\VHELLAN & CO.'S DIRECTORY.

Public Build.ings-Contd. Registmrs of Births and Death.~, :Mallinson, clerk in charge ; ST.GEORGE's Cnucn, Mossley- for UpperMillDistrict, Joshua Greenjield, Thos.Norris, clerk Rev. John Hextal, incumbent; Wrigley, Upper Mill; for in charge; New Delph,EdwJ. Rev. John Jackson, curate Delph District-Wm. Taylor, Whitworth, clerk in charge ; ST.THOMAS' CHURCH, FriarMere Delph Saddleworth, George Lodge, Rev. Joseph Anthony Boake, clerk in charge incumbent County Court, ST,ANN'SCHAPEL,Lydgate Rev. HELD. AT THE COURT HOUSE, Carriers. George Cowell, incumbent UPPER JIULL, :MONTHLY. To J\fANCHESTER,Jno.Hepworth, ST.BRIDGET's CATHoLrcC~A~EL, Judge-John s. T.Greene, Esq. & Thos.Holding,from Delph; :Srooksbottom-Rev. 1~hlham Clerk John Summerscales Aaron Whitworth, from Moss­ Parsons, priest .AssistantClerk-Benj. Tweednle ley; JohnBuckley,fromBrooli- CHRISTIAN BRETHREN, Brook- Baili.ff-Edmund Travis bottom, Mossley; and Chas. bottom Broadbent, from UpperMill- lNDEl'ENDENT CHAPEL, Spring- PETTY SEssiONS Tuesday, Thursday, and Sat- head-Rev. "\Vm_ Dixon urday INDEPENDENT Cn.A.PEL, Delph- are held once a fortnight at To , Wm. Green- Rev. John George UJjper lllill. . hough &JamesWinterbottOin, INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, Upper The J\'l:agistrates generall~ 111 from Greenfield; & William 1\Iill-Rev. Simeon Dyson attendance are Rev. Rhd.Whrte- Lawton, from Delph-every METHODIST NEw CoNNEXION lock, M.A.; James Lees, ERq.; Saturday CHAPELs, :1\iossley, & Shude John Bu~kley, Esq.~; Jas. Hey- To MANCHESTER, Jas. Buckley, hill, Delph woo~ Whrtehead, Esq.; . Thos. from Greenfield; and Wm. 1VEsLEYANMETHonrsT0HAPELs, Ro~mson, Esq.; & FrancisFdk. Booth, from J\Iossley,-Tues- Delph, Upper:Mill, Greenfield, Whitehead, Esq. day and Saturday Mossley, & Baguley hill MECHANrcs'INsTITUTE,Up.l\1ill-- Conveyance by Water, Poor Law Union. John Schofield, secretary FROM wooL RoAD, DAILY. JVorkhouse, Running hill 8TU1P OFFicE, Delph \Vm. ToHunni:RsFIELD DEWSBURY & Governor, John Radclffe Taylor Brook, sub-distributor WAKEFIELD, th~ LmmoN '& ~fatron, Hannah Radc1iffe NoRTH-WESTERN RAILWAY & Schoobnistress, Sarah Radcliffa Convey.ce by Railway, CANAL Co., and KENWORTHY R - tr On the North-Eastern Section & Co. eg1s ars oftheLoNDON&NonTHWEsTERN To MANCHESTER & LivERPooL, OF BIRTHS,DEA.TRS,&:M:ARRIAGES. RAILWAY. theLONDON&NoRTH-\VESTEllS Superintendent Registrar-Mr. STATIONs.-Dig lee, Ellis Taylor, RAILWAY & CANAL Co., anJ. Joseph Harrop, Dobcross clerk in charge; ~lossley,Jas. KENWORTHY & Co •

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MOTTRAM-IN-

Is an extensive parish comprising eight townships-namely, 1\'Iottram, Godley, , , 1\iatley, Newton, Stayley and , which contain aggregately 26,260 statute acres of land, and which bore a population in 1801 amounting to 6,234; in 1831 to 15,53(1; in 1841 to 21,215, and according to the census of 1851 it conta.ined 23,765 souls. The parish which comprehends a bleak and dreary promontory, extending to the borders of Yorkshire, is bounded on its northern side by the river Tame, and on the southern side it is washed by the Etherow, which separates it from . A large tract of moor land, called "Feather-bed Moss," and abounding with grouse, stretches to the extreme eastern point of the county, which is here separated from Yorkshire by the Salters' Brook, where the counties of Chester, Derby, and York converge. MoTTRAM village, which stands on an eminence in the Dale, is situated in the hundred of Macclesfield, diocese and county of Chester, about 7-! miles N. N. E. from Stockport, 10 E. by s. from Manchester, 29 w. from Sheffield, and about a mile from the line of the Manchester, Shef­ field, and Lincolnshire Railway, which crosses the Etherow at Dinting Vale by a lofty viaduct of sixteen arches. The township contains about 1,000 acres of land, and has increased its popu­ lation from 984 in 1801, to 3,199 in 1851. The neighbourhood of Mottram is remarkable for the romantic and picturesque grandeur of its scenery, the swelling eminences1 rugged steep-