DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. SA~T BR!..!VELS. 271 IDGHLEADON is a hamlet. and township of this distant. Letters fOT Highleadon via Newent arrive lilt- parish, but in the hundred of Dudstone and King's 7.30 a.m. WaU Letters Boxes, Highleadon, cleared at Barton; it lies 5 miles north-west from the Cross at 7 p.m.; Salcombe Farm, Rudford, at 6.10 p.m. week Gloucester, in the Fores,t of Dean division of the County. days only Hm-e is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1864. George Viner The children of this pbce attend the schools at Tibbertol1 Ellis esq. is lord of the manor and the trustees of the & Highnam late O. Shepherd esq. and Capt. Hobert Alfred Loraine- G-rewSl are the chief landowners. Railway Station, Barber's Bridge (Gloucester & Led.. Sexton, CharleSl Lander. bury branch line), .!nhur ),Iorris, station master Letters received from Gloucester 'arrive at 7.30 a.m. Carriers to Gloucester (passing through Rudford & re· GlouceS'ter & Newent are the nearest money order turning same day).-lriver Wye, which here divides· the ruinous; the keep, built in the reign of Henry I. fell county from Monmouths'bire, and on the road from Cole­ from age in r752; the existing buildings, originall)' ford to Ohepstow, 4 miles west-by-south from Park End erected in 1276, include the entrance towers, which are station on the Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge rail­ still entire, as well .as the kitchen and the chapel or way, and 2 east from Bigswear station on the Chepstow oratory, erected in 13°0; the ora,tory has undergone and Monmouth se<:tion and 7 north-west from Lydney considerable repairs, and is occasionally used as a court station, on the South Wales section of the Great West­ room for the manor; it is now the residence of William ern railway, 8 south-by-east from Monmouth, 8 north Henry Hinton esq. Bigsweir House is the residence of from Chepstow and 5 south from Coleford, in the Forest GMrge Douglas Willoughby Rooke esq. The Crown i9 of Dean division of the county, Saint Briavels hundred, lord of the manor_The principal landowners are Henry petty sessional division of Coleford, union and county Ellis Collins esq. of Clearwell Court; G. Douglas court district of Chepstow, rural deanery of South Willoughby Rooke e8q. Fredk. Martin esq. of LindorSl and Forest and archdeaconry and diocese of Gl'Oucester, the FronciSl Lamb esq. The soil is light and loamy; parish of St. Briavels' is included in the Forest. of Dean. subsoil, limestone and sandstone. The chief crops The church of St. Mary is a oruciform building of s'ton('\. are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The I3rea. including in the Norman, Early English and later styles. consisting Hudnalls', is 4.796 acres; To3teable value. £5,764; the of chancel, transept, nave of five bays, with a clerestory population in r891 was r.Il2 in the civil, and 580 in th~ on the south side, aisles, and an embattled tower. with ecclesiastical parislh. -pinnacles, c()ntaining 8 bells and a clock: in the chancel Sexton, William PricQ, jun. are some remainsl of a monument, with recumbent Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0 .• S. B., Express De:ivery. effigies, to William ·Warren, 1573, aud Mariana (Catch­ Parcel Post & .Annuity & Insurance Office. William may), his wife: the tower, which originally stood cat the James Edward Perkins, sub-postmaster. Letters from intersection of the nave and transepts was rebuilt in 1830 Coleford arrive at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 6.10 p.m on the south side: the chUtrCh was restored in 186r at a , cost of £2,ooo,and again in r882 at a cost of £r,ooo :there SCHOOLS. are sittings for 500 persons. The register dates from the A School Board of 5 members was formed Novembetr year r660. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £133, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter 24, 1874, for the united district of St. Briavels &; of Hereford, and held since 1867 by the Rev. William Hewe:sfl.eld; Thomas Ree~ Steel, Woolaston, clerk to Taprell AlIen M..!. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. There is the board; Joseph Grimei Kear, attendance officer an iron mission church at Mork. Here are two Congre. Brood, Brockweir (mixed), for 80 children; averag6 gational chapels and a 1Vesleyan chapel. The charities attendance, 58; Miss Clissold, mistress are of £'16 yearly value, derived fr«ml charges on land Church of England (mixed & infants), built in 1872, for and money in the funds, principally distributed in money_ 165 children; I3verage attendance, mixed, 90, infants, The Reading- Room and Library, founded in r854 by the 38; there is a residence for the mast-er; William late O. L. Denton esq. contains a library of about r,roo Cockram. master; Miss Ad a, Mary Virgin, girls' mis~ volumes'. St. Briavels castle, built for the purpose of tress'; Miss Mary Coles, infants' mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. *Sagar Arthur Hughes John Gywn, shopkeeper (Marked thus * should be addressed Sainsbury Mrs Hughes Lawrence, beer retailer Brockweir, Chepstow, Mon.) *Skarrow Captain Arthur George Wal-'·.vJ:1ulin George, mason, The Common *Aisbitt Matthew \V. The Common ker, Brockweir house ulin Henry. carpenter

• AlIen Mrs. n Retiro Stephens Chas. L.R.C.S.I. Humphreys ulin !saac, stone mason • AlIen Rev. Wm. Taprell M.A.Vicarage lodge Hulin Mary.A.nn(Mrs.),fnnr.The Knoll *.bton Rev. John, The Common Whitley William Q.C. Wyeholm Hunt Timothy, farmer Bailey Bryan, The Florence Wilmot George Herdley, The Lodge *Hunt William, farmer Batten Mrs. The Woodlands COMMERCIAL. *Ivins Henry, saddler Bellyse Frederick, The Cherries *Beach George, farmer James John, tax collector,Lower fence Bullock Thomas Bird Job, farmer, Cinderhi:I James Matthew,builder & whee:wright Cruttenden Mrs. Bintfield Bracher Elizabeth (Miss),dres5 maker, James Wm. farmer, Cherry Tree fnn Dodd Jobn, Tivesall Fern cottage Johnson George, farmer Donnery Frederick, The Common Buckett Edwin George, farmer Jones Edward, farmer, Beane farm Eyre Col. Gervas ,selwyn, Hudnalls ho Burley Henry Thomas, boot & shoe Jones Evan Thomas, frmr.St.Hogganst Garret John DunneH, Woodroyd maker &; dealer • Kear Annie (Mrs.), George inn; good Griffiths John, Closeturf Churchill Wm. crpntr. The Common stabling accommodation *Hall ,Woodspring Cox James, mason, The Common Kear J'sph.Grimes,school attend. officr Hinton William Henry, The Castle Cox John, mason, The Common Keen Wm. Bennett, farmer,Stowe fm Hughes Waiter WiI:iam, Upfield Davies Edmund, boot &; shoe maker Men's Friendly Society (William Cock· Jones Philip Batford• .A.ylesmore house Davis Aaron, farmer, Hudnalls farm ram, sec) Lems Owen, Owenden villa Davis Henry, mason *Mi~es Henry, farmer Lindsell John, Levs hill Davis John, farmer, Lindons Miles Levi, farmer, Wilsbury Martin Frederick, •Lindors Day Henry, farmer, New House farm Miles Sarah (Mrs.). lime burner *Naish Joseph, The Common. Duffield Paul, farmer, Bearse farm Moore &; Rossiter, drapers, grocers &; .Newberry Joseph Vicars, Orielton Edwards Philip, farm bailiff to W. W. general warehousemen *Norrup Lars Peter, Sylvia Hughes esq. Uphill farm Morris Samuel, butcher &; cattle *Parker Orfenr George, Hill house Exton Archer, farmer, Rodmore farm dealer, .Ashley house Prosser Edward Camplan,The Orchard Ferneyhough John, farmer. Nicholas William Henry, Grist mill, 1lo0ke Geo. Douglas Willoughby J.P. Gatfield 'Yil:iam, painter &; glazier Rodmore mill Bigsweir house Gray Edward, carpenter *Page Charles, carpenter,The Commn