DlKEOTORY,] . TODDlNGTON I MS deanery of Tewkesbury, and archdcaconry and diocese of chief landowner. The soil is clay of a light nature and Gloucester. The church of St. Michael is an ancient deep gravelly loam; subsoil, mar!, gravel and clay. The building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and beans, and there chancel, nave, south porch, and a low embattled western is much pasturage ground of excellent quality, a consider­ tower with four pinnacles, and containing 6 bells: the able portion of which is fertilised by the overflowing of rood loft staircase was discovered in 1893: in the chancel the river Severn. The area is r,889 acres of land and is a memorial to G. Hurdman, grandson of Edward Hurd­ 35 of water; rateable value, £3.327; population in man, first Mayor of Worcester, dated 1634; there are 19r1 was 357· monuments to the Hopkins family dating from 1789; to Mrs. Mary Browne, of Oumberwood, 1717; and .Anne The HAW is a hamlet in this parish. Vessels are Tnrton, 1642: the east window is stained, and there is a freighted and discharged here en the Severn banks. small memorial window to Joseph Tarry Hone and .Augusta The river was formerly crossed at this point by a ferry Hone, erected by their son, the Rev. J oseph Frederick boat, but there is now a handsome iron girder bridge Hone M . .A. vicar here from 1827: the church was new of three arches resting on stone piers, completed in roofed and the bells rehung in 1894, at a cost of about September, 1825, at a cost of £24,348, and connecting £4oo: there are 300 sittings: in the churchyard are two the parish with Deerhurst. very large and fine yew trees. The register dates from Parish Clerk, J oseph Brotheridge. the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £,2 50, arising from 200 acres of glebe, with residence, Post Office.--Mrs. Priscilla Louisa Niblett, sub·postmis- in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1909 tress. Letters arrive from Tewkesbury at 8.15 a.m. by the Rev. Williftm Arthur Augustus Boyd B ..A., LL.B. & 2.20 p.m.; dispatched 10.15 a.m. & 5.10 p.m.; no of Trinity College, Dublin. HGre is a Wesleyan chapel. delivery of letters on sundays. Gorse Lawn is the The charities are of £ 100 yearly value. In 1751 ::lfrs. nearest money order office & Hasfield, 2 miles distant, Jane and Mrs. Mary Attwood, of Tewkesbury, left about the nearest telegraph office an acre of pasture land; Joseph Millard in 1727 left Wall Letter Box, Town street, cleared at 10.20 a. m. & £.s yearly to be laid out in clothing for five poor men 5.20 p.m. week days only on St. Thomas' day; and the Rev. Henry Bateman in Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with residence 1735 gave £,20 to be laid out in land. The common for the mistress, in 1842, for 70 children; average at- lands were inclosed by Yirtue of an Act of Parliament tendance, 45; Mi•s Bessie Raw le, mistress passed in 1795. Carrier to Gloucester.-Alfred W. Dyson, men. wed. &· The Earl of Coventry P.C. is lord of the manor and sat. returning same days Boyd Rev. William Arthur .Augustus' Dudfield James, coal & coke & hay & . Munn Frederick, shopkeeper & baker B.A., LL.B. (vicar), The Vicarage straw merchant, The Haw Osment .Arthur John, beer retailer Olarke Oapt.Arthur Stanley, Torsend Dyson Alfred W. carrier Page Wm. (Mrs.), frmr. Gt. Sandpits- Smith Levi, Trinley cottage Fowler Guy, farmer, Barn farm Peters Jesse, farm bailiff to F. Sur- co~ntERCIAL. Fowler John, farmer, Town street man esq Awford Edwd. Wm. Haw Bridge inn Fowler John Phillips, farmer, The Pih·her Elizh. (:\!Irs.), farmer, The Hill Ball Charles, beer retailer Hill farm Richins 1Benjamin, farmer Bevan Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Fuger Thomas, fisherman Smith Thos. farmer, Gt. Cumberwood'" The Haw 'Gaskins Thomas, coal dealer, The Haw Sparrow William, Jesse & AI!an, Creese .Alfred, farmer, New Pools 'Hopkins Tom N. farmer, Wigwood & builders, carpenters & wheelwrights Creese Charles, wheelwright Little Cumberwood Tar!ing William, farmer, Tump farm Creese Saml. farmr. ·walker's Slough Morgan Arthur, farmer, Tirley cuurt Wakefield Henry, blacksmith TOCKINGTON, see Olveston. TODDINGTON is a village and parish on the high seat of the Tracy family, is now the property and road from Tewkesbury to Stow and on the river Isborne, seat of Hugh Andrews esq. D.L., J.P. lord of the I mile from Toddington station on the Cheltenham n•anor and chief landowner; it is a splendid mansion and Honeybourne branch of the Great Western railway, in the Domestic Gothic style, built between r8o7 and and 4! miles east-by-south from Beckford station on 1823, on a higher site, in place <:>f an old Elizabethan the and Ashchurch branch of the Midland house, part of the entrance to which stands in the railway, 3~ north from and 9 east from grounds close to the church; the mansion stands in a well­ Tewkesbury, in the Northern division of the county, timbered park of about 950 acres. About 1,000 acres of Kiftsgate lower hundred, petty sessional division, union land on the estate are planted with all kinds of fruit and county court district of Winchcombe, Winchcombe trees, which yield an enormous quantity of fruit rural deanerv, archdeaconrv of Oirencester and diocese annually, supplying fruit to a fum on the estate and of Gloucester. The old· church, dedicated to St. to jam makers in the and Ireland. Leonard, was a Perpendicular structure, rebuilt by These orchards form one of the largest fruit farms in Thomas Charles, Viscount Tracy, in 1723, but was . 'l'he soil is stiff clay; subsoil, clay and taken down and again rebuilt in 1873-9 at an expense gravel. The chief crops are fruit, wheat and beans. of £.44,ooo, and dedicated to St. Andrew: the church The area is 1,Brg a{)res of land and 9 of wa.ter; rateable is now an edifice of stone in the Early English style, value, £,2.9+4; population in 19II, 333 in the consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, and 411 in the ecclesiastical parish (which includes south porch and a tower on the south side with Stanley-Pontlarge and part of Wincheombe). pinnacles and a lofty spire, and containing 6 bells: Parish Clerk, John Tooley. attached to the aisle is a mortuary chapel containing a Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Locke, sub-postmistress. Let- mon,Iment, hy J. G. Lough, to Charles, 1st Baron ters received from Winchcombe arrive at 6.55 a.m. & Sudeley, who died February 10th, 1858, and Henrietta 4·35 p.m.; dispatched at 10.20 a.m. & 5.20 p.m.; no Susanna, his wife, only child and heiress of the last delivery on sundays. Stanton, Broadway (Wares), is Viscount Tracy, she died June 5th, 1839: new oak choir the nearest money order & Stanway the nearest tele- stalls and canopies were added in 1912, the gift of Hngh graph office, 2 miles distant. '!'here is a private _\ndrews esq. who also re-paved the choir and sanctuary telephone from Winchcombe for transmission of with marble: th<•re are 150 sittings. The register, in- telegrams to the mansion & all over the estate eluding Stanley-Pontlargc and Prescot, dates from the Letter Roxes.-Cross road, cleared at 9·5 a.m. k 4.30 year r665. The Jiving is a vicarage, with the chapelry p.m.; Toddington, cleared at 10.25 a.m. & 5.30 p.m,; of Stanley-Pontlarge annexed, joint net yearly value New Town, cleared at 10.30 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. week £no. with residence, in the gift of Hugh _.\.ndrews esq. days only and held since 1912 by the Rev. Wynyard Alexander Council School (mixed), erected in 1906, for 72 chil­ Warner, of Durham t:niversity. Toddington, long the dren; average att-endance, 6o; .Arthur Coldicott, mast Wightman-Matthews Herbert Shouler Frank Thomas, farmer,Horue PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. dairy farm Andrews Hugh D.L., J.P. Todding- Cutting George, gamekeeper to Hugh Toddington Estate Office (Gerald F. ton manor .Andrews esq 0. Hamilton, agent). T N 2c, Bannerman Robert M Hamilton Gerald F. C.agent to Hugh Winchcombe Hamilton Gerald F. 0. Bmberrv hill .Andrews esq Toddington Orchard Co. (Robert M. Heyworth-Savage Lieut.-Col. - Cecil Kilby Edward, shopkeeper Bannerman, manager). T .A Francis, The Grange Lamb .Arth. Chas. boot & shoe repr "To eo, Winchcombe ; " T N 2 \l:ott Capt. Sydney Albert, Lydes frrn Locke Torn. assistant overseer Tooley John, head gardener to Hugh Shiach James A. Ogle Herbert,head gardener to Lieut.- .Andrews esq Warner Rev. Wynyard Alexander Col. Heyworth-Savage Willcox Albert Duncan, farmer, Ray (vicar), The Vicarage Searle William, blacksmith Meadow farm GLOC. 23