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DIRECTORY.] STAFFORDSHIRE. of china, porcelain, majolica, parirun, granite "Ware and The Registration Districts are:- ironstone china., parian and porcelain statuary rund en --- - ---------- caustic tiles ; all these articles a"OO brought to great per No. Name. Area. Pop. 1891. fection ; also earthenware and sanitary ware, besides stoneware articles used by druggists ; crates used foT ------------- -----1·------ packing china rund earthenware are made in large quanti ties. 359 Stafford .................... 57,897 31,302 The blue brick pavement for footways is made at Can 360 Stone .............•.......... 68,420 19,639 nock, and fire-bricks at Cosley and neighbouThood. The 361 N ewcastle-under-Lyme .. 29,403 40,345 glass amd plate glass works are mostly at Smethwiok, West 362 W olstantoB ................. 14,075 99·545 Bromwich and Kingswinford. Cement is made at Gnosall, 363 Stoke-upon-Trent ....... .. 12,304 155,422 and plaster of Paris at Rugeley and Chartley. Briok and 364 Leek ........................... 75,881 41,867 tile ma.ki:ng, lime burning and the manufacture of scythe 365 Cheadle .................... 54,169 24,657 stones aTe also carried on. The salt works of Weston amd 366 Uttoxeter.................... 66,148 15,808 Shirleywich have long been famed for the quantities pro 367 Burton-upon-Trent ....•. 88,215 92,814 duced. There are also copper miners, lead miners and 368 Tarn worth .................... 44.519 24,667 quarrymen. 'fhe boot and shoe maamfacture employs a 369 Lichfield .................... 76,8go 42,542 large number of persons, besides toomrs, curriers a111d sad 370 Cannook ..................... 68,830 47,636 dlers; and is carried oo mostly at Stafford, Newcastle, 371 Wolverhampton ........... *55.972 172,743 Stone and Walsall. Wrulsall is also a li!ading seat for the 372 Walsall ......................... 22,079 n8,6o7 West Bromwich ........... marrrufulcture of harness and saddlery, and all the necessary 373 19.424 1721189 trappings for horses and carria.ges, together with the silver ________________:__ __________ flllld pia.ted mou,ntings. The silk mwnufBJCture is at New- * Seisdon union .••..••.•••• , 44,825 I r8,r52 castle and Leek; ibraid at Leek; cotton at Fazeley and at * Wolverhampton union.. n, 147 154,591 Church Mal}'field; tape at Cheadle; doubling lace threads at Rocester ; woollen and worsted manufactures at Fazeley The following list gives the several poor law unions, witb and smallwaTes at Tamworth. Clock cases are made at the places contained in each : Uttoxeter,and boat building is carried on in the south of the Burton-upon-Trent Union. • county. Breweries a111d maltings employ above 7,000 people Anslow . Boon (Derby) at Burton-upon-Tremt, which is known as the principal Ash (hamlet) (Derby) Horninglow pl610e in Europe for the brewing of East India pale amd Barton Blonnt (do.) . Ingleby (Derby) other ales, ~t quantities of which are exported to every Barton-under-Needwood Linton (do.) quarter of the globe; here are also very extensive cooper- Bearwardcote (Derby) Lullington (do.) ages. There are chemioaJ works, charcoal furnaces, coke Branston :Marston-upon-Dove (Derby) ovens, copper smelting rund coach making; a:so manufac- Bretby (Derby) :Mic kleover (do. ) tures of colours, rope, soap, sugar baking, flint grinding Burnaston (do.) Newton Solney (do.) and varnish ma.king. In few shires is there such a. variety Burton Extra Osleston & Thurvaston (do.) of manufactures. There are extensive rwoe-horse train- Burton-upon-Trent Outwoods ing grounds at Hednesford, near Crumock; a,nd noted race Castle Gresley (Derby) Radbourne (Derby) meetings are held at Wolverhampton and Licihfield. Catton (do.) Repton (do. ) The hundreds are five, but each of these form two divi- Caudwell (do.) Rolleston sions-1, Totmonslow, in the north, or North Totmonslow Church Broughton (Derby) Rosliston (Derby) (Leek) and South Totmonslow (Choodle); 2, Pirehill, in Church Gresley (do.) Stanton & Newhall (Derby) the north-west, or North Pirehill (Potteries) and South Coton-in-the-Elms (do.) Stapenhill Pirehill (Stone); 3, Offiow, in the east, or North Offiow Dalbury-Lees (do.) Stretton (Burton-upon-Trent) and South OfHow (Walsall); 4• Cut- Drakelow (do.) Sutton-on-the-Hill (Derby) tlestone, in the north-west, or East Outtlestone (Rugeley Dunstall Swadlincote (do.) :and West Cuttlestone (Gnosall); 5, Seisdon, in the south, Egginton (Derby) Tatenhill or North Seisdon (Sedgeley) a,nd South Seisd0'11 (Kin- Etwall (do.) Trusley (Derby) fare). Findern (do.) Tutbury Many of the parishes are very lamge, but 8!re divided for I Foremark (do.) Twyford & Stenson (Derby). ecclesiastical purposes. There are 273 civil parishes and Foston & Scropton (Derby) Walton-upon·Trent (do.), part of one other. The assize town is at Stafford; the Hanbury Wichnor seat of the bishopric and will courts at Lichfield. Hatton (Derby) Willington (Derby) Hilton (do.) Winshill Staffordshire has one court of quarter sessions, and is divided into twenty-four petty sessional divisions ; the Cannock Union city of Lichfield and the boroughs of Hanley, Newcastle· Acton Trussell and Bednall Hilton under-Lyme, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhamp Brewood Huntington ton have commissions of the peace and separate courts Bushbury Kinvaston of petty sessions; and the boroughs of Burslem, Burton Cannock Lapley on-Trent, Longton, Stafford, Tam.worth and Wednesbury Cheslyn Hay N orton Canes have commissions of the peace. Church Eaton Penkridge Coppenhall Saredon Staffordshire is in the Oxford circuit, province of Can Dunston Shareshill terbury and diocese of Lichfield, divided into the arch Essington Stretton deaconries of Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent; the 81roh l<'eatherstone Teddesley Hay dea.coory of Stafford is mb-divided :i!llto the rural Hatherton Wyrley (Great) deaneries <Jf Handsworth, Himley, Lichfield, Penkridge, Rugeley, Stafford, Tamworth, Trysull, Tutbury, Walsall, Cheadle Union. Wednesbury, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton. The Alton Cotton archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent is sub-divided into the Bradley-in-the-:Moors Dilhorne rural deaneries of .Alstonfield, Cheadle, Eccleshall, Hanley, Cauldon Draycott-in-the-Moors Leek, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Caverswall Farley and Uttoxeter. Cheadle Fosbrook 'l'he Municipal boroughs are Burslem, population in Checkley and Tean Ipstones Cheddleton Kingsley 1901, 38,766; Burton·on-Trent, 50,386; Hanley, 61,599; Oakamoor Lichfield, 7,902; Longton, 35,815; Newcastle-under-Lyme, Consall or Cunsall 19,914; Stafford, 20,895 ; Stoke-on-Trent, 30,458; Tarn • Leek Union. worth, 7,271 ; Wa1sall, 86,430; Wednesbury, 26,544; West Biddulph Longsdon :Bromwich, 65,175 and Wolverhampton, 94,187. Other Bradnop and CawdTy Lowe towns are Bilston, population in 1901, 24,034; Brierley Butterton Norton-in-the-Moors Hill, 12,042; Cannock, 23,974; Darlaston, 15,395; Leek, Endon and Stanley Onecote 15,484; Rowley Regis, 34,670; Rugeley, 4•447; Sedgeley, Fawfieldhead Quarnford 15,951; Stone, 5,68o; Tipton, 30·543; Tunstall 19·492; Grindon Rudyard Uttoxeter, 5,133; and Willenhall, r8,515. Heathylee Rushton James The great city of Birmingham, on the borders, but with Heaton Rnshton Spencer in Warwickshire, is the true metroplis of South Soo.fford Hollins Clough • Sheen shire. Liclhdleld is a. c!lithedl'llll city wnd shire by itself. Horton Smallthorne Stafford and Newcastle are ancient towns. At Birming Leek Tittesworth • ham i'l a University, and there are some good grammar Leekfrith Warslow and Elkstones &chools. Longnor .