DIRECTORY. J CHESHIRE. SHOTWICK. 463 Williams Cadwaladr, baker & flour dealer, 101 Victoria Williams Wm. furniture remover, Willow ter. ro Church rd road ; res. 26 Albemarle road Willis John, pork butcher, 49 & 51 Victoria ro-ad Williams Charles, grocer, Breck road, Poulton \Vilson Ernest Edwin, manager, 25 Buchanan road Williams E. Lloyd, assessor & collctr.of taxes,85 Brightn.st Winter Alfred, bookkeeper, 51 Bell road Williams E. Lloyd, insurance agent, 42 Littledale road Worsley & Wood, butchers, 67 Victoria road Williams Ellen (Mrs.), knitting shop, 3 Demesne street 'Vovenden Waiter l'II. stock & share broker; res. q Williams John, blacksmith, 42 Bell road Rappart road . Williams Lewis Osborne, architect, rr2 Brighton street Wright John, shopkeeper, 2 Middle road Williams Reece, fruiterer, 54 Victoria road Wright Robert, master mariner, 38 Byerley street Williams Richard, furniture broker, 30 Brighton street 'Vright RDbert Skelly, grocer, 72 'Vheatland lane & Mont- Williams Thomas, insurance agent, 2 Percy road gomery's bldgs. Poulton rd.; res. r York road Williams Thomas Griffiths, mineral wharfinger, see Wright Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 183 Wheatland lane Williams, Frossard ·& Co.; res. 31 Ivanhoe rd. Sefton pk Yates .A.lfdl. come!. trvllr. 2 St. John's view, Poulton rd SHOCKLAC.H is a parish on the east bank of the river principal landowner. The soil i& clay; subsoil, marl. Dee, which separates the parish from Flintshire, and com­ The chief crops are wheat, oats, and some land in pasture. prises the townships of Shocklach Church,Shocklach Oviatt The area of Shocklacn Church township is r,262 acres of and Caldecott, 4 miles west from Malpas station on the land and r6 of water; rateable value, £4,059; the popu­ Shrewsbury and Chester section of the LondTarvin, county court district \Vall Letter Box, cleared at 4-30 p.m of Chester, rural deanery of Malpas and archdeaconry and National School (mixed), built in r872, for Bo children; diocese of Chester. The church of St. Edith is a small average attendance, 35; James Wilkinson, master but ancient building of red sandstone, consisting of chancel, nave, and a western turret containing 2 bells,: the fabric SHOCKL.A.CH OVI.ATT• adjoins Churcll Shocklach. retains a Norman doorway, and there. are xoo sittings. There is a. Methodist New Connexion chapel here, erected The register dates from the year I539· The living is a in r8go. Robert Howard esq. is lord of the manor and vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £74; gross yearly principal landowner. The area is r,o48 acres: rateable value £r26, net £r26, with half an acre of glebe and resi­ value, £r,666; the population in x8gx was I58. dence, in the gift of the Rev. Sir T. H. G. Puleston bart. Letters by foot post from Malpas, which is the nearest B.A. rector of Worthenbury, and held since r889 by the money order & telegraph office Rev. Peter Brown, of St. Bees. Broughton's Charity of £2 is for the repairs of the road leading to the church ; ros. CALDECOTT is a township in Tarvin union, about 2 from the same benefaction is for distribution between the miles north from Shocklach. T. W. Tyrwhitt-Drake esq. poor. Shocklach was anciently the seat of a branch of of Sharde1oes, Bucks, is lord of the manor and principal the Breretons of Brereton, descended from Sir 'Villiam landowner_ The area is 649 acres of land and r6 of water~ Brereton kt. temp. Edward III. and Margaret (Done) his rateable value, £797; the population in r89r was 49· 2nd wife, whose son, Randle Brereton, married .A.licia, By Local Government Board Order 22,406, a detached daughter and heir of William de Ipstones, and was the part of Kingsmarsh was in March,r888,added to Caldecott. immediate ancestor of this branch. Robert Howard esq. Lettel"s by foot post from Chester via Farndon, which is M.A., J.P. of Broughton Hall, is lord of the manor and the nearest money order & telegraph office ' CHURCH SHOCKLACH. Huxley James, farmer, Lordsfield Goff 'Vm. farmer, Top House farm Brown Rev. Peter (vicar of St. Edith), Jones James, farmer, Parr green Hough James, farmer Vicarage Lewis Thomas, butcher Huxley Martha (~rs.), farmer COMMERCIAL. Mate John, farmer, Parr Green hall Huxley Thomas, farmer Ilarlow Thomas, jun. shopkeeper Pickering James, farmer ~Ietcalfe Thos. farmer, Hitchens fm Davies Robert, farmer Price Thos. Bull inn & oil & coal dlr Nixon Thomas, farmer Dennison James, farmer, The Grove Weaver Leigh, farmer, Castletown Piggott J sph. farmer, Shocklach hall Dennison Jn. shopkpr. & wheelwright Weaver Richard, farmer, Castletown Vaughan .A.llen, Fish inn Duckers Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Evans Arthur, farmer SHOCKL.AOH OVIATT. CALDECOTT. Griffith Richard, blacksmith Barlow Thomas, sen. f~nmer Caldecott Joseph, farmer Hopley Jn. farmer & as,sist. overseer Brassey George, farmer Darlington Mark, frmr.Caldecott hall Hough Joseph, frmr. Soughorns frm Challinor James, farmer Eardley John, farmer Houlbrooke William, farmer Dennison Joseph, shoe maker Stephens Martha "(Mrs.), farmer SHOTWICK is a township and parish on the nort.h Letters from Chester via Great :Xeston arrive at ro a. m.; bank of the river Dee, 3 miles south-west from Ledsiham dispatched: at 4·So p.m. The nearest money order & railway station on 'the London and North Western and telegraph offices· are at Great Saughall Great Western joint railway, and; 7 north-west from GREAT S.A.UGHALL is a. township and scattered vil- Chester, in the Wirral division of the county, hundred of lage, with station on the Manchester, Sheffield and! Lin­ Wirral, union and county court district of Chester, petty colnshire railway, 4 miles north.west from Chester, and sessional division of Chester Cast.le, rural deanery of 2 south-west from Mollington railway station on the Wirral and archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. The London and North Western and Great ·weste.rn joint rail­ church of St. Michael, originally Norman, is• an ancient ways. There are Presbyterian, Baptist and Primitive edifice of red: sandstone, consisting of chancel, with Chapel Methodist chapels and a lecture room for Church of on the north side, nave of four bays, north aisle and: an England meetings. Powell's Charity produces £ 9 a year. embattled western tower, containing a clock striking the arising from· the rent of a house and land and also from hours and 3 bells: there are four mural tablets, one of the annual intere.sb on . ad. of consolidated: stock . • £ 122 48 which is a memorial to Thomas Doe esq. dl. I755, Ann, and is distributed in bread at church every Sunday to the his wife, d•. 1778, and other members of this family, 1785- poor of the township of Great Saughall. Shotwick Park is r8o6: the chancel was r-estored by t·he Ecclesiastical the seat of Capt. Horace Dormer Trelawny D.L., J.P. Commissioners about r857: the church affords 400 sit- lord of the manor and principal landowner: the mansion tings. The registers now d:ate only from the latter part is pleasantly situated about 1 mile from the station. rrhe of the r7th century, the older registers being missing; area. is I,o 6 acres of land and 6 of water; rateable but transcripts of these are preserved! in the Bishop's £ 7 · · 6 Registry. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent- vaue, 3,435; the populatwn 1ll r89r was 99· h £ By Local Government Bo!U"d Order No. 22,405, a part c arge, 199; net yearly value £ 210• with 22 acres of of Great Saughall township was added to Woodbank and glebe and residence, in the gifb of the Dean and Chapter Little Saughall, and a part of Little Saughall annexed to of Chester, and held since 1891 by the Rev. the Hon. S Charles Franeis Cross M.A. of Trinity College, Cam- Great aughall in r888. bridge. The chief landowner is S. Nevitt Bennett esq. Post, M. 0., T. 0., S. E., Express Delivery & Annuity&; of Shotwi<:k Cottage, The Dimple, Matlock Bridge, Derby- Insurance Office.-John Tomlinson Whaley, sub-post- ~hire, who is also lord of the manor. rrhe -soil is stiff master. Letters arrive from Chester at 8.30 a.m.; clay; subsoil, rocky; the chief crops are wheat and oats. dispatched at 8.30 a.m. & 4·25 & 6.30 p.m The area of the paris'h is 2,3r8 acres, and of the t<>wnship Police Station, William Smith, constable 550 acres; rateable value of parish, £6,134; township, National School (mixed), erected, with master's house, £927; the population in I 891 was-parish, 969 ; town- in r 852, enlarged: at ditie:oont times & improved in 1895. ship, 77· for 200 children; average attendan<'e, 145 ; the school l'arish Clerk, Thomas, Taylor. ha~ a small endowment, the interest on which forms a