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The acreage and rateable value of the several civil large and hand,some mansion of brick, with stone mul­ parishes are as follows viz. : lioned windows, in the Elizabethan style, and has been Acreage. R.V. extensively altered and restored since I876; the Hall is in a fine park of about 200 acres. The area is I,294 acres; fSt. (Jlu~Cl ..•••••.•..•..•...... • 1 0 102 ••••••••• £9,622 rateable value, £3,776; the population in 1901 was 170. St. Mary ...... ss ••••••••• 9,620 There is a mission room at Elmhurst. St. Michael ...... ••t ••• • •• •••• • • 2,288 ••••••••• 1 7o490 By Local Government Board Order a detached part of The Close ...... 16 ••••••••• 1,610 The Friary ...... • II I08 Curborough was transferred to . ••••••••• Freeford is a manor and parish, partly in the county of Stafford and partly in the cotmty of the city of Lichfield, Total ...... 3,475 ••••••••• about 2 miles south-east. The population in 1901 was Parish Clerks :-St. :Michael's, J esse Arnold; Christ roo; area, 378 acres; rateable value, £795· Freef01;d Church, John Slater. Hall is the residence of Frederic Garnett Clarke esq. Sexton :-St. Chad, George Smith. is a township 2 miles north-east-by-east, in Borrow Cop Hill, about haU a mile from Lich.field, and St. Michael's parish. The area is 978 acres ; rateable a favourable resort for excursionists in the summer, value, £4,733; the population in r89I was 280. affords very extensive views of the eounties of Derby, By Local Government Board Order a detached part of Leicester, Salop, Stafford and Warwick. Farewell and Chorley, known as Stubbs, was in 1879 added Leamonsley is a suburb on the west. to Streethay, and some cottages at Durnford transferred Curborough, 2i miles north-east, with Elmhurst, 2 from Streethay to Fulfen. tniles north, forms a joint township, in the parish of St. Fulfen, about 2 miles east, I:Jrmerly extra-parochial, is ()had, and contains a scattered population. Elmhurst now a parish. The area is 250 acres; rateable value, Hall, the residence of Meredith Hamer esq. J.P. is a £I,254; the population in I90I was 28.

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHME~TS. LOCAL INSTlTUTIONS &e. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. l\f. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & I in the Petty Sessional Division :-, Alrewas Hay, I. 0. & Post Office Telephone Call Office, Bore street.­ Edial & Woodhouses, Farewell & Chorley, William Howe, postmaster , , Freeford, Fulfen, , Hours of Attendance :-For sale of stamps, registration · N orton Canes (so much thereof as comprises the site & of letters &c. sale of & payment of postal orders, 7 a. m. curtilage of the Public Buildings at Brownhills), Ogley to 9·45 p.m. ; sundays, 8 a.m. to IO a.m. ; for money I Hay, Orgreave, Shenstone, Streethay, & Pack­ order & savings, Government annuity & insurance busi- ington, Wall, Walsall Wood (that part I~ between ness & issue of licenses, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; savings bank 1 or as to a small portion on the eastern side of the Chester -withdrawals by telegraph, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ; sut. 9 1\md & the canal at Brownhills), & Whittington .a.m. to I p.m. ; telegraph & telephone business & ex­ press delivery service, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; sunday, 8 a.m. CORPORATION. to Io a.m 1903-I904. Letters are delivered at 7 & 11 a.m. & 5 p.m. un week days & 7 a.m. on sundays Mayor, Councillor George Haynes. Letters are dispatched at 5·45• 9·5• 9.20, ,JI-5 & 11.15 a.m. Deputy Mayor, Arthur Eyles. & 1.20, 3.10, 4.20, 4·50, 5, 6.25 8.ro & 9·45 p.m. on week days & 9·45 p.m. on sundays Recorder, Robert Arthur Germaine esq. K.C. I Temple "Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Beacon garde:1s, London E C. street.-)Iiss Fearn, sub-postmistress. Letters dis. Sheriff, Councillor J. T. Raby. patched at 8.45 & ro.r5 a.m. & 12.40, 4·I5 & 8.45 p.m.; sundays at 8.45 p.m .Aldermen. 'Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Church Retire Nov. I904. Retire Nov. I907. street.-!. Woolley, sub-postmaster. Letters dis­ S. Haynes J. Fowler patched at 8.45 & Io.s a.m. & I2.45, 4·I5 & 8.45 p.m.; T. H. Hunt H. M. Morgan sundays, 8.45 p.m A. C. Lomax I J. Trevor 'Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Walsall road.-Mrs. A. Bicli:ley, sub-postmistress. Letters dis­ Councillors. patched at 8.5 & I0.2o a. m. & 12.I5, 4-I5 & 8.45 p.m.; North Ward. sundays, 8.45 p.m H. ' Retire Nov. 1906. J. J ohnson