Staffordshire. Kinver
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DIRECTORY.) STAFFORDSHIRE. KINVER. 247 XINVEB (or Kinfare), anciently a borough, is a parish Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Mrs. Jane Collis, sub-post IUld town on the river Stour, intersected by the Stafford mistress. Letters arrive from Stourbridge at 6.30 shire and Worcestershire canal, 123 miles from Londou, a. m. & 2.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.25 a. m. & 3· 15 .!u -4 south-south-west from Stourbridge and 4lt north from 6.55 p.m. & on sundays at 11.55 a.m Kidderminster, in the Kingswinford division of the county, Wall Letter Boxes.-Potters Cross, cleared 9 a.m. !\ Southern division of the hundreds, in the union and 6.50 p.m.; sundays, 11.45 a.m.; Stewponey, cleared Rural District of Seisdon, Kingswinford and W ordsley 10.50 a.m. & 3·35 & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 12.10 p.m.; petty sessional division, Stourbridge county court district, Stourton hall, cleared at 7 p.m. ; sun days. 12 noon; Trysull rural deanery, Stafford archdeaconry and Lich Whittington, cleared 8.30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. ; sundays, field diocese. An electric tramway connects this place 8.30 a.m with Dudley and Stourbridge. The church of St. Peter, • occupying a lofty situation westward of the village, is STOURTON is a hamlet, 2 miles north. Stourton -an ancient building of red sandstone in the Norman and Castle, an edifice of stone, now much modernized, was later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south the birthplace (u May, 15oo) of Reginald, Cardinal porch and an embattled western tower containing a. clock Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (1556~). and waa and 6 bells: the north aisle was added in 1857: in the garrisoned in the time of the Civil War; it is now the church is a very perfect brass to Sir Edward Grey knt. property of Paul Henry Foley esq. of Prestwood House. (1528), his two wives and 17 children. with a marginal in Parish Clerk, John Grazier. scription: in the 11outh wall is a memorial window, erected J?ost Office, Stourton. Miss Ann Yardley, sub-postmis• by Mrs. Showell, to her husband: there are 8oo sittings, tress. Letters arrive from Stourbridge by mail cart 328 being free. The register dates from the year 156o. The at 6.15 a.m. &'2.10 p.m.; dispatched at 7·15 p.m. a. living is a vicarage, net yearly value £134, including on sun days at 12.10 p.m. Kinver, 1! miles distan~, three-quarters of an acre of glebe, with residence, in the is the nearest money order & telegraph office ~t of trustees, and held since 1901 by the Rev. Thomas Armine Cooper Slipper B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, PUBLIO l'>FFIOE'RS. who is also a surrogate and holds the preacbership Assistant Overseer, Albert James Bennett attached to this church founded by William Moseley Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Kinver District, Seis eaq. and in the patronage of the Leatbersellers' Com don Union, John Percy Holyoake- L.R.C.P.Edin., pany of London, the income of which, arising in part M.R.C.S.Eng from the rent of an estate at Sydenham, Kent, amounts Registrar of Births .& Deaths for Kinver Sub-district. ~o {.102 yearly. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive Seisdon District, Albert James Bills, High street Methodist chapels. The charities amount to about £55· Kinver was once fMD.ous for the manufacture of woollen SCEEOOLS. cloths. Kinver Edge, on which are the remains of a Free Grammar, originally founded in rsu, in the reign Roman encampment, is visited by a great number of of King Henry VIII. & endowed with property of the visitors during the summer months, and from the top value of about {.250 a year: the charity is managed a splendid view is afforded of the surrounding country, by a body of governors under a scheme drawn up by including Clent, the Malvern bills, the Cotswolds, the Endowed School Commissioners & issued in 1878. Habberley and Clee hills, and on the other side an un P. H. Foley esq. J.P. chairman. Since 1898 it hall equalled view of Dudley and the adjacent country. been opened for both boys & girls & there are now Paul Henry Foley esq. of Prestwood, Kingswinford, who about 27 pupils, including a few boarders. Rev. is lord of the manor, Lady Grey, of Enville Ball, Charles Henry Cole B.A.Lond. master "William and Edward Webb esqrs. and lsaac Trevor Public Elementary. Elwell E'Sq. aro the principal landowners. Here are situated the celebrated seed farms of Messrs. Edward Boys', built in 1877, for 130 boys; average attilndance, Webb and Sons, seedsmen to H.M. the King, occupying 106 ; Arthur L. Shepherd, master upwards of r,soo acres, for the raising and growing of Girls', built in 1873• for 173 children; average attend choice stocks of farm seeds, which are sent to all parts ance, 102; Miss Margaret Durant, mistress of the world: they have also about 5,ooo acres in Infants', for 16o children; average attendance, 97; Mrs. different parts of the kingdom, where the soil and cir Alice Millward, infants' mistress cumstances are favoura.ble for the production of various kinds of seeds. A great part of the land is a light CARRIERS. sand, with sandy loam, and particularly strong clay. Alfred Welch, daily to Stourbridge; leaves 8.30 a.m. &- The chief crops are barley and swedes. The area is 2.3o p.m. returning at 11 a.m. & 4·45 p.m.; to Kid 8,921 acres of land and 91 of water; rateable value, derminster on thurs. 10.30 a.m. returning 4 p.m .£r6,922; the population in 1911 was 2,348. John Pursall, to Kidderminster, on thurs. 10.30 a.m. Whittington, r mile east, on the road from Kingswin returning 4.30 p.m.; !!at. 12 noon,returning at 4.30 p.m ford to Kidderminster, Lady Grey is lady of the manor; William Morgan, to Stourbridge when required Compton, 2 miles west; Dunsley, 1 mile north; Iverley, Kinver Light Railway trams to Stourbridge & Dudle1 3 miles east of the village, are hamlets. every 25 minutes PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Slipper Rev. Thomas Armirie Cooper Brettell John, butcher, 51 High street· Bailey Joshua, Stourton B.A. (vicar & surrogate) Brown Harry, shopkeeper, High at Blakeley Miss, The Comber Standish John G. Rock mount Carrington Ellen (Mrs.), refreshmen' Bolton Mrs. High street Whitehouse Joseph, Ambrose house, rooms, Kinver edge Chan~e .A.lex. Macomb, Compton ho Enville road Carroll Thos. Fredk. tailor, 46 High st Cole Rev. Charles Henry B . .A.. (head COMMERCIAL. Chettoe Frederick John, farmer, master of Grammar school) Early closing day, Wednesday. Pigeonhouse farm, Compton Collis Harry Nield, Hampton lodge, A.dams John Burgess, farmer, Check Clapp Herbert, shopkpr. 128 High st Stourton Hill farm, Stourton Clewes James T. twine & cord mer- Davies Edward, Whittington hall Addison Ralph, blacksmith, High st chant, Foley street Dixon Ernest F. Kinver house A.lcock Alfred, boot & shoe maker, Clewes MosesHodgetts,grngro.High et Downing Thomas Lee, Stourton hall 45 High street Collis Jane (Mm.), statnr. & post off Firm John, Hillborough A.rnold &; Harrison, grocers, l!igh st Cox John, farmer, Stonrton fields Fitter Horace, The Forest hQ!lse Baker Daniel, Green Dragon hotel, Danks Joseph, bricklayer, Meddins la Griffiths Thomas, Iron ho. Compton High street Darby John, frmr. High pk. Stourton Hall Mrs. Cliffe side, High street Baylis Avery, butcher, Enville road Davies Edwd. farmr. Whittington hall Hasty Mrs. Forest lodge Bennett & Gri:ffiths,joiners,25 High st Day John, farmer, Compton Hexall Rev. Ernest George, Hyde Bennett Albert James,house & general Deakin Harry, grocer, High street house, Stourton agent & assistant overseer Dunkley & Hall, wheelwrights. Holyoake John Percy Bills .A.lbert James-, chemist, registrar Dunkley William Henry, Plough & Jackson George, Com.ber house of births & deaths for Kinver sub- Harrow P.H. High street King Wm. Arthur, Church Hill house district, Seisdon district, High st Edwards Richd. butcher, 113 High at Lumb Mrs Blunt Elizh. (Mrs.), shpkpr.91 High st Edwards William, farmer, Stourton Marsh Ernest, Greyfields court Boddy John, tobacconist, High street Elcock John Richard Salter, farmer, Mathews Randle Lamb J.P. Stour- Boore Richard, farm bailiff to Messrs. Stapen bill ton coud E. Webb & Sons, Kinver hill Elwell Isaac Trevor, Stewponey & Notcutt John, Redcliffe Bowen John, shopkeeper, Enville road Foley Arms P .H. Stourton Robinson Hy. Brindley hall, Compton Bowk"r George, butcher, 42 High st Everiss Fredk. beer retlr. Whitehill Shaw William Joseph,Brindley's heath Braithwaite Charles, farmer, Compton Forrest Harry & Sons, farmrs.Iverley .Showell Wait. The Heathlands,Stourtn & Browns farm (postal address, Foster Selina(Mrs.),r.bpkpr.s4 High st Wolverley, Kidderminster) Fradgll'y Thomaa, Crosa P.H • .