SHOPKEEPERS, &c.-Continued. Short Thotnas Hollister, plun1ber To GLOUCESTER, the Prince (from Holder Ann, butcher Cheltenham) every evening (Sunday ex. Skinner Thomas, maltster and baker cepted) at half-past eight. Holder Eliza, straw hat n1aker Spring Henry, carpenter and builde1· Holder Samuel, shopkeeper Townley J ohu, boot & shoe tnaker CONVEYANCE BY RAILWAY. Keen John, wheelwright & beer reth Ward Tho1nas R. fire office agent The stations nearest to Painswick are Kemp William, draper and grocer Gr... oucESTER, 6 miles distant; CIREN. '\V ebb Charlotte, shopkeeper CESTER, 10 miles; and CHELTENHAM, ]2 Kite John, tailor Webb Williazn, butcher miles. From the first and the last named Lawrence John, grocer Weller Maria, draper & dress n1ake1· stations passenget·s may pro.ceed to Bir.. .!VI aisey Charles, 8addler Wheeler John, bookbinder mingham, and thence to vanous parts of Marmont Henry, tin ... pJate worker Whiting John, beer retailer England; and from the Cirencester Sta. Mills John, stone mason tion passengers eau be conveyed to Lon. Wood James, boot and shoe 1naker don, and westward, to Bath, Bristol, and Padbury Henry, tniller and n1altster Wright Em tu a, straw hat n1aker other parts west. Parslow Charles, hatter There are regular conveyances to Chel· Powell William, hair dresser COACHES, tenham and Gloucester as above stated. Price Willian1 B. n1iller and tneal- Calling at the Falcon. PaTiiculm·s of the va·rious Rail·ways are nlan, Grove and WADE MILLS fm·nished by the Rail1vay Tables. To BATH, a Coach (from Cheltenham) Reavenhill Jatnes, beer retailer every afternoon (Sunday excepted) at CARRIERS. Rod way Mary, school-Inistress half-past oue-and the Prince (from To CHELTENHAM and STROUD, Ryland Henry, beer retailer Gloucester) morning at half-past eight. Tanner and Hartnell, from the l<'alcon Savory John, rnillwright To CHELTENHAM,a Coach(from Bath) Inn, daily. Savory Willian1, irontnonger, lnill every afternoon (Sunday excepted) at To GLOUCESTER, - Saunder's Van, 'vright and engineer half-past four. for passengers and goods, daily.
SODBURY, WICKWAR AND IRON-ACTON. SoDBURY, or Chipping Sodbur.lJ (the prefix to its WICKWAR is a stnall n1arket and borough town, in latter appellation being to distinguish it from two other the scune hundred as Sodbury, between three and fou1· Sodburys in this county), is a n1arl~et to\vn and parish tniles N. w. by N. frotn that place, situated near to the in the upper division of Gru1nbald's Ash; 108 n1iles w. Avon. It was formerly of considerable celebrity as a by s. fron1 London, 28 s. s. \V. fron1 Gloucester, 11 N. E. cloth-mart, being in the centre of the clothing district, froxn Bristol, and about 14 N. fron1 Bath, (the t\vo last but this consequence has departed fro111 it. Coal abounds 11amed cities being the nearest •·ail way stations;) situated in the neighbourhood, and tnany local advantages exist. at the foot of a hill on the Little Avon, near to the The governn1e11t of the town is vested in a 1nayor and source of that stream, and on the roads leading fron1 an indefinite nnn1ber of aldennen, the n1ayor being 1\'Ialrnesbury and Cirencester to .Bristol; and near the alderman, after, during life. Lord Ducie is in possession line of the projected railway fron1 Bristol to Stroud and of the manorial rights, and holds a court annually in Gloucester. The town owes its chief 8npport to its October. The parish church of t.he Holy Trinity is a 1narket aud fairs (the fonuer well noted for the sale of large structure with a very handson1e tower. The In wheat and cheese), to the carriage of lime and coal.. dependent::; and l\,1ethodists have each a place of wor· and the malt tntde; to which may be added considerable ship; and there is a well-endowed free graminar schoo1, advantages derived frozn the passage of travellers, for founded by Alexander H osea, a native of this town, wbo whose accomn1odation there are son1e excellent inns. endowed it with propertv producing about £100. per By Charles Il the town was incorporated; but, at the annum. The rnarket is o·n 1\'londay. Fairs, April 6th '.request of the inhabitants, the charter was annulled in and July 2nd, chiefly for cattle. The parish of Wickwar 1690; since which period it has been governed by cer- contains about 1,000 inhabitants. tain officers elected annually at the court of the lord of IRON AcToN is a village and parish, partly in t11e the manor, Winchcombe Henry Howard Hartley, Esq. hundred of Thornbury, and extending into that of Sodbury is a polling station at the election of men1bers Gnnnbald's Ash, between three and four miles \V. from for \Vest Gloucester. . . Sod bury. This place was fonnerly famous fo1: the ~ron The places of ·worship are the pansh churd1 of St. ' ore dug here, and for the extensh~e works used In fimsh· John the Baptist, a large structure, and chapels for ing the iron for n1arl\et: these have long since ceased Baptists, the Society of Friends, and Ron1an Catholics. to be noted; but there are some coaltnines in the neigl1 .. The living of Sodbury is a perpetual curacy, annexed to bourhood, \Yhich give employment to n1auy persons. the vicarage of Old Sodbury, in the gift of the vicar: The places of worship are, the pari8h church of St. the present curate is the Rev. Thomas Smith. The James, and a chapel for Wesleyan methodists. The n1arket is on Friday. Fairs, ~fay 2:3rd and June 24th, living is a rectory, in the presentation of the dean and for cattle; and statutes for hiring servants on the Fri- canons of Christ ·church, Oxford: the Rev. John Salte1· days before Lady-day and l\1ichaehnas day. Chipping lis the present inclnnbent. Fairs are held here on the Sod bury parish contained, in 1831, 1,306 inhabitants, 13th Septe1nber and 25th of April. The parish numbers and by the late census (1841) 1,269. about 1,400 inhabitants. POST OFFICE, SonnuRY, Edward Higgs, Post JJfaster. Letters frotn LoNDON and the Soutl1, and East parts, arrive (frotn CI-IIPPENHAM) every nlol·ning at a quarter before eight, and are despatched thereto every evening at a quarter past seven. Letters frotn BATH and BRISTOL, and parts 'Vest, also South \Vales, arrive every evening at a quar~er before six, and are despatched thereto every n1orning at a quarter before nine.-Letters froin the North arnre (from STROUD) every n1orning at a quarter before nine, and are despatched to that to\vn every afternoon at a guarter before six. POST O:PPICE, \V"ICKWAR, William White, Post 1lfaster.-Letters ft'Oln LoNDON and all parts arrive every tnorning at half-past eight, and are despatched thereto every evening at half-past six. POS2" O:PFICE, IRoN AcToN, Jmnes Smith, Post JJ!aster.-Letters frmn all parts arrive every forenoon at eleven, and are despatched thereto every afternoon at three. ·NOBILITY, GENTRY AND Hetling Thomas, esq. Sodbury Richardson Mr. Thon1as, Iron Acton . CLERGY. Hicks Rev.-, Wickwar Salter Rev. John, Iron Acton ' 13eaufort J1js Grace the Dul{e of, Higgs the l\1isses -, vVickwar Sargent Mr. \Villiam, Iron Acton 1 Bachninton Higgs lVlrs. Elizabeth, Sod bury Sheppard Ponsonby, esq. R. N. So( d Brooke Miss Elizabeth, Sodbtuy H owe Rev. Thomas, Sodbury bury Brooh:man Dr. Hugh, M.D. Soubury Isaac lVIr. Isaac, Wiclnvar Smith Miss Ann, Sodbury Codrington l\1rs. Ann, Yate l\llinett l\1rs. -, Wick war Sn1ith Hev. Thomas, Sodbury Codrington Sir Christopher Bcthel, Ormrod William, esq. Iron Actou Sturge lVIr. Sarnuel, Yate Doddington l?ark Parl\erEdwd.Hancock, esq. Sodbury Turner Rev. Willimn, Horton · Dutfield Mrs. Elizabeth, Sodbury Parker l\'liss Janc, Sodbury Vassall Leonard, esq. Brook house, . Garlick Thomas, esq. Wickwar Randolph Rev. John, Yate house Sodbury George Miss, Iron Acton Rawliugs Rev, Thomas, Sodbury \Vickhmn Miss Sarah, Sodbury 126