LlTT.L.E BlBOB, HF.RE ~'ORD~HIRE. [KELt.1'S Letters through Hereford. The nearest money order dren; average attendance, 44; William T. Varley, office is at Much Birch & telegraph offices at Worme­ master; Mrs. Frances M. Varley, mistress low & Hoarwithy, about 3 miles distant Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1857 for the Currier.-Alfred Baldwin, to Hereford, wed. & sat.; parhhes of Little Birch & Aconbury, to hold: 70 chil- returning same days Adkins Henry M.A., B.C.L. The Old Blashill John, farmer, Ohurch farm Oliver James, farmer, Sunnybank rectory; & New University club, Dent Annie (Mrs.), Castle P.H Powell Thomas, farmer, The Green St. James' street, London SW Hiles Thomas, farmer, Grow's nest Preece Christopher, boot repairer

Southey HarryWood J.P.Castle Nibole Hudson Thomas, Lll'mer, Wallpool frm 1 Roberts Aubrey, frmr. Bromley court Jones Alfred, farmer, Black Pits i Stallard Thos.farmer, Shrubb cottage COMMERCIAL. King's Acre Nurseries Lim. (George \Yatts ~~rthur 'rovar, farmer, New Baldwin Alfred, carrier & assistant Yapp, branch manager) mills (letters thro' Hoarwithy,Ross) overseer Lydiatt .A.rthur, farmer, Lower house Webb Charles, mole catcher, Prospect MUCH BIRCH is a parish and compact village on the stone.. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and road to Hereford from Ross through Harewood, 4 miles roots. The area is 1,303 acres ; rateable value, £2,oo8 ; west from Tram Inn station on the Newport, Abergavenny the population in I9II was 410. and Hereford section of the Great Western railway, 6~ Parish Clerk, Abraham Anning. south from Hereford and 7~ north-west from Ross, in the Kingsthorne is a straggling hamlet, I mile north, on Southern division of the county, Wormelow hundred, the old road from Ross to Hereford. Hereford union and county court district, Harewood End Wormelow, three-quarters of a mile south west, on petty sessional division, rural deanery of Archenfield and the old road from Hereford to Monmouth, through St. archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The chureh of Weonards and Welsh Newton, is partly in this parish St. Mary, entirely rebualt and enlarged in 1837, is a and partly in Much .Dewchurch and Llanwarne; here modern building of stone, consisting of chancel and nave are the kennels of the South Herefordshire Hunt; Here­ .and an embattled western tower contammg 2 be:Is: the ford and Ross are convenient places for hunting visitors. ·stained east window is a memorial to J ames Wall ace Post & M. 0. Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Stapleton, sub· .Richard Hall, formerly of this parish, d. I July,, I86o, and postmistress. Letters are dispatched to Hereford at 'buried at Ross, and to other members of the Hall family : · d ·tt" · 1 d. · th Th 5 p.m.; arrive at 6 -45 a.m.; no dehvery on sun ay. ' th ere are 250 SI · angs, me u mg 80 m e ga11 ery. e Kingsthorne, I mile distant, is the. nearest telegraph register dates from the year I599· The living is a vicar- office age, net yearly value £ss. including 8! acres of glebe Post & T. Office, Wormelow.-John Williams, sub-post­ :and l'esidence, in the gift of Capt. T. Raymond Symons, master. ·Letters arrive through Hereford at 6 a.m. of How Caple, and held since 1913 by the 'Rev. William · d ·Titus-Jones B.A. of St. fJ)avid's College, Lampeter. & 2-IS p.m.; drspatche at II a.m. & 6.4o p.m.; no · ·The charities consist of £5 from the occupier of Birch delivery on sunday. Money order office at Much House, and two or three smaller amounts, together Dewchureh ·rector :Ylonklev Chas. shopkeeper, Chapel ho KINGSTHOR~E. of St. Mary's, Lit. Birch), The Cedars Parry Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer,New croft 1 Roberts Harry Fisher, Kingsthorne Steele George Herbert, Birch lodge Pritchard Louis a (Miss), farmer, Pool' house Titus-Jones Rev.William B.A.(vicar), sprmge• COMMERCIAL. Vicarage Steele Geol'ge Herbert M.R.C.S.Eng., Addis Henry, stone mason COMMERCIAL. L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon, Birch lodge Andrews ~'Hfred, insurance agent Beavan Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper W ea le Am os, blacksmith Ashworth Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Brooke M. M. & Sons, farmers Jones James, farmer, Tabor court Brooke William, farmer WOR\1ELOW. Verry William, woodward to the Cooke Thomas Henry, blacksmith Kerslake Florence M. CMrs.), Worme­ governors of Guy's Hospital & as­ Davies Thomas, baker low Tump inn sistant overseer for Aconbury, The Dyke Wm. farmer, Hennings quarry Reading Room (John Thomas, sec) Bank E!dridge Thos.Hy. Axe & Cleaver P.H Williams John, shopkeeper & shoe Williams Thomas, baker & grocer, FletCiher William, cider merchant m.aker, Post office Post office BIRCHER, see Yarpole. BIRLEY is a parish and village, a short distance east of L'yun, joint net yearly value £260, with 16 acres of glebe, the road from Hereford to Pembridge, 5 miles south-west in the gift of Sir J oseph Verdin hart. of Garnstone from Leominster station on the Great Western railway, Castle, Weobley, and held since 1906 by the Rev. Edwin 4 north-east from Weobley and ro north-by-west from King LL.D. of Trinity College, Dublin, and B.C.L. of Hereford,, in the Northern division of the county, Stret­ Durham University, who resides at King-"s Pyon. The ford hundred and petty sessional division, union of Weob­ principal landowners are Mr. William Rowland Parry, ley, county court district of Leominster, rural deanery who is lord of the manor, Mr. Joseph Matthew Parry of Weobley,. and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. and T. 0. Alfred Hunt esq. of ·Stratford-on-Avon. The The church of St. Peter is an ancient building of stone soil is stiff loam; subsoil, clay and· limestone. The iu the Gothic style, consisting o,f chancel with south chief crops are wheat, barley, hops, fruit and turnips. cha.pel, nave, south porch and a western tower: in the The area is 1,295 acres; rateable value, £x,68r ; popu­ chapel is a memorial window, erected in r883 to Mr. lation in rgii, 193· Thomas Croose Parry, of Birley Court, who died in r88I: Parish Clerk, William Evans. there is a carved oak pulpit, dated r633: the stained east Letters through Leominster arrive at 9.30 a.m. Wall window was erected in I887: the church was repaired in Letter Box cleared at g a.m. & 4·35 p.m. week days 1854• and restored in r874 at a cost of upwards of £r.,2oo, only. Canon Pyon, about 3 miles distant, is the under the direc-tion of Mr. Henry Ward, architect, o.f nearest money order & telegraph office Stafford, and has sittings for 120 persons. The register LE>tter Box, Lady Grove, cleared at 8.5 a.m. & 5-IO p.m of marriages dates from 1754; baptism!l and burials from The. children of this place attend the schools at King's I757· The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of King's Pyon, Canon Pyon & Upper Hill