DIRECTORY. J . ASHLEWORTH. 31 district of Tewkes­ parish (which includes part of Kemerton). bury, rural deanery of and archdeaconry and diocese of Gloueester. The Thirle brook, a feeder PAMJ,NGTON is a tithing, village and hamlet, half a of the Swilgate, flows through the pariah. The church mile south-east. of St. Nicholas is an ancient building of stone in the ASTON-UPON-CARRANT is -a tithing and hamlet, Norman style, with additions mostly of the 14th cen- about I mile east-north-east. Here is a Wesleyan tury, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of six chapel, built in I845· bays, ,south porch, nortih aisle and an embattled western tower of the qth century, with four pinnacles, and FIDDINGTON is a tithing and haml~t, 1/i miles south. containing 6 bells: it has a handsome carved oak NATTON is a hamlet half a mile south-by-east, in screen, with canopy, and some remains of ancient Fiddington tithing. Here was formerly a Seventh-day stained glass: in the chancel are five stained windows, Baptist chapel, now disnsed. and there are memorial windows to the Rev. Charles NORTHWAY is a tithing and hamlet, half a mile Holden Steward, d. 1894, Mrs. Steward, d. 1910, and north. Northway House is now (I9I3) unoccupied. to Col. Henry Gillum-Webb, d. I904 ~ two brasses in the chancel to Herbert Charles Steward, who died on HO.\l:EDOWNS is a tithing and hamlet, half a mile board the S.S. Malwa in 1877, and to Major-Gen. Atlay south. O.B., R.A. d. 1895: there are also two ancient brasses Parish Clerk, James H<>pcroft. in the floor to the Ferrers family, dated I579. 1583, 1605 Post Office, Aston Cross.--.John William Kingston, sub- and I636, and a mural monument, with effigy, to postmaster. Letters arrive through Tewkesbury at William Ferrers, citizen of London, d. r625: chajned to d 6 d' th 11 d k · f "F , 7.20 a. m. & 2.30 p.m.; sun ays, .so a.m.; lS- e wa • on a es • IS a 1arge copy 0 oxe s patched at 8.10 a.m. & 6.I5 p.m. The nearest money Martyrs:" the church was restored in I888-9, at a cost order office is at Tewkesbury. The telegraph office of £575• and affords 450 sittings. The register dates is at AshchurCib. railway station, I mile distant from the year 1555. The living is a rectory, net yearly Wall Letter Boxes.-North~ay, cleared at s. 15 a.m. & value with 22 acres of glebe and residence, in the d A h h h d 'f f£•oo, s· G E d A 1 b 6 .40 p.m.; sun ays, 9·35 a.m.; s c urc roa , g1 t o 1r eorge verar . 0 ay ey art. of Brompton, d & d · b R il Ch c 1eare 8.25 a. m. J.Io p.m.; sun ays, 9·55 a.m.; Y or k s, an d h e Id smce 1898 y the ev. Bas ambers Homedowns, cleared at 6. 20 p.m. week days only; M.A. of Keble College, Oxford. The charities, left by Pamington, cleared at 5.45 p.m, on week days only; W. Ferrers, T. J. Haynes, Charles Parsons and Mrs. Aston-on-Carrant, cleared at 8. 5 a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; Smithsend, are of £•5 yearly value. Ashchurch House sundays, 9.25 a. m.; Railway station, cleared at s. 45 is the property and seat of N athanael Percy Milne esq. a. m. & 6 ·35 p.m. ; sund ays, 6 .40 p.m J .P.; Walton House, the property and residence of Mrs. Scobell. N. P. Milne esq. J.P. the trustees of the late Assistant Overseer & Clerk to Parish Council, Harry A. E. W. Wall esq. Henry Paul esq. of Elmside, Arundel rd. Badham, jun. 22 High street, Tewkesbury Weston-super-Mare, H. A. Badham esq. of Tewkesbury, Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1842, & en- Mr. G. Hone, of 'l'ewkesbury, Miss Hogg, Messrs. Charles larged in 1894• with residence for master, for 150 Adams Yeend and William Smith, of l\>Iurcot, , children; average attendance, 94; Harry Wakeford, are the chief landowners. The soil is principally clay; master; Harry A. Badham, of Tewkesbury, cone- subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, spondent; Thomas Deavall, Tewkesbury, attendance vetches and beans, and some land in pasture. The area officer is 4,274 acres; rateable value, £w,9o6; the population Railway Station, William Watkins, station master .!.SHCHUROH. Smith Albert, farmer, Church farm Yeend Charles Adams, farmer Chambers Rev. Basil Henry M.A. Warner Alfred, farm bailiff to Geo. Young Cecil, Queen's Head P.H (rector), Rectory Hone esq Hodkin Edward Horace, Waverley Williams John & Co. () FIDDINGTON. Ltd. coal mers. Railway station .Allkins Samuel, farmer house, Ashchurch road Clarke Alfred Henry, farmer, Fiddiog- J ones Mrs. Olovelly, Ashchurch road PAMINGTON. ton manor Milne Nathanael Percy J.P. Ash­ Brown J oseph Corbett, farmer Firkins George, farmer, Rectory farm church house Counsell Ernest William, farmer MilnerHarold,Abbeyville,Ashchurch rd James Leigh, farmer )i'ewman Richard, farmer, Court farm Phillip,. William Henry, farmer Milner William Arthur, Northdene, Rose Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper Purser James, farmer, Claydon Ashchurch road Scobell l'vlrs. Walton house ASTON -ON -CARRANT. Roberts William, farmer Tudge Alfred, The Poplars, Ash­ Candy Frederick Chas, The Laurels HOMEDOWNS. church road Gosling J oseph, Hill view Newman Richard, farmer Vale Wm. The Popla.rs, Ashchurch rd Hogg Miss, Manor house Powick J ames Henry, oil dealer Yeend Mrs. Middle house Walker Wm. beer ret. & blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Webb Joseph, shopkeeper Attwood Abel, gardener to N. P. COMMERCIAL. Milne esq. J.P. r Marconi cottages, Drinkwater David, wheelwright N.!.'ITO)f. Ashchurch road Hopton William, farmer, Aston fields J ones Tom, farmer Greening Alfred, farmer & tax collctr Hutchings John, shopkeeper Purser James, farmer Hone Georg-e, farmer, Newton farm Kingston John William, stationer, & Purser Mary Ann (Miss), farmer Midland Railway Oo. Provender post office, Aston Cross NORTHWAY. Stores (Edward H. Bodkin, mangr) Lane Albert, blacksmith Steward Capt. Arthur G. Northway Midland Railway Co. (Alexander L. Minett Alfred, farmer, Upper farm g~·ange Charles, sec.), refreshment rooms, Prew Thomas, farmer, Lower farm Groves James Edward, farmer Railway station Prew William, farmer, Upper farm Hopton John Chas. farmer, Cowfield Smith W. H. & Son, booksellers &c. Smith Ernest, shopkeeper Reeves Mary (Mrs.), farmer Railway station Wyman John, miller (water) Y eend Charles Adams, farmer ASHLEWORTH, anciently Esceleworde, is a parish £8o: in I912 the tower was restored at a cost of £265: and compact village, on the north liank of the river the rood-loft stairs remain and there is some herring­ Severn, which is here crossed by a ferry to Sandhurst, bone masonry in the north wall which is considered to 8 miles east from Newent station on the Gloucester and be Saxc.n: in the chancel are several stained windows: Led bury section, and 6 north-north-west from Gloucest~r the church was restored in 1869, at a cost of £I,4oo, station on the Gloucester and South Wales section of under the direction of the late Thomas Fulljames C.E. the Great Western railway, in the Northern division of and architect: during the years I89o·I9oo, a. further the county, hundred of Berkeley, Gloucester union, petty sum of £5oo was expended, the chancel being re­ sessional division and county court district, and in the decorated, a reredos of oak inlaid with mother-of-pearl rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester: at and silver provided, and a new baptistery erected : in Ashleworth Quay on the river, on the west side of the the churchyard is a cross of pre-Reformation date, in parish, vessels load and discharge. The church of SS. good condition: there are .. ittings for 260 persons. The Andrew and Bartholomew is an edifice of stone, chiefly regi&ters, which are in a very perfect state of preserva­ in the Perpendicular style, with some Early English and tion, date from the year 1566. The living is a rectory, Decorated portions. and coMis-ts of chancel with north net yearly value £140, including roo acres of glebe, with aisle of equal size, nave of four bays, north transept, residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, and south aisle, north porch, and an embattled western tower held since I9IY by the Rev. Charles Buchanan Mirrlees with spire, containing 6 bells, one of which was recast M.A. of Merton College, Oxford. The Rectory house, in I884, and the whole were rehung in I894 at a cost <>f pleasantly situated, has a fine view over this and the