136 LLCTO~. HEREFORDSHIRE. [KEL!\Y'S buildings were erected in 1885 for 72 boarders & 60 day Ireland M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, head aster boys, from plans by F. R. Kempson esq. architect, of (honourman in mathematics, classics & theology); rank Hereford, at a cost of £8,000: there are scholarships Reginald Harris, Robert Squires, Gilbert William - tenable at the school, open to Lucton, Croft, Yarpole, fern, Robert Plane Middleton & Edward Lowes, assistant Aymestrey, Eye, Kingsland, Shobdon & Orleton, and a masters h:aving exhibition of £50 a year, for two years, tenable The children of this parishattend the united National school at a p~ace of higher or technical education: the fees for' at Croft boarders are 27 to 33 guineas a year: the presentnumber Assistant Overseer, George William Prichard, jun of boys is 58 boarders & 50 day boys: Rev. William Carrier to Leominster.-John Reynolds, on fri Asterley Maurice :Kightingale M.A. Hellaby Char]es, miller (water), Mor- Payne Wm. estate stone mason to the Lucton house timers Cross mill Rev.W.T.Kevill-Davies,of Croft castle Rarris 'Frank Reginald, Lucton house Lucton Grammar School (Rev. William Prichard George William, farmer & hop Ireland Rev.William :M.A. (head master Ireland M.A. Trinity college, Cam- grower, The Court of the Grammar school & curate), bridge, head master; Maurice Night- Prince Hy. woodranger to the Rev. W. Lucton house ingale Asterley M.A. Frank Reginald T. Kevill-Davies, of Croft castle Harris, Sidney Robert Squires, Gil- Rees Cornelius, farmer & hop grower, COMMERCIAL. bert William Redfern, Robert Plane New farm Brown George, blacksmith Middleton & Rdward Lowes, assist. Reynolds John, carrier & farmer DaviesElizh. (Mrs. ),farmr.Stocken farm l masters), Lucton house Thornton John, cowkeeper Evans John, shopkeeper Lewis John, farmer, The Hall Weaver George, carpenter LUDFORD, a parish partly in Shropshire, which see. LUGWARDINE is a parish and compact village, I mile iug to £340, was raised by voluntary contributions. The south-west from Withington station on the Hereford, Led- charities are of about £32 annual value. Near the Withing­ bury and Worcester section of the Great Western railway, 3 ton railway station are the extensive encaustic tile works of miles east-by-north-east from Hereford, II west-by-north William Godwin and Son. There are also two large flour from Ledbury and 147 from London, and is intersected by mills on the Lugg and a smaller one on the Frome. Lug­ the road leading from Hereford to Worcester by Ledbury, wardine Court, the seat of Sir Herbert George Denman Croft in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Radlow, bart. M.A., D.L., J.P. is a mansion pleasantly seated on an Hereford union, county court district and petty sessional eminence in the village of Lugwardine. Longworth House, division, rural deanery of Weston and archdeaconry and the property of William Henry Barneby esq. D.L., J.P. is diocese of Hereford. The river Lugg flows through the occupied by His Honor Judge George Harris Lea M.A., parish aud is in general too narrow and too much sunk D.L., J.P. New court, a handsome mansion, about half a below its banks to be an object of great beauty; though mile west from the village, is the residence of George Burdon calmer and deeper than the Wye, it is still liable to sudden esq. The chief landowners are Mrs. Burdon (daughter and overflows: an act of Parliament was passed in 1663, and a successor to the late Major Griffiths), who exercises the second about 30 years after, for the purpose of rendering the manorial rights, the Misses Hutchinson of Hagley Park, Lugg navigable, but nothing was effected. On the west side Mrs. Watkins of Wilcroft, William Henry Barneby esq. of of the village the rh'er is crossed by a massi,e stone bridge Bredenbury Court, Bromyard, J ames Tudor Hereford -of three arches, which was widened and improved in the esq. of Sufton court, W. H. Goodwin esq. and Mr. year 1824, partly by subscription and partly at the expense R. J. Turner. The soil is a red clay and loam in parts, of the county. The church of St. Peter is an ancient edifice which is generally considered as being very fertile, yielding of stone, in the Norman style. consisting of chancel, nave, abundant crops of grain; subsoil, gravel. The area iS2,n6 -aisles and a massive embattled western tower, containing a acres; rateable value, £6,431, the population in 1891 was clock and 6 bells: the lower stage of the tower forms a 735. porch: there are five stained windows and various monu- Hagley is a hamlet half a mile east. Hagley Park is the ments to John!fest D.D. canon of Hereford, d. 13 Aug. residence of the Misses Hutchinson. 1637 ; Re\". John Freeman M.A. vicar of St. Peter's, Here- Sexton, James Jones. ford, d. 18II and Ann, his relict, d. 1846; Jane, wife of Post Office, Lugwardine.-Mrs. Elizabeth Southall, sub- Robert Kirle of Walford esq. and afterwards of John Best postmistress. Letters arrive from Hereford at 6.45 a.m.; D.D. canon of Hereford and vicar of this parish, d. July,1622 : dispatched at 6.20 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, there is a handsome reredos in carved stone, ginn in 1894, to but not paid. Hereford is the nearest money order office the memory of A. Hutchinson esq. of Hagley Park, in this & the nearest telegraph office is at Hagley (Bartestree) parish; the church was thoroughly restorEd in 1872 at a Post & Telegraph Office, Hagley (Bartestree).-Frederick total cost of £3,500, nuder the directIOn of :Mr. Kempwn, Bray, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Hereford at architect, of Hereford, and affords sittings for 440 persons. 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 6 p.m. per messenger. Postal The register dates from the year 1538 and is in excellent orders are issued here, but not paid. Hereford is the preservation. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent- nearest money order office charge £360, net yearly value £230, including 37 acres of Wall Box, Rose Bank, cleared at 6.0 p.m. week days only I!lebe, WIth residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Police Station, Edward Rogers, officer in charge Hereford, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Augustus Charles School (mixed), enlarged in 1875 at a cost of £126 & again Lee M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. The enlarged & improved in 1888-90 at a cost of £380 for vicarage house was built in 1886, nuder the direction of IS0 children; average attendance, 120; cloak rooms, neW Messrs. N:cholson and Son, architects, of Hereford, at a cost offices &c. added in 1894 at a cost of £470; there is a reBi- of £2,COO. A piece of land opposite the church was bought dence for the master in the village; Charles John John- in 1887 for the purpose of burial, the cast of which, amount- stone, m~ster LUGWARDINE. Beaumont Moses, farmer & cowkeeper, Tyler Edward, farmer, Tidnor house Lugg Bridge farm Webb William Skilton, blacksmith PRlVA.TE RESIDEllTS. Bengough Francis, assistant overseer Burdon George, New court Brain Arthur Blanch, miller (water) & HAGLEY. Chance Thomas Godwin, Hillside corn mer. Lugg Bridge flour mills PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cresswell Mrs. Middle court Brookes Allan, head gardener to Sir Croft Sir Herbert George Denman HerbertGeo.DenmanCroft,Garden ho Badham Richard, Wistaria house bart. M.A., D.L., J.P. (deputy chair­ Buswell Harriet (:Mrs.), shopkeeper Goodwin William Henry, The Ferns man of quarter sessions), Lugwar­ Davies Daniel, florist, Rhystone Gwillim The Misses, Hagley cottage dine court Eckley James, farmer, Home farm, Hutchinson Misses, Hagley park Crump Miss, The Gate house Longworth Jarvis Thos. Fras. Tolmie, Hagley ho Godwin Mrs. Porch house Godwin William Edward, farmer,Upper Moore FranCls, Hagley villa Herbert Mrs. Blairmont House farm Peach The Misses, Hephill Kendrick Mrs. Bridge villa Hall William, farmer, Bennett's hill Watkins Mrs. Wilcroft King Col. John Robert, Rockfields Hyde Ruth (Mrs.), Crown&Anchor P.H COMMERCIAL. Lea His Honor Judge George HaITis JarvisThomas,head gardener to George Bailey Benjamin, butcher ~l.A., D.L.• J.P. Longworth house Burdon esq. New court Brace Frederick, baker & grocer Lee Rev.Augustus Chas.M.A.Vicarage Morris John, stone mason, Hynett Bray:Frederick, cabinet maker &under- Rowberry Misses, Church house Morton Thomas. haulier taker, Post office Phillips Henry, farmer & hop grower, Evans Charles, carpenter COMMERCIAL. Rock farm Sanders Henry Wm.farmer,Jasmine ho Bailey Benjamin, butcher & farmer Price Reuben Fledk. farmer, Hynett Sanders Thos. Hy. haulier, Jasmine ho Barber Albt. pump maker &well sinker Turner&Son, farmers &millers (water), Whilding Henry, blacksmith Barnes Caleb James, farmer, Old court Tidnormill Williams Hilo, New inn