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f!Outh aisle, with arcade and clerestory windows, wa8 crop!! are "'heat, beans, hops and pasture. The area is built in I8So at a cost of £9I6: the chancel was restored 1,769 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable value. in I857, at a cost of £615, under the direction of Mr. £l .654; population in 1911, 225. 1-Voodyer, architect: in I907 the church was restored at Clerk, John Williams. a cost of over £6oo : in the floor of the chancel are some very old and beautiful encaustic tiles: all the window"' WHYLE is a hamlet, I mile north-by-west. Here was are stained and there is a beautifully carved stone formerly an ancient chapel, dedicated to St. John, but reredos, a piscina and sedilia: the church affords sit­ nu traces of it now remain. G. E. Wright esq. J.P. is tings for 2oo persons. The register dates from the year sole landowner. :rs6o. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £18o, Brockmanton hamlet is one mile west, and is pleasantly including 100 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of situated near the Stretford brook. Gerald Godson esq. George Ernest Wright esq. J.P. and held since 1905 by of Tenbury, is c:Q.ief landowner. the Rev. Frederick William Treadwell M.A. of Clare Wall Letter Boxes.-Whyle, cleared at 4.25 p.m. & near College, Cambridge, who is also rural dean of Leo- Rectory, 5 p.m. week days only. Letters are received minster. Court, the seat of George Ernest through Leominster. Docklow is the nearest tele- Wright esq. J.P. and chief land- .graph office owner, is a handsome modern mansion, in the castel- lated style, standing on an eminence in a beautifully Public Elementary School (mixed), built about 1876, for undulating park of over 200 acres in extent, ornamented 51 children; average attendance, 35; Miss Sarah with shrubberies, plantations and sheets of water. Groves, mistress Gerald Godson esq. of Tenbury, is also a landowner. Carriers to Leominster.-Mrs. Minton, fri.; James Pugh, The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief fri. ; William Mound, fri PUDLESTON. Minton Esther (Mrs.), carrier, Gol- Staples Aaron, farmer & stone mason Treadwell Rev. Frederick W~lliam derfield Williams. & Son, millers (water) M.A. (rector & rural dean), Rectory Mound Vl'illiam, carrier Wright George Ernest J.P. Pudles- Powell William, cottage farmer, WHY: LE. ton court Golderfield COMMERCIAL. COMMERCIAL. 'Price Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Gobbetts Chester .Arthur, cottage frmr. Bines Skyrme William, farmer, Court farm Francis John, gamekeeper to G. E. Childs Henry, gardener to G. E. Thomas William, farmer, Ford abbey Wright esq. J.P Wright esq. J.P Williams Jn. carpenter & parish clerk Herring John, fa~mer, Whyle farm Cooke Sarah (Miss), farmer Pugh James, carrier Cooper Lucy (Miss), shopkeeper BROCKiM.lNTON. Simpson Samuel, shopkeeper Dallow Henry, cottage farmer Nott Thomas Caswell, farmer, Brock- Skyrme Thomas, farmer Davies Thomas. farmer, Barnesfield 1 manton court Smith Frederick, cottage farmer Grosvenor Richard,farmer,Rectory frm I Ro berts J ames, farmer, Brockmanton Stead Edward·, shopkeeper Hill Matthew, cottage frmr.Highfield Hall farm Williams William, jun. blacksmith PUTLEY is a parish 3 miles south from Ashperton M.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. There are charities station on the Hereford and Worcester section of the to the amount of £4 ss. yearly, arising from rent of Great Western railway and 5 miles west from Ledbury, land and int~rest on Consols. John Riley esq. M.A., in the Southern division of the county, Greytree hundred, D.L., J.P. of Putley Court, a handsome mansion built Ledbury union, county court district and petty sessional in 1712, is lord of the manor and principal landowner: division, rural deanery of Ledbury and archdeacoury and in excavating near Putley Court, in 1878, the workmen diocese of Hereford. The church (name unknown) is an found fragments of the ruins of Roman buildings, edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of including a quantity of tiles. The soil is· heavy, but ch:mcel, nave and south porch and a western turret verv productive; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are with oak shingled spire, supported on four posts inside fruit, heans and roots. The area is :r,no acres; rate­ the church and containing 3 bells: the pulpit and low able value, £1,707; the population in 191 I was 270 in chancel screen were made from a 17th century oak pew the civil and 215 in the ecclesiastical parish. belonging to Putley Court: the windows, which are all Post Office.-William Mattey, sub-postmaster. Letters stained, were presented by John Riley esq. of Putley through Ledbury arrive at . a.m. & p.m. dis- 7 15 3 Court: the church was reopened in 1876, after restora- patched from Trumpet; dispatched at 5 p.m. ; no tion, carried out at an expenditure of £1,400, under delivery on sunday. Trumpet, 2 milPs distant, is the the direction of Mr. Thomas Blashill, architect, of nearest money order & telegraph office London : in the churchyard is an ancient stone cross, with carvings of the Crucifixion, t~e Virgin and Child, Wall Letter Box, Putley Court, cleared at 4.40 p.m. St. Andrew, and, on the fourth side, of an archbishop; week days only carved oak stalls in chancel and a reredos have since Public Elementary School, built with residence for mis- bePn added, also a spacious vestry erected on the south tress, in 1852, for 55 children, recently enlarged at the side, at the expense of John Riley esq. The register expense of J. Riley esq. & will now hold 76 children; dates from the year 1561. The living is a rectory, net average attendance, 43; & supported by bequests of yearly value £roo, including 15 acres of glebe, with about £I,ooo, left by the late Rev. Peter Graeme residence, in the gift of John Riley esq. and held since Blencow & the late Lieut. Thomas Holbrook R.N. & 1900 by the Rev. Frederic William Fremantle Bishop invested in Consols; Mrs. Richardson, mistress Bishop Rev. Frederic William Fre-, Durbin Elizh. (1Mrs. ), frmr. Coldinoor Probert Eva (!Miss), farmer, Aylhill mantle M.A. (rector), The Rectory Griffiths William, farmer · Putley Fruit Farming Co. fruit Brookes William Henry Huxter Albert, farmer growers, The Brainge & Shop Riley John M.A., D.L., J.P. Putley Mattey William, blacksmith, baker, house. T N 2A Trumpet court & post office Too by Clara (Mrs.), farmer & hop Riley Lancelot J. C'. The Twerne Pardoe Mary (Mrs.), farmer grower, New house CO:I.IMERC'IAL. Paxman Frederil!!k, farmer Turner John, farmer, Priors Grove Brookes William Hy. assist. overseer Porter Edward, baker, Hill Fields fm RICHARD'S CASTLE is a parish and village in mortuary chapel, is a fine Norman edifice of stone, the Northern division of the county, lower division of consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, Munslow hundred, Ludlow union and county court north transept and a semi-detached tower, standing a district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Ludlow and few feet distant from the bodv• of the church and con- diocese of Hereford, on the old road from Ludlow to taining- 3 bells: it had formerly a spire, which was Leominster, 'l! miles south-west from Ludlow and 2 burnt down: the stained east window, erected in 1861, west from Woofferton station on the Shrewsbury and is a memorial to Charlotte Margaretta, wife of the late Hereford section of the London and North Western and Richard Betton esq. J.P. of Overton House. The Great Western joint railway. The place takes its name church of All Saints, now the parish church, is at from a cast,lP built here in the time of Edward the Con­ Batchcott, in the Shropshire portion of the ecclesiastical fessor, by Richard Fitz Scrob, a N:orman. Richard's parish. The principal landowners are Lady Inchiquin Castle formerly constituted one in Shrop­ and Roger Salwey esq. The soil is a lig-ht loam; sub­ shire and Herefordshire, but the parts in each county soil, g-ravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, now form separate , th!' Herefordshire portion, oats, beans, seeds and turnips. The area is 2,500 acres; which comprises the village of Richard's Castle, being assessable value, £1,516; the population in 1911 wa.,s in Leominster Rural District. For ecclesiastical pur­ 218 ; the population of the ecclesiastical parish, which poses the parish is still in Shropshire and Herefordshire. comprises the two civil paris·hes, in 1911 was 674. The church of St. Bartholomew, now serving only as a