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addition of chancel, central tower with spire, vestry a repair & maintenance fund; William Duckworth, and organ aisle, at a cost of about £ 1,3oo, the greater master part of the cost being defrayed by the lord of the Great Central Railwav• Station, Frank Barlow, station manor: there are 183 sittings. There are Presbyterian, master Baptist (Church of Christ) and Ebenezer Primitive Methodist chapels. Powell's Charity produces £12 a LITTLE is a township and small village year, arising from the rent of a houf!e and land and I! miles north-west from Blacon station and ri east .also from the annual interest on £,122 4s. 8d. of con­ from Great Saughall railway station, 3! south-west from ~olidated stock, and is distributed in bread at church .Mollington railway station and 3 north-west from .every Sunday to the poor of the township of Great . Mr. George Nicholas, of Little Saughall and SaughalL The "Vernon" in11titute was erected by C. F. Fawcett esq. of Liverpool, are the chief landowner11. 'T. Thornycroft Vernon esq. in 1909, on the site of The area is 576 acres; rateable value, £1,456; the the Old Home farm. Park is the propert)' population in I9II was q8. · :and residence of Sir William Vernon hart. who is lord of By Local Government Board Order No. 22,405 (March the manor and prineipal landowner: the man»ion is 25, 1888), a detached part of Little Saughall township wat pleasantly situated about I mile from the station, and added to Great Saughall. was greatly enlarged in 1907. The area is 1,o82 acrt>s ; ,.ateable value, £4,871; the population in I9II was 8I9. Letters through Chester. Wall Letter Box, cleared at ,. By Local Government Board Order No. 22,405, a pan 6.50 a.m. &; 5-50 p.m. Great Saughall is the near!'su money order telegraph office, I mile distant <1f Great Saughall township was added t& 1Voodbank and & LitMe Saughall, and a part of Little Saughall annexed, to WOODBANK is a township, 4 miles south-west from. Great Saughall in 1888. Sutton, 5! north-west from Chester, and to from .Post, M. 0., T. & Telephone Call Office.-John Tomlin­ Birkenhead, and 2 miles from station on son Whaley, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from the London and North lVesttJrn and Great Western Chester at 7·35 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; sunday, 9.10 a.m.; joint railways. The trustees of the late Thomas Samuel dispatched at 8.I5 a.m. & 5.25 & 7·5o p.m.; sunday, esq. Mrs. Mary Anne Davies, and the vicar are the 9.30 a.m chief landowners. The area is 222 acres; rateable value, Public Elementary School (mixed), erected, with £HS; population in rgu, 85. master's house, in 1852, by Mr. Thomas Wedge, Post Office.-George Jone,., sub-postmaster. Letters enlarged at different times & improved in 1895, & a arrivtJ through Chester 5 a.m. & S· 15 p.m.; dispatched new wing was added by T. T. Vernon esq. in 1910, 6.20 a.m. ; sunday dispatch, 9 p.m. The nearest for 210 children; average attendance, 195; the school money order & telegraph office is at Great Saughall, :has a small endowment, the interest on which forms about 2 miles distant

SHOTWICK. COMMERCIAL. Tillotson John Le,·er, horse breeder, Wansbrough Rev. Frederic Ray M.A., Barnett William, head gamekeeper Rendova Stud farm B.D. (vicar), Vicarage to T. Thornycroft Vernon esq Vaughan ~largaret (J\Irs.), cowkpr Bennion Ann (Mrs.), huckster Venables George, painter COMMERCIAL. Bennion Charles, huckster Venables William Thos. wheelwright Catherall John, cowkeeper Brown Joseph, huckster Vernon (The) Institute (William Greer Jack, blacksmith Carter Horace, threshing mach. ownr Barker, hon. sec) Hewitt Wm. farmer, Shotwick hall ClaJ•ke John, gardener to William John (:\Irs.), huckster .J ones J oseph, farmer Vernon esq. Pear Tree cottage Warrington Joseph, farmer Roberts J ane (Mrs.), farmer Crnmp Thomas, huckster Whaley Jn: Tomlinson, grcr. Post off Roberts John, farmer Done Edward, insurance agent Woods Frank, shopkeeper :Spruce Dennis, farmer Ellis George, farmer Thomas William J ames, farmer Fanlkner Emma (Mrs.), huckster LITTLE :':A{"(IHALI•. James, farmer Foulkes Robert, farmer Mason Frank, Kirkland house Richard, huckster Stephen Mrs. Kingswood GREAT SAUGHALL. Gibb Robert Harold, market gardenr Tyrer Mrs. Parkstone PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Griffith J. & Son, coal dealers CO:!IL\Il<:RCL~L. lJateson Miss, The Hermitage Griffith James, sen. farmer Brad bury Ena (.Mrs.), ma.rket gardnr Bibby James, The Hawthorns Harker William, private sec. to Brown Alfred John Wainwright,Eger­ .Bleasdale Joseph, The Cottage William Vernon esq ton Arms P.H Davies Reginald C Harrison Paul, market gardener Children's Home (Chester Union Scat­ Dennis Cyril, Cra bwall hall Harvey Thomas, huckster tered Homes) (:\iiss Mary _\skewt Gossage Guy W. The Beaches Hou~hton John, blaclismith matron) Grenfell Cecil Martin 1''. 'l'he Dale Hughes John, huckster Dutton Samuel, farmer Griffiths William, Thornhill Jones John, gardener to G. W. Gos- Hug!Jes Samuel, farmer Harker 1Villiam, Ivy house sage esq J ones Elizabeth Ann (~Irs. ), Wheat Holland Mrs. Fairfield Jones Mary (:Mrs.),Swinging Gate P.H Sheaf inn Holland Thomas 1Velsby, Fairfield Jones Robert Heber, farmer Mason Samuel, farmer .Sohnston John G. The Astburys Maddock Hy.Oxton,farmr.Green farm :'liicholas George, farmer Jones Mrs. Oak house l\[ar;;:h Charles & Son, boot maker Walley Thomas, farmer McPhait Mrs. Oaklands MarshaU Henry, Greyhound inn Warrington Frank, farmer Minshull Miss, Ainsworth house Mnllock Ambrose, cowlreeper "'right Thomas, greyhound trainer__. Step hen William, The Rake N ewall William, farmer Vernon Sir Wm. bart. Shotwick par), Peers Thomas, cowkeeper WOODBA~K. Vernon '1'. Thornycroft, Shepherd .Jo;;eph, builder ~Ianifold ~Irs. Delamere house Vickers Mrs. The Tower Shotwick Park Farming Co. (T. Samuel Mrs. Woodbank hall Walker Thomas, Ash house Thornycroft Vernon, proprietor). Bryce John, Yacht inn Warrington Mrs. Overdale Parkgate house, Shotwick park Cash William, farmer Williams Edward, The Croft Simmons Richard. estate manager to Evans Sarah (::\Irs. ), farmer WiJJiams Mrs T. Thornycroft Vernon e~q Griffith Robert, farmer Woods Russell C. Sealand view ::3peed George, wheelwright Woods George, boot maker SHOTWICK PARK, formerly extra-parochial, is now form, with entrenchments on the side next Shotwick a parish, 3! miles south from Ledsham railway station Park. The mansion of Shotwick Park stands in Great -<>n the London and North Western and Great Western joint Saug-hall township, and is the property and residence of railways, and 5 north-west from Chester, in the 'Wirral Sir William Vernon hart. who is lord of the manor and -division of the county, hundred of Wirral (southern divi- chief landowner. The soil is clay. The land is prin- -sion), union and· county court district of Chester, and cipaUy used for pasturage. The area is 984 acres of petty sessional division of , rural deanery land, exempt from the payment of tithes, and 3 of -of Wirral, and! archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. A vrater; rateable value, £,1,298; population in 1911, 29. -castle once stood here, in which Henrv II. staved when on This place is reputed to be extra-parochial for eccle- his journey to Ireland, and which Edward i. visited in <;ia~tical purposes. 1278; Leland saw some remains of it in 1622, but all t·hat I Letters from Chester. The nearest n~oney order & tele· U! now t11 be seen of 1t is a large mount, of a crescent graph office is at Great Saughall, r~ miles distant Jones Robert, farm,•r, Shotwick Lodge farm SIDDINGTON is a township at the junction of the s! north from , in the parish of Prestbury, roads from to and Con!:!leton to Knntsf(}Td divi~ion nf the co1mty, petty sessional division Cheadle, 5 miles south-west from :Macclesfield, and of P.rest'bury, Macclesfield hundred, union and county