116 CHECKLEY. STAFFORDSHIRE. Checkley. Seabridge Charles, farmer Woodcock William, farmer Hutchinson• Mrs Shenton Thomas, coal carter Merredith Rev. William Henry Fitz- Shoebotham Daniel, farmer,Rectory fm Fole. gerald [curate] Spinks Arthur H. M.R.C. v.s. vet. surg Vernon William Alien, Foie farm Spinks Arthur H Madeley Home. Bailey John, fanner, Foie Bank farm COMMERCIAL. Durose Arthur, blacksmith Barlow Francis, farmer Sant William, farmer Ede Reuben, farmer, New ho. Overton Beresford Jane (Mrs.), farmer Beamhurst. Evans William, bailiff to William Ver- CritchlowJames,farmer,Deadman's grn Grosvenor- J ennings W illiam G rosvenor non & Sons Gallimore Reuben, frmr. Deadman's grn Wbitehousel" aylerJ.P.Beamburst ball Greensmitb Lawrence, farmer Hall Fanny (Mrs.), farmer Burton John, wheelwright & blacksmith Hodson Richard, shoe maker Hall Mary Ann (Mrs.), cowkeeper & Cope Sarah Ann (Mrs.), farmer Stubbs Thomas, farmer, Overton parish clerk Draycot Charles, farmer Tooth John, bricklayer & shopkeeper Noakes George, farmer & shopkeeper Reeves Herbert, farmer Turner James, farmer Pattinson Arthur, farmer & beer retlr Shipley George, farmer Turner John, farmer, Broadgate Prinee Uriah, Red Lion P. H Walker J ames, beer retailer Vernon W\)liam & Sons, millers(steam) Reeves William, cattle dealer Walker Thomas, farmer & farmers CHEDDLETON is a parish and pleasant village, de­ Westwood, left the interest of £900 at the disposal of the in­ lightfully seated on an eminence above the Cauldon canal cumbent for the time being for the poor of the parish, and and the river Churnet, on the road from Leek to Longton the Rev. John Sneyd M.A. of Ashcombe Park, gave a cottage and Cheadle, with a station half a mile south-east from the and garden for the benefit of the choir for ever. Ashcombe village, on the Churnet yalley section and another at Wall­ Park, the seat of Dryden Henry Sneyd esq. J.P. is a man­ grange, a mile north-west, on the Leek and Stoke branch of sion of stone in the Grecian style, erected by William Sneyd the North Staffordshire railway, I6 miles from Macclesfield, ssq. in I8o6-w, on the site of Botham Hall, the old manor 3 south from Leek, 7 north from Cheadle and ISO from house, and stands in an extensive well-wooded deer park, 4 London, in the Leek division of the county, North Totmons­ miles south of Leek. Woodlands is the property of D. H. low hundred, Leek petty sessional division and county court Sneyd esq. J.P. James Meakin esq. of Westwood Manor, district, Cheadle union, rural deanery of Leek, arr.hdeaconry Wetley Rocks, who is lord of the manor, and Dryden H. of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. The church of Sneyd esq. J.P. are the principal landowners. The soil varies St. Edward, until I4SO a chapel of ease to Leek, is a building from light mar! to black peat; subsoil, red sand. The chief of stone of the 13th century, the tower and roofs having been crops are oats and potatoes, but the land is principally pas­ apparently added or renewed in the time of Queen Elizabeth: ture, The common was inclosed in 1735. The area of the it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an civil parish 6,gsr acres of land and 66 of water; rateable embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a value, £13,798; the population in 1891 was 1,772 in the clock and 6 bells: the chancel is separated from the naYe civil and I,097 in the ecclesiastical parish. by a fine oak screen, and in the choir house is a small RowNALL, forming a joint township with Cheddleton, is portion of the old screen of the 13th century ; the font, of 3 miles south-west. alabaster, was the gift of Mrs. Bradshaw, of Leek: a fine Basford, close to the railway station, is a township ()( piscina and three sedilia ~;till remain, and there is a Cheddleton, in the Leek division of the county, Leek petty monument to the Finney family of Compton Leek, and sessional division. Basford BaJI, a mansion in the Eliza­ others to the Hollins family of Mossley, x697-1738 : and bethan style, is the seat of John William Sneyd esq. D.L., to Edward Arblaster esq. of Rownall, 1783 ; besides J.P. Dryden H. Sneyd esq. J.P. of Ashcombe park, who is memorial windows to the family of Powys. The church was lord of the manor, and Major-General Thomas Philips J.P. restored in I86s, under the superintendence of the late Sir of Ashenhurst, Leek, are the principal landowners. Churnet G. G. Scott R.A. and a vestry added, at a cost of over Grange is the seat of Arthur Fanshaw Waterloo Royle esq. £2,soo, and in 1870 a choir-house was built, at a cost of Parish Clerk, John Morton. £6oo; in x8!li the east wall of the chancel was decorated with paintings on wood panelling, from designs by G. G. PosT & M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office.­ Scott esq. M.A. as a memorial to the late Rev. John Sneyd Miss Mary Elizabeth Day, sub-postmistress. Letters M.A., F.s.A. by his wi::low and her daughter, Mrs. Carew arrive from Leek at 7· IS a.m. ; dispatched at 6.20 p.m. Hunt: there are 308 sittings : in the churchyard is an The nearest telegraph office is at Leek ancient cross, which has been carefully restored. The WALL LETTER BoxEs Railway station, is cleared at 5.20 register of baptisms and burials dates from the year p.m. week days only; near Mr. Clarkson's, cleared at 6 I6g6, and marriages from 1754- The living is a vicarage, p. m. week days only Letters for Rownall, Wetley Rocks & Consall from Stoke- tithe rent-charge £14, net yearly value {;210, including 1r7 • acres of glebe, in the gift of the Hev. Alfred Francis Boucher on-Trent H.A. of Kempsey, Worcestershire, and held since I883 by ScHOOLS:- the Rev. Alfred Herbert Boucher M.A. of Trinity College, National (mixed), erected in z853, at a cost of £6so, & Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in I849· supported by subscriptions & a yearly rent-charge of £3 Cheddleton brewery, paper works, and a flint mill are on land in Wetley Rocks, left by James Whitehall in 1724, situated here. The Wake Sunday, properly the Sunday & a yearly rent-charge of £s, left. by John Bagnall in after St. Edward's day, is postponed for a week, in con- I814, out of the Ringe Hay House estate; two class-rooms sequence of Leek church being named after the same saint. were added in 1883 & the old school thoroughly repaired Fairs are held at Cellarhead on May 5th and first Thursday the total cost being £6n ; the schools now hold 200 in November. The County Lunatic Asylum for about Boo children; average attendance, 126; John James Parnell, inmates is now (x89s) in course of erection here, at a cost of master; Miss Myra Carding, infants' mistress; Miss A. about £2oo,ooo, from designs by Messrs. Giles, Gough and E. Goldstraw, sewing mistress Trollope, architects, of London. Charities :-The curate The children of Consall now attend the Wetley Rocks receives £4 and the poor 245. yearly, from the trustees of National school the late Miss Joliffe; the poor have also 20s. yearly, left by RAILWAY STATIONS:- John Bagnall; ::ws. by William Sneyd ; £4 by John Fenton, Cheddleton, John Bloore, station master and a few other small gifts ; the late Colonel Powys, of Wall Grange, Edward Green, station master Cheddleton. Barnett Charles, farmer, Coal Pit ford Clarkson Thomas, joiner, builder, brick Boucber Rev. Alfd. Herbt. M.A. [vicar] Bloore Henry, farmer, Brund & pipe maker & stone merchant, Burton William B!oore John, farmer, Bigwood Heath house Faulkner William James Bloore John, station master Clowes Elisha, land agent to Dryden H. }<']etcher Thomas Irlam, Wall Lane cot Bold John, shopkeeper Sneyd esq. .J.P. Ashcombe cottage Goldstraw Mrs Bowcock Obadiah, shopkeeper Day Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Illsley Mrs Brassington Henry, farmer, Grange Durose Henry, farmer, Rownall Pebworth Henry Thomas Brittains Limited, manufacturers of l<'indler John, painter Sneyd Dryden Henry J.P. Ashcombe pk pottery tissue paper (Jeremiah Steel, Gildart William Henry, greengrocer Steel Jeremiah manager), Cheddleton mills God win Samuel, butcher Erookes James, farmer, Lady green Goodwin John, flint grinder COMMERCIAL. Brough Thomas, tailor Hood Henry, blacksmith Allcock William, boot & shoe maker Brown William & Son, contractors Kent Mary (Mrs.), Red Lion P.H. Bailey Charles, farmer, l<'elt house Erown Henry, farmer, Gat's wall Lymer Wm. farmer, Cheddleton park Bailey Charles Henry, farmer, Dale ho Burton William, managing partner to Martin Charles, cowkeeper Bailey Isaac, beer retailer the Cheddleton Brewery Co Melior John, Boat inn, & coal dealer, Barber James, farmer, Littlewood Cantrill T hos. farmr. Basford Bridge fm Basford bridge Barber James, jun. corn dlr. Stoneleigh Cheddleton Brewery Co. brewers Mitcbell Charles, insurance agent Barber James, sen. shoe maker (William Burton, managing partner) Mitchell Richard, farmer, Newstead