BE TTON STBANGE. SHROPSHIRE. EETTON STRANGE is an ecclesiastical parish, Scott, and held from 19n by the Rev'. Herbert Birley formed June 12, 186o, from the parish of St. Chad, Beckwith M.A. of New College, Oxford, who resides at Shrewsbury, 2! miles north from Berrington station on Shrewsbury. The principal landownerti are Lord Berwick the Severn Valley section of the Great Western l'ailway, and Mrs. 'Scott, of this parish, whose· ..family have been and 3 miles south from Shrewsbury, in the Western here for over 300 years. The soil is sand, clay and division of the county, petty sessional division of gravel; subsoil, strong clay. The chief cropq are wheat, Condover, Shrewsbury county court district, Atcham turnips, barley and clover. The population in I9II wao; union, rural deanery of Shrewsbury, archdeaconry of 78 ; for civil purposes this place was transferred in 1885 Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St. by Local Government Board Order to the parish of • Margaret is a building of stone, in the Early English Berrington. style, consisting of chancel, nave and a western tower containing one bell: there are sittings for 6o persons. Letters arrive by rural postman through Shrewsbury at 'l'he register dates from the year 1858. The living is a 7 a.m. ; dispat-ched a•t 6 p.m. , Shrewsbury is the vicarage, net yearly value £1oo, in the gift of Mrs. nearest money order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant Scott Mrs Gwynne Charles, farmer, Betton Alk- Smith John Clement, farmer, Fox Calcott Chas. Wm.farmer,:Betton farm mere farm (postal address, Fox farm, Shrewsbury) :BETTWYS-Y -CRWYN, or Bettws, is a parish near upper end of the parish. The Earl of Powis, who is the Radnorshire border of the county, 1,430 feet above lvrd of the manor of the whole parish, and William sea level, 9 miles north-west from Knighton station on McLean Garnett-Botfield esq. J.P., J. Naylor esq. and the Craven Arms and Knighton section of the London Charles Nott esq. of ·Fairfields, Kingsland, Herefordshire~ and North Western railway, and 7 west-by-south from are chief landowners. 'fhe soil is rich loam; the sub Clun ; the parish comprises the hamlets of Bettws, soil is partly tile-stone. The chief crops are wheat, Cefncalonog, Rhugantine and Trebrodier, in the Southern oats and barley. The area is 9·070 acres of land and 13 division of the county, Plll'slow hundred, Knighton union of water; ratea·ble value, £4,106; the population of the and county court district, Clun and Purslow petty ses paris'h in 19II was 381. sional division, rural deanery of Clun, archdeaconry of Letters arrive from Clun, Salop. Wall Letter Box, Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. Council school, cleared at 10.45. mon. wed. & fri. & Mary is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, 9.50 a.m. tues., thurs. & sat. ; The Lawn, 5·5 p.m. consisting of -chancel, nave, south porch, and a western Clun, 7 miles distant, is the nearest telegraph c.ffice; turret containing one bell : the roof of the chancel is Newcastle, 2! miles distant, is the nearest money of old timber, supposed to be Spanish chestnut, panelled order office in squares and quatrefoils: the chancE.> I screen, of old carved oak, has been restored by the patron: the east Rhugantine hamlet lies I mile west, separated from window, also the gift of the patron, is filled with Radnorshire by the river Teme. Here is a Primitive stamped quarries: in 1910 choir stalls and a vestry Methodist -chapel. screen were added: the church was substantially re Trebrodier hamlet is the central portion of the parish, stored in 186o, when :a new .bell turret was built. The on the Radnorshire border of the county. Here is a register· of baptisms and burials dates from x662; B&ptist chapel. marriages, 1664. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Cefncalonog hamlet is 3 miles north, on the Mont Yalue £r6o, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of gomery border of the county. Powis, and held since 1903 by the 'Rev. J osiah Thomas. At The Moat, in Trebrodier township, is a lofty mound, Letters for Trebrodier, Rhyd-y-Cwm, The Moat & south or barrow, surrounded by a deep moat, and conjectured of Bettws, through Knighton to be of British origin. On the Curny Bank a great Council School, built in 1874, at a cost of £8oo, for 6o number of Sa:xon, Danish and Roman relics have been children; avorage attendance, 51; there is a master's found, and in 1874 a horse-trapping of bronze of the house near Weals Old House; Robert Frank Brand, 15th century was met with at Rhyddwr Vale, at the schoolmaster (Residents marked thus * receive Hamar Henry, farmer, Foley bank LliJyd John, farmer & hndowner. their letters through Knighton.) *Hamar Thomas, farmer, Trebodier Black Mountain farm '.rhomas Rev. Josiah, Vicarage Hart Samuel, farmer, Rose grove Lloyd William, farmer, Guivron COMMERCIAL. Hart William, farmer, Rhosgoch , *Lloyd William, farmer, Poundgate *.A.dams Richard, farmer, Black house Hudson Richd.farmr.Black mountain Morris William, farmer, Sty bank Beddoes James, farmer, Upper Lawn Hudson Thomas, farmer, Cow hall Phillips Wm. blacksmith, The Lawn Brand Rt. Fnk.asst.ovrsr.Schoolhouse Hughes William, farmer, Brook farm Price .A.aron, farmer, Yron farm Chandler Fdk. frmr.Castle-Cefn-Rhon Jones Edward, farmer, Wealds house Price Andrew, farmer, Cwmiken Chandler Joseph, farmer, Amblecote Jones Herbert, farmer, Moor ball Price Evan, farmer, Hall-on-Forest Davies Albt. farmr. Ale Oak grange Jones Jacob, farmer, :Badgermoor Price James, farmer, Gwrid *Davies Edwd. farmer, Llan madoc Jones John, farmer, Ourney Price James, jun. farmer, Riddings Davies George, farmer, Riddings Jones Pryce, forester to the Earl of *Rryno]ds John, farmer & land~wner. Davies Richard, farmer Powis, Heycocks Llanllwyn *Deakin George, farmer, Cwm house Jones Thomas, farmer & landowner, Rpynolds Waiter, farmer, Rlydycwm Evans Henry, farmer, Bryn Mawr Pentiken farm *Rogers Richard, farm bailiff to 0. Evans William Francis, landowner &; Jones Waltrr, Anchor inn Nott esq. of Bury house, Wigmore farmer; Honey Meadow farm ,. Lewis William, farmer & landowner, WnJton Wm. Hy. farmer, Riddings Gough Richd. jun.frmr. The Duffryn, Church house Williams George, farmer, Red house 1 Griffith-; Edward J. farmer, Rose / Lloyd Wm.& Jsph.frmrs. New house Williams Jsp-h. frmr. Ale Oak farm -Grove farm BICTON lis a parish, formed ecclesiastically, June 24, lotte ~artha Bowen, and one in the south aisle to 1853, from the parishes of St. .A.lkmond and St. Chad, Sophia Cotes, d. !885; there are also four memorial Shrewsbury, and in 1885 into a civil parish, under the ~;indows of two lights each to Mrs. Dacre Barley, ob. ''Divided Parishes Act," from the parishes of St. Alk Oct. 18, 1893, aged 92 -years: the church affords soo mond, St. Chad and St. Julian, Shrewsbury; it· is in sittings. The register dates only from the year 1853, the Western division of the county, petty sessional the earlier re-gister being included in that of St. division of Albrighton, Atcham union and county court Chad's, Shrewsbury. The living is a vicarage, net district, in the rural deanery of Shrewsbury, arch· yearly value [165, with residence, in the gift of C. R. deaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield, and is on B. Wing.field .esq. .and held since 1888 by the Rev. the river s~vern, 4 miles north-west from Shrewsbury. Frederick Stepbl'tn Edwards. At Montford Bridge is a The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1886 at a cost Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1881. A cemetery of £4,ooo, from designs by Mr. A.. E. Lloyd Oswell, of of about a quarter or an acre, exclusively for parishioners Shrewsbury, architect, on a site given by the late Col. not objecting to the Church of England service. was C. G. Wingfi.eld, is a building of stone in the Early consecrated hM"e in 1883, the land being given by the late English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three Col. C. G. Wingfi.eld; it is controlled by a burial boa'l"d bays, south aisle, south porch and a massive tower on of 5 members. The charities consist of Gabriel Rogers• the south-east containing 6 bells, p~esented by Mrs. of £r yearly, Richard Taylor'.s of £5 I5S. sd. yearly, D. Harley ~ the stained east window ~as placed in 1892 and Sandford's of £I 138. yearly: there is also one by the Shropshire Yeomanry, in memory of their Hon. seventeenth of St. Chad's consolidated charitv• which Col. the late C. G. Wingfield, who died in r8gt : in the amounts to £~5 a year; the whole being in the dis- nave is a memorial window to the Rev. George Newton tribution of the vicar and two trustees appointed by the Lloyd ~LA. vicar here 1875-88, another given by Char- Parish Council. A branch oi the Foresters (A. 0.)
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