144 EAST DEAN, . (KELL\''S Hill, Harry Hill and the greater portion of Plump Hill p.m. week days; Hill, 8.45 a.m. & 6 p.m. and Edgehills. The church of Holy Trinity, Harry Hill, week days; , 9 a. m. & 5.25 p.m. week day• which is 4 miles south from Micheldean Road station only and 6 north-west from Newnham, is a plain building of stone, erected in l8I6, in th~ Norman style, consisting EAST DEAN & UNITED PARISHES RURAL DISTRICT of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western COUNOIL. tower containing a clock and 2 bells: there are 700 (For names of officials see Westbury-on-Severn.) sittings. The register dates from the year 1817. The liv1ng is a vicarage, net yearly value £2go, with resi­ PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. dence and 2~ acres of glebe, in the gift of the Crown, East Dean & United Districts Joint Isolation Hospital, and held since 1897 by the Rev. James Lawton, of St. Greenway, David Reid Campbell B.A., M.D. medical Bees. Here are Congregational, Baptist, Wesleyan, officer; Lionel George Lyne, superintendent Primitive Methodist and United Methodist chapels. Gloucestershire County Constabulary, , Edwin East Dean and United Districts Joint Isolation Hospital, Wiltshire, constable Greenw.. y, was erected in 1896 at a cost of £6ro, and will hold ro patients. The manor, as well as the PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services. greater part of the land, belongs to the Crown. Coal Holy Trinity Church, Harry Hill, Rev. James Law ton; and iron n1ines are worked and very superior stone 11 a.m. & 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; daily service at 8 a. m.; quarried. The soil is dry and sandy ; subsoil, rock. wed. 7 p.m Timber rs the only agricultural produce. The area of Baptist, , Rev. William Erskine Rankin; the township is 13,237 acres of land and 28 of water; 10.45 a.m. & 6 p.m.; tues. 7 p.m rateable value, £32,305; the population of the civil Congregational, Dry brook, Rev. William Roach Hier; parish in x88r was I2,62g, in rgor, 14·588, and in 10.45 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; wed. 6.30 p.m rgrr, 14,594· The population of the ecclesiastical Congregational, Brierley Hill; rr a.m. & 6 p.m.; thurs. parish in 19II was 4•049· 7 p.m By an Order in Council gazetted May 27, 1912, part Congregational, Popes Hill; 2.45 p.m. ; mon. 7 p.m of Holy Trinity. Dean Forest ecclesiastical parish was Primitive Methodist, Nailbridge ( Circuit), transferred to Abinghall ecclesiastical parish. Rev. George Brake (Lydbrook) ; II a.m. & 6 p.m. ; tues. 7 p.m OINDERFORD, a portion of this township, will be found under a separate heading. United Methodist. Circuit, Rev. Wm. John Smeeth, supt. DRYBROOK is 6 miles north-west from Newnham on Dry brook; 2.30 & 6 p.m.; thurs. 7 p.m the road from to Ross, and is now the Ruardean; 11 a. m. & 6 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m terminus of the Great Western Rail way motor railway Knights' Hill; 2.30 & 6 p.m service from Newnham. Here is a Congregational Bailey Lane End; II a.m. & 6 p.rn chapel, erected in 1857, with 400 sittings, and a United Plump Hill ; 2.30 & 6 p.m Methodist chapel. -- Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, Wesleyan Methodist, (Cinderford Drybrook.-Cornelius Marfell Cowmeadow, sub-post­ Circuit), Rev. John Tyreman (Cinderford), supt.; master. Letters through , Gloucestershire, 2.30 & 6 p.m delivered at 6.50 a.m. & 12 noon; dispatched at g.ro SCHOOLS. a.m. & 5.30 & 7 p.m.; no delivery on sundays 'l'he Forest of Dean Group of Council schools are under the management of a committe<\ of 21 local managers ; RUARDEAN WOODSIDE is 6~ miles north-west from John Samuel Bradstock, Cinder ford, official corre­ N ewnham and r~ north-west from Cinderford station; spondent to the managers; Joseph George Cooper, Cin­ HARRY HILL is 6 miles. derford, William Pace, Cinderford, J. R. Brown, York­ Post Office, Rnardean Woodside.-Arnold Marfell,sub-post­ ley, Harold Long, Newnham & Edward H. Polley, master. Letters arrive through Mitcheldean,­ Coleford, attendance officers shire, at 8 a.m. & 1.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 8.30 Public Elementary, Ruardean Woodside (mixed), built, a.m. & 1.30 & 6 p.m. ; no sunday d;,livery. Ruardean with master's residence, in r878, & enlarged in 1893, is the nearest money order & telegraph office for 274 children; average attendance, 214 boys & girls Post Office, .-William Marshal!, sub-post­ & 84 infants; Edward Burton, master; Mrs. Jessie master. Letters delivered from Mitcheldean at 7·45 Marfell, infants' mistress a.m. week days only. Box cleared at 8 a.m. & 4·40 Public Elementary, Plump Hill (mixed & infants), built, p.m. Ruardean is the nearest money order & tele­ with master's residence, in r878 & enlarged in x8go, graph office for 228 children; average attendance, 1ro boys & !!"irls & 39 infants ; J ames Alfred :Marfell, master St. White's, Causeway, Little Dean Hill and Mouse! Public Elementary, Drybrook (mixed), built in r862 & Lane were, March 25, x883, taken from Flaxley parish enlarged in r891 & again in 1909, for 286 children; and amalgamated with East Dean. Hinders Lane and average attendance, 174 mixed & 109 infants; George Dockham were added bv Local Government Board Order H. Bryant, master; Mrs. Martha Bryant, infants' 14,58o, March 24, 1884: mistress RUSPIDGE, 4 miles west, and , 3~ miles RAILWAY STATIONS. west-by-south from Newnham, are given with Cinderford. Dry brook road, George William Beverstock,station mastr Wall Letter Boxes.-Crooked End, cleared at 8.40 a. m. Nailbridge Motor Halt, G. W.R. motor railway from & 5 &; 6.45 p.m. week days only; Plump Hill, 9.10 Newnham a.m. 12 noon & 5 p.m. week days; Nailbridge, 12.15 Drybrook Motor Halt, G.W.R. motor railway from &; 6.15 p.m. week days; Harry Hill, 8 a. m. & x &; 6 Newnham EAST DEAN. *Cinderford Waterworks (William tNash William George, farmer Marked thus * the postal address is Whitebouse, manager) Parsons Jane (:Miss), shopkeeper, Cinderford, Glos.; thus f is Newn- !·East Dean & United Districts Joint Ruardean Hill ham, Glos. ; thus t is Ross, Here- Isolation Hospital (David Reid Reed Richd. Railway inn, Nailbridge fordshire. Campbell B.A., M.D. medical tReeves James, Tump inn tAdams Miss, Viney hill officer; Lionel George Lyne, supt.), Ryder John, farmer, Gun's mills *ilrain Sir Francis William Thoma< Greenway tSmart Jn. Reuben,Swan inn,Brierley O.E .• J.P. Trafalgar house *Electric Blasting Apparatus Co. Surr Alfred, shopkeeper Chew Arthur. Plump hill Limited, electric fuse manufac- *Trafalgar Colliery Co. Limited (Fras. Rankin Rev. Wm. Erskine (Baptist), turers. T A. "Blasting, Serridge William Thomas Brain, sec. ; Louis Ruardean Hill Junction" Cartwright, manager) COMMERCIAL. Grimshaw Mary (Mrs.), Point inn, tTurley James, shopkeeper Barnard Alien Jam•s, cowkeeper Plump hill tVirgo Henry, shopkeeper tBarnard Thomas, beer retail<:!r Hale John, blacksmith, Nailbridge Watts Henry, farmer, Pope's hill BenneU Wm.quarry owner,Plump hi Jones Hubert John, quarry owner, White Wm.shpkpr.Ruardean Woodsde Boughton Abraham,frmr.Locquers fm Ruardean Hill Wilce John, beer retailer, Plump hill tBowdler George,farmer, Sutton's fm Jordan Tom, shopkeeper, Nailbridge Wilce Lydia (Mrs.), shopkeeper,Ruar- Bower .Jsph.grocer &; baker,Nailbridg~> Marshal! William, shopkeeper, & post dean Woodside Bradley John George, beer retailer, office, The Pluds Ruardean Woodside Matthews George Moses, quarry LEA. BAILEY. *Brain Sir Francis William Thomas, owner, Plump hill (Letters through Ross, Herefordsh.) ,;,..n engineer, Trafalgar house Millin Albert, beer retlr. Pope's hill Kerr Miss, Upper Scar