470 WENTNOR. SHROPSHIRE. (KELLY'S MRDLICOTT township is 2 miles north. John. Charles telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not Addyes Scott esq. is lord of the manor. paid RITTON township is 5 miles north-west. ScHOOLS :- The area is 6,699 acres; rateable- value, £3,688; the Parochial (mixed), built with resid~nce for mistress in 1873, population in xBBx was 727. 1 for So children; average attendance, 52; Miss Rose Par- Parish Clerk, Edward Whittall. sons, mistress PosT 0FFICE.-EdwardJones, receiver. Letters arrive from Stiperstones (mixed), formerly a chapel; it will hold about Bishop·s Castle (Railway Sub-Office) at 9a.m.; dispatched 100 children; average attendance, 6o; & supported by' at 4 p.m. Bishop's Castle is the nearest money order & Lady Charlotte Lyster ; Mrs. Timms, mistress Shrewsbury to Montgomery and Newtown, and near the is 8,523 acres; rateable value, £n,700, which includes the Shrewsbury and Welshpool joint London and North Western parish of Yockleton; the population of the parish, exclusive and Great Western railway, which has a station about xi of Minsterley, in x88I was 11 298. miles north--west from the village, 9 miles west-south-west Parish Clerk, Richard Davies. from Shrewsbury, 12 north-west from Montgomery, 12 west HAwcocKs, If miles south, and CAUSE, 1l" miles west and from Welshpool and I54 from London, in the Western divi- HEM, 2 miles south, are townships. ~ion of the county, Ford division of Ford hundred, Atcham HURST is a township xi miles south. The principal land· union, Shrewsbury county court district, petty sessional owner is John Whitaker esq . .l.P. of Winsley Hall. division of Cruckton, rural deanery of Pontesbury, Ludlow LAKE is a township ll miles south-east. The principal .archdeaconry and Hereford diocese. The parish formerly landowners are Lieut.-Col. Henry Warter Meredith of Pentre <:ontained the township of Minsterley, now separated for both Bycban Hall, Wrexham, and Michael Huntbach . .civil and ecclesiastical purposes, and the townships of Yockle- MARSH is a township xi miles north-west. The principal ton, Stoney Stretton and Newton, which form a separate landowners are John Brown, Charles Hilhouse and William .ecclesiastical parish, but are still united for civil purposes to M. Sparrow esqrs. Westbury. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone of VENNINGTON township is 1 mile west; the principal land­ very early date, but has been much modernized; the tower owners are J. E. Severne esq. and Charles John Morris esq . .and part of the south wall were rebuilt in 1753: it consists .J.P. of Wood Eaton Manor, Stafford. of chancel, nave of five bays, aisle.'! and a western tower WESTLEY township is If miles south; the principal land· containing a clock and 5 bells: in the church are mural owners are the trustee.s of the late Mr. Henry Gardner. tablets to members of the ancient family of Corbet of Cause WRITTON township is xl miles west ; the principal land· Castle, the Topps of Whitton and the Severnes of Wallop. owner is J. E. Severne esq. The register, including Minsterley, dates from the year I664. The townships of UPPER and LowER WIGlllORE are xi The living is a rectory, which, till separated from Yockleton, miles north ; the principal landowner is Charles Hilhouse esq• .Stoney Stretton and Newton, now forming Yockleton rectory, WrNSLEY township is It miles south. Winsley Hall, <: