144 . . the Ladies Thynne. The lead mine, partly in this town­ month; and an annual fair for cattle \on the second ship and partly in Westbury, is about 500 yards from Monday in September. The MarquesS' of Bath is lord the top of the shaft: it was formerly one of the most of the manor and chief landowner. Thel soil is strong productive in the kingdom, and now yields about 1,000 loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, tons yearly: the lead from this mine is of fine quality, oats and roots. The area is 2,637 acres; rateable value, and is especially adapted to the manufacture of flint £4,658; the population in 1891 was 798. glass; the mine also produces quantities of blende ores, Sexton, Robert Hughes. carbonates and sulphates, baryta, and other minerals, Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. R, Express Delivery &; .Annuity principally carbonate of lime, quartz &c.: that portion &; Insurance Office.-John Evans, sub-postmaster. of the mine known as "" belongs to the Letters arrive from via at> Marquess of Bath, and that called "Vessons" to the 6 a.m. & 4.15 p.m.; dispatched at 6.50 p.m. daily Earl of Tankerville: the smelting operations of the company, removed from Pontesford to Snailbeach in Wall Letter Boxes. 1863, are now discontinued, but new mills have. been Near church, cleared at 6 p.m.; sundays, 12 noon erected (1893) for the grinding of barytes. At Snail­ Plox Green, cleared at 5.30 p.m.; sundays, 11.30 a.m beaoh, is a. mission church, erected in 1872: it is> of Snailbeach, cleared at 5 p.m. week days only brick and stone, and consists ()f chancel and nave and Police Station, Sergeant John Smith, in charge a. turret containing one bell: divine service is held twice every Sunday. In the year 1851 a Roman pig National School (mixed), built in 1843 &; enlarged in of lead, 20 inches long and of the same thickness and 1874, with residence for a master, for 160 children; weighing 173 pounds, was fOl;lnd by some workmen average attendance, 130; endowed with £1,059 by the while engaged in sinking through a slag heap of smelt­ late Joshua Williams, of Worthing, Sussex: the ings, on which appears the following inscription in Marquess of Bath &; the Snailbeach Mining Company raised letters: .are annual subscribers; Thomas Edwards, master; IMP. HADRIANI AVG. Mrs. Edwards, mistress A stock fair is held here on the second Monday in each Railway Station, Arthur Baker, station master

Cope Rev. John (Primitive Methodist) Evans Jo'hn,grocer &; insurance agent, Pitt Willi,am George, beer retailer DaTies Miss, The Poplars Ellis John, butcher & castrator Price Robert, builder & timber Gilbertson Herbert, Poulton farm Evans David (Mrs.), farmer, Snailbcb merchant, coal, lime &; corn dealer, Hutton Thomas, Minsterley hall &; agent to the Northern Guano Co. Dutch Barn erecting a specl- Jones Rev. Wm. (Baptist), Sna.ilbeach Post office allty, irrespective of distance Oldfield William,West view,SnaiJ'beach Evans Joseph, blacksmith Price Enoch, farmer, Leigh Hall &; Or:miston Mrs Evans Joseph, tea dealer, Snailbeach farms Price Robert, Oak house Evans Thomas, cattle dealer Pugh Samt Fredk. tailor, Station ter Price Rev. WaIter (Congregational) Everall Richard, butcher Ray Willlam Henry, Miners' Arms Waters Mrs.Snaj]beach frm.Snailbeach Garratt Edward,shopkeeper hotel, &; brewer ;ogood house for com- Watkins John Hughes, Rose bank Hutton Thomas, land &; estate mercial gentlemen &; tourists Williams Rev. Reginald William Ph.D. agent, surveyor & valuer,&; agent to Roberts> Thomas, grocer, draper &:; The Vicarage the ·Marquess of Bath, Mrs. Addy general dealer S>cott &; others, Minsterley hall Rowson EdWlard, farmer, Snailbeach COMMERCIAL. Jiadr,s Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Plox green Savage J o-hn, farmer, The Park Blakemore Benjamin, miller (water) Jones Annie (Mrs.), dress maker, I Snailbeach Lead Mining Co. Limitelf &; farmer, Hogstow mill S'taltion terrace (Dennis & Son, managers; Edward Blakemore Richard, joiner &; builder Jones Thomas, agent to the Royal &; Williams Vaugohan, Oswestry, sec. &. Brumbell Richard, farmer, Lady oak Lancashire Fire &; Life &; Norwich &; treasurer; John Job &; William Oliffdale Barytes Co.(William Yelland, London Accident Insurance Com- Oldfield, agents), Snailbeach managing partner), Water wrheel panies, Plox house Taylor Gilberlson &; 00. Barytes. Croft Oharles, farmer, The Wood Lea Thos. Silvester, farmer, Poulton grinders, Minsterley mills Davies Mart'ha (Mrs.),farmer,Plox grn Lee John Goorge, Bath Arms P.H. Vaughan Geol1ge, boot & shoe maker Davies Thomas, shopkeepr. Snailbeach &; farmer; comfort.able accommoda- Vaughan Wm. merchant, Station yard Davies William, farmer, Hall farm tion for private summer visitors, Warter Joseph, black!smitfu. &; wheel- Dclbridge Jabez, calb proprietor near to Railway station wright; & at Plox green Dickin Tihos.Emlbrey"grocer &; outfittr Oakley J18mes, farmer, Plox green Waters Richd. farmer, Snailbeach frm Dorricott Isaac, farmer, Rea brook Parry Enoch, shopkeeper, Central Whitefoot Thomas,boot &; shoe makerr Dorricott John, farmer, Bank house Perkin In. boot &; shoe ma.Snailbeach Little Minsterley Ellis &; Young, farmers & butchers; Pitt John, Crown & Sceptre P.H. & Williams Thos. saddler &; harness roa & at Hem, West-bury ooal merohant

MONK HOPTON is a township, parish and village, Hopton House, the residence of George Benjamin on the new road between Bridgnorth and Ludlow, 4 Batchelor esq. is a building of brick and stone in the­ miles south-east from Presthope 8tation on the Wenlock Elizabethan style, with ornamenool gardens. Lord and Carven Arms branch of the , Barnard and Capt. the Hon. Richard Thompson Lawley, 6 west-north-west from Bridgnorth and 5! south from who is lord of the manor, are chief landowners. Ther~ Much Wenlock, in the Southern division of the county, are rocks of cornstone in most of the hills and high hundred of Stottesdon, Bridgnorth union, county court grounds, and the yew tree and oak flourish here. The district and petty sessional division, rural deanery of soil is strong loam, and grows good turnips; the sub­ Wenlock (second division), archdeaconry of Ludlow and soil is clay. The chief crops are cereals. The area is diocese of Hereford. The church of St. Peter is an 2,324 acres; rateable value, £1,922; the population in ancient building of stone in the Norman style, con­ 1891 was 198. sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled Parish Clerk, William Evans. western tower, with pinnacles, containing 2 bells: there is a beautiful Norman window preserved from an old Post Oflice.-Charles Edwards, sub-postmaster. Letter& building which formerly stood on the site of the present arrive from Bridgnorth at 8,55 a.m.; dispatched at church: the church was repaired about 1840, and a 4 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Much new organ was erected in 1889 by public subscriptions: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the Wenlock year 1698. The living is a vicarage, average tithe National School (mixed), with residence for mistress, rent-charge £33, gross yearly value £1I5, with resi­ for this & the neighbouring parish of Acton Round? dence, in the gift of the Hon. Richard Thompson Law­ built in 1845, for 40 children; average attendance.. ley, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Samuel Gracie 26; & supported by the Hon. Richard T. Lawley; Hayward, who is also vicar of Upton Crossett'. Monk Mis~ Emma Maysweett, mistress

Batchelor Geo. Benj. Monk Hopton ho Dixon Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Brook ho Palmer Samuel, butcher Hayward Rev. Samuel Gracie (vicar), Downes Edwin, farmer, Netchwood RobilllSon Geo. farmer, Westan (lettl:'TS The Vicarage Edwards John, blacksmith should be addressed Much Wenlock) COMMERCIAL. Evans Edward, farmer, Monk hall Spilsbury Harriet (Mrs.), water miller Barker Mrs. farmer, Weston (letters Lawley Richard, wiheelwright Thomas William, farmer, Manor farm should be addresed Muc