3~0 WROCKWARDINE WOOD. SHROPSHIRE. ( KEL' y'~ Davies Sarah (Mrs.), coal merchant, Massey William Sidney, beer retailer I Stratford James Robert, watch ma. 65 Trench road Meredith Moses, beer retailer 84 Trench road Dean John, shopkeeper Moran Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper Smith William, pig dealer Edwards .John Thomas, Dun Cow P.H Morris Richard, farmer Thomas Harry, butcher Evans Charles, grocer, Furnace lane Pickering Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkpr. Townsend Frances (Mrs.), farmer France Jn. & Thos. bldrs. Trench la Furnace lane Turner Albert Richard, joiner. 82 Hancock J oseph, beer retailer Price George, insur. agt. Trench lane Trench road Howell Samuel, tailor Pritchard Geo. shopkpr. Furnace l•ane Wakeley John, yeast dealer Howells Leonard, Duke of York P.H Reynolds Enan, insur.agt.Victoria te1 Wakeley Sampson, cowkeeper Jervis Peter, farmer Rogers Thomas Alfred, Old Shaw Walker Howard, insur. agt.Trench rd Lane Wm. J. beer ret. Trench Locks Birch P.H Waltho Chas. insur.agt.3o Edward ter Lowe William, farmer Stokes Joseph, butcher Wynne Israel, shopkeeper Lowe Wm. S. beer ret. Furnace lane WBOXETEB is a village and parish on the river coins, all of which have been deposited in the Museum .Severn, 3 miles south-west from Upton Magna station on of the Shropshire Natural History and Antiquarian the Great Western and London and North Western joint Society at Shrewsbury. The Roman cemetery, which railway and 6 south-east from Shrewsbury, in the appears to have commenced about 150 yards from the Western division of the county, Wellington diviswn of north gate and to have extended easterly along the South Bradford hundred, petty sessiOnal drvrsron of side of the road, has also been explored to some extent; Wellington, Atcham union, Shrewsbury county court a great number of interments were found, but hitherto district, rural deanery of Wrockwardine, archdeaconry no traces of burial except by burning; many urns .of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St. were discovered, which appear to have been deposited Andrew is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting of in small pits or rows. Lord Barnard, who is lord of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western the manor, and Lord Berwick are the principal land­ tower containing a clock and 6 bells : the east window owners. The soil is light loam; subsoil, gravel and is stamed, and there are some very interesting monu­ clay. The chief crops are wheat, turnips, barley and ments to the Newport family, and an altar tomb to clover-. 1.'he population of the civil parish in rgn was Sir Thomas Bromley kt. Lord Chief Justice of the 6oo, with the hamlets of Donnington, Dryton, Eyton, King's Bench, 1544-55, and one of the executors of the Norton and Rushton, and of the ecclesiastical, 516. The -will of King Henry VIII. ob. 1555 : about r864 an entire area is 5,88o acres of land and 73 of water; Easter sepulchre was discovered in the chancel wall ; rateable value, £7,882. in 1887 the tower was restored, the south door re­ Donnington :ii! a hamlet, r! miles south-east. Charl­ opened and a new south porch built, the expense, ton Hill is a place here. Dryton, 2 miles south-east, amounting to £610, being defrayed by the late Duke Eyton-on-Severn, 1! miles south-by-east, Norton, r mile '()f Cleveland K.G. : the ancient font is formed from the north, and Rushton, 3 miles east, are hamlets. inverted base of a Roman pillar. The register dates Parish Clerk, Robert Thomas. from the ~ear r6r3. The living is a vicarage, net Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Brayley, sub-postmistress. Let­ yearly value £2oo, including 25 acres of glebe, with ters through Shrewsbury, arrive at 7.15 a.m. & 5.25 I·esidence, in the gift of Lord Barnard, and held since p.m. (for callers only); dispatched at 8.15 a. m. & rgu by the Rev. William Ernest Hobbes B.A. of St. 6.15 p.m.; no sunday delivery. Uppington, 3 miles John's College, Manitoba. There are charities of about distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office £6 yearly value. Wroxeter was the Roman station Wall Letter Box, Dryton, cleared 11t 5-45 p.m. week " Uriconium:" of late years considerable explorations days only have been undertaken on its site, in the course of Letter Boxes.-Norton, cleared 6.30 p.m. week days which very intt>resting discoveries have been made of only; Donnington, 5.50 p.m. week days only ~xtensive portions of the walls of buildings, and School. hypocausts, which stood therein; in the course of the ~xcavations two new classes of Roman pottery, both Wroxeter & Uppinglon Public Elementary (mixed), built evidently made in Shropshire, have been met with, in 1874, for 108 children; average attendance, gr; as well as some curious glass and metal vessels, William Collins, master numerous specimens of personal ornaments, many of A Donnington scholarship, value £2o a year, held for which are hzirpins made of tone and bronze, fibulre, 3 yeal'IS at any 8chool approved by the governors, is finger rings, bracelets, glass beads, combs and bone competed for yearly needles, as well as a great variety of other objects Carrier to Shrewsbury.-John Pritchard, Wroxeter & -of a miscellaneous character, with quantities of Roman Leake, passes through WROXETER. Mason Thomas, Horse Shoe inn, DRYTON. Uckington Hobbes Rev. William Ernest Alien Thomas, farmer B.A. Meller James, farmer, Wheathill Timmis Francis John, farmer (vicar), Vicarage Pritchard John, carcier -west Miss, The Grange Roberts Thomas, farmer, Smethcote EYTON-ON-SEVERN. Selley Frederick, shopkeeper Meire George Haughton, farmer COMMERCIAL. Thomas Robert, blacksmith NORTON. •Cartwright J oseph, gamekeeper to Lord Berwick !)ONNI.KGTON. Hughes John, farmer Davies Elizabeth (Mrs.), painter &c Jenkins Ml"s. The Court, Charlton hill Strefford .John, shopkeeper Everall John, farmer, Uckington Davis Alfred J. T. farm bailiff to 1 RUSHTON. Everall Joseph, farmer, The Cottage Mrs. Jenkins Dorrell Harry Vernon, farmer .Frank Edward James, farmer, Beslow Farmer Thomas, farmer Jervis William, farmer Humphreys Harold, farmer, Duncote Mainwaring Rbt. (Mrs.),markt.grdnr Turner Vincent, farmer -yocKLETON is a village and township, on the road of and held since rgoo by the BeT. Edwin Galliers Baker from Shrewsbury to Montgomery, with a station on the B.A., B.Sc. of the University of London. Charles Ralph Great Western and London and North Western joint Borlase Wingfield esq. of Onslow, Bicton, who is lord railway from Shrewsbury to Welshpool, 6 miles west of the manor, and Miss Parry, are principal landowners. from Shrewsbury and 152 from London, in the Western The soil is light loam ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The division of the county, Atcham union, Ford hundred and chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, peas and roots. ,petty sessional division and Shrewsbury county court The area of the parish is I,8o6 acres; the populatiiJn • district. This township, and those of Stoney Stretton m 191 I was 293· and Newton, were formerly part of the parish of West­ Stoney Stretton, rl miles west, contains 7oga. rr. 12p. bury, and are still so for civil purposes, but under an Miss Parry is the chief landowner. • Order in Council, dated June 7th, r862, these townships Newton, 2 miles south-west, contains 22oa. xr. 12p. were constituted a separate benefice and rectory, in the Capt. James Whitaker, of Winsley Hall, Westbury, is rural deanery of Pontesbury, archdeaconry of Ludlow and the principal landowner. diocese of Hereford. The church of Holy Trinity, con­ N ox is a hamlet half a mile east. secrated in r86r, is a building- of stone, in the Early Wall Letter Box cleared at 9· 15 a. m. & 7.10 p.m. ; wee); English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave days only -of three bays, south aisle, south porch, vestry and a Post & Telegraph Office.-Mrs. Ellen Dorricott, sub­ western tower with octagonal spire, about 75 feet high, postmistress. Letters arrive from Shrewsbury, through .containing one bell. The register dates from the year Lea Cross, at 7· 15 & 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 9·5 a.m. 1861. The living is· a rectory, net yearly value £3Bo, & 7 p.m.; no delivery of letters on sundays. West­ including an acre of glebe, with re~idence, in the gift bury, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order office .