DIRECtORY.) SHROPSHIRE. DA WLEY 1\IAGXA. 85 sisting of chancel and nave and a western tower with Seifton hamlet is I mile north-west, and has a Primi- an unfinished octagonal spire, terminating in a small tive Methodist chapel. spirelet of wood and containing 3 bells, dated respectivelJ Parish Clerk, Charles Raiswell. 1663, 1629 and 1663: the tower was restored in 1897 Post, M. 0. k T. Office, Seifton.-Mrs. Sarah :.'\Ioni,, at a cost of £4oo: the chancel retains a fine double piscina and the stained east . window is a memorial to sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through Craven Mrs. Sandeman: there are sittings for 200 persons : in Arms, Salop, at 6.50 a.m. ; letter box cleared -at 6.25 1901 a memorial window and an inscribed brass were p.m. ; no delivery on sunday erected to Gordon E. B. Wood and in 1902 oak choir Letters arrive from Ludlow for part of Seifton and stalls and a pulpit were provided by the parishioners as Culroington village at about 9 a.m. the remainder a memorial to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. The are delivered from Craven Arms; those for the register dates from the year I575· The living is a rec­ hamlets of The Bache, Norton & Burley are received tory, net yearly value £488, including 38 acres of glebe, through Craven Arms, Salop. Letter Box cleared at with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late 6.20 p.m Herbert John Allcroft esq. and held since 1891 by the Wall Letter Boxes.-Rectory ~all, Seifton, cleared at Rev. David Erskine Holland M.A. of Worcester College, 4·35 p.m. & Culmington, cleared at 5 p.m Oxford. In the parish is Norton camp, usually regarded as a Roman work, and near the church is another but Public Elementary Schools. ll!maller camp. Culmington Manor is the residence of Culmington (mixed), with residence for the master, Thomas Wood Shaw esq. who is lord of the manor, and built in 1857, enlarged in 1379 &; again in 1 394, for with the trustees of the late Herbert John Allcroft esq. no children; average attendance, 8o; John Robert the principal landowner. The soil is gravelly loam and Carruthers, master clay loam; subsoil, gravel and sandstone. The chief · crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is Vernolds Common (infants) was built in 1874, & is the 3·549 acres of land and 9 of water; assessable value, property of the trustees of the late H. J. Allcroft £3--333; population in 19n, 493. esq.; average attendance, 10; Miss Selina Lane, mist The Bache, r! miles west, Burley, r mile west, and Carriers to Ludlow.-William Pheysey, of Munslow, on :S01·ton, 2 miles west, are hamlets, of which Herbert mon. & sat. ; Frederick Freeman, of Aston, mon. John Allcroft esq. is lord of the manors. wed. & sat CULMING'l'ON. *Sheriff William, head gardener to *Morris Sarah (Mrs.), stationer, Post I T. W. Shaw esq office Marked thus * receive letters through Tomkins Richard, boot maker & regis­ Overton Benjamin, assistant overseer Craven Arms, Salop ; the remainder trar of births & deaths, vaccination BACHE. through Ludlow. j officer for J?iddlebury sub-district of Letters through Craven Arms, Salop. Bowen Miss, The Cottage , Ludlow umon Evans Job, farmer *Shaw Thos. Wood,Culmington manor Woolley Thomas, head gardener to Matthews Thomas, farmer W orrall Henry, Culmington house H. W orrall esq NORTON. SEIFTON. Letters through Craven Arms, Salop. COMMERCIAL. Marked thns * receive letters through Davenport Shadrach,head gamekeeper Cammell Thomas, cottage farmer Craven Arms, Salop; the remainder I to Mrs. Herbert John Allcroft Holt John William, Royal Oak inn through Ludlow. J.. ewio; Thomas, farmer Howard Thomas, farmer, Medley prk Holland Rev. David Erskine M.A. Lockhart J ()hn, farmer Jones Jn. Hy. shoeing & genl. smith (rector), Rectory Lockhart Joseph William, farmer I *.Alderson Price, farmer, New house BURLEY. Morris Arthur William, farmer J ones John ( exors. of), farmers Letter~~ through Craven Arms, Salop. Overton Charles B. tax collector for LutheT Ernest, shopkeeper Price Thomas, wheelwright Culmington & district Marsden Thomas, farmer Roberts Charles Barlow, farmer CYNYNION is a hamlet in the civil parish of Os- 1 Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn hart. C.B. of Wynnstay, ~estry, and with Pentre-gaer, and a portion of the I is the principal landowner. The soil varies from gravel parishes of Llansilin (Denbighshire ), Llan-y-blod wel, to clayey loam ; subsoil, partly on the lime rock and Oswestry Rural, Selattyn and Sychtyn, was formed in gravel and shale. The chief crops are wheat, barley, r844 into an ecclesiastical parish, under the name of 1 oats and turnips. The area of the ecclesiastical parish Rhyd~y~Croesau: it lies in a mountainous district, on is 2,105 acres, and the population in 1891: was 401, the verge of the county, adjoining Denbighshire, 3~ chiefly Welsh. The area of the hamlet is 785 acres; miles west from Oswestry, in the Western division of the population of Rhyd-y-Croesau ecclesiastical parish the county, hundred, petty sessional division, county in I9II was 33• which extends into Denbighshire. court district and incorporation of Oswestry, rural deanery of Oswestry, archdeaconry of Montgomery and PENTRE-G .-\ER is a hamlet 3~ miles west from Os­ diocese of St. Asaph. Christ Church, at Rhyd-y~Croesau, westry. The scenery jg varied and romantic, and the erected and consecrated in r886 in place of a previous whole district mountainous. The soil is strong, mostly church built in 1838, is a small building of stone in a upon limestone. The area is 1,o45 acres. debased Gothic style, consisting of cha~<;el and nave Deputy Parish Clerk, John Wilkes. and an embattled western tower contammg 2 bells : divine service is conducted in the Welsh and English 1 Post Office, Rhyd-y-Croesau.-Thomas ~vans, sub-post- languages. The register dates from the year 1838. The mast_er. Letters through Oswestry. ~rn!e at 7.30 a.m. living is a rectory, net yearly value £r8r, including 9 & dispatched at 6.5 p.m. Llansilm 1s the nearest acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop money order & telegraph o~ce of St. Asaph, and held since rgo8 by the Rev. William Public Elementary School, Rhyd-y-Croesau (mixeri), Arthur Morris B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. i built in r85o, for 70 children; average anendance, The Earl of Powis is lord of the manor. Sir Herbert. 32; Miss Kate Elizabeth Brotherton, mistress Edwards Catherine (Mrs.), farmer PENTRE-GAER. CYNYNION. Evans Thomas, shopkeeper, Post oft Charles Robert, farmer, Gwerniduon Morris Rev. William Arthur B.A. Foulkes Peter, farmer, Forest Edwards Edward, farmer (rector of Rhyd-y-Croesau) Guillam Thos. farmer,Pandy Newydd Edwards Wait. frmr. Tan-craigy-rhiw Hughes Lloyd, farmer Evans Edwd. farmer, Nant-y-gollen COMMERCIAL. Jones David, farmer, Brongoll Griffiths Thomas, farmer Davies John, farmer Jones Jane (Miss), farmer Jones Thomas, farmer, Hemblas .Edwards David & John, farmers Lloyd John. farmer, Cefn-y-maes Morris John. farmer, Pen-y-bt·yn Edwards Richd. farmer, Cefn-y-maes Morris Hugh, farmer Roberts Edward. farmer, Tan-y-coed Williams Hy. Cross Foxes P.H. Lawnt Williams John, farmer DA.WLEY MAGNA is a town and parish on the rural deanery of Shifnal, archdeaconry of Salop and road from Wellington to Bridgnorth, with a station at diocese of Lichfield. The town is lighted with gas Horsehay in this parish on the Wellington and Severn from works in Chapel street, built in 1857• and belong­ Junction branch of the Great Western railway, 4 miles ing to the Dawley Ga.s Co. Limited. In 1909 an south-east from Wellington, about 2! north-west from arrangement was made with the Madeley and Broseley Madeley and 5 south-west from Shifnal : it is in the Water Co. of Harrington, for the supply of water at Mid division of the county, in Wellington division of a cost of about £15,ooo; the pumping station i~ a~ South Bradford hundred, Madeley union and county Little Dawley; the engines are of the Producer type court district, petty sessional division of Wellington, and force the water to the two re&ervoin at Lawley Bank .