I 810 WSIXA~L. . (KELLY'8 Northern division of the county, North Bradford hun­ acres of land and 20 of water; rateable value, £6,657;

dred, petty sessional division, union and county population in I9II, I 7 II3- court district, rural deanery of Whitchurch, archdea­ Parish Clerk, Thomas Moore; land of £ro value conry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The Ell~>smerP yearly is attached to the office. . and Chester canal paRses throug·h the township, one Public Elementary School (mixed), built in r85o, for branch proceeding towards Edstaston, and another to­ r2o children, at a cost of £6so ; average attendance, wards Ellesmere. The church of St. Mary, rebuilt in Bo; there is a master's house; Charles F. Hobday, 1867, at a cost of £3,ooo, is an edifice of brick and stone master; Mrs. Hobday, mistress in a plain Gothic style, from designs by the late G. E. The school is controlled by Foundation managers ap­ Street esq. R.A. consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, pointed I903; Rev. J. J. .Addenbrooke B.A. corre­ north aisle, south porch and a turret over the chancel spondent arch containing one bt>ll. The register of baptisms Public Elementary School (mixed &; infants), erected in and burials dates from the year 1758; marriages frorn 1B9I, with master's house, at a cost of about £r,6oo, 1847. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250. &; since enlarged, for 200 children ; average attend­ including 44 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift ance, II9; Joseph .Ainsworth, master; Mrs. .!ins­ of the vicar of , anrl held since r88g by the Rev worth, infants' mistress ' James Jennings AddenbrookP B.A. of Keble College, Oxford. The Congregational chapel, founded in Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.­ Thomas Moore, sub-postmaster. Letters through 1790, has sittings for 150 persons, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Georgt> Whitchurch arrive at 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.2o Wardle esq. of Fans Hall, Rnd William Henry Smith p.m.; sundays, arrive at B.ro a.m.; dispatched at esq. of The Elms, Whitchurch, are lords of the manor. 9-55 a.m A great portion of the land belongs to small free­ Post & M. 0. Office, Platt Lane.-Mrs. Sarah J ane Eger­ holders. This place abounds in moss, which the poorer ton, sub-postmistress. Letters through Whitchurch inhabitrmts sell in the neighbouring towns. The soil arrive at 7.20 a.m.; dispatched at 4·55 p.m. sundays is mixed; subsoil, sand and clay. The chief crops are excepted. The nearest telegraph office is at Whixall, wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3•377 1! miles distant

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Eccleston John, farmer Jones William, thrashing machine pro- Edge Herbert, farmer, Abbey Green Addenbrooke Rev. James Jennings prietor, Stanley green B.A. (vicar) Edgerton Benj. shopkpr. Platt Lane Lea Thomas, farmer, Lower house Edwards J a ne (Mrs. ),farmer,Alders la Maddocks Alfred, market gardener Ayles William, Shirley cottage Dawson Mrs. Salisbury house Edwards Robt. frmr. Green Lane End Maddocks Margaret (Mrs.), farmer, Evans John, farmer & assistant over- Abbey Green .Tones William, Yew Tree house seer, Higher house Maddocks Herbert, market gardener Newbrooke Mrs. Chapel house Evans Leonard John, farmer, Maddocks J oseph, market gardener, Oliphant Rev. Thomas Ne>itt (Con- Lower house gregational), The Manse Bostock's hall & The Farms Evans Samuel, cowkeeper, Canal side Moore Thomas, stationer &; parish Sutton William, Rose villa Foster Thos.mrkt. gardnr.Stanley Grn clerk, Post office Williams Charles Henry, Platt lane Furber Herbert, farmer, Abbey Green Morris Ge·orge, farmer, Abbey Green Garrett Isaac, cowkeeper, Sandy bank Parsons Thos. market gardnr. New ho COMMERCIAL. Green Levi, shopkeeper, Hollingwood Peate Edwin, cowkpr. Dobson's bridge Allmark Joseph E. manager Whixall Groom Jsph. market gdnr.Garner's la Powell Elizh. (Miss), farmer,Lower ho Moss Litter ()() Hales Joseph, farmer, Abbey Green Powell George, Waggoners inn Beckett Alfred, farmer, Welch end Hall John, shopkeeper Powell Jsph. Hy. farmr. Brain's hall Beckett Jas. market grdnr.Welch end Harper Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Prince Samuel, cowkeeper, Welch end Bickerton George, carpenter,Waterloo Ladywell Preston Elias, cowkeeper Birch James, farmer Heath Samuel, farmer, Welch end Reeves John, blacksmith, Os sage lane Brook William, farmer, Ladywell Higgins J oseph, farmer, Brown brook Reeves John, pig dealer, Ossage lane Brown Horace, farmer, Waterloo Huxley Jas. grocer, Dobson's bridge Reeves Beuben, pig dlr. Chapel lane Brown John, cow keeper Huxley Josiah, farmer, Rye hills Reynolds John, market gardener, Brown Sarah (Mrs.), Pheasant inn Huxley Phillip, shopkpr. Welch end Garner's lane Butler & Son, tailors, Roundthorne Huxley William, farmer, Lord Hills Sadler Thomas, cow keeper,Welch end bridge Ibbs Robert P. W. farmer,Bridge frm Slack Richard, shoe maker Butler Philip, tailor, Mossley well Jarvis Josiah, frmr.&landownr.Oaldl.ds Stokes Samuel, farmer, Moss farm Calcott Mary (Mrs. ),market gardener J efferies George, farmer, Os sage lane Walker Ernest, farmer, Ossage lane Clay Joseph, fa,rmer, Roving bridge Je:fferiesRichd.jun.frmr.FourLane end Whixall Moss Litter Co. (Joseph E. Darlington Rd. farmer, Whixall hall Jones Harriet (Mrs.), farmer, Brook _,\llmark, manager) Davie.s John, farmer, Dobson's bridge House farm Williams Josiah, wheelwright Dodd Joseph, blacksmith Jones Jane(Mrs.),frmr.Mill House fm Williams Thos. shopkpr. Malt Kiln la Dulson Richard, farmer, Mossley well Jones Joseph, poultry dlr. Sandy bnk W oollams Peter, tailor, Rack lane WILLEY is a township and parish, near the river joint net yearly value £220, including 34 acres of glebe, Severn and on the Shrewsbury and BTidgnorth road, with residence, in the gift of Lord Forester, and held 4 miles south from Ironbridge station on the Severn since 1878 by the Rev. William Henry Wayne B.A. of Valley branch of the Great Western railway, 2 south Trinity College, Cambridge. from Broseley, 5 north-by-west from Bridgnorth and 4 Mary Anne Baroness Forester, widow of George Cecil east from Much Wenlock, in the Southern division of Weld, 3rd Baron Forester, by her will, proved June, the county, Wenlock petty sessional division, liberty and I893, left the Tesidue of her property, estimated to borough, Madeley union and county court district, rural amount to about £4oo,ooo, to trustees for the purpose of deanery of W enlock, arch deaconry of Ludlow and diocese establishing a Cottag-e Hospital at or near Wenlock, and of Hereford. The church of St. John, surrounded by a Convale~cent Home at some seaside town or place to the grounds of Willey Hall, is an edifice of stone, in be decided UJhln, as a memorial to her late husband, the Norman, Early English and Late :Perpendicular George Cecil Weld Forester, to be called respectively styles, consisting of chancel with south chapel, nave, " The Forester Cottage Hospital " and " The Forester aisles, sm.all transept and an embattled western tower Convalescent Home." A site of 15 aCTes for the Con­ containing a clock and 5 bells ; there are several monu­ valescent Home was purchased by the trustees at Llan­ ments t.o the Weld and Forester families: the church dudno, North , and the building opened in I904. was restored and enlarged in 188o, under the direc­ The hospital was opened at Wenlock in I903, and a tion of the late Sir A. W. Blomfield A.R.A., F.S.A. Cottage Hospit:1l, in connection with the same trust, architect, at a cost of £s,ooo, by Alexandrina, Lady was oppned at Broseley in 1907. Forester, in memory of her husband, John George, Willey Hall, a handsome mansion of freestone in the second Baron Forester (d. 10 Oct. 1874), when aisles were built and a small memorial chapel erected, which Classic style, is the seat of Lord Forester D.L., J.P. and contains a' fine monument by the late Sir J. E. Boehm is delightfully seated in a richly-wooded park of ISO acres, containing a succession of fine pools. Lorrl bart. to the l~te Lord Forester: in the south wall of the chancel and in the nave several Norman windows Forester is lord of the manor and chief landowner; a have been uncovered and restored and the pulpit, read­ large part of this parish is embraced in his lordship's park and plantations. The area is I,386 acres of land ing desk and ~eats of old oak have been remodelled. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1644, and I I of water; rateable value, £r ,924; population in marriages, 1665; burials, I666. The living is a rectory, 19II was 154. to which in 1822 the vicarage of Barrow was annexed, Parish Clerk, .Alfred Taylor.