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biRECTORY.] . CHURCHILL. 59 Post Office.-George Ellison, .sub-postmaster.. Letters A Letter Box attached to sign post at cross roads at a'eceived through arrive- at 7.10 a.m. Box Handgate is cleared a• 5·45 p.m, week days only cleared at 5.15 p.m.; no sunday- delivery4 Han-ing­ Public Elementary School (mixed), erected, with reai­ toD.y 3 miles distant, is the nearest money orde:t & dence fo:r mistress, in I86.J, for 8o children ; average telegraph office attendance, 55; Miss Ellen Hayward Green, mistress. The children from Sheriff's Lench, .A.tcb Lench li Wall Letter Box at Mr. G. F. Bomford's, Atch Lench, Abbots Lench attend at this school cleared at 5-35 p.m. week days only Carrier.--Charles E. Ballard, to Evesham, on mon . Oresswell Charles, market gardener Bomford .John Hemming & Geor~e Brooks Mrs. The Cottage Curnock .John, farmer Frederick, farmers Ler)Ilit ~rs. Ethel, Campi> house Ellison William, market gardener Cresswell Wa.lter, market gardener Smith Rev. Frederick M.A. Rectory Harwood .John, market gardener Valende.r George, haulier Tovey Mrs. Church cottage Hemming William, shoe maker COMMERCIAL. Herdman Henry, market gardener SHERIFF'S LENCH. Ainge Hubert, parish clerk Noon William, market gardener Aston Enoch .T ame.s, baker & farmer Sparrow .lane (:Mrs.), market gardnr Bomford John. jun. farmer Baldwin Martin, market gardener Walker James, market gardener Clarke John, farmer Baldwin William, market gardener BaJlard Alfred, market gardener ATCH LENC:S:. ABBOTS LENCH. Ballard Charles Edward, carrier Bomford Goorge Frederick Baldwin Thomas, market gardener BenjamiDJ William, farmer Lea Rev. Waiter (Bapti.st) Hathaway Thomas, farm~J' Co-operative Stores (Arthu:r Alderton, Bomford ·Emily & Lucy M. (Misses), Hundy Albert T. farmer manager) ladies' school Smith George, farmer CHURCHILL, near Kidderminster, is a parish with a crops. The acr&age of the. parish is 954; rateable value, station on the Oxford, Worcester and Dudley section of £1,874; the population in I9II was 154 in the civil, the Great Western railway, three-quarters of a mile and 6o7 in the ecclesiastical parish in Igor. south from the village, 3t miles south-west from Stour­ Post Office. Mrs. Sarah Jordan, sub-postmistress. Let­ bridge, north-east from Kidderminster, 14 south-west 3! ters received through Kidderminster at 8 a.m. & 3.40 from Birmingham, 18 nmth from Worcester and 13oi p.m. ; dispatched at 10.55 a.m. &; 5.20 p.m. Blake­ from , in the Mid division of the county, lower down, I mile distant, is the nearest money order & division of Oswaldslow hundred, Stourbridge petty ses­ sional division, Kidderminster union and county court telegraph office district, rural deanery of Swinford, and archdeaconry Ismere is ;t mile north-west;. Wannertt:m, 1 mile and diocese of Worcester. The church of St. James, so~h-west. in the eastern part of the 'Jlarish, is a modern building Parish Clerk, Thomas Lane. of stone, in the Early :English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a north­ BLAKEDOWN, in the of Hagley-, was eastern tower containing 2 bells: the church -was transferred to Churchill by Order in Council in 1888, erected by subscription, the principal contributor being for ecclesiastical purposes only. The chapel of ease of the 4th Lord Lyttelton, to whose memory a stained St. James the Great here is a building- of stone, con­ east window -was erected in 1878 at a cost of £150: in sisting of chancel, aisle, organ chamber, vestry and I 890 another stained window was added, and a reredos a western turret, and affords. 170 sittings : the aisle, erected to the memory of the late Rev. Reginald organ chamber and vestry were added in 1905 : the · Pyndar Turner M.A.. for 47 years rector of the parish tithe rent-charge, £8o, is annexed to the rectory of (1841-88}: in 1895 a memorial window was placed Churchill. to the late William Trow esq. of Ismere, for many Post, M. 0. &; T, Office, Blakedown. William Williams, years churchwarden, and there is a memorial brass, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Kiddenninster placed in 1901, to Capt. Henry Trow, Shropshire Light at 7.20 a.m. & 2.45 p.m.; dispatched at u.2o a.m. &; Infantry, who died at Kroonstad, and to Trooper A. C. s-so ,& 6.40 p.m.; &undays, delivered 7.30 a.m.; I Sculthorpe, Natal Mounted Police, who died at Eshowe, dispatched 9·55 p.m Zululand : the font is a plain octagon : there are ISO 'sittings. The register dates from the year 1540. The Public Elementary Schools. living is a rectory, net yearly value £275• including Churchill, built in 1895• for 68 children; average at- . I03 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of tendance, 58; a new residence for the schoolmistress Viscount Cobham, and held since I89~ by the Rev. was built in 1899 ; Mrs. A.lice Rosina Denyar, mistress Henry Lewis Frederick Sculthorpe M.A. of Selwyn Blakedown (mixed), rebuilt in I884, &; enlarged Sept. College, Cambridge. The Workmen's Club was formerly I 894, to hold ISO; average attendance, so; Miss the old school. Viscount Cobham is lord of the manor Bessie Teague, mistress and principal landowner. The soil is sandy; subsoil, . . . sand rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley and green Railway StatiOn, George Bennett, statiOn master CHURCHILL. Creed Henry, head gamekeeper to{ coMMERCIAL. PRIVATE RESIDENTS, Viscount Cobbam Bradley John &; Oo. axle manuJactrs Baohe Thomas Philip, Stakenbridge Heath Frederick Parr, farmer Cooper Arthur James, insur. agent Grazebrook Wait. Osbern,Churohill ho Wilson John William, miller (water), O>x Thomas &; Sons, coal dealers Grazebrook Wm. Hy. The Reddings Churchill mill Oox Arthur, fl.orist Sculthorpe Rev. Henry Lewis Fredk. Workmen's Club (Thos. Philip Bache, Davis Thomas, Swan P.H -.r A Th R cto president) Dyke Harry, boot maker cu .. eerv SJ S d '\Yilkinson Jo-shua, The Ferns BLAKEDOWN. Ellwell . . &; on, coal ealers Willirons Hakewill Tresyllian J.P. Fellows Daniehl &b Felix, colliery agts Churchill court PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Gauden Josep , eer retailer Bradley Samuel, Springbrook house Gibson Thomas, axle manufacturer COMMERCIAL. Green Miss. Reathlands Griffin Ellen (Mrs.), dress maker Ans.on William Leonard, farmer, Grosvenor George William D.L., J.P. Maiden George, farmer tve.rley Elmley house Millichap Charles, blacksmith A:rnold William, Old Waggon & Hadley James, Highbury Price Samuel T. coal dealer Horses P.H. Ismere Harward John Donaldson, Mary Knoll Rickward William, chimney sweeper Bache Brothers Ltd. spade &; shovel Lewis Henry, Dudley house Rntter Solomon, J_!rocer makers & farmers, Stakenbridge Purcell James E. Castle Ash Tibbetts George Henry, butcher Bache Arthur Rupert, farm bailiff to Taylor William Frank, Lynwood Whiley Joseph C. house decorator T. P. Bache esq Watt George Fredk. Sturton house Williams William, shopkeeper, & Brooks John, shopkeeper Williams Philip A.ddison, Harbro hall post office Butler John Rawl!nson, farmer, Williams Thomas, Knoll HiU house Wilson Arthur, nurseryman & seed~mn Churchill fa.rm Young Thomas, The Firs • CHURCHILL, near Worcester, is a small parish, 5 deanery of Worcester East and archdeaconry and diocese miles north-west from station on the Evesham of Worcester. The Crowle hrook runs to the east of the and Worcester sec~ion of the Great Western railway, si parish. The church of St. Michae] is a small but ancient east from Worcester and 7l south from Droitwich. in the building of stone about 70 fe~ in length, in the Early Western division of the county. Halfshire hundred, union English style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch of Persho:re, petty sessional division and county court and a western bell-cot containing 2 bells: the church, district of Worcester, Eastern division of the rural having become much dilapidated, was restored in 1904-