IJIIEO'rOBV.] HEREFORDSHIRE. PUDDLE9TONE. l:a21 area is 1,698 acres; rateable value, £2,571 ; the population! National School (mixed), built in 1876 for 60 ch~ldren ; in 1881 was 234. I average attendance, 51 ; :Mrs. Fannie Knight, mistress Parish Clerk, Mrs. :Matilda Gunstone. Railway Station John Smith station master Letters from Hereford, by foot post, arrive at 8 a.m. ' , Holrner is the nearest post office; Hereford is the nearest CARRIERS TO HEREFORD (passing through).-Lloyd, Bethell, money order & telegraph office Watkins & Williams, wed. & sat Brown Rev. James RA. Parsonage Davies Thomas, farmer, Highway Hodges William, farmer, Glebe farm &'Ott Erskine, Moreton house Daw Elizh.(Mrs.), blacksmith,Up.Lyde Parry & Jay, farmers, Arundel court Albury Jas.carpntr.&wheelwrt.Up.Lyde Goode .A.lice (Mrs.), farmer, Up. Lyde Parry-Jones John, farmer, Upper Lyde Bosley John, farmer, Lower L)de Gunstone James, mason Tudge Thomas, farmer, Lyde Court fm

PIXLEY is a parish, in the Southern division of the I' rector of and resides at Eastnor: the Rev. Philip White­ county, Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, county court dis- foord M.A. of Merton College, Oxford, rector of Aylton, who trict, and petty sessional division, rural deanery of South! resides at Ledbury, is curate. Lady Henry Somerset is Frome, and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, 4 miles lady of the manor and the principallandowver. The soil is north-west from Ledbury, half a mile south-east from Ash- heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans perton station on the Hereford and Worcester railway. The peas and roots. The area is 1,3°4 acres; rateable value, church of St. Andrew is a small, but very interesting build- £2,075; the population in 1881 was 99. ing, in the Early English sty!e, consisting ~f chance~, ~ave, PARKHOLD, formerly in Ledbury parish, has been added south porch and a turret With wooden SpIre contalDlDg 2 to Pixley parish under the Divided Parishes Act. bells: the chancel and nave are separated by a remarkable .. EarlyEnglish oak screeu; there are also ancientwronght iron POST OFFICE, Parkhold.-Mrs. Eh~a Jones, reCeiver. L~t- hinges on the south door. The living is a rectory, tithe ters through Ledbury are receIved at 7. 1 5 a.m.;. dl~- rent-charge £122; gross yearly value about £174, including pa~che~ at 5. 20 p.m. The nearest money order o~ce IS 50 acres of glebe, in the gift of Lady Henry Somerset, and at ~arrlDgton; & telegraph office at Ashperton raIlway held since 1850 by the Rev. William Pulling M.A. formerly statIOn fellow and tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford, who is also The children of this parish attend Asperton schools Pixley. I Pope Daniel, farmer & hop grower, Parkhold. Pyndar Miss, Mainstone court I Pixley court Lane Mrs. Parkhold villa Hodges Charles, beer retailer & shopkpr I Shipton Emma (Mrs.), farmer & hop- Jones William, farmer Inns Thomas, farmer & hop grower, grower, Mainstone farm Wilkins Moses John, farmer & hop The Cinders Tucker Charles, farm bailiff to Edward grower, Tipsgrove Jones William, farmer, Little Verzons Pritchett esq. Poolend Witcombe Anne (Mrs.), farmer & hop Perry John, assistant overseer & cider grower, The Knapp PRESTON, or PRESTON-ON-WYE, is a parish and village, I value £201 ; including 4 acres of glebe, with residence, in situated on the river Wye, IQ miles west from Hereford and the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford and held since 6 west from Moorhampton station, on the Hereford,Hay and 1881 by the Rev. William Robert Shepherd, of Cains Col­ Brecon railway, in the Northern division of the county,Web- lege, Cambridge. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, tree hundred, 1Veobley union, Bredwardine petty sessional erected in 1862 and a Baptist chapel, erected in 1869. The division, Hereford county court district, and in the rural Dean and Chapter of Hereford are lords of the manor and deanery, archdeaconryand diocese of Hereford. The church chief landowners. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, of St. Lawrence is an ancient huilding of stone, in mixed clay and sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, styles, consisting of chancel, with sacristy, nave, chapel, oats, beans and swedes. The area is 1,379 acres; rateable south porch, and an embattled western tower containing 4 value, £1,842; the population in 1881 was 227. bells: it was restored in 1883, under the direction of Mr. PLOUGHFIELD GREEN is half a mile south. T. Nicholson, architect of Hereford, at a cost of about Parish Clerk, Thomas Williams. £1,4°0; when the chancel and nave were almost entirely POST & MONEY ORDlMadley, reCeIved at 10.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 3.30 p.m. teenth-century benches as existed have been restored and Telegraph office at Hereford refixed, the piscina and aumbry repaired, and sedilia and National School (mixed), built in 1865 for joint parishes of credence added: the restoration of the Huntley chapel, a Preston-on-Wye & Blakemere, for 67 children; average fine example of fourteenth-century work, is contemplated. attendance, 46; Miss Sarah Watson, mistress The register dates from the year 1574. The living is a CARRIER TO HEREFORD.-John Lewis, every wed. return- vicarage, with that of Blakemere attached, joint net yearly ing the same day Shepherd Rev. 1Villiam Robt. Vicarage I Jones Jeremiah, shoe maker Price Thomas, farmer, Upper Bellimoor COMMERCIAL. Jones William, shoe maker Randall Ebenezer, blacksmith Bates James, farmer, Bellimoor Jones William, wheelwright Rowley Benj.Thos.farmer,Lower house Bengough Henry, farmer. Upper house Lewis John, provision dealer & carrier Seale John, farmer, Yew Tree farm Davis Jonathan Thomas, farmer, Lewis 'Villiam, farmer, Green farm Stephens Wm. farmer, Hainstone farm Preston court Matthews Chas. farmr.Lower Bellimoor Thomas Edward, carpenter Hancorn Thomas, farmer, Beer cottage Powell Thomas, shopkeeper Thomas Edward, grocer, & post office Jones Daniel, miller & farmer Preece George, Board inn Tudge Fred In. farmer, Huntley court PRESTON WYNNE is a chapelry in tVithington Michael. There is an enclowment of six acres of land left parish, 61 miles north-east from Hereford, and 3 north by the late Mrs. Henrietta Pugh, of Great Baddow, Essex, from Wlthington station on the Great Western railway, in for furnishing clothmg to the poor. The custos and vicars the Southern division of the county, Broxash hundred, I of Hereford Cathedral, Messrs.J<\mes Farmer, James Corner Hereford union, county court district and petty sessional Iand the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (who are also lords of division, and in the rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese the manor) are the chief landowners. The soil is clayeya!ld of Hereford, about half a mile west of the Hereford and J loamy; subsoil, clay. The crops are wheat, beans, hops Bromyard road. The church of the Holy Trinity is a modern. and apples. The area is 862 acres; rateable value, £1,4°4; building of stone, consisting of chancel and nave, and a Ithe population in 1881 was 168. tower with four pinnacles containing I bell: there is a Parish Clerk Phillip Passey. marble monument to Mrs. Henrietta Pugh. The register " . dates from the year 1740. The living is a vicarage, tithe Le.tOOrs throug~ Her~ford. The nearest ~oney or~er. office rent-charge £74, gross yearly value £140, including 9~ 18 ~t Sutton.St. l'iIlchael; & telegraph office at Wlthmgton acres of glebe, without residence, in the gift of the Bishop raIlway statIOn of Hereford and held since 1877 by the Rev. John Norton School, with house for mistress (mixed), for 34 children; B.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, who resides at Sutton St. average attendance, 27; Mrs. Jane Price, mistress Bengough George, farm bailiff to J. I Farmer John, farmer, Marsh farm I OliveI' Francis, blacksmith Corner esq Griffiths John, farmer, Preston marsh Prosser Job, farmer, Brick house Clarke Richard, farm bailiff to J. W. Powell Richard, farmer, Lower town Warwick Alice(Mrs. ),farmer,TheMarsh Smith esq. of Thinghill court Jones Ann pIrs.), farmer,TheBuildings Yapp James, farmer Davies Thomas, farmer, Stone house PUDDLESTONE is a parish, containing a scattered I deaconry and diocese of Hereford. Puddlestone is about 6 population, with the townships of WHYLE and BROCKMAN- miles east from Leominster, and 3~ from Steens Bridge sta­ TON, in the Northern division of the county, Wolphy hun- tion on theLeominster andBromyard railway, and is situated dred, Leominster county court district, petty sessional on the north of the roll. d from Leominster to Worcester and division and union and rural deanery of Leominster, arch- on the Worcestershire border. The Humber Brook forms