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BOYTON-OF-THE.} DIRECTORY.J- SHROPSHIRE. f ELEVEN-TOWNS. !W3 London, when the western gallery was removed and the trust to invest the same in the £2i per cent. Consols. tower arch opened, the interior entirely refitted in oak, and to apply the dividends to the keeping in repair of new nave roof fixed, the floors relaid and two stained the Harding monuments and tombs, and then in the windows inserted, one of which is a memorial to the purchase of warm clothing for the old and poor late Barbara Anne Broadbent, d. 1879, widow of a parishioners. The trustees of the late Col. the Rt. former viear 01 Worfield: there is another memorial Hon. William Slayney Kenyon-Slayney M.P. d. 1go8, and window to the Rev. Gabriel Lloyd Roberts, a former William Henry Foster esq. of Apley Park, are chief rector, d. 18T:a: the north aisle, erected in 1886, is a landowners. The soil is sandy; the subsoil is red memorial to William Kenyon-Slaney, of Hatton Grange, sandstone. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The Sh1fnal, d. 1884, and to iMary Slaney, Qf Ryton Grove, area is 1,440 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable d. 18 Jan. x885: in 1891 a new oak chancel screen was value, £1,873; population in rgu, 177. erected in memory of the wife of P. B. Elwell esq.: Letters are received through Shifnal; arrive at 7-3oa.m. the church seats about rso persons. The register dates & 4 p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 9.20 a.m. & from the year r659. The Jiving is a rectory, net yearly 6.r5 p.m.; on sund:lys at 11.25 a.m value £350, with about 5 acres of glebe and Jesidence, The nearest money order &; telegraph office is at Beck· in the gift of '<lnd held since 1901 by the Rev. Henry bury, I mile distant Pole Fraser M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, wlw resides Public Elementary School (mixed), with house for at Ryton Hall. Ryt-on shows some indications of having mistress attached; built in 1845, a. enlarged rgor, for been a Roman station. Henry Harding esq. by will so children; average attendance, 40; Miss Mary bequt'athed £soo to the rector and churchwarden upon Parton, mistress F'raser Rev. Henry Pole M.A.(rector), Piazzani Romolo, Ryton hall Robinson Robert, wheelwright Ryton hall COMMERCIAL. Walker Arthur Cyril, farmer, Leeke Miss, The Cottage Chatham John, farmer,Up.Atchley ho Atchley Manor farm Leveson-Gower Col. Charles Corbishley Frank, frmr. Grindle farm Wynn John, farmer,Ryton House frm RUYTON-OF-THE-ELEVEN-TOWNS, once a and the staff is surmounted by a flattened head bearing berough town, is now a parish and considerable village, the royal arms; on the middle band is the name, on the north-east side of the road from Shrewsbury to "Richard Kynaston," who is said to have died here iD Oswestry and Holyhead, 2! miles west from Baschurch 1541. Ruyton Park, the property and residence of Capt. station on the Chester main line of the Great Western Cecil Hunt, is a mansion of stone, commanding ex railway, 9 south-east from Oswestry and ro north-west tensive views of the surrounding district. Ruyton from Shrewsbury, in the Western division of the county, Towers, the seat of Tom Oram esq. is 8 mansion of petty se~sional division of Ellesmere, Oswestry incor- stone, standing in 8 well-wooded park of 120 acres. poration and lower division, county court district and The representatives of the late Colonel George Rowland hundred, rural deanery of Ellesmere, archdeaconry of Edwards, of The Hall, Great Ness, hold the manorial Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St. John rights of Ruyton township. The principal landowners the Baptist is an ancient building of stone in the are Lt.-Col. Arthur Henry Orlando LLoyd M.V.O. of Norman and Perpendicular styles, repaired and enlarged Leaton Knolls, the trustees of the late J. D. Jones in 1845, and consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, esq. Mrs. Walford, the trustees of the late R. R. Minton north aisle, south porch and an embattled western esq. Capt. Cecil Hunt, Rowland Hunt esq. M.P., J.P. tower containing 6 bells: the chancel, an interesting of Baschurch, Col. Manwaring G. Jacson, of Tedsmore example of Early Norman work, and containing two Hall, West Felton, and Robert Lloyd Kenyon esq. of aumbries, was restored in 1864, and the body of the Pradoe. The soil is chiefly loam; the subsoil is chiefly church in 1868 : in 1903 new choir stalls of teak red sandstone. The crops are the usual cereals and were provided: the stained east window is a memorial roots. The area of the parish is 4,Bog acres of land and to Margaret Kynaston, d. 12 Sept. 1845, and Anpe 19 of water; rateable value, £8,764; the population in Kynaston, d. 8 Oct. 1838, both of Shrewsbury: two rgn was 934· windows were inserted on the south side in 1885 to Parish Clerk, Edward Parry. R. R. Minton esq. of Rock Ferry, who died 2 Dec. Sexton, William Leach. r879 ; and there are several other stained windows, b M · 1 d" d · d · h h d · Post, M. 0. & T. Office. :Mrs. Re ecca ary Llo;> d, me u mg a ormPr wm ow m t e c ance1 P 1ace lD sub-postmistress. Lett-ers arrive from Shrewsbury at 1903 to Col. Walford D.S.O. : in the chancel is a bras~ · "lli H t - t th B La 6.7 a.m. k 4.40 p.m.; sundays, arnve at 6.7 a.m.; t o AI exan d er W I am nn ' 1Jeu . 13 enga1 ncers, dispatched at II.so a.m. & 7 p.m.; sundays, 7 p.m son of the Rev. T. H. Hunt, of Ruyton Park: thl' reredos is a memoo-ial to the Rev. F. P. Wilkinson, vicar here 1 859_93 : the church affords 450 sittings : EARDISTON is a hamlet and village in the parish a new porch ;was erected in 1892 by Mrs. :Minton, of of Ruyton-of-the-Eleven-Towns, bounded on the west by the Hursts, Rock Ferry. in memory of her husband the London and Holyhead road, 2! mjles south-east and two sons: the site of the old castle, which is clase from Rednal station on the Shrewsbury and Oswestry to the church, was purchased by the parish in 1881 section of the Great Western railway, 8 south from from R. R. Minton esq. and Js now thrown into thf Ellesmere and 6 south-east from Oswestry. The Pradoe churchyard: the lyoh gate was erected in 1887 to the private chapel, begun r8th June, r86o, and opened memory of Cecil Parker Wilkinson, Iieut. R.N., H.M.S. October 19th, r86x, but not consecrated, is a building Dolphin, died at Gibraltar, 25 July, 1887, and Wilfred in the Early English style, erected at the sole cost of Paget Wilkinson, died Dec. 1ss6, sons of the Rev. the late Hon. Mrs. Kenyan, of Pradoe, from the designs Frederick Pag-et Wilkinson.7 A sheltered oak seat in of Mr. R. Hawldns, architect, and consists of chancel, the churchyard was presented in 1904 by Robert Lloyd nave, south porch and a tower on the north side, but Kenyon esq. of Pradoe, in memory of his mother. The has no bells: a reredos in glass mosaic was erected in 1899 as a memorial to the late Right Rev. William existing registers date from 1719 only, the earlier ones Walsham How D.D. Bishop of Wakefield, I888- : 97 having been destroyed by fire, but tl'anscripts of these divine service is conducted here every Sunday afternoon, are prese-rved in the Dioce-san Registry at Lichfield. The and on alternate Sundays at 8 a.m. by the Rev. William livin~ is a vicarage, net yearly value £240, includin~ David Craven :M.A. of Worcester College-, Oxford, vicar 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the of Ruvton. The churchvard was consecrated 18th Nov. Bi~hop of Lichfield, and held since I8oq by Rev. rgo5, • and is now vest~d in Diocesan Trustees. The William David Craven M.A. of Worcester College, Ox- register is included with that of Ruyton-of-the-Eleven ford, who is also chaplain of the Pradoe private chapel, Towns. Pradoe, the seat of Robert Lloyd Kenyon esq. Eardiston; the rectorial tithes are commuted at £540, D.L., J.P. the principal landowner, is a beautiful man and belong- to a number of lay rectors. Here are a sion Gf brick, on a gentle eminence in the extensive and CongreQ"ational chapel. built in 1883, with 250 sittings, w~ll timbered park that lies between the village and a. ~rimitive Metho~is~ _ohapel. bn~lt in r86o, wth J8o the Holvhead ~nd Shrewsbury road. John Basnett ~Ittm!!~, and a P~ImltlVe Methodist chapel, at Blacl{ Oswell esq. of Eardiston house, is also a landowner. Bow Hill,_ ere.cted m _I89 2 • • I Copper is found here, but the workings are drowned The V1ctona Readmg Room, erected m :1902 at a out by water. The SQii is mostly loam, with a portion c?st of up-w:ards of [,3o?, . on land prese'?ted by the of sand ; subsoil, sandstone rock. The chief crops are v1car, con~ams a fine bllhard room, besides another the usual cereals and roots. The area is 'JOS acres small readmg room. A stone c-ross with lamp was erected in the village in Letters ar_e received from Oswestry, &Tnve about 7.30 r88o.