horace O. grocer, Bank .Oampbell G60. Lord Hill P.H. DawleyiJones Mary (Mrs.),gen1.dlr.soHigh st ~OIDfBnCIAL. i green I Jones Minnie Lucy (Mrs.), china dlr. E~rly C~08lDgday, TU~I. I p.m. 'Clayton Mary (Mrs.) (exors. of), 55 High street A~dlson Bichd. Ernest,palDter,New reIl grocers &; pork butchers,67 High st ' Jones Wm. Hy. shopkeeper, 88 Bank Adey T. Malcolm, farm produce Oollins DeIilah (Miss), midwife, Ketley Pras.jun. butcher.gr Finger rd dealer, Bighfield house : Meadow road i Ketley Francis William,Queen's Arms An~rews G~orge, grocel',34 Fi?ger !d;Dnrrall &; Co. grocers, 47 &; 8 High st! P.H. 31 Finger road Bailey Marla (M.rs.), servants regls-IDavies Josepb, confectnr. 49 King stlLat.bam Roger, shopkeeper, New st t.ry office, 6 Kmg street . :Davis Frederick Howard L.R.F.P. &; I Lavender T. Geo. builder, 88 King st BaIley. Wm. G. butcher, 16 HIgh at: S. Glas. & L.S.A. surgeon &; public: Lewis Clara &; Laura (Misses), con- Bal~wm Brothers, protographers, Old! vaccinator, 74 King street I fectioners, 59 High street VlCoraq:e l'CIIIod . ;Dawley (The) Gal 00. Limited(Frank Lewis Alfred D. butcber, 30 High st Banks Chas. earpntr. Old V,carage rd I Clayton, sec.j Wm. Hughes, msn-: Lewis Rd. Wm. shopkpr.go Chapel s~ Banks ~artha (Mrs.), dress maker,; ager), Ch!\pel street .Lloyds Bank Limited (sub-branch) Old VIcarage road IDawley Bank Institute, Bank road 1 (John S. Barker, manager), High Banks John WaIt: '.hopkpr. Bank rd ;Dawley Liberal &. Labour Club (B. i street; open on mondays k wednes- Barclays Bank Limited (sub-branch}, Alma Rhodes, sec.), King street I days from 10.30 a.m, to I p.m.; (Roberb Grant Ranyell, manager); 'Duce John, grocer, 20 Heath hill : draw on London office, 71 Lombard open monday &; wednesday 12 noon iEllis Dertram H. district rate col-I street, London E C to I.30 p.m. 60 High street; dra.w i lector. 6 Hinkshay Machin Pattie (Miss), draper, 58 on head office, 54 Lombard street" Evnns Reuben, draper, 6 High. street i High street London E C !Fellows Harry, shopkpr , 9 Finger rd i Machin Samuel, boot ma. 34 King 8\ Barker John S. manager of Lloyds' Follows George, shoe ma. 45 High st: Marks Samuel, farmer, 'I'he Wallows B~nk &:i tre~surel' of tbe Urban Dis·I.Green Emma (Mn.), shopkeeper, 91 Martin William H. Crown inn P.H. W'lct Oouncil , Burton street 44 High street DIRECTORY.] SHROPSHIRE. . 79 Merrington Bros. blcksmths.Finger rd, Powell George T. painter, 27.ChapelI Summers Ric~aTd D. &; Cecil H.

Mills Wllham, painter 10, &, grocer. street &, general dlr. 13 HIgh st 1\ currrers, 2 HIgh street 12, King street I Preece Bellj. M. shoe ma. 4 High st .Tecce James, beer retlr, Gcorge st Millward Albert Edward, blacksmith, Price Richard G. confectioner 14, k\ Teece 'I'hos. Jas. beer ret. 75 King st 3 King street hardware dealer 21, High street lThom Jas. comrcl. tl'1lvllr.69 King st Mole James Clement, relieving officer!Price Robert Lewis, surveyor, sani-iThomnson Johh, stationer, &; registrar No. 1 Dawley district, Madeleyi tary inspector, collector of King's I of births, deaths &; marriages & union, Bank ! taxes &; collector to Urban District vaccination officer for Dawley sub- Morgan Richard, shopkpr. Church rd I, Council, Heath Hill . district, ~fadeley union, &; post- Morgan William, boot ma. Finger rd Pugh David A. draper, 50 High st. i master, 49 High gtreet Morgan Wm. carter, Old Vicarage rd, &; Dun Cow F.H. New street !Town Hall (Lewis Price, sec.; John Owen. Edward Hngh, tobacconist, 38)Ray Thos. Kenyon,beer ret.s6King stl' Stanley, caretaker) High street I Reynolds John &; Son, shopkeepers, Waddilove Thomas, butcher,Finger rd Palmer Elizabeth (Mrs.), fishmonger, .. 41 Bank &; Bank road Iwall William Ernest, saddler, Old 23 High street 'Rhodes Bert, beer retailer,s Bank rd Vicarage road Perry Joseph, boot repairer, Bank rd IRhodes R. Alma, insnr. supt.King' at! Watkis8 Jas. baker &; grocer, Bank rd Phillips Henry Revell, solicitor, &;, Boberts Diana (Mrs.), beer ret. Bank I Weaver Eliza (Mrs.),millnr.39 High s~ clerk to the Urban District Goua-j Boberts Harry, shopkpr, IS Chapelllt!Weaver Thos. stationer, 37 High st cil (Shifnal), High street IBoberts Jas. Wesley, painter, Bank rd Whettall Edwd. beer res, 5 Burton at I'hillips Sam!. shopkpr. 28 Bank rd IRoberts Robert, shopkpr. Btrrton st IWiIliams Benj. maltster, 8 Chapel st Phillips Wm. shopkpr, I Hinksbay rd I Rock John, cycle dlr. 5 New street IWiUiams Jsph. beer retlr.je King at Phillips Wm. Ernest, general dealer,' Roden 'I'hoa. F. beer ret_ Dawley bnk !Williams Wm. g-reengro. 20 High st 61 &, 57 High ~treet [RoundsEthelbert,insur .agt.Meadow rd IWoodhouse Herbert Clement M.B., Phillips's Stores L!mited, grocers &.' R.uscoeJohn, grocer, 24 Finger road Ch.B.Vict., J.P. surgeon, &. ;ne~i~ tea dealers, 19 High street ' Simmonda Walter, footban manufae-I cal officer to the Urban Ilistrics Picken Richd. Talbot P.H. 26 High et' tnrer. 17 Chapel .treet i Council, 30 King street Plant Jsph.Wblte Horse r.B.Heath hI i Smith Harry, draper. 40 &; 42 High atl Wooding Fredk.prov. mer.67 King s' Plirnmcr Enoch Howard, butcher, 89! Smith John R.grocer,22 &; 24 High .t Wrekin Chemical Co. wood. distilla- Bank jSInith Richard, builder, Burton st tion works; &. at Pontrilas, Here- Plimrner Thoa, Wm. beer retlr. Bank Smith Wm. hair dresser, 63 High at. fordshire. TA "Wrekin Chemical, Poole Wm. H. beer ret. 6 Button .t. Stanley John, shopkeeper, New street I Dawlej " DA WLEY P ABV A is an ecclesiastical parish formed I vicarage house wall considerably enloarged in 1899. Oct. 24, 1845, from the parish of Great Dawley, and Attached to the church is a. Sunday school, erected iu includes Little Dawley, Doseley, Horsehay, Lightmoor,' 1912. At Horsehay are extensive iron works belonging Stoneyhill, The Potteries and Burrough's Bank. in the to the Horsehay 00. Limited. The minerals are coal Mid division of the county, South Bradford hundred, and ironstone. The Earl of Craven is lord of the manor Madelcy union and county court district, pe·tty sessicnal and principal landowner; part of the property has been division of Wellington, rural deanery of Shifnal, arch- divided into sections and sold. The chief crops are deaconryof Salop and diocese of Lichfield, DawleyParva wheat, oats and barley. The soil is varions ; the subsoil is 1 mile from Horsehay station on the Wellington, Shif- is clay. The area is 9Ooa. IT. 38p.; the population in nal and Oraren ArIml section of the Great Western rail- 19I1 was 1,617. way, 5 west from Shifnal, 4 from Weilington and 31 P st & M 0 Office Little Dawley.-Miss Elsie E. from Madeley. The church of St. Lllke (locally at 0 .. . ' . D lev and ted Tn 8 5) 1'8 edifice of b . k . Walker, aub-postmistrese. Letters arrwe from aw- Dose '.' ~ erec 1 1 4 an I rrc In I Sal hi h' th t t I h ffi the Norman style, consisting of apsidal chancel, naTe, ey, op, w e IS e ne~res e egrap .0 ce south porch and a stone turret at the south end eontain- Post, M. 0., T. &1 Telephonic Express Delivery Office. ing one bell: there are 508 sitting.. The registers date Horsohay, Salop.-Ebenel\er Dabbs, sub-postmaster from the year 1846. The living i. a vicarage, net yearly Letter Box, Railway Itati{)n value £g36, including a quarter of an acre ot glebe, Wall Letter Box Doeeley with residence, in the gift of the Crown and Bishop . '.. .. alternately, and held since 1916 by the Rev. George The children of this panah attend the Pool Hill Council Parmiter of St. Bees &. Durham University. The &; Elementary. achoola at Dawloy Magna Everett Alfd. Rd. White ho. Doaeley IClayton Mrs. Station road IHorsehay Co. (The) Ltd. engineers Parmiter Rev. George (vicar), The. Creed Alfred J. Moreton Coppice &. iron founders, bridge builders &; Vicarage, Doseley ,'Lowe Albert J. The Hollies gas plant manufacturers; 801e Phillips Albert, Glenmore bo.Doseley Simpson Henry Charles J.P. The i makers of Wilson's producer plant. Simpson Herbert, Greenhur,t,Do8eley I Cottage I TA" Bridge, Horsehay;" T NIl 5 COJO(BRCLU.. I Simpson Joseph, WQodlands I Wellington Fox Ja. Crown P.H. Little Dsl'tley 180ame Sir Charles Buckworth-Herue- Bughes Jeremiah, beer ret6iler Greaves Samuel Mansell, shoe maker, bart. Ivy house Ironbridge &; Coalbrookdale Co-opera- Little Dawley , tive Society Limited, Old row Humphries Wm. J. beer retlr.Doseley I CO}[lOIRCJAL. IJones John Leonard, farmer Price John, farmer, Little Dawley [Ball Joseph, shopkeeper, Poclside IMachin CecilJIarry,Pore.stersArmsP.H Reynolds John, grocer, Little DnwleyIBrandlee Collieries Co . .Moreton C~' .(The), englll~~r5 She~ard Goorge, smith, Lit. DawleyiChcadle John, beer retailer 'Morgan Wllham, beer retailer' Ta~ll)r Clement, Red Lion P.H IChilton Thos. Herbt. irmr.Woodlands Passey George, butcher Wilde Richard, Unicorn P.H lCoalmoor New Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd :Pitchtord John, farmer HORSERAY IHawkins William John. customs," Pyx Gramce Co. Ltd. quarry owners . . I excise &. old age pension officer, 31WiUiams William, grocer PRITATB BBsmBNTS. Myford cottages ; Ea)'l~r Harry Rd.Griffiths, Myford ho I i DEUXHILL is a very smsl! parish on the road from The Boil is clayey; the subsoil is similar. The chief Bridunorth to BewdIey and , 4~ miles crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 481 south-by-west from Bridgnorth station, Severn Valley acres; assessable value, £248; the population in 19u section of the Gre&t Western railway, in the Southern was 40. division of the county, liberty of the borough of Wen- Letters received through Bridgnorth, which is th~ lnck, Chelmarsh division of Stottesdon hundred, Bridg- nearest money order office, 4~ miles distant; Billings- n01't h union, petty sessional division and county court ley is the nearest telegraph office, I! miles distant district. rural deanery oC Bridgnorth, archdeaconry of ,'l'he children of the parishes of BilIingsley, DeuxhilI, Ludlow and . The church, a small: Glaseley, &; Sidbur;y attend thill hut ancient buildinz of rubble stone, has been pulled; school dO"'n; the livin~ is- annexed with Glazeley to the rec- . County School (mixed), built in J879, &; enlarged in tory of Chetton and the inhabitants attend the church 1908, for 100 children; William Armstron~, master ; at Glazeley. The trustees of the late WilIiam Bunney Mrs. Fanny Armstrong, mistress, who have a house P"I· :iI''' lords of the manor and principal landowners. attached Harrison Alice (Mrs.), frmrHall fnn I Jones Herbert, farmer DIDDLE,BUUY is a parish intersected by the river I 12 hamlets of Diddlebury, Westbope. Great and Little Corve, 6 miles north-east from Craven Arms station on Sutton, Lawton, Peaton, Broncrott, Middlebope, Corfton, th~ Gr~at Western and London and North Western joint \ Sparchford, and Earnstrey Park (annexed to the parish railway, and 8 miles north from Ludlow, comprising the I of Abdon in 18Br) and (transfer-red from Hol- ] 38 MAINRTONR. SHROPSHIRE. [KRLLY'S MAINSTONE. IHudson William, Iarmer.Mainstone ha (Willi~S Richard Morgan, farmer, Marked thus • receive letters through i J ones. John, farmer ~{~lnstone farm Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire. I*Lewls Thomas, farmer, Pantglas , Wllhams Thos. farmer, Cwmfrydd, Lloyd David, smallholder EDENHOPE COMMERCIAL. Marpole John fa.rmer The Knuck ,. Davies Arthur, farmer, Cwmcolebatch iMorris Edward, wbeel';'right Jones Edward L. farmer Edwards Richard, farmer, The Cwm :Morris John blacksmith REILTH. Evan!. Thomas, farmer. The Ashes [Morris Stephen, blacksmith Davies John. farmer. Reilth top Francis John, smallholder IPugh John farmer Rolver IDavies Thomas. farmer, Henhouse -Gough Edward, farmer. Pantglae Sherry Jo~~ph. sm~llholaer Dealrins Edwd. Jas. farm~. Reilth fm Hudson Herbt, farmer, Cwmcolebatch Venables Edwin farmer, Hill end i Deakins John, farmer. Bailth house MALINS~BE, or ~awler Nova, is a township, and I Purcell's, £3, and Lewis's of £:.l.";'O ~educed Conso~s, the was formed mto a parl:sh July 28, 1843. trom the pariah dividends of which are to be disteibubed yearly in the of Dawley Magna, whIch township it. adjoins; it has a , purchase of blankets and wearing apparel amongst the

station on ~he CO/l.lpor~branc~ of the Lsndon and North 11 poor and deserving w.id.ows. These charitie.s are now We~tern rftllw~y, and 11 3 miles north from Madeley,.. consolidated and administered by a committee. The ~est fro~ S~I!~al, and 4 south-east from Wellington, I soil is loamy; subsoil, gravelly. The minerals a~e co.al ID t·he MId diVISIOnof the county, South Bradford hun- 'and ironstone. The area is 890 acres ; populatIon In dr~d, petty sessional division of Wellington, Madeley I I9II, 3,346. umon and county court district! rural deanery of Shifnal, Parish Clerk, Albert Woodvine. archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield The church of St. Leonard, erected in 180S, is an oct~gonal . Post Office, Dark Lane.-AIbert Pay ne, sub-postmaste:. building of Ireestone in the Classic style, consisting of 1 Letters from Shifnal, Oa,kengates, 2 miles distant, IS chancel, nave. aisles and an embattled western tower i the nearest money order &:, telegr~ph office containing 6 bells: three of the windows are stained. I Post Office, Old Park.-Noah Bailey, sub-poatmaster. T.he register dates from the year 1844. The living is a I Letters from Dawley. Nearest money order office. at ·ncarage. net ye~rly va.lue £218, including about 1\ ~wley Bank &; telegraph office at , 2 miles acres of glebe, with residence, lD the gift. or t.he vicar I distant of Dawley Magna, and held since 1895 by tbe Rov. Public Elementary Schools. Edward Parry. There are also Wesleyan and Primitive I Methodi8t chapels. Here are the remains of an ancient i Mixed, built in 18'35, for 184 children; Frank Clayton, chapel, supposed to have been connected with the Oluniac ! master . monastery of St. Milburll'a, at ; it is a I Infants', fOT 120 ohildren : Miss MargaTet B. Davies, pla~n rectangular building. of the rsth century, ot i .infants' mistT8ss. whIch the walls and a pornon of the east window still ' Infants', Old Instltute, opened August, r895, for C}4 re~ain. The chariti&8. are of about £7 yearly value, i children; Miss J. Isabelle Merrington, mistress being the aggregate Interest of Walthall's charity,' --. £1 79.; Bodden's, £2 I5s. Bd.; Greenhalgh's, £1; I Railway Ststion, Robert B. Moffitt, statIon master MALINSLEE. I*Parker William B. New Church Attwood Ernest, grocer Marked thus * receive their letters Wickets P.B Bailey Noah, ehopkeeper,. Post office through Dawley. IPay ne &; Co. shopkeepers, &; post Egerton Noah, boot repairer . ••p R Ed d (. ) Th V· office, Dark Lane Isherwood Albert, shopkeeper, Wlll- any .ev. , w.' vrcarj, e lcrge, PooIe Florence (MillS), insurance . mot road Plum :r.hS90, Malinslee hall . agent, Dark Lane .Old Park Unionist Club (Willia.m P. Bushton Thomas, Abbey villa Sheward John, farmer, Malinslee frm i Watkis8, sec) COJOUI:aCUL. Tanks Thomas undertaker IPerks Thomas, farmer, Forge farm *Bailey William, beer retr, Church la Watlri'8 Willia~ Parson s, coal mer IWatkiss Ernest, shopkeeper. Spring- *Crawford Adela (Mrs.), shopkeeper,IWilletts Richard farmer i field place ForR8 Row I ' I Watkiss William, shopkeeper -Jones Bugh Thomas, farmer, The)1 OLD PARK. jWiIletts William, butcher Spout farm CO}o(.ll!DCLU •• *Jones Thos. Wm. shopkpr. Ivy ho A.rcher William, shopkeeper MA.RKET DRA.YTON is a parish, market and union and diocese of Lichfield; the town is lighted Yith gdl town and head of a county court di~trict., situated on a by a company, formed in 1862, from works at Market hill near the Tern stream and the Shropshire Union Dray ton , rebuilt in 1889. and also by electricity, from canal, with a station on the Great W!l5tern .Ba.ilway works in Great Hales street belonging to a. company Company's main line from: London to Manchester, 173 formed in 1902; water has now been brought into the miles by rail and 154 by road from London, 19 north- town from springs at Burnt Wood and Cold Comfort east from , 16 north from Wellington and 14 farm, Bloore Heath. The church of St. Mary is a north-west frorn Newcastle-undeT-Lyme; the North building of stone I in the Gothic style, consisting of Staffordshire Railway Company's branch line from chancel, nsve, aisles and an embattled western tower. Stoke-upon-Trent, Newc&stIe-under-Lyme and Silverdale with pinnacles, containing a clock and 8 bells, the 6 old also forms a junction at the 8tation, which is con- bells having been re-hung and 11 new enes added in venief1tly situated B short distance from the town on 1887; the welt door is a fiDe example of Norman wOl·k: the Cheshire side; for civil parochial purposes it was ~he stained west window, erected in 1901 by public divided into four districts, viz. Market Dray ton, Little subscription, is a memorial to Her late Majesty Queen Dray ton, the hamlets of Sutton, Betton, Woodseaves, Victoria: there are otber windows to the Corbet and and Longslow, snd the township of Tyrley, wbich lattel' Radfnrd-Norcop families; in 1898 a rood screen was' put place is in the count}' of Stafford. By Local Govern- up: in 1884 tile church 'Was cumpletely restored at !I ment Board Order dated 24th. March, 1914, Dra.yton cost of between £8,000 and £9,~oO; it was reseated Magna and Drayton Parva were constituted an Urban in. 1901: a reredos and. altar were erected in 1912: District. governed by a council of fifteen members. By there are 750 .sitting.. The register dat&s from the the same Order Betton was transferred ffJr civil purposes year 1558. The living is a vicarage. net yearly value to Norton-in-Hales, Longslow to Moreton Say, and £188, with residence, in the gift of Reginald Corbet Sutton and WoodseaTes were formed into a new civil esq, who is lay impropriator (the yearly value of the parish named Sutton-npon-Tern. The old manorial cus- impropriated tithes being £785), and held since 1913 toms still obtain, the fairs being proclaimed by the 41 Van. the Hon. Horace Edward Samuel Sneade ateward of the manor, during which a court of piepoudre Lambart M.A. of Magda.Jan College, Oxford, Arch- is held, to determine all disputes that may ariBe during deacon of Salop Emmanuel church, in Burgall'e the time of the fairs; a court leet is held in October; the Itreet. erected in 1882, was a proprietary chapel market 'Wal originally granted by King Benry the Third. until February, T904, when it was consecrated and The parfsh comprises the hamlets of Dray ton Magna. the living made a. full benefice: it is an edifice of Dray ton Parva, Sutton, Betton, Woodseaves and Longs- red brick. in a modern Gothic style. from de~i-2'ns by low, in Shropshire, and the township of Tyrley, in Mr. Bower, architect. and consists of chancel. nave, Staflor.lshire, in the Northern division of the county .. vestry , west porch and a hw western turret contninin ; North or Drayton division of ths hundred of Bradford'j or-e bell: ;'1 '"0" ~ new vestry was adrl~d ~! th.n r-s:- rural deanery of Hodnet, arch deaconry of Salop pense of J. Cecil Clay esq.: In 1~91 a memorial wmdnw