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DIRECTORY.] SHROPSHIRE. MADELEY. 131 litored in 1891-2 and new choir stalls added. The register Aston is a township in Lydham parish, in Forden union, dates from the year 1596. The living is a rectory, average Montgomeryshire, with 1,125 acres; the population in tithe rent-charge £278; net yearly value £260, including 1891 was 56. William Francis Plowden esq. D.L., J.P. 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of John is lord of the manor. Oakeley esq. and held since 1893 by the Rev. Edward CoIls Gathercole M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, who Parish Clerk, Edward Rogers. reside~ at Bishop's Castle. Oakeley House, a. handsome Letters are received through Bishop's Castle (Railway modern building, is the seat of John Oakeley esq. J.P. the Sub-Office) for Lydham &; Churchstoke (Railway Sub. lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is a. rich Office) for Aston. The nearest money order offices are loam; the subsoil varies from clay to sand and gravel. The at Bishop's Castle &; Churchstoke. The nearest tele· chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The population graph office is at Bishop's Castle of the township in 1891 was IIO; the area is 1,910 acres of land and 17 of water; rateable value of the parish, Railway Station, Lydham Heath £2,248. The children of this parish attend the school at More LYDHAM. Gough Arthur, farmer, Rectory farm ASTON. Jones Thomas S. farmer Oakeley John J.P. Oakeley house Meddins John, farmer Gwyn Thomas, farmer, Pentrecwm Bason Fras. farmer, Lower Hebland~ Meyrick 'l'homas, mill-er (water) Harris Philip, farmer, Aston hall Bason Job, farmer, Heblands Rogers Edward, blacksmith Leake Benjamin, farmer, Upper Aston Davies Richard, farmer, Lod~ farm Rogers John, farmer, Newton Wellings Richd. farmer, Middle Aston MADELEY is a union town and considerable parish, the members, who now (1895) number 160. It is sup· and head of a county court district, with the district of ported by voluntary contributions and subscriptions, also Coalport, 6 miles south-east from Wellington, 4 south- by an endowment fund of £639 16s. 3d. invested in the west from Shifnal, 8 north from Bridgnorth and IS east consols; the trustee is Lieut. Col. John Arthur Anstice from Shrewsbury, in the 1-lid division of the county, J.P. Madeley Wood Hall is the residence of Richard Wenlock municipal borough, liberty and petty sessional Edmund Anstice esq. J.P. Madeley Hall, is the residence division, rural deanery of Wenlock (second division), of WaIter Yate esq.- The Rev. C. R. Ball M.A. of Peter· 1\rchdaceonry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford: it is on borough, who is lord of the manor, the Madeley Wood the road leading from Shifnal to Ironbridge, and is con- Company, William Orme Foster esq. D.L., J.P. of Apley siderably elevated above the level of the river Severn. Park, and the Coalbrookdale Company are the chief The sanitary arrangements of the parish are managed by landowners. The soil is limey and stiff clay; the subsoil a district committee of twelve members, who represent is loamy. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and the Madeley Ward in the borough of Wenlock. Branches turnips. The acreage is 2,797 of land and 44 of water; of the London and North Western and the Great Western rateable value, £25,418; the population in 1891 with the railway pass through the parish and have each a station districts, was 8,177. The population for Madeley and here, the Lonoon and -North Western ,station called Coalport in 1891 was 4,099, '" Madeley Market," and the Great Western "Madeley Sexton, John Taylor. Court." The town is lighted with gas by a company, Post, M. O. &; T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery &; Annuity &; formed in 1851, the works, erected in 1852. being at Hill's Insurance Office (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should lane. The water supply is derived from wells in the have RS.O. Shropshire added).-Miss Sarah Hannah neighbourhood. The church of St. Michael, rebuilt in the Randall, postmistress. Letters arrive at 3.40 a.m. &; year 1796, On the site of the earlier church, is an edifice 2.10 p.m.; dispatched at 8.20 a.m. &; 9.20 p.m.; 81un· of stone in the Classic style, consisting of nave, aisles, dats, dispatched at 9.20 p.m. Deliveries commence at, north porch and a finely proportioned western tower, week days, 6.45 a.m. &:, 2.20 p.m.; sundays, 7 a.m. with plain parapet, containing a clock and 6 bells: there Money orders are granted &; paid from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m are sittings for upwards of 1,000 persons, of which 600 Wall Letter Box, Park street, cleared week days 8 a.m. &; are free: in the churchyard, beneath a cast-iron slab, 8.50 p.m.; sundays, 8.50 p.m was buried the Rev. John William Fletcher, or de la Wall Letter Box, Aqueduct, cleared week days only, 8.20 Flechere, born at Nyon, in Switzerland, and some time p.m vicar here; on his coming to- England he became tutor Wall Letter Box, Cuckoo Oak, week days &; sundayS' at in the family of Thomas Hill esq. of Tern Hall, Shropshire, 8,30 p.m -and joined the Methodists, but eventually took holy orders, Sanitary District Committee. lIe presided over the institution founded by the Countess of Huntingdon, to whom he was at one time chaplain, at Meet at the Workhouse, Ironbridge, the 3rd! wednesday Trevecca, in Brecknockshire, viz. from 17 Oct. 1760, till in the month at 3 p.m. his death, 14 Aug. 1785. Th~ register dates from the year Clerk, Godfrey C. Cooper, Much Wenlock 1645. The living is a. vicarage, tithe rent-charge £224, Treasurer, Frederick H. Potts, Broseley hall, Broseley average £181, net yearly value £300, including 16 acres Medical Officer o( Health, William lS"ealor Thursfield M.D., of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. C. F. Cobb D.P.H. Shrews-bury M.A. rector of Teston, Kent, and held since 1859 by the Surveyor &; Sanitary Inspector, George Stevenson, Rev. George Edward Yate M.A. formerly j;cholar of St. Brockholes, Ironbridge J"ohn's College, Cambridge. The Catholic chapel, built Collector, Thomas Edwin Patten, Lincoln hill in 1853, and dedicated to St. Mary, is an edifice in the Public Establishments. Early English style, consisting of nave and aisles, and will County Court, open from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m.; His Honor ~eat about 400 persons: the Rev. Alfred Bowen is priest George Harris Lee M.A. judge; Edward Bagnall Potts. and resides at Shifnal. The Baptist chapel, High street, Broseley, registrar, F. H. Potts, bailiff; George Ferring is a structure of brick, erected in 1885, and will seat 130 ton, chief clerk. The County CourtH()use,in High street persons. The Congregational chapel, in Park street, with and erected in 1858, is an edifice in the Classic style, Sunday school, also of brick, was erected with Sunday designed by Mr. Reeves, of London, &; consists of a large gchool 1874, at the cost of £1,400, and will seat 300. The &; lofty court-room, registrar's &; bailiff's offices, re Methodist New Connexion chapel, Park street, erected in tiring room, &; a dwelling house for the court keeper. 1859, will treat 140 persons. The Primitive Methodist The court is held' every month on a. wednesday at 10 chapel, High street, erected in 1865, seats 250 persons. a.m. The district comprises the foll()wing places: The Wesleyan chapel, Court street, erected, with Sunday Albrighton, Badger, Barrow, Beckbury, Benthall, Blym ~hool, in 1841, will seat 700 persons. The charities are hill, Bonningall, Broseley, Buildwas, Dawley, Donington, of about £40 yearly value. Here are extensive and Kemberton, Linley, Little Wenlock, Madeley, Much flourishing iron works and valuable mines of coal, ironstone Wenlock, Oakengates, Patshull, Posenhall, Ryton, Shif. and beds of clay; the Madeley Wood and the Madeley nal, Stirchley, Stockton, Sutton Maddock, Tong &:, Court iron works give employment to about 800 persons. Willey The Anstice Memorial Institute and Workmen's Club, This court has jurisdiction under the Bankruptcy Act. erected in 1869, at a cost of £3,000, in memory of the late &; includes in addition the county court districts of John Anstice esq. of Madeley Wood, iron and coal master, Bridgnorth &; Wellington. Thomas Bullock, solicitor, who died 1866, is a sh:ucture of red brick, in the Norman King street, Newcastle, Staffs. official receiver; Frank and Gothic styles, from designs by Mr. J. Johnson, Cariss,. Talbot chambers, Shrewsbury, assistant official architect, of London, and comprises reading-room and receIver library, of about 2,000 volumes, smoking-room and offices, Certified Bailiff appointed under the "Law of Distress and a large hall, capable of seating 600 persons. The Amendment Act." John Daniel Benbow, Commercial management is entrusted to a committee appointed by buildings, Madel~y SHROPSHIRE.