DIRECTORY. J . LITTLE WENLOCK. 291 Shaw Annie Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Mill street Ward Sarah (Miss), dress maker, Mill street Sheppard ChaTles, coal merchant, Station yard, Aston st Ward Thomas, boot maker II, & clog maker 53• High st & Wern Brewery Co. Lirn. brewers, Watson Edwin, boot maker, High street maltsters, wine & spirit merchants & aerated water Weaver Edward, journalist, High street manufacturers, Noble street Cash Drapery Co. Ltd. drapers & outfittrs.High l!t Simpson Arthur, mechanical engineer, Aston street Wem Conservstive Club (Capt. H R Stapleton Cotton, Smith George, carter, Aston street hon. treasurer; Francis S. Butter, sec. ),Sambrook hall Stinchcombe Albert Edward, cabinet maker, Noble st Wem & District Agricultural Society (Philip Lee, sec) Stincbcombe E. F. clerk to Whitchurch Old Age Pension Wem & District Golf Club (G. L. Bretherton & Rev. E. Sub-Committee, 4 A!!ton road N. Davies, j.oint hon. secs.) ; links opposite Gramma:r Strong Thomas, printer & stationer, High street schaol Swain Percival, cheese factor, see Platt & Swain Wem Fire Brigade (A:rthur Simpson, capt. ), Noble st Taylor Francis, watch maker & jeweller, sr High street Wem Gas Light & Coke Co. Limited (R. J. Clayton,. Territo-rial Force Battalion (4th) (Light Infantry) (De- sec.; Robert Ashley, manager), High street tachment of B Co. Capt. E. S. Hawkins, command­ Wem Mills Ltd. millers, Mill st. & Market hall. T N ro. ing; Sergt.-Instructor Hall), The Armoury, High st ~ histon Eli, dairyman, Cream ore mills Tomlins Eva Georgina (Mrs.), gro. & confctnr. High st Williams Harry, blacksmith, Aston street Tommy Fre-derick & Elijah, builders, Station street Williams Thomas, greengrocer, 26 Noble street Town Hall, High street Williams William Thos. commercial traveller, 8 Aston rd Tudor Edward, grocer, 49 High street Wood M. Audin, photographer, High street United Counties Bank Limited (branch) (William H. Wood Waiter, insurance asst. supt. Granville, Aston rd Edwards, manager), High street; draw on Williarns Woodward Wilfred Ltd. fruit merchants, Aston street Deacon's Bank Limited, London E C Wrench Misses, ladies' school, The Grove, High street Wall & Co. drapers, High street ASTON. Edwards Fredk. farmer, Brook farm 'Matthews Edward, farmer,Alderley la COMMERCIAL. Ga.rmstone George, farmer, The Weir Williams Saml. farmr. Hill Cop bank Ballard G. P. & H. M. farmers, Harper J-oseph, farmer Woodfin John, farmer, Snnnyside Brockhurst Ikin William, farmer, Moat house Woolley Samuel, farmer Clorley Joseph, farmer, Barker's green Madeley Henry (exors. of), farmers, Wycherley Bros. farmel'S, The Weir Cooke Jn. By. farmer, .Aston house Aston ball LACON, (MaTked thus * lettell's are received *Houlding ThOoS.P.frmr.Higher Lacon through Pree.s, Whitchurch.) *Overall John, farmer, Higher Lacon Brown John, farmer, Lacon hall Shingler J oseph, farmer SLE.AP. Letters through Myddle, Shrewsbury. Madeley William, farmer Blockley Thomas, farmer I Price John Madeley, farmer HORTON. Bennion John, farmer Evans Samuel, farmer Rogers Ann (Mrs.), blacksmith Brown Jo'hn, farmer Johnson John, jun. farmer Williams Thos. frmr. Horton Hall frm Davies John, farmer Robinson Brothers, farmers Williams Thomas, jun. farmer LO'WE & DITCHES. Harries Mrs. Lowe Hill house Evans Richard, farmer Williams John, farmer, Pool farm Hudson William, The Pyms Furber John, farmer, Foxholes W oodhouse W illiam, farm bailiff to Rodenhurst William, Lowe villa Higgins Thomas A. farmer, Lowe hall William Hudson esq. The Lowe Armitage William Bate, farmer Jones James Richard, farmer

SOULTON. .Ashton William, farmer, Soulton Hall Evans Ewert, farmer, Dairy house & Brook farms I TILLEY. (Letters marked thus * to be ad- *Kynaston Henry, Oaklands Leadsom Oliver, cowkeeper dressed through Wem direct.) Needham Miss, Summer house *Moseley George, farmPr, Trench frrn *Whiston William Ph.D., F.R.G.S. Mottershead Charlotte (Mrs.) ,farmer, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. . Tilley lodge Tilley hall *Barnett Miss, Old Mill house COMMERCIAL. *Phillips Herbert, farmer, Preston *Clegg James Arthur, Palms hill *Bradbury Clement, farmer I springs *Eckersley Lieut.-Col. Nathaniel Bromley Henry, farmer Rogerson George, farmer, Brook farm ffarington J.P. The Trench; & Gresty Abraham (Mrs.), farmer Rutter George, farmer Junior Carlton club, London SW *Johnson Daniel, farmer, Pankymoor Weston William, black.smibh *Eckford John Jones Emma (Mrs.), farmer,Ruewood *Whiston William Ph.D. & Miss M. *Fell Lieut.-Col. Edwin James J.P. Jones Mary Ann (Miss), beer retailer A. private school, Tilley lodge Tilley house Jones Richard, farmer, Tilley park Williams John, joiner *Glover John Robert, The Larches *Kynaston James, farmer,Woodhouse Wycherley Josiah, farmer, Takings LITTLE WENLOCX, styled in ancient records I memorial to John George Weld, 2nd Baron Forester, d. "Wenlock-under-the-Wrekin," is a village and parish, in ro Oct. r874; there is also a memorial window in the a pleasant position under the south side of the Wrekin, baptistery to William Edmonds, I872, erected by Dorothea commanding some fine views over a picturesque and Elizabeth, his widow, and his brother the Rev. George delightful district, 2 miles north from Buildwas station Edmonds M.A. late rector, I8 ..p-8g. The register dates on the Severn Valley branch of the Great Western railway from the year 1695· The living is a rectory, net yearly and 2 west from the Horsehay station on the Wellington value £360, including 8 acres of glebe, with residence, and Craven Arms branch of the same line, 4 south from in the gift of Lord Forester, and held since t8g8 by Wellington, 3 north from Ironbridge, 5 north-east from the Rev. Joseph William Johnson M . .A. of Trinity Col­ Much Wenlock and II south-east from Shrewsbury, in lege, Cambridge. The charities are as follows: Maurice the Mid division of the county, municipal borough and Hayward bequeathed in r76o the interest of £ro for bread petty sessional division of Wenlock, Madeley union and on St. Thomas' day; Mrs. Alice Green, in r748, left county court district, rural deanery of Wenlock, ns. 6d. yearly to the poor; Mrs. Mary Tipton, in r844, archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Here- left to the parish and for the repair and painting of the ford. The church of St. Lawrence is an ancient building monument erected to her memory, the interest of £so of stone and brick in the Early English style, consisting yearly; Mrs. Hannah Shepherd, in r 845, gave the in­ of chancel, nave and an embattled western tower con- terest of £100 for clothing for the poor at ; taining a clock and 5 bells: the stained east window is a Margaret 'Poole, in 1874• gave £rg Igs. to the rector and SHROPSHIRE 19•