96 BADZOR. WORCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'II The chief crops a~ all kinds of cereals and roots. The area Catholic School (mixed), built in x88o, for 40 children. is 8gx acres; rateable value, £r,866; the population in 1881 average attendance, 32 ; Miss Kathleen Cantillion, mistres~ was 120. Letters received through Droitwich, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office Parish Clerk, Thomas Morgan. WALL LETTER lk>x cleared 6.30 p.m. weekdayg only Allsopp Th& Hon. Herbert Tongue. Lillis Rev. J. M. [Catholic] Goodyere William, gamekeeper to Major Hadzor house Bent Thomas, farmer, Dean farm H. G. H. Galtou J.P Allsopp Lieut. Col. Randolph,Hadzor ho Brown l<'rancis, farmer, Manor farm Morgan Thomas, shopkeeper Allsopp Capt. Fredk. Ernest, Hadzor ho Gibbs Philip B. farmer, Cockshute hill Palmer Ralph John, farmer, Court frm Hindlip Elizabeth Lady, Hadzor house HAGLEY is a parish, on the road from Stourbridge to framed structure with large dormers, and an over-hanging Bromsgrove, with a station on the Worcester and Wolver- gable at the south-east angle: to this building additions, in hampton section of the Great Western railway, 2J miles a heavy incongruous Italian style, weremade by Sir Charles south-east fron1 Stourbridge, II south-west from Birming- Lyttelton, in the reign of William Ill. ; the present Hagley ham, 7! north-west from Bromsgrove and 6 north-east from Hall was erected by the 1st Baron Lyttelton, from the Kidderminster, and is in the Mid division of the county, designs of Mr. Sanderson Miller, of Radway, Warwickshire: lower d1vision of Halfshire hundred, Bromsgrove union, it is a plain, uniform building of stone, in a cold classic Stourbridge petty sessional division and county court dis- style, but has some fine rooms, one of which contains a trict, rural deanery of Kidderminster and archdeaconry and carved oak chimney-piece, the only relic of the old Hall, diocese of Worcester. Churchill and Blakedown station, on which stood not far distant. Hagley Hall was in the last the Great Western railway, is at Blakedown, in this parish. century visited by Pope, Rhenstone, Thomson, Addison and The church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient edifice of many other persons of genius and literary talent; it has stone of the Decorated period with some Norman remains, been carefully and thoroughly restored, and is now the seat and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a of Viscount Cobham M.A., D.L., J.P. who, as sth Baron Lyt­ western tower with spire containing 8 bells: the chancel telton, succeeded to this viscountcy on the death in 1889 of and nave were rebuilt and enlarged by subscription in the last Duke of Buckingham and Chandos K.G. Viscount x8s8, during the life of George William, 4th baron Lord Cobham is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The Lyttelton, as a testimonial for his public ser\·ices to the soil varies from a stiff clay to a sandy loam ; subsoil, new county, and in 1865 the fine tower and broach spire were red sandstone. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The completed from the designs of the late J. E. Street esq. area is 2,363 acres ; rateable value,£ 10,264 ; the population R.A. ; a lych gate, of oak aud red sandstone, albo designed in 1891 was x,313. BLAKEDOWN, 3! mi!es south-west; by the late J. E. Street R.A. was erected m 1876 by the Stakenbridge, 2 miles south-west; Brake Mill, I mile north­ parishioners; the chancel has been further restored and west, and Harberrow, 3 miles south-west, are places here. decorated in memory of Lord Lyttelton (d. 18 April, 1876), Parish Clerk, William Tandy. from designs by Mr. Street., at the expem:e of the Lyttelton PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., s. B. & A:mmity & Insurance Office.- family; nearly all the windo'ws are s:ained : the vestry Miss Sarah Wright, postmistress. Letters arrive from in x8gx underwent enlargement, at a cost of about £rso, Stourbridge at 6. a. m. & r.so p.m.; dispatched at .20 and the organ improved, at a cost of about £140: there & 30 d 9 · t. be" f Th · d f h a.m. 6 .4op.m.; sun ay, 5.40 p.m are soo sit mgs, 200 mg ree. eregtster ates rom t e WALL LETTER Box, Lower Hagley, cleared daily at 8 a.m. year 1538, but is slightly imperfect. The living is a rectory, & d · h h £. £ . 6 p.m ; sun ay, 9 a. m average t1t e rent-e arge, 2 83; net year1 y va1 ue 213, m· eluding 53 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Vis- PosT OFFICE, Blakedown.-George Underhill, receiver. count Cobham, and held since xss4 by the Rev. William Letters arrive from Kidderminster at 7.30 a.m. & 2.50 Cobham Gibbs M. A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. The chapel p.m. ; dispatched at 5·50 p.m. Belbroughton is the of ease at Blakedown is a building of stone, consisting of nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders chancel and a western turret, and affords 120 sittings; the are issued here, but not paid Rev. Charles William Bamard M.A. rector of Churchill, has ScHOOLS:- acted as curate-in-charge since r888, the rector of Hagley National (mixed), built in :r827, for 91 children; average undertaking the morning service every Sunday. A church- attendance, so boys & 34 girls; George Frederick Hem· room for that part of the parish of Hagley "hich lies near ming, master the railway was opened in December, 1882 : the edifice is Infants, built in x856, for So children ; average attendance, of red brick and was built at a cost of £3oo, on a site so; Mrs. Fanny Wooldridge, mistress given for the purpose by Mr. C. J. Bate, from designs by Infants, Blakedown, rebuilt in r884, for 121 children; Mr. Grazebrook, of Hagley. The charities amount to about average attendance, 66; Miss Stroud, mistress £14 yearly. Hagley became the principal residence of the RAILWAY STATIONS:- Lytteltons of Frankley after their house at that place was Lower Hagley, John Phillips, station master destroyed: the old Ball, taken down in 176o, was a timber- Churchill & Blakedown, William Morris, station master [Names marked thus • receive their letters· Jackson Mrs. Park view tCox Thomas, coal dealer, Blakedown , direct from Stourb~idge.]. Perks Henry, Fair view Dalton Henry, carpenter, Low. Hagley [Names ma.rked thu~ t rec~lve theu letters Rann John Henry, Furlong cottage Edwards Thomas, butcher through Klddermmster.] Sculthorpe Rev. Henry Lewis Frederick Everton Geo. Fdk. Prince of Wales P.II PRIVATE RI!ISIDENTS. · M.A. [curate], Rose cot. Low. Hagley Eveson Geo.Jas. coal mer. Station yard Cobham Viscount M.A., D.L., .J.P. Hag- Smith William Henry, The Birches Hardy Amelia(Mrs.),LytteltonArms htl · ley hall; & Brooks' club, London s w Stevenson John Harris Geo. Hy. carpenter,Low. Hagley Lyttelton Hon. George William Spencer Watson George Stewart, The Lodge Harrison Charles, farmer, Low. Hagley J.P. Hagley hall ~rebb Mrs. Lyttleton terrace Hiatt James, beer retailm·, Low.Hagley Ande:rton Thomas, Park house 1 ~rilkinson George, Birch cottage tHobbes Jonathan Lord L.R.C.P.Edin. Bird Joseph, The Hurst tWilkinson William, Blakedown surgery, Blakedown tBradley Jn.Springbrook ho.Blakedown WilliamsMajorHy.J.P.Rockingham hall Hodgetts Joseph,farmer,Highbrake fill Bridgwater Edward, Ferndale tWilliams Philip, Harberrow hall Howe Sutton Sparkes, grocer & baker tClibbery Arthur Bettridge, Blakedwn tWilliams Thomas, Blakedown Hyde Herbert, boot ma. Lower Hagley Collis Charles William, Hagley house tWilson Arthur, Blakedown Hyde Joseph, tailor Cooper Charle.q Joseph, Lawn side tWood George E. Blakedown !nee Joseph, haulier, Lower Hagley Cox 'l'homas Gilkes, The Poplars Wood Miss, The Rocklands Johnson William, farm bailifftoGeorg~t Crabtree Joseph, Lower Hagley King Harrison esq. J.P. Holliers frrn Davey Alfred Lockyer, Spring vale COMMERCIAL. Lloyd 'fhos. farmer, Hagley causeway · Downing William Edmuud, Elm lodge I Bate James Bradnee, commercial tMaiden George, farmer, Blakedown Essam Charles, Lower Hagley I traveller, Lower Hagley Maiden Joseph, farmer, Harberrow hill Fennell Mrs. Rockland cottage Baynton Thos. shopkeepr. Low. Hagley tMatthews Joseph, farm bailiff to Ford Charles, Middlefield Bennett Edwin, commercial traveller Philip Williams esq.Ha-rberrow farm *Garratt Job J.P. Wassell grove 1Birch John Taylor, farmer, Park farm tMayburyElizabeth(Mrs.),beer retailer, Gibbs Rev. Wm. Cnbham M.A. Rectory BloomerMathias Boas,Gipsy's Tent P.R Blakedown Grazebrook John Phillips, The Court j 1-Bradley Jn.&Co.axle mnfrs. Blakedwn tMills Thomas, boot maker, Blakedown tGreen Miss, Blakedown , Bradley Edward, shoe maker Molineu:x: John, bricklayer, Brake Harrison George King .l.i' f tBradleyMartha(Miss),shpkpr.Blkedwn Morris Thomas, farmer, Spout farm tHartland Mrs. Blakedown Bridgwater Sarah & Jane A. (Misses), Morris John, grocer & provision dealer Hatton George, The Lawn l ladies' school Newnam George Harry, beer retailer Hickman Miss, The Cottage CantrillThs.Wm.com.trav.Low.Hagley Oliver Geo. Hungerford, farmer,Brake Hollier Elliott, Lower Hagley Cartwright Elizabeth (Mrs.), shop- Perks Thomas, carpenter k joiner Hoppett John Scott, The Firs keeper, Lower Hagley PriceElizh.(Mrs.),shopkpr.Low.HagleY tingledewBernard, TheLimes,Blakedwn Cash Caleb, grocer, Lower Hagley Pudge John, ahopkeeper .