Shropshire. Diddlebury
DIRECTORY.] SHROPSHIRE. DIDDLEBURY. 77 of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is for the parishes of BiIlingsley, Chetton, Deuxhill, Glaze~, clayey; the subsoil is similar. The chief crops are ley, Middleton Scriven & Sidbury; D. G. Griffithi\... wheat, barley and roots. The area is 48r acres; rate Hollicott, Chetton, clerk to the board;Richard Edwarfs_ able value, £390; the population in r89r was SI. Hughes,Oldbury terrace, Bridgnorth,attendance offi~te, Letters received through Bridgnorth at 8 a.m.; letter n oarrier passes through at 4.30 p.m.; Bridgnorth is the Board School (mixed), built in r879, for 66 children,' nearest money order & telegr8iph office average attendance, 60; Wm. Armstrong, master;Mrs: A School Board of 7 members was formed 22 May, r878, Fanny Armstrong, mistress, who have a house at.tachb.::l Gretton J ames, farmer Winwood John,miller (water)&farmer, Horsford mill DIDDLEBURY is a parish intersected by the river subsoil, sandstone and clay. The chief crops are whea\, Corve, 6 miles north-east from Craven Arms station on oats, barley and turnips. The area of the entire parish is the Great Western 'and Lond'on and North Western joint 8,690 acres; rateable value, £8,530; the population in railway, and 8 miles north from Ludlow, comprising the 189r was 777. r3 townships of Diddle!bury, Westhope, Great and Little The Skirmage, formerly extra-parochial, is now amalga Sutton, Lawton, Peaton, Browcroft, Great l)oston mated with this parish; it contains only one labourer's (annexed to Hopton Cangeford in r88r for civil purpGses cottage. only), Middlehope, Corfton, Sparchford, and Earnstrey Corfton township is· r mile south-west.
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