Staffordshire. G Entlesha W

DIRECTOHY .1 STAFFORDSHIRE. G ENTLESHA W. 193 Letters through Stafford by Oannock (except Saredon, a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. Cannock, 3 mile• dis the letters for which come by W()lverhampton & tant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office Shareshill), arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Cannock. Wall Letter Boxes. Four Crosses, cleared at 7.15 Post Office, Calf Heath. Richard Dyer, sub-post- p.m; Hatherton Hall, cleared at 7· 10 p.m. & Dog master. Letters arrive from Wolverhampton at 8 & Partridge, Calf Heath, cleared at 6.30 p.m G.AlLEY. Weatherly Elizh. (Mrs.), shopkeeper Edwards George Hy. farmer,Hall frm Woodhouse Thomas, farmer, Eaton ho Edwards John Lewis, farmer Bradbury John H. Water Eaton Fowler Henry, farmer, Royals farm Harrison J oseph HATRERTON. Fowler William Lovatt, farmer Hole Mrs. Beaver house (Marked th~s * receive letters thro' Francis .Albert L. frmr. Manstey ho Mansell Frederick Wm. Water Eaton Shareshill, Wolv~rhampton.) , Gallatley Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer (Marked thus t re.:e1ve letters thro tHall Frederick, farmer, Calf Heath COMMERCIAL. Four Ashes, Wolverhampton.) Hall Joseph, farmer Brabbins & Hole, carriage builders Baggot William Henry, The Woodlnds Hawksworth Isaac, farmer, Calf Cross John, blacksmith, Post office *Benton Mrs. Junction ho.Calf Heath Heath (postal address, Gailey, Handley Ernest, farmer, Gailey farm *Brabbins Benj. Rosedale, Calf Heath Stafford) Hawksworth Jas. farmer, Croft farm le Fleming Col. George Fleming Alex- *Jones Robert, beer retlr. Calf Heath Hole Harold E. carriage builder, see ander Hughes Lewis Henry, farmer Brabbins & Hole COMMBRCIAT.. Lovatt Geo. Four Crosses inn, & frmr Mansell Fdk.Wm. farmer, Water Eaton *.A.ston John, farm bailiff to Rev. Meanley Saml. frmr. Hatherton Cross Potham Richard, farm bailiff to Mrs. T. P. Castley, Oalf Heath Nash Thomas, farmer, Calf Heath Jane Ward *Bickford Jn. cowkeeper, Calf Heath Pilsbury William, shopkeeper Rosser Bros. sack contractors, Gailey *Brindley William, farmer, Saredon Rudd William, farmer wharf mill, Calf Heath *Shipton William Henry, Dog & Rowlands John, shopkeeper Childs Emily (Mrs.), Red Lion P.H Partridge P.H. Calf Heath Scholey Thomas, gardener to Mrs. tCooper Wm. (Mrs.), farmr. Calf Hth Smart J oseph, farmer Jane Ward *Cowern Francis Herbert, miller *Smith Thomas, farmer, Calf Heath Smith Arthur Thomas, Plough P.H (steam), Calf Heath Townsend John, beer retlr. Shoal hill Smith Wm. Hy. Spread Eagle P.H Davies Richard, fanner Whitehouse Ernest, blacksmith, Four Terry .John, baker, Gailey wharf *Dyer Richard, baker, Post office, Crosses Thornley Thomas, farmer, Marsh frm Calf Heath Whitehouse Geo. shopkeepr.Calf Hth GARSHAT.L GREEN, see Milwich. GAYTON is a parish and small village about 1! miles Miss Elizabeth Melior, who died in 1863, gave, on north from the Great Northern and North Staffordshire October 23rd, I858, the sum of £soo, available at her railway stations at Weston, 6 north-east from Stafford decease, for the augmentation of the living of Gayton. and 135 from London by road, in the Western division of Tbe other charitable benefactions are £2 Ios. lefi the county, hundred of South Pirehill, Stafford cnion, by John Heath in 1724, and distributed yearly to petty sessional division and county court district, rural the poor; the interest of £4o, left by G. Brown in deanery II;Dd archdeaconry of Stafford and d~ocese ~f Lich- 18Bo, for teaching four poor children to read; an en field. The church of St. Peter is an ancient edifice of dowment of £40 for the church school, left by the Misses stone and brick, in the Norman, Transitional, Early Eng· Sarah and Elizabeth Mellor, of Gayton, who also, in 1835, lish and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, replaced Brown's charity, which had been lost; the in south aisle, south porch, vestry and an embattled western terest of £167, invested in Consols, £2 yearly to be given tower containing 2 bells : it was repaired about the year in bread and to be distributed every alternate Sunday 1732, when many of its earlier architectural features morning, and £3 for blankets to he given on the 28th of were destroyed: in 1870 it was restored, with the excLp- October yearly, left by Miss Sarah Melior; the interest tion of the tower, under the superintendence of Messrs. of £so invested in Consols, for the education of children; Habershon and Pite, architects, of London, at a total cost the same amount for five poor parishioners, and a similar of £8so: the south aisle was erected by subscription and sum to be distributed annually in coals, given by the the vestry by the late Miss Holmes, of Gayton vicarag~> · late Mr. Thos. Freakley, of Gavton; and the interest of the chancel and nave were restored at the cost of the £roo, left by the late Josenh Mear, to be distributed in late J. P. Fitzgerald esq. the lay impropriator: the ori~ri- bread by the ministers and churchwardens. The nal Norman font is retained, and in the pavement are charities left by G. Brown esq. and the Misses Melior numerous ancient encaustic tiles, some of them bearing are now devoted to maintaining a school library, and the arms of the Ferrers and Erdeswicke families : a re- providing prizes for the scholars. The Earl of cumbent effigy, supposed to represent one of the former Harrowby is the principal landowner. The soil is family, occupied a place in the south aisle of the old stron~ loam; subsoil, principally marl. The chief crops church; but when that was taken down it was placed in are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,.505 ~Wres of the churchyard, where it remained till the restoration land and IO of water; rateable value, £2,6o6; the in 1870, when it was removed to an arch on the north population in 1911 was aoi. side of the chancel: during the restoration four stone Hartley Green is a small hamlet, 1 mile west. coffins were discovered, one of which had a carved lid, Sexton, Henry Foster. with a complete Maltese cross: a reredos was erected in Post Office. Mrs. Elizabeth Hay wood, sub-postmistress. 1891 at the cost of Mrs. Hides, widow of a former vicar: Letters arrive from Stafford at 6.30 a. m. & delivered the church has been entirely reseated, and now affords at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.45 p.m. Weston is the 170 sittings. The register dates from the year 1594· nearest money order & telegraph office The living is a. vicarage, net yearly value £Izs, including Letter Box, cleared at 6.40 p.m.; sunday, Io.Io a. m 25 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1870 at the of Harrowby, and held since 1908 by the Rev. Edward aole expense of the late Earl of Harrowby K.G. for Austin Smith M.A. of Selwyn College, Cambridge. 4a children; average attendance, 36; Miss M. .\.. Divine service is held by the W esleyans at W eston. Bishop, mistress GAiTON. Haywood Joseph, farmer 1Tavernor Henry George, farmer Knight Louis James William, farmer, Wetmore Torr Joseph, farmer & boot repairer Smith Rev. Edward Austin M.A. Martin Percy, miller (water) Upton Charles, cowkeeper (vicar), Vicarage Reeves John, Gayton hotel Snelson William Richardson Joseph, farmer HARTLEY GREEN. Sherratt Josiah & Sons, farmers, Park Bentley Waiter, farmer Side farm Kent Ernest, farmer COMMERCIAL. Sherratt James, farmer Peace John William. farmer Butler William, farmer Sillito George, farmer Spencer Richard, farmer Chilton Joseph, farmer Snelson Herbert, farmer Witter Alfred Henry, farmer, Lower Foster Henry, farmer & wheelwright Steel James John, shopkeeper Hartley Green • GENTLESHAW is a hamlet in Longrlon civil parish, railway, 4 from Hednesford station on the same system, and, with portions of the parishes of Longdon, Can- 5 north-west from Lichfield and 5 south-east from nock (including Cannock. Wood). Burntwood and Rugeley, in the Lichfield division of the county, South Chorley, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish, Sept. OfHow hundred, Lichfield union, petty sessional division 4th, 1840. The hamlet lies exceeding-ly high upon Can- 1 of Rugeley, Rugeley oounty court district, rural deanery nock Chase, 4 miles south from Armitage station on the · of Lichfield, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Valley section of the London and North Western Lichfield. Christ Church, erected about the year 1839, STAFFS. 13 .

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