Staffordshire. with Lowe and Tittesworth
DIRECTORY. J STAFFORDSHIRE. LE~K. 249 LAPLEY with W'HEATON ASTON. LAPLEY is a village and parish, 4 miles west from Post Office, Lapley. Miss Alice Harper, sub-post Penkridge station and 3 north-west from Gailey station, mistress. Letters srrive from Stafford, via Stretton, both on the Birmingham and Stafford section of the Lon at 6.15 a.m. & 4.30 p.m.; dispatched at 7·45 p.m.; don and North Western railway, and 10! from Wolver no sunday delivery. Wbeaton Aston is the nearest hampton, in the Western division of the county, money order office & Stretton, 2 miles distant, the hundred of West Cottlestone, Penkridge petty ses nearest telegraph office sional division, Cannock union, Wolverhampton county court district, rural deanery of Penkridge, archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield. WHEATON ASTON is a large and populous village in The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction canal the parish of Lapley, from which it is It miles west. The passes through the parish. The church of All Saints'. Birmingham and Liverpool Junction canal passes on the originally cruciform, is a large edifice of stone, with some east side of the village, The chapel of ease here is a Norman portions, consisting of chancel, nave, and a cen building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of tral embattled tower containing a clock and 5 bells; the chancel, nave, transept, north aisle and a small western ehancel is divided from the nave by an oak screen: there turret with spire, containing a. clock and one be1l ; the is a memorial window to Mrs.
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