STAFFORDSHIRE [ KELLY's Cbeckley, Is a Building of Native Stone, in the Early Eng- Verger, William Morley
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212 HOLLINGTON. STAFFORDSHIRE [ KELLY'S Cbeckley, is a building of native stone, in the Early Eng- Verger, William Morley. lish style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch Post Office.-Mrs. Sarah Ellen Hodkinson, sub-post- and a western turret containing one bell: the east window mistress. Letters arrive from Stoke-on-Trent at 7.50 and some smaller windows are stained, and there are 150 a.m.; dispatched at 5.20 p.m. Postal Orders are issued sittings. The register dates from th<? year r86r. The here & paid. Tean & Alton are the nearest money order Wesleyan chapel was erected in r874, and the Primitive & telegraph office, 3 miles distant Methodist chapel in r823. This village is celebrated for Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with residence its quarries of excellent freestone, of which many churches for mistress attached, in r869, for 112 children; aver- in the county have been built; the stone is obtained in age attendance, roo; Mrs. A. Michell, mistress blocks of a large siz~; a bed _of red stone of ex~ellent Police Station William Foden constable in charge character was also d1scovered m 1877. The land 1s held ' ' by about 20 freeholders. The soil is loam; subsoil, sand I Carriers to:- and rock. The land is used for pasturage and dairy p:ro- I Cheadle William Noakes, on fri. at noon duce. The I!opulation is returned with Oheckley. Uttoxeter~William Noakes, on wed Oarr Mrs. The Mount Durose Arthur, farmer, Checkley fl.ds Rusnton George, farmer, Great Gate Hnmfrey Rev. Lebbens Charles M.A. Fielding John, stone merchant, grind Seal Henry & Co. stone merchants (curate) stone & scythe stone maker ; & at Smith David, farmer, Littlewood Phillips Rev. Edward M.A. Rectory Alton Smith William, coal dealer Harris Edward, farmer, Holly grove Stanton & Bettany, stone merchanta COMMERCIAL. Hodkinson Sarah Ellen (Mrs.),grocer, Stevenson John & Sons, .stone mer- Belfield Charles Rupert (late W. Bel- Post office chants; red & white stone quarries, field), quarry owner; every descrip- Hollington Co-operative Society (Rev. the only red stone in Hollington; tion of stone for building purposes William Gibbons Mayne, sec) this stone is us;)d extensively in in large or small blocks; Broadmoor Johnscn Clara(Mrs.),Masons'ArmsP.H church building. See advert quarries Mellor George & Sons, stone mers Taylor Jn. cowkeeper & stone carrier Belfield William, farmer, Madeley pk Melior Ann (Miss), farmer Titley Harriet (Mrs.), dress maker Bond Henry, farmer, Old wood Melior Charles, stone merchant Titley Tom, cowkeeper, Great Gate Botham Alfred, farmr. Gravelly bank Melior Herbt. farmer, Birchendale Turner J ames, farmer Bottomer Thomas, cowkeeper Melior Je-sse, shopkeeper & cowkeeper Turner John, farmer, Broadgate farm Carr Bros.quarry owners&stone mers Miller George, cowkePper Waiters Vincent Robt. general smith Cart John, cowkeeper Noakes Wm. stone carrier & farmer Whieldon Wm. farmer, Gravelly bnk Charlesworth Robert William, far- Oakes George, Starr inn, & general Woodroffe Carolina (Mrs.), shopkeepr mer, Hollywood contractor IW oodroffe John, blacksmith Cope Geo. farmer, Low. Whitley frm Oakes John,· cow keeper HOLLINSCLOUGH is a village and township lying is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The land between and near the sources of the Dove and 'Manifold, is moorland and arable. The chief crops are grass and on the borders of Derbyshire, in the parish of Alstonfield, oats. The area is r,842 acres; the population in 1901 about 3 miles from Hindlow station on a branch of the was 259. London and North Western railway and 7 south-south- Gambles Green, '2 miles north-west, and Wilshaw, I west from Buxton station on the London and North West- mile west, are hamlets. ern and Midland railways and 2 north-west from Longnor, Parish Clerk, Arthur Gilman. in the Leek division of the county, hundred of north Tot- Letters received fcrom Buxton by foot messenger at 9 monslow, and Leek union, petty sessional division and a.m. Longnor is the nearest money order & telegraph county court district. The township is ecclesiastically office, 2 miles distant united to Longnor and Quarnford. The chapel of ease Wall Box cleared at a.m. daily except sunday here, erected in r 840, is a small buidling of stone, con- 9 sisting of nave, with an open western belfry containing Public Elementary School (mixed), for 50 children; aver- one bell: there are IIO sittings, most of which are free. age attendance, 26; Henson Deabill, master There is a Wesleyan <!hapel here, built in r8o1. Sir Carriers.-Isaac Findlow, from Co1shaw to Buxton, sat.; Yauncey Harpur Crewe hart. D.L., J.P. of Warslow Hall, John Tunnicliffe, to Leek, wed COMMERCIAL. Melior Abraham, farmer, Edgetop Tunnicliffe John, carrier, Summerhill llestwick Eliza (Mrs.), farmer,Colshw Melior John, farmer, Colshaw Tunnicliffe Joseph, farmer & joiner, Bestwick John, farmer, C1olling gates Melior Martha (Mrs.), farmr.Edgetop Moortop ·Bestwick John, shopkeeper, Wilshaw Melior Michael, farmer, Edgetop Wain Isaac, farmer, Colshaw :Bestwick Riehd.tailor& frmr.Bank top Mellor Thomas, farmer, Wickenlow Wain Jn. cowkeeper, Wilshaw bottom ·aestwick William, farmer & wheel- Milner William, farmer, Colshaw Wardle Arthur Wm. farmer, Gambles wright, Summerhill Moss John, farmer, Colshaw Wardle Thomas, farmer, {)Gates town ·Cbappell John, farmer, Colshaw Palfreyman William, cowkeeper Wardle Thomas, farmer, Hill end Chappell William, farmer, Mossleys Robinson John, farmer, Gambles Wardle Thomas, farmer, T'enter hill Dale Thomas, farmer, Black bank Salt George, farmer, Croft bottom Wardle William, farmer, Moor side Dicken Thomas, farmer Salt John, farmer, Moor side Weston George, farmer, Moor side Thonfield David, fa1mer, Colshaw Salt William, farmer, Golling gates Weston John, farmer Findlow Isaac,farmr. &; earrier,Colshw Slack James, farmer, New Barnes Wilde Joseph Matthew,farmer,Mos8car -Gilman Jane (Mrs.), farmer Slack James, farmer & shoe maker, Wood Jane (Mrs.) farmer, Neild bank ·Grindley James, farmer, The New The New Wood Joshua, farmer, Clough head Hand Clement, farmer, Clough head Slack Samuel (Mrs.), farmer Wood Mary (Mrs.), farmer Hand George1 farmer Smith George, farmer, Coats town Wood Noah, cowkeeper, The Bank Limer George, farmer, Bank top Staines Wm. cowkpr.Wilshaw bottom Wood Samuel, farmer, Colsha.w Lamas Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Dun- Tnnnicliffe Jas. farmr. Wilshaw bttm Wooddis.se Edward Thomas, farmer cows grove HOPTON and COTON form a township and are gesses of the borough of Stafford. Hopton Heath was divided into two liberties in the parish of .St. Mary, the scene of an encounter between the Royal and Parlia 'Stafford, in the Western division of the county, hundred mentary forces, March 19, 1643, in which the latter were .of South Pirehill, union, petty sessional division and defeated, but the Earl of Northampton, commanding the >County court district of Stafford. Hopton village, in the Royalists, was killed : names of soldiers slain in this fight ecclesiastical parish of Salt, is 3 miles north-east from are found in the registers both at Sandon and Weston. Stafford and t! south-west from Salt station on the Staf St. Thomas's is a hamlet in the liberty of Coton, 2 miles ford and Uttoxeter section of the Great Northern railway. east of Stafford, and 3! south-east from Hopton: here was The chapel of ease here, a structure of brick and with a formerly a priory, particulars of which are given under wooden turret containing one bell, was converted out of Stafford. Coton liberty adjoins Stafford on the east. The a barn, at the expense of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot is lord of the manor and licensed by the bishop for the purpose in r8]6: it has 100 principal landowner. The soil is sand and marl; subsoil, sittings, and is served by the clergy of Salt. The rifle gravel and marl. The chief crops are barley, oats, wheat range used by the Stafford Volunteers and Militia, as well and roots. The area is 3,479 acres of land and 27 of as part of the County Lunatic Asylum and the Coton Hill water; rateable value, £5,544; the population in 1901 Lunatic Hospital, aro in this township. The Hospital for was 599, including 203 in Ooton Hill Lunatic Hospital. Infectious Diseases at Kingston Hill, Coton, was erected in 1893 by the Stafford Rural District Council, and is Post Office, Hopton.-Thoma.s Deavall, sub-postmaster. ~•ailable for 20 patients. The land in Coton fields, about Letters through Stafford arrive at 7.15 a.m.; dis :.>2o ac:-es, is occupi.ecl by the poor and necessitous bur- patched at 5·45 p.m.; sunday, 10 a.m. Postal Orders .