7 LITTLE COMBERTOX. "-0 RCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY 8 1886-7 the church was generally restored at a cost of which is now used as a Working Men's Club and Reading £2,IIo, under the direction of W1lliam White esq. F.S.A. Room; to the other old house is attached an ancient cir. architect, of London, when the chancel roof was reno- cular dovecote. Several coins of the Christian and earlier vated, a new chancel arch of oak erected, with six small Roman emperors, including one of Julian the .Apostate, windows above it, the roof of the nave renewed, a north and a small coin of Edward the Confessor have been found aisle and organ chamber added to the chancel and a in the parish. In 1884 some remains of Roman pottery transept erected; the chancel was also refioored with tiles were also found here by the sexton while digging a grave reproducing the ancient patterns, at the cost of R. S. in the churchyard, and others have since been found. Bagnall esq. of the Manor House, all the original tiles The principal landowners are William Hy. Bagnall esq. of being collected and laid down at the east end, and the nave Bafford House, Charlton Kings, who is lord of the manor, was reseated; three Early Norman windows, recovered the trustees of the late Thomas Stevens Shekell e!q. during the progress of the work, were placed in the (d. 1908), Rev. William Henry Thackwell M.A. Miss north wall, and the tower was repaired and a new roof Parker, Mrs. Robert Hinshaw and the rector. The soil fixed, at the cost of F. Parker esq. of Worcester; the is marly; subsoil, gravel, sand and clay. The chief whole restoration was carried out a.s a memorial to the crops are wheat, barley and beans, and extensive apple Rev. William Parker M.A. rector 1826-84, to whose and pear orchards. The area is 790 acres; rateable memory several stained windows have also been erected. value, £1,288; the population in 1901 was 206. The communion table and plate were presented by T. To the south is the Bredon Hill. Byrche Savage esq. whose family were formerly patrons Parish Clerk, Richard Salsbury. of the living: there are 150 sittings. The register ot Post Office.-James Henry Collins, sub-postmaster. baptisms dates from the year 1591; marriages and Letters received through Pershore, Worcestershire, burials, 1586. The living is a rectory, net yearly value arrive at 6.JS a.m. & 3·5 p.m.; dispatched at 10.30 £r45, arising from 143 acres of glebe, with residence, a.m. &; 6.30 p.m. ; sundays, 10.30 a.m. Elmley in the gift of and held since 1898 by the Rev. William Castle is the nearest money order & telegraph office Dobson Lowndes M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 186o at One acre of land is let by the churchwardens, and the the sole expense of the late Rev. William Parker & en- rent applied In payment of church expenses. In the vil- larged by him in 1870; a cloak room & porch were lage are two large timber-framed houses, one of which, the added in 18gr, but in 1899 it was rebuilt on the same Old Manor House, near the church, has a ceiling sup- site; the school will hold 61 children; average attend- parted by numerous richly-moulded beams: a timber- ance, 43; Mrs. Sarah Winwood, mistress; Miss framed parish room was added in 1890 to this hO'Use, Gertrude Cooper, assistant mistress Lowndes Rev. William Dobson M.A. Collins Jas. Hy. shopkpr. Post office Read George, pig killer (rector), Rectory Collins Thomas (Mrs.), dress maker Salisbury William, wheelwright Moore Henry E. The Cottage Fletcher Annie (Mrs.), laundry Shelbrooke Mary (Miss), dist. nurse Th~kwell Rev. William Henry M.A. Harrison George, farmer, Glebe farm Simmonds Edwin John, •baker Manor house Hawker Annie (Miss), laundry Summers Thomas, market gardener COMMERCIAL. Hawker William, pig killer Working Men's Club & Reading Room Bowles William, gardener to the Rev. Lane Ellen (Miss), dress maker (Rev. William Dobson Lowndea William Henry Thacl>well M. A Pitcher Ernest Hy. frmr. Grange frm M.A. president; Hubert Salisbury, Cartwright John, gardener to the Pitcher Wm. Godwin Yeend, farmer, sec) Rev. William D. Lowndes M.A Nash's farm CONDERTON, see Overbury. COOKHILL, see Inkberrow. COOKLEY is an ecclesiastical district, formed in 1849 leyan Methodist -chapel here was built in 1814, and re­ from the civil parish of Wolverley, and a village, on the built in 1874; the former Primitive Methodist chapel, river Stour, about a mile fromWolverley and 3 miles north erected in 186o, has been converted into a private from Kidderminster station on the Great Western rail- house. A Dispensary for Cookley and Wolverley was way, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Lower established here in 1834. The population in 1901 was Oswaldslow, Kidderminster union, petty sessional divi- r, 152. sion and county court district, rural deanery of Kidder- Parish Clerk, Samuel Ball Caswell. minster, and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The Constable, Charles Jenkins. church of St. Peter is an edifice of brick in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north Post, M. 0. & T. Office. J ames Griffin, sub-postmaster. porch and a north-west tower with pinnacles, containing Letters received from Kidderminster at 7.20 a.m. &I a clock and 6 bells: it was enlarged in 1872 by the erec- 3·35 p.m. ; dispatched at 11.25 a.m. & 4 & 5.50 p.m.; tion of an organ chamber, a new organ being presented there is no sunday post by \Villiam Hancocks e,sq. and the chancel was refitted p bl' El S under the direction of Mr. J. T. Meredith, architect, of u lC ementary chools. Kidderminster: there are sittings for 500 persons. The Mixed, built in 1867 & enlarged in 1882 & further en- register dates from the year 1349. The living is a vicar- larged in 19u~ for 205 children; average attendance, age, net yearly value £16o, with residence, in the gift 130; James Hmgley Parsons, master of William Hancocks esq. of Blakeshall House, Wolverley, Infants, built in 1849, for 155 children; average attend· and held since 1908 by the Rev. Robert Samuel Rowley- ance, 63 ; this school is supported from the same source Moir B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. The Wes- as the Wolverley school; Miss Elizh. M. Downes, mist PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ohaddesley Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Lavender John, Red Lion P.H. & as- Caswell Samuel Ball, Corona (The) sistant overseer Dawes Miss, Wood view Cookley Coal Co. (Jn. Cox, manager) Merchant Arnold, Shaftes,bury coffee Dorman William Henry, Hill home Cookley & Wolverley Dispensaries tavern Guest Arthur. Bryn Stour (.John Percy Holyoake (Kinver), Mills John, The Island Pool P.H Harris John David, Cookley house medical officer; John Lavender, Pennyfather Ernest, Park Gate P.H .Marchant Mrs collector) Parkins Richavd, farmer, Caunsall ho Marris Charles, River bank house Cookley Working Men's Club (L.Cas- Pilsbury John, farmer, White house Rowley-Moir Rev. Robert Saml. B.A. well, sec) Pitt 'Henry Chas. Bull's Head P.H (vicar), The Vicarage Edwards Marion (Miss), shopkeeper Ritchie Brothers, farmers, Caunsall W estley William, Clee hall Fish Martha (Mrs.), greengrocer Spittle Samuel, beer retlr. Caunsall Wetherell Miss, Rose cottage Griffin James, grocer, ·baker,& patent Taylor Benjamin, boot repairer Wiggin William, Rock house medicines, Post office Taylor James, hair dresser COMMERCIAL. Hand William, beer retailer, Caunsall Taylor Waiter, 'butcher Anderson John, farmer, Debdale Harrison Alfd. farmer, Arustcliffe ho Vernon Russell, butcher Barker Charles, cowkeeper Hickman Thomas 1Benj. 1beer retailer Waldron Joseph, farmer, Park gate Brown George, farmer, .Austcliffe frm Hopcroft Thomas, who. greengrocer Ward Waiter, blacksmith, Caunsall Brown James William, grocer Kid.derminster Industrial Co-operative Whittaker William, farmer,Beeoh tree Caswell Luther, draper Society Limited (No. 1 branch) 1 COSTON HACKETT, usually called Cofton Hackett, grove union, Northfield petty sessional division, Redditch is a parish standing at the foot of the Lickey Hills, rl county court district, rural deanery of Bromsgrove and miles north from Barnt Green station on the Birmingham archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The Worcester and Bristol (Midland) railway, which runs through the and Birmingham canal is half a mile south, and there are parish, 11, miles south-west from Birmingham, 5 north- large reservoirs. The church of St. Michael is an ancient east from Bromsgrove, about 11 west from Kidder- building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular minster and 123! from London, in the Eastern division of styles, consisting of chancel, nave, half-timbered south the county, upper division of Halfshire hundred, Broms- porch and a double bell-gable containing 2 bells: on the .