DIRECTORY.] HEREFORDSHIRE. BRIDSTOW. 3l

Chairman, David Frederick Powell, Hardwicke court, Surveyor, Henry Hamar, Bricklands, Clifford, Hay Clifford, Hereford Sanitary Inspector, David Arthur Williams, Middlewood, Officials. Peterchurch, Hereford Clerk, R. T. Griffiths, Hay, Brecknockshire 'Treasurer, Edwin Taylor, National Provincial Bank of England, Hay Clerk to Bredwardine Sub-Committee of Herefordshire :\Iedical Officer of Health, Thomas Ernest Hincks M.B., Local Pension Committee, Stephen Waiter Watkins, B.Ch.Edin. Oxford road, Hay, Hereford 2 Doyre villas, Pontrilas, Hereford Burton-Phillipson Mrs. The Cottage j Hancox John, senr. tarmer, Pentre Pearce John, farmer Jobling Rf'Y. James (vicar), The I Hancox John, jun. farmer, Bodcott Phillips Evan, shopkeeper, Cock Pits Vicar

Dale Jonathan, farmer, Old court 1 Morgan William, farmer, Old house Yorath Henry, farmer, Weston H. ncox Charles, farmer ! Parry John, farmer, Dolvaugh

BREINTON (UPPER and LOWER) is a parish service is held on Sundriver Wye, and is three Friends' Meeting House. The charities, amounting to miles west-south- west from Hereford station on the Great £20 yearly value, are devoted in part to educational Western railway, in the Southern division of the county, purposes. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are the hundred of Grimsworth, Hereford county court district, chief landowners. At King's Acre (about 2 miles from petty sessional division and union, and in the rural Hereford) are the extensive nursery grounds of the deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. '!'he King's Acre Nurseries Limited. Adjoining the grounds church of St. Micbael is an edifice of stone, in the of Breinton House is a mound, probably the site of a Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, British encampment or watch tower, which guarded an nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch and a western old ford over the river Wye at this point. Remains of tower with spire containing 2 bells: the stained windows British and Roman pottery &c. have been found here are memorials to the Du Buisson, Cranston, Eckersal! The soil is gravel and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief and Procter families : there is also a fine carved oak crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,62o pulpit, enriched with figures, and a lectern: the reredos acres of land and 27 of water; rateable value, £3,829 ; of white stone has been erected as a memorial to th? population in Igu, 447 in the civil and 454 in the Rev. John Lomax M . .A. late vicar (1875-88); it was en­ ecclesiastical parish. riched in 1905 by the insertion of five panels of mosaic work, by Powell, of Whitefriars, London : the chancel, Post Office, Upper Breinton. John Gougb, sub-post­ decorated in 1903, retains a communion table of carved master. Letters throu~.;h Hereford arrive at 7.40 a.m. oak of Elizabethan date: the church plate includes a & 5 .so p.m. ; dispatched at 8.40 a.m. & 5.50 p.m. ; silver chalice of the reign of Charles I. The church­ no sunday delivery or dispatch. Hereford is the yard contains two very fine yew trees of great age. nearest money order & telegraph office The register dates from the year 1662. The living is Wall Box, King's Acre, cleared 7.30 p.m. daily; sun­ a vicarage, net yearly value £204, including an acre day, 6.35 p.m of glebe and residence, and grant from the Ecclesiastical Wall Box, Lower Breinton, cleared 6.30 p.m. week days Commissioners, in the gift of the Bishop of Hereford, only and held since 1909 by the Rev. Philip Austen Lusbing­ Wall Letter Boxes.-Springfield, cleared 9 a.m. & 6.55 ton M . .A. of Balliol College, Oxford. At Breinton Com­ p.m. week days only; Breinton common, cleared at mon is a chapel endowed by Lady Southampton, but it is now disused, and the endowment has been transferred 5-30 p.m. week days only for the most part to a chapel at Kenchester; there is Public Elementary School (mixed), with residence fo~ also a Church room, with bell-turret and clock. opened mi~tress attached, built in 1855, for 46 children; bv the late Bishop of Hereford in 1884, in which divine average attendance, 35 ; Mrs. Bertha Nice, mistress UPPER BREINTON 'Hendry Jn.market grdnr.Breinton corn Lushington Rev. Philip .A., M.A. Innes Edward J oseph, market gar- Vicarage PRIVATE RESIDENTS. i dener, King's Acre Moody Charles Edmund, Springfield ho

Adams Miss, Calvaria cottage 1 King's Acre Nurseries Limited, florists, Moore Major A. McDonnell, Brein- Blackwell Waiter Frederick Elliot, 1 nurserymen & rose & fruit growers, ton house Breinton lodge 1 King's Acre; & at Hereford Wadworth Henry Alfd.Breinton court Hartland Arthur Robert, Swainshill j Lewis John, farmer, Wyecliffe farm Wegg-Prosser Capt. Charles Edward, Marsball Geo. F.S.A., J.P. Manor ho Powell Wm. dairyman, King's Acre Warham Seton Charles Campton, King's Acre. "Villiams Charles, cottage farmer Green John Henry, farmer Watts Miles, Buckston, w~·eclifff' I For other names in King's Acre, see Lewis Thomas & Sons, farmers, Whittaker George, Veldifer Hereford. Church farms COMMERCIAL. Powell Charles William, farmer, Bott John, farmer, Upper Hill farm LOWER BREINTON. Warbam farm Edwards John, farmer Bulmer Edwd. Fredk. J.P.Adam's bill Powell Jas. Edwin,farmer,Warham crt BRIDGE SOLLERS is a parish on the Hereford and The register dates from the year 1704. The living is a Hay road, 2 miles west-b1-south from Credenhill station vicarage, net yearly value £58, including 15 acres of on the Hereford, Hay and Brecon section of the Midland glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and is at rail way, 6 west from Hereford and 16 south-by-west from 1 p1·esent (1913) vacant. Sir John Richard Geers Cotterell Leominster, in the Southern division of the county, · bart. of Garnons, is lord of the manor and principal Grimsworth hundred, Weobley union and petty sessional landowner. The soil is stiff loam; subsoil, gravel. division, Hereford county court district, Weobley rural The chief crops are wheat, barley, peas and turnips. deanery, and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The Tl1e area is 752 acres of land and 36 of water; rateable river Wye flows through the parish and is here crossed value, £r,o6g; population in rgn, 47· by a bridge erected in 1897. in lieu ?f the f_ormer ferry. , Offa"s Dyke skirts this parish. The church of St. Andrew 1s an anctent edifice of stone in the Norman and Pointed styles, consisting of chancel, Post Office.-William .Abberley, sub-postmaster. Letters nave, n{)Tth aisle, south porch and an embattled western arrive from Hereford & delivered at 6.25 a.m. man­ tower containing 2 bells: the church was restored in days, other days 6 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. callers only; 1889 at a cost, including gifts, of £5oo, when the east , dispatched 6.20 p.m. ; sundays, delivered 9 a.m. window was completed, the chancel new roofed and re- 1 callers only; dispatched 6.10 p.m. Staunton-on-Wye, ~eated in oak, and the tower arch and the ancient timber j 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order & tele­ roof of the nave opened : the porch was aliso rebuilt. graph office Abberley Wm. shopkeeper, Post office Edwards Frederick Tbeodore, farmer j Mat thews Archer, frmr. Bridge farm Blashill Robert, farmer, Knapp farm & hop grower, Marsh court J3BIDSTOW is a parish and village on the west bank the Southern division of the county, lower division of of the river Wye at the junction of the old and new roads Wormelow hundred, Ross union, county court district to Hereford, one mile and a half west from Ross station and petty sessional division, rural deanery of Ross and on the Gloucester and Hereford section of the Great flrcbdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The church of Western railway, and ui south-east from Hereford, in St. Bridget, re-built, with the exception of the tower, in