74 . . [KELLY'A Rose Wm. supt. registrar of births, I Stevens Jesse, Blount Arms P.H.[ West John, saddler deaths & marriages, clerk to the Railway station Whatmore Thomas, poultry dealer Cleobury Mortimer & Rock Rural Stevens Wm. frmr. Mawley Town frm Wheelwright William, haulier District Councils & clerk to the Talbot family & commercial hotel & Whiteman Edward Ernest, farmer, guardians & assessment commit- posting house (William Wood, Withey pool tee of Cleobury Mortimer union, propr.). See advertisement Whiteman Harry, farmer,Marsh down sec. to the Gas Co. & inspector & Tedstill John, water miller, Cleo­ Whiteman Henry Bertie, farmer & clerk to the governors of the col- bury mill Hereford cattle breeder, Lower lege & clerk to the justices of the· Thompson Richard, proprietor of Down farm. T _-\ " W·hiteman, peace for Cleobury ~ortimer petty I King's Arms hotel & jobmaster Hopton" sessional division & Burial Board, *Tolley Edwin, Hor.se & Jockey P.H Williams Charles, boot & shoe dealer The Hurst *Tolley Henry, miller (water), Fur- Wood William, Talbot commercial & Skellern Fredk. Rd. frmr. Redthorn nace mill family hotel & posting house. Smith Sydney, estate agent & agent Tongue Lucy (Mrs.), butcher See advertisement to the Kinlet estates. Attendance •.rrout Pit Co. colliery proprietors, W oosnam David, school attendance wednesday 2 to 4· Chief office, W a tsall colliery officer Kinlet hall, & agent for the Phrenix Wakeman Henry, tobacconist W orrall Chas. pamter & paperhanger Fire office Warren James, deputy registrar for W orrall John, farmer, Fletcher's farm Smithfield Co.Lim.(Hy.Deighton, sec) births, deaths & marriages, Cleo- Worrall Samuel, butcher Stevens Edward, farmer, Weston bury Mortimer district Yapp Emma (Mrs.), grocer & baker Webb Charles Oliver, farmer,Rea side

OLEOBURY NORTH is a small parish and scattered and re-opened on Easter day. The register dates from village on the Brown Clee Hill, on the road from Bridg­ the year 168o. The living is a rectory, annexed to that north to , 8 miles south-west from of Burwarton, joint net yearly value £4oo, including station on the Worcester, Bewdley and section 75 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the of the Great Western railway and li north-west from Hon. F. G. Hamilton-Russell, and held since 1908 by Ludlow, in the Southern division of the county, Chelmarsh the Rev . .Arthur Evans Moule D.D.Cantuar, who resides division of Stottesdon hundred, petty sessional division of at Burwarton. The Hon. F. G. Hamilton-Russell, of Brimstree South, Bridgnorth union and county court Burwarton Hall, is lord of the manor and principal land­ district, rural deanery of Stottesdon, archdeaconry of owner. The soil is clayey and loamy; the subsoil is Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The Cleobury Mar­ clay, gravel and basalt. The chief crops are wheat, timer and Ditton Priors Light Railway runs through barley, oats and peas. The area is 1,569 acres of land this parish, the nearest station being at Burwarton, 1 and 5 of water; rateable value, £1,434; the population mile distant; passengers, however, are taken up and m• 19JI was 250. allowed to alight here. The church of St. Peter and Letter Box cleared at 8.5 a.m.. & 4·35 p.m. week days St. Paul is an ancient building of stone in the Early only. Letters are received through Bridgnorth. Bur­ English style, consisting of chancel, nave ·of four bays, south aisle, south porch and a western tower containing warton is the nearest money order & telegraph office 3 bells : the east window is stained : the chancel was The children of the parish attend Burwarton school completely restored in 1891, at a cost of about £1,ooo, Oarriers.-Matthew Blount & William Jones, to Bridg­ under the direction of Mr. Thomas Gordon, architect, north, on sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Blunt Thomas, cowkeeper Lackey Thomas, kennel huntsman of Hamilton-Russell The Hon. Claud Burwarton Poultry Society Limited, the Wheatland Hounds Eustace D.L., J.P. (Durham), Oleo­ egg dealers Mitchell .Tames, farm bailiff to the bury court. T N 5 Garbet Albert, cottag·e farmer Hon. F. G. Hamilton-Russell, The Hodges Geo. William Cecil L.R.C.P. Green Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Mill fm Home farm Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. T N 6 Hodges George Wm. Cecil M.R.C.S. Price George, blacksmith Moule Rev. George Herbert B.A. Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon, & Price Percy William T. wheelwright (curate), Rectory medical officer & public vaccinator Shropshire Fishery (The) (Hon. 2nd district, Bridgnorth union. Eustace Scott Hamilton-Russell) COMMERCIAL. TN6 Wheatland Hunt (M.F.H. The Hon. Bache Thomas, farmer, Glebe farm Hodnet Thos. frmr. Gt. Leasows farm Claud Eustace Hamilton-Russell), Batchmore Laundry J ones William, carrier Cleobury court

CLIVE is a township, parish and village, 1 mile east of Olive Hall, the property and residence of Thomas Meares the road from Shrewsbury to and Chester, I mile esq. pleasantly situated in the centre of the village, and north-east from Yorton station (which is in the parish) commanding delightful views of the country around, on the Shrewsbury and Crewe branch of the London and is an ancient and interesting mansion, dating from the North Western railway, 7 miles north from Shrewsbury 14th century; here, in x64o, Wycherley, the dramatist, and 3 south from Wem, in the Northern division of the was born ; the house was restored and beautified by its county, .Albrighton division of Brimstree hundred, liberty present owner in 1874· Sansaw, a noble structure of of Shrewsbury, petty sessional division, union and county brick in the revived Queen .Anne style, is now (1913) court district of Wem, rural deanery of Wem, arch­ unoccupied. Frank Bibby esq. of Hardwicke Grange, deaoonry of Salop and diocese of Liohfield. The church , Thom.as Meares and Percy W. Thorniley esqrs. of All Saints is an ancient building of stone, with some are the principal landowners. The soil is mostly· sandy Norman portions, consisting of chancel, nave, small loam; subsoil, marl or red sandstone. About half a vestry, organ chamber, north porch, and a western tower mile south of the village are extensive freestone with spire, containing 6 bells : all the windows are quarries. The chief crops are oats, wheat and barley, stained, and with the exception of two put in by a legacy but a large portion of the land is in pasture. The from the late Mr. Elias Puleston, are in memory of the area is 1,493 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable late J. J. Bibby esq. and his wife, of Hardwicke Grange: value, £3,893; population in 19II, 403. the organ was the gift of the late J. Hall esq. of Hol­ brook.; the church was restored in 1849, and again in Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Catharine Page, sub­ 1885, at a cost of about £s,ooo, defrayed by the late postmistress. Letters through Shrewsbury, by mes­ patron, J. J. Bibby esq. D.L., J.P. and Thomas Meares senger, arrive at 7.15 a.m. & are dispatched 7 p.m.; esq. when a north porch, sanctuary, vestry and organ no delivery on sundays. Letters for Holbrook & chamber were added: the tower and spire and the Shooter's Hill should be addressed through Wem baptistery were added in 1897 by the late Mr. Bibby, Public Elementary School (mixed), for the parishes of in memory of his wife, and the font is a reproduction Broughton, Olive & Grinshill, built in x873, for 230 of that in the parish church of Dewsbury (Yorh): children ; average attendance, x6o ; there is a house the communion table is of oak elaborately carved, and for the teachers; Meredith Vaughan Archer, master; has a marble top: the reredos is of alabaster, and Mrs. Archer, infants' mistress includes a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper." ·The register of baptisms and burials dates from x6II ; The school is oontrolled by six managers appointed marriages, 1852. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Sept. 1903; Rev. J. Wright M.A. Grinshill vicarage, value £202, including glebe, with residence, in the gift oorrespondent of Frank Bibby esq. and held since 1903 by the Rev. Yorton Railway Station, George James Gregory, station Edward Alexander Godson M.A. of Oxford University. master Here is a. Congregational chapel, erected in 1821 and >Seating 250 persons, and a Primitive Methodist chapel. Carrier.-William Spencer, to Shrewsbury, sat