DIRECTORY.] 'YARWICKSHIRE. WESTWOOD. 267 Tracey Samuel, chimney sweepel' Bailey Richard, gamekeeper to George Hudson & Co. sack contractors (agent. "Wellesbourne Gas & Coke Co. Limited H. Granville esq Edward John Charles) (Edward John Charles, sec.; .Tames Baker Jane (Mrs.), Peacock P.H Jarrett Joseph, road surveyor for Bradley, manager) Baker William, farmer & monumental county council, Sunnydale Wellesbourne WDrking Men's Conser­ & general mason, memorials in Lewis Mary .Ann (Mrs.), draper vative Club (Sir Charles Mordaunt granite, marble & stone, estimates Kerwood Thomas, farmer, Chadley frm. bart. M. A., D.L., J.P. president; J. furnished, Fammington farm ~lainwaring James, frmr.ThreeBridges H. Betteridge & William Richard Berrell .Tames, thatcher :".fence John, tobacconist Charles, hon. secs) Bickerstaff Bernard Jas. assurnce.agnt ~Iountford Thomas, boot maker, col- Buckley Charles, ironmonger lector of taxes, Post office WELLESBOURNE :MOUNTFORD. Capers Mary (Mrs.), laundry Pitt Richard, surgeon & medical officer .Alderwood Henry Charles Edward John, maltster & & public vaccinator, Wellesbourne Clerk Mrs. Wellesbourne grange builder & assistant overseer district, Stratford-on-.Avon union Granville George Hyde Charles Wm. Richd. plumber&glazier Pitt Richard Joseph L.F.P.S.Glas.surg Hamrnond Mrs Chedham Henry, wheelwright Pritchard Thomas & Sons, farmers & Kibler Mrs Clarke Major .Tames, baker hauliers Low Wm. Mackay, Wellesbourne house Cooper Elizbh. (Miss), teacher ofmusc Pratt John, farm bailiff to Col. Paulet,. Lucy Edmund Berkeley, Holly lodge Cooper William, butcher Low farm Nicholl Mrs. Wellesbourne hall Court Charles, Old Stag's Head P.H Roberts Frederick, saddler Overbury Mrs Dencer .Albert Edward, tailor Rowe Henry, grocer Paulet Co1. Chas. Wm. Manor house Green Harry, builder, contractor & Salmon Sophia (Miss), draper Pitt Richard undertaker, jobbing work of all Thorpe William, blacksmith Pitt Richard Joseph kinds, estimates given Tredwell Jas. Osborne,farmer, Dove ho Prichard George H Harrison .Alfred George, artist Wa.rwickshire Yeomanry CavaJry (D .AJderwood.o Henry, farmer Harrison Frederick, chime & turret Squadron, Oapt. W. M. Low, in Atkins Thomas, boot & shoe maker clock maker command; Lieut. F. Dugdale, second Bazeley Alfred B. grocery & italian & Harr£son Frederick Worooster, artist & in CQIDlmand; W. Fa.irbrother & W. provision warehouse, patent medi- drawing master lH. Potts, quarter masters; Sergt.- cines at store prices; high class Hemming Richd. shopkeeper & baker Maj. G. H. Dennison, drill instrctr) baker & confectionery Hirons John, bricklayer WESTON, in Domesday" Westone," and lateY''Weston- wards was held in part by the Naptons till the time of under-Wetherley," or "W ethele," from the woods lying Henry IV. In the reign of Henry VIII. it belonged to northwards of it, is a parish and scattered village on the Edward Belknap, who built a new manor house. The Rugby road, bounded on the south-east by the river subsequent owners were Sir T. Newnham, Sir E. Learn, 4 miles east-north-east from Leamington, 6 north· Saunders and T. Morgan esq. from whom it passed to th& east fram Warwick and 7 north-north-west from Southam, Cliffords, the present possessors. The fine I6th century in the South-Eastern division of the county, Southam divi- mansion which so long stood here has been taken down. sion of the hundred of Knightlow, petty sessional division but an excellent view of it is given in Thomas's edition of of Kenilworth, union and county court district of War- Dugdale, p. 583: the tapestry formerly covering two sides wick, rural deanery of Baginton, arcbdeaconry of Co~entry of one of the rooms is now in the museum of the York and diocese of Worcester. The church <>f St. Michael, Philosophical Society. Lord CliffOTd of Chudleigh, who is 11nciently belonging to the canons of Erdbury, is a build- lord of the manor, and Lord Leigh L.L. are the chief land­ ing of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of owners. The soil is clayey and sandy; subsoil, strong chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled marl. The crops are wheat, barley, beans and peas. The western tower containing 4 bells: in the church is a manu- area is I,297 acres; rateable value, £I,794; the popula­ ment to Sir Edward Saunders kt. dated I573, with kneel- tion in I8gi was 249, including go inmates in the Re- ing effigie9 of himself and wife: the whole of the timber iormatory. · ~ork of the interior, including th~- r_oof, has been r~newed Parish Clerk Thomas Satchwell. smce I867 : there are over 200 Slttings. The register of ' . baptisms dates from the year I66o; burials, I69s ; mar- Post O.ffice.-:-M1ss Mary A~ Clark, sub-postmistre~s. riages, I7oo. The living is a vicarage (united to Wappen- Letters arrive from Leammgton at 7·45 a..m. & dis- bury in I8gi), joint net yearly value £n7, with 57 acres patched at 5.20 P·~· No s~nday post. The nearest. of glebe here, in the gift of Lord Clifford, and held since money order ?ffice IS at Cubbmgton & the neares~ tele- IBgi by the :Rev. Edward LewiSI Wise M . .A. of St. Alban grap~ office lS at Marton. Postal orders are 1ssued Rail, Oxford, who resides at The Grange, Cubbington. at th1s office, but not ea.shed Mr. Wm. Umbers, of this place, wu Warwickshire the Leices- Leigh, at a. nominal rent, on a lease for 99 years: ths ter breed of sheep; previous to hiSJ death, in I846, he re- Reformatory contains go boys, who are taught various ceived public acknowledgment of his services in the im- trades & are also employed in cultivating do or more provement and protection of agriculture. There are acres of the adjacent grounds; William E. Pengelly, charities of £3 annual value. This manor, in the C1Jn- supt.; J. H . .Tones, schoolmaster. The children of this queror's time, belonged to the Earl of Mellent, and after- village attend the school at Hunningham Stuart Mrs Coles Thomas, farmer, Weston fields ~Iurcott John, farmer, Weston hall Stuart Miss Flint Edward, farmer Pengelly William Edwd. supt. of the Harrod Samuel, shoe maker County Reformatory for Boys COMMERCIAL. Hewitt Henry, carpenter ·waiters ·william, farmer Clark Mary (Mrs.) & Son, blacksmiths Hobbs Charles, Bull's Head P.H Wells Willia.m, farmer, New house WESTWOOD is an ecclesiastical parish formed sum of £2oo is applied to the maintenance oi the Sunday September n, 1846, from that of Stoneleigh, from which school and the purchase of BibleSI and prayer books for the village it is 5 miles north-west, 3 north from Kenilworth scholars: the interest of another like sum is devoted tCoventry, rural deanery and arch- churchwardens, in providing an annual subscription to the deaconry of Coventry and diocese of Worcester. The county hospital, and in supporting the National and Day church of St. John the Baptist was erect-ed in I844, at a schools of Westwood. Lord Leigh L.L. is the principal cost of £I,58o, chiefly defrayed by Lord Leigh, who also landowner. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay. The gave the site, and is an edifice of stone in the Early Eng- chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The arew is 9·394 lish style, consisting of chancel and nave, north porch and acres; the population in I891 was 6o4. a western turret containing I bell: it was consecrated Fletchamstead is a large and straggling hamlet in this July, I845: a vestry was added in 1876, and there are 350 parish, 2 miles south-west from Coventry and I east from Birmingham branch of living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £52, net yearly t-he London and North Western railway, entirely agricul­ value £xgo, including 3 acres of glebe, with residence, tutal and surrounded by extensive woods. .A chapel for­ in the gift of Lord Leigh, and held since 1887 by the Rev. merly existed here, on land granted by Henry I. to one Evan Henry Thoma~ 1\I..A. of Jesus College, Oxford. In Gerard, a hermit, who was afterwards burieJ therein. pursuance of directions under a bequest of the late Rev. Subsequently the Templars held it, and then the Hospi­ Edmund Roy, the income derivable from the sum ot tallers, on whose suppression it came to the Crown, and £I,ooo is applied to such church expenses as were for- eventually to the family of Leigh, of Stoneley. xnerly covered by church rates. The interest on a further Tile Hill is a hamlet, 3 miles west from Coventry, with