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J:Breese Rupert, Myrtle grove Shelton Richard Masefield,Springfl.d.ho 1 Cotham John Marigold, blacksmith &; Brotherton John, Kent bank Sheppard Thomas, The Pines wheelwright l~urd Reginald. M.B., C.H.B. Shake­ Walker Archibald, Woodfield Evans William, carrier speare villa Walker Willia.m Wentworlh J.P.Oaken Farmar William, grocer tCave .Arth~r9 Bivoli cottage manor Grosvenor Frederick, coal dealer •Crane Edw~:rd David, The Manor ho Wrottesley Major The Hon. Charles *Holloway Titns, market gardener, G'rombie Alfred, Ferndale M.A. Oaken house Kingswood common ..Cutler Samuel, London and North Western railway, 2~ water; rateable value. £3,235; and the population in west-by-Jmuth from Stone and 4 east-by-north from 1901 was 63. . .Eccleshall, which here forms a junction with the North Letters arrive through Stone about 7.15 a.m. & collected -StaffordshiTe line; it is in the North Western division of about 6 p.m. Stone is the nearest money order office \the county, South Pirehill hundred, Eccleshall petty ses- & Norton Bridge is the nearest telegraph office, :t ..Sional division and Stone union and county court district, mile distant .and is ecclesiastically united with Chebsey. Ralph Sneyd The children of the district attend the schools at Chebsey •esq. of 74• Cadogan Square S lV', is the sole landowner. & Yarnfield · GOLD NORTON.' · Chadderton Albert Edward,farmer,The Hawkins Thomas, cowkeeper .Sail William (exors. of), · farmer, Upper Heamies (letters through Hoocknell Alfred, farmer Norton farm Eccleshall)

llCOLTON' is ~ village and parish,' on the north ba~ of the west side of Colton. 1 Nearer the village is Bellamour ..the river Trent, 2 miles north from Rugeley, but the Lodge, the residence of Mrs. Harland. Colton House is .Rugeley station on the Trent Valley railway is within the residence of Thomas Levett Prinsep esq. J.P. Mrs . .this pari-sh, which is 9 miles south-east from Stafford, in Horsfall, who is lady of the manor, Lord Bagot, the Earl ·'the Lic.hfield division of the county, South Pirehill bun- of Lichfield, the Whitgreave family, of Burton Manor, Uttoxeter county court Miss Oldham. An additional burial ground was given to district. tthe parish by the late Mr. T. B. Horsfall, of Bellamour Lee Lane is a hamlet, 1! miles north. llall, who also built the present schools. The register Hamley Heath is in this parish, 1 mile north. ...datea £rom the year 1647. The living is a rectory, net Parish Clerk, Edward Radford. :iYearly value £350, including 45 acres of glebe, with resi- Post & Parcel Office.- Henry Grant, sub-postma~ter. ·dence, in the gift of Miss Landor, and held since 1874 by Letters through Bugeley arrive 6.40 a.m.; dispatched ·the Rev. F'rederick Perrott Parker M . .A.. of Oriel College, at 7·30 p.m. Postal Orders are issued here & paid. •Oxford. The Earl of Lichfield is lay impropriator. There '!'he nearest money order & telegraph office is at Ruge- ·:are eight almshouses, erected in 1884 by Mrs. Harland, ley, 3 miles distant iin memory of Miss Oldham, and at Stockwell Heath are Colton United Public Elementary Schooh (mixed) com- Qther almsh

~>COL WICK is a village and parish, delightfully seated to Colton, also in Lichfield union. Here is a station on •on the road from Rngeley to Stafford, 126! miles from the Trent Valley section of the London and North Western London, 3 north-west from Rugeley and 6 east-south-east railway, which is also the junction of the North Staf- rfrom Stafford, in the Western division of the county, fordshire line to Stone, The Potteries, Macclesfield and :South Pirehill hundred, Stafford union, petty sessional Manchester. The river Trent, over which is a stone • division and county court district, rural deanery of Ruge- bridge of three arches, and the Trent and Mersey canal, .ley, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. By flow a short distance south and south-west of the village. ~Local Gi>vernment Orders which came into operation The church of St. Michael is a building of stone in the :'March 25th, i885, and March 25th, 1886, detached parts Decorated style, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave, hof Colwioh were amalgamated with Stowe, in Lichfield aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, con· cunion, rma .at .the .fol'llle.r date a detached part was added taining a clock and six bells : George, first and only