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DIRECTORY.] STAFFORDSHIRE. YARLET. 523 Curtayne Mrs. Greenhill house Cartwright Gregory, farmer, vaccina- Hughes George, shopkeeper, Blacklay Gamblen Miss, The Vicarage tion officer, assistant oyerseer & Idiens John, painter & glazier Hadley Henry, Netley house registrar of births & deaths for Jenks Thomas, farmer, Orton Hamilton Charles, Woodford cottage Wombourne district Jones John Whitmore, miller (water), Hamp John, Dafur Chick James, carpenter & wheelwright Heath mill Heale Rev. Wm. James 1\LA. Vicarage Claridge J oseph Edwin,provision dealer, Jones William, Old Bush inn, & grocrr Hill :Mrs. The Cottage & post office Keay Edwin, Red Lion P.H. & farmer Burst Rev. Albert Edward [curate] ClemsonJohn, farmer,Woodfordgrange May Robert, relieving officer Jevons Joseph, Ounsdale Cliff James, shopkeeper Mullett Wm. Jn. Boat inn, Botterham Underhill John, Park mount Cliff Joseph, water miller & farmer, Oakes Hannah (Mrs.), carrier York Alfred, Manor house Wodehouse mill Pad.dock Geor!{e, farm bailiff to George COMMERCIAL. CoxJohn,coaldealer,Brickbridge"\\·harf Ward esq. Orton hall Anslow & Thornbery, saddlers; &~at Critchley Thomas, sand mer. Giggiety Pattmore Charles, shopkeeper, Blacklay Claverley, Enville & Beckbury I Davis Henry, threshing machine pro- Piper Benjamin, carrier Anslow William Edward, estate agent prietor, see Yates & Davis Russell Arthnr, farmer, Orbridge & farmer Day Hannah (Mrs.), beer retlr. Black lay Spackman Hy.Robt. surgn.L.R. c. P. Lond Aston James, Waggon & Horses P.H. Deans Henry, New inn Tay Harry, butcher Brickbridge Deans Thomas, farmer, Orton Thornbery Frederick, saddler, see Ans- Bailey John, inland revenue officer I<'erguson Neil, gro. frmr. & corn factor low & Thornbery Bambury George, boot maker Fox Eli, butcher Vaughan Mary (Mrs.), Mount Pleasant Bassano Henry, tailor & shopkeeper Harley Henry, Round Oak P.H. & shop- House P.H. Ounsdale Blakeman William, Swan P.H. Blacklay keeper, Ounsdale Wellings w·illiam, carpenter Bridge Wharf Coal Co. coal merchants, Hay William, farmer Wibberley Harry Cole, farmer, Walk- Brickbridge Hedgecox Wm. Hollybush inn, Ebstree house farm Carrier Henry, provision dealer Hill Henry, maltster & farmer Wombourne Institute ('William Wel- Carrier William Henry, carpenter Holland Joseph, shopkeeper '1 lings, sec) Cartwright Edward, carrier IIowell Wtlliam, tailor Yates & Davis, threshing mach. proprs WORSTON is a township annexed to the parish of St. a building of brick with stone-framed bay windows, lately )Iary. Stafford, standing at the conflux 'of the rivers Sowe rebuilt on a pleasant elevation abm·e the river, and occnpied and Meece, within I mile north-west of Great Bridgeford by a farmer. Edward J. Marsh esq. of I Bridge street, railway station and I~ south-west from Norton Bridge rail- Stafford, who is lord of the manor, and the London and way station, both on the London and North Western railway, North \\'estern Railway Company are the sole landowners. and about 4 miles north of Stafford, in the Western division · The rateable value is £ 1,3I2 ; and the population in 18gr of the county, South Pirehill hundred and Stafford union, was IS. petty sessional division and county court district: it con- tains about I9o acres of loamy soil ; most of the land is in Letters through ·Stone, arrive at 8 a. m. Stafford is the pasture, the larger portion being attached to Worston Hall, nearest post, money order & telegraph office Boyle John, farmer, Mill house l Taylor George, farmer, \Vorston hall GREAT WYRLEY is an ecclesiastical parish, formed yearly. Here are the vestiges of a moat which formerly November 3, 1846, out of the civil parishes of Cannock and surrounded a hall or some spacious building. The princi Cheslyn Hay; the parish contains a few well-built resi- pal landowners are the Duke of Sutherland, who is lord of deuces and farmhouses, with a number of cottages, on the the manor, Lord Hatherton c.M.G. Augustns Leveson Ver road from Stafford to Walsall, and has a station a quarter non esq. D.L., ;r.P. of Hilton Park, and J. Adams esq. The of a mile north-west from the village. The Walsall, Can- soil is light loam; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops nock and Rugeley branch of the London and North \Vestern are wheat, barley, turnips and mangolds. The area is railway is I~ miles south from Cannock and 8 north from 1,107 acres; rateable value, £8,630; the population in Walsall; it is in the Lichfield division of the county, Can- 1891 for Great Wyrley was r,ISI, and for the whole of the nock union, Penkridge petty sessional division, county court ecclesiastical parish 3,2I7. district of Walsall, rural deanery of Rugelcy, archdeaconry Parish Clerk, John Evans. of Stafford, and dwcese of Lichfield. The church of St. PosT OFFICE.-William Henry Brooks, sub-postmaster. Mark, erected in 1845, is an edifice of stllne in the Early Letters through Walsall arri,·e about 7.15 a.m.; dis- English style, consisting of chancel, naYe, south aisles, patched 7· IS p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not south porch and a turret containing one bell, and has three paid. The neare;;;t money order &; telegraph office is at stained windows : there are soo sittings. The register llridgtown. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 7.10 p. m dates from the year 1845· The li>ing is a Yicarage, net ~ yearly value £26o, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of ~CHOOLS :- Cannock, and held since 1 876 by the Rev. Shapurji Edalji, This place is included in the Cheslyn Hay United School of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. At Landywood Hoard district, formed in 188o there is a Wesleyan chapel, with Sunday school, erected in Board (mixed), built in 1882, for 340 children; average 1858. The Working' Men's Institute, for lectures or con- attendance, 280; Samuel James Mason, master certs, was erected in 1 s71, at a cost of £ 250, given by the Xational, built in 1!'l49, at an expense of about £460, & inhabitants; the room will seat 250 persons, and is weU sup- now used as a Sunday school plied with daily and weekly papers; there is also a library I Railway Station (Wyrley & Churchbridge), Albert Ernest of about 400 volumes. The charities amount to £2 138. Merriman, station master Ault Edmund ~ Corbett Ann (~lrs. ), heer retailer Hatton John Thomas, farmer, Brook ho Browell Charles, Rose cottage I Darge John, secretary to Great ·wyrley Hughes 'Vm. Henry, Robin IIood P.H Darge John Colliery Co. Limited Pearce Enoch, beer retailer Edalji Rev. Shapurji, Vicarage Deakin Israel, shopkeeper, Landywood Pegge John, farm bailiff to William Thacker Thomas Henry Garratt John, beer retailer Harrison Limited COMMERCIAl~. Great Wyrley Colliery Co. Limited Plant Henry, jun. shopkeeper Badger Ann (Mrs.), farmer,Landywood (John Darge, sec. ; Charles Browell, RowleyJohn Thomas, farmer,Landywd Baker John, shopkeeper, Landywood manager) Sambrook Alfred, grocer & draper Rettson John, farmer Great ·wyrlcy Working }fen's Institute Sayer Edward, farmer Bloor James, farmer, Jacob's hall (Daniel Cotton, hon. sec) Stanley Thomas, farmer, Landywood l~rookes \\'m. Henry, grocer & draper Green Thomas, farmer \Villiams Albert, builder Cartwright Thomas, farmer Greensill George, Swan P.H Wootton Thomas, farmer Cooper Henry, shopkeeper Harvey John Edmund, farmer Y ARLET, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish 4 the grounds is an iron chapel, seating 100, for the use of miles north-by-west from Stafford on the road to Stone, and the school only, and the school buildings are of a very com- 3 south-by-east from Stone, in the Western division of the plete character. The parish belongs entirely to George county, South Pirehill hundred, Stafford union, petty ses- Henry Tnnnicliffe esq. 1.P. of Whitgrea,·e. The area is 390 sional division and county court district. Yarlet Hall, a acres; rateable value, {,701 ; the population in I8gr was mansion of red brick and stone in the Gothic style, with 59· handsome mullioned windows, and an embattled tower, is Letters arrive through Stone, which is the nearest. money pleasantly seated in grounds of about 20 acres and is occupied order & telegraph office as a preparatory school for gentlemen by the Rev. Clement William L. Bode M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford : in The children of this place attend .Aston school Bode Rev. Clement William L. M.A. gentlemen's preparatory IPrince Thomas, farmer, Yarlet farm school, Yarlet hall Wright James, gardener, Yarlet ball .