DIRECTORY.] . . 25 dence of Charles Perrott Noel esq. D.L., J.P. Here are Post &:M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,Fair- the ruins of a chapel of the time of Henry H. field. George Mitchell, sub-postmaster. Letters ar- Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.15 p.m.; sundays 10 a.m rive from at 7.25 a.m.; dispatched at 5·55 Bell Heath is I! miles east and Maidley I mile east. p.m. is the nearest telegraph office FAIRFIELD is a. hamlet, nearly 3 miles south-east from Schools. Belbroughton, on the road from Stourbridge to Broms- National (bo)'s), built in 1876, for 128 boys; average at- grove. The chapel of ease, erected here in 1854, is a tendance, 70; Arthur 'Wellington Best, master building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and a western National (girls & infants), for IOO girls & 80 infanw; turret containing 2 bells: there are 200 sittings. average attendance, 80 girls & 52 infants; Msis Lamb. Sexton, William Read. mistress; Miss Annie Goodyear, infants' mistress Post, •.. M 0 & T..,..,0 S BEDIxpress e Ivery· & AnnUI'ty & Fairfield (mixed), built about 1876, for 120 children f Insurance Office.-John Bate, sub-postmaster. Letters average attendance, lIO; Miss Middleton, mistress arrive from Stourbridge at 6.30 a.m. & 2.20 p.m.; dis- Police Station, Belbroughton, James Henry Quiney, con- patched at 9 a.m. & 6.15 p.m stable in charge BELBROUGHTON. . Freeman Edward, frmr. Breach farm FAIRFIELD. Badley Henry Payton, InseUon F~eman John, carpenter & agent for Lunn Rev. Charles (curate) Coley Mrs. Springfield house Ironmongery Barton Thomas, farmer Edwards Guy, Yew Tree house Gill Edwal'll. artist Crane Eliza (MDS.), shopkeeper Eld Rev. James Henry RD. Rectory Hapkins Abraham, frmr. Bourne heath Davis Oharles &, Son, builders Middlemore John Throgmorton M.P., Hough Charles, draper & clothier Eades John, nail maker J.P. Brookfield house Jennings Wm.beer retailer & shQpkpr EV:illS Thomas, glass make", Raymond Misses, The Furlongs Knight Stephen, builder, plumber, Fox Mary (Mrs.), farmer, ~Iercbants Stobart Henry John Scott, Ohurch ho house painter, surveyor i& sanitary farm Williams Hakewill Tresyllian, Bel- inspector to Bromsgrove rural dis- Griffin Henry, farmer, High bouse broughwn lodge trict council, & collector of taxes Griffin William Henry, g-rocer Williams Mrs. Lydiate house for Belbroughton & Broom Grilli:l Richard, miner (water), Wild- Lacy In. grocr.& baker &, assist. ovrsr more mill COMMEROIAL. Leek Peter John, saddler Grove Charles,cattle dlr. Stoneybridge Badley Hy.P.frmr.&; landoWllT.Insettn Loach Thomas, shopkeeper Janes John Ferdinand, Malt House fro Bate Job, florist Mann Gregory, farmer, Gorse farm Lees Philip, cattle dealer, 'Wood lane Bate John, photographer, stationer & Nasil Isaac, manufacturer of scythes Lilley William, farmer, Fairfield bouse sub-postmaster &; agricultural edge tools Loynes Arthur, blacksmith Baylis Thomas Edwin, builder Nixon George, farmer, Hurst farm Millinchip Edward, farmer, Hill Top B:lylis WaIter, builder Pri~t3 Thomas, farmer, Maidley farm Prestun Wm. Thos. Swan P.H Belbroughton Working Men's Club Price William, farmer, Broom hill Read Frank, hay&; straw dealer (J. Woodward, hon. sec) Rist.e David, Old Horse Shoes inn, Read William Henry, builder Bird John, farmer, The Nutnels & butcher Small Th{)mas, farmer BNtt Thomas, butcher Ruston 1Villiam, shoe maker Smallwood Jsph. frmr. Fairfield court Bridgeman Francis, Talbot botel Smith Edward, gamekeeper to O. P. Stcvens William, glass blower Brown Chas. farmer, Pool House frm Noel esq Churcl. of Home for Waifs & Taylor William, beer retailer BELL E:ND. Strays (Miss Douglas, lady supt.; Tibbetts George, butcher Brooks Mrs. Ooldringham Mrs. Bradley, matron) Westwood James, farmer, Moor hall Noel OharlesPerrottD.L., J.P. Bell ball Cook Samuel, farmer, Moorfields Westwood William Geo. frmr.Giles bo Phillpot George F. Bourne castle Davenport J acob, horse breaker Wilding Frederiok, shoe maker Bourne Mary J ane (Mrs.), beer retlr Dew William, general dealer Willets William, farmer, hill Everess Benjamin, market gardener Farmer Wm. Queen's inn, & maltster Willetts Charles, frmr. Mearse farm Fox Frederick Goorg-e, Bell inn Fox Henry, farmer, Field house Williams John Henry, insurance agent Inston Christopher (Mrs.), farmer Fox Thomas, farmer, Bourne heath Wilson J. B. & Sons, grocers &; wine Loynes Henry, blacksmith Fox WaIter, farmer, Hartle & spirit merchants, & agents for Phillpot George F. surgn. Bourne cstle Fox WiPiam, farmer, Yrurnold lane W. &; A. Gilbey Limited, wine & Potter Edward Richard, registrar of Freeman H. (Mrs.) & Sons, builders spirit merchants births & deaths & relieving officer & contractors Woodhouse Thomas, shopkeeper Belbroughton dist. Bromsgro. union :BENTLEY PAUNCEFOOT is a township of the I trustees, of Worcester College, Oxford, resided at Bentley of , including Upper and Lower Bent- Manor, which is now the seat of Lieut.-CQl. George Cled:;: ley, 3 miles south-west from station on the Bir- Oheape. Mrs. Oheape, who is lady of the manor, and mingham and Redditch section of the Midland railway, 4 Lord Windsor are the principal landowners. The soil is south-east from Bromsgrove and 6 north-east from Droit- various; the subsoil, marl. 'fhe crops are barley, wheat, wich, in the Mid division of the county, Upper oats, turnips, beans and mang'old-wurtzel. The area is hundred, Bromsgrove union and Redditch petty sessional I 1,623 acres; rateable value, £1,796; the population in division and county court district. Bentley was originally 1 1895 was 230. a chapelry, and the foundations of the ancient chapel, 1 Letters throug-h Bromsgrove, the nearest money order &. dedicated to St. Stepben, have been traced. At Lower telegraph office, arrive about 9 a.m. 'Yall Letter Box, Bentley there is a small church of red brick, consist~ng of , cleared at 4.45 p.m chancel and nave only, in which divine worship is held on National School (mixed), built in 1882, for 61 children; Sunday afternoons at 3 o'clock, by the vicar of Tarde- average attendance, 54; Miss Ann Gelder, mistress bigge: there aTe IOO sittings. Sir Thomas Cookes bart. Carrier to Bromsgrove.-.Alfred Price, through Lower who died in 1701, and was the founder in 1714, through his i Bentley, tues (Marked thus t receive their letters Brown Francis, farmer, Lower Bentley Rouse John, farmer, Lower Bentley throagh Redditch.) Drury Henry, farmer, Bentley house Tandy Philip, farmer, Lower Bentley tOheape Lieut.-CQI. George Clerk, Green Fredk. farmer, Lower Bentley Tandy Philip, jun. farmer,Low.Bentley Bentley manor tHancock James. gamekeeper to Lt.- tTongue James, blacksmith & wheel. COMMERCIAL. 001. Geo. C. Cheape, Upper Bentley wright, Upper Bentley Albutt William, farmer, J effries' farm, Harvey A.mbrose,farmer,LowerBentley tTonqul' WaIter,farmer,Upper Bentley Lower Bentley tHarvey Jane (Mrs".), frmr.Up.Bentley Weayer Fr:mk, f:::nner, Lower Bentley Archer John, farmer, Lower Bentley Norton Arthur, farmer, Lower Bentley 'Vpayer J ames, farmer, Lower Bentley Berry Henry, shopkpr. Lower Bentley Penrice Joseph, cowkeeper & assistant Wormington J.,evi,farmer, Low.Bentley Butler Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, overseer, Lower Bentley Wormington Solmn.cowkpr.Low.Bntly Lower Bentley tRea John Job, farmer, Upper Bentley

:BEOLEY (properly called" Beaulieu") is a p~cturesque !'tream runs through the parish and falls into tbe river village and parish, bounded on the east by , A.rrow, near Beoley mills. The church of St. Leonard is an 3 miles north-east from Redditch station on the Birming- ancient building of stone in the Early English and Per­ bam and Redditch section of the Midland railway, 8 east pendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south from Bromsgrove and 12 south from Birmingham, in the porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, Eastern division of tbe county, upper division of containing 6 bells: the Sheldon chapel on the north side hundred, King's NOrWn union, Redditch petty sessional of the chancel, restored in 1891 at a cost of £130, containi division and county court district, rural deanery of Broms- many ancient and handSQme monuments to members of grove, and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. A tbis family, including the tomb of 'Villiam Sheldon, who