118 BUSHBURY. STAFFORDSHIRE. [KELLy's BUSHBURY is a parish with a station on the London Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Office, Bushbu.ry Lane.iJ­ and North Western railway, called Bushbury Junction, to Bernard Gibbs, sub-postmaster. Letters through which the Great Western has running powers ; it is 3 miles WolveJ'Ihampton arrive 7.30 a. m. u noon &; 4·30 p.m.; north from and 4~ south from , in dispatched 8.15 a.m. & u.go, 5-I~ &i 8.15 p:~.: the Kingswinford division of the county, Seisdon and Out­ sundays, 8 p.m. Stafford Road, Wolverhampton, i1 tlestone hundreds, nnion, Wolverhampton petty the nearest telegraph office sessional division and connty court district, rural deanery of Wolverhampton, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Wall Letter Boxes. School gates, cleared at 8 a.Dl. &1, Lichfield. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of 5-IS & 8 p.m.; sundays, 8 p.m.; outside Golden Ball stone in the Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, Inn, Coven, cleared at 7· IO p.m. ; sundays, I0.45 a. m.,; nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower New O:xley, cleared 7·35 p.m. ; sundays, u. I5 p.m.; with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells ; the chancel Bushbury Lane, cleared a.t 8. I5 a.m. &; ta.3o, s.rs ~ retains its piscina. and sedilia. and has a Decorated east 8.I5 p.m.; sundays, 8 p.m window and an open timber roof ; in the church is a much worn tombstone inscribed to Hugh de Ilyshbury : in the Public Elementary Schools. centre window of the south side of the chancel are some Bushbury (mixed), built in r835, for 400 children; BVf!l'· remains of ancient glass, including two quaint figures, one age attendance, 390 ; Francis Burton, master of which represents the same Hugh de Byshbury, and there Bushbury Lane, built in r88t; average attendance, are a variety of modem monuments to the families of 26o ; Isaac Foley, master Gough, Whitgreaves and others; the organ was erected at Railway Station, Bushbury Junction, Henry Bolt.. tta. a cost of £300, and there is a fine old font; the communion tion master _plate includes an ancient silver dish or paten; the church has 750 sittings. The register dates from the year I747• is a township in the parish of Bushbury, 'The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £3oo, in· 2i miles north-west from Illoxwich railway station. The . eluding 27 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift chapel of ease is an iron building, with a small tower, con· . of trustees, and held since I 903 by the Rev. Denis taining one bell, and has sittings for 220 persons ; the B.eY, •Charles O'Connor M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The John Richard Davies has been curate in charge here charities amount to £42 ros. yearly. Here is a Wesleyan since xgo8. The Wesleyan chapel, erected in x883 at a .chapel. The principal landowners are Henry Staveley cost of £4oo, exclusive of site, is of red brick, a.nd will Staveley-llill esq. M.P. who is lord of Oxley manor, seat 200. A dole of [24, derived from the Tent of a -Loftus Balfour Moreton esq. J.P. of Moseley Hall, Ford house and land, iJ; distributed annually amongst the Houses; Major Francis Monckton, of Stretton Hall, near poor of Essington, Bushbury and Brewood. Brick .and Brewood ; Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget bart. of tile making is carriPd on to a considerable extent and Dld Failings; Henry Lovatt esq. and the Rector and there is a large colliery, coal mining being the drlef Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford. The soil is gravel ; industry of the district. Augustus Leveson Vernon OSfl· -subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat, oats and of Hilton Park, is lord of the manor and principal land­ barley. The area is 3,48r acres of land and 39 of owner. The 'SOil is heavy; subsDil, clay. The chief water; rateable value, £37,948; the population c.f crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 3,007 Bushbury iJl I9II was 3,595 in the civil, and (St. Mary, acres of land and 47 of water; rateable value, £12.,47g; with Essington) 5,895 in the ecclesiastical parish. the population in tgn was ~.3oo. MOSELEY is a hamlet, r~ miles north from the parish church. Here is Moseley Old Hall, in which NEW TOWN is a hamlet in the same parish, on the ·Ch-arles II. was secreted after the be.ttle of Worcester main road leading from Blo:xwich to Stafford, about {September 3, I6Sr), and in the church is a monument 2i miles east-north-east from Essington. Here is ra to the person who conce6led him. Moseley Court, the Primitive Methodis-t cha-pel. In 1897 a mission room residence of Richard Mentz-Tolley esq. J.P. is half a was erected by A. L. Vernon esq. by whom also the 'lllile north-east of the church and is surrounded by stipend of the lay agent is provided. Lay a-gent, Mr. pleasure grounds. William Elsworth. OXLEY is a hamlet consisting of a few scattered hemses on the roa.d from Wolverhampton to Stafford, Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Essington. Miss Ma.ry Ann bounded on the west and south by the Staffordshire Price, sub-postmistress. Letters from Wolverhamp· and Worcester canal and on the east by the village of ton, arrive at 6.30 a.m. ; dispat"hed at 11.30 &; J·fS Bushbury, from which it is I mile south-west and 2! p.m. ; no sunday delivery north from WolveTh'Mllpton, O:xley Manor, the seet Wall Letter Boxes. Broad lane, cleared 6.45 p.m.; of Henry Staveley Staveley-Hill esq. M.P., D.L., J.P. Upper Sneyd road, 7.r5 p.m stands on a gentle declivity. Public Elementary School, built in I 846 & enlarged in Parish Clerk, Francis Burton. 1872 & further enlarged in r888 by A. L. Vernon esq.; Post & T. Office, Ford Houses.-Mrs. Harriet Cartlidge. avera2"9 attendance, 400 ;- Tom Wilson, master. .!n 'eub-postmistress. Letters through the Wolverba.mp· infants' school is now being erected at a cost of about ton office arrive at 6.45 a.m. ; dispat-ched at 7 p.m. r,Boo llushbury Lane is the nearest money order office •

BUSHBURY. COMMERCIAL. London & North Western Railway Co. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Aid J t" Sh h" U . (locomotive depot) (John Sherman, ers1 ey unc Ion, rops Ire mon locomotive foreman) Blakemore Arth.Benj.Old Failings ho Railways & Canal Co. (Ernest Farr, Lyons Samuel, farmer, Ford Houses Connolly Louis, The Holmes, Ford collector) Mill farm Houses Alder11ley Junction, Stafford & Wor- Mayeur Samuel, b(>er retniler,Shaw rd Everall Charles, Scotlands cestershire Canal Co. (John Thomas Pass Adelaide (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Hackett Jsph. Heath ho. Coven Hth Musson, collector) 10 South street Hitchin Howard, Bushbury hall Antherley Junction, Birmingham Pearson Silas, toba.ccnst. Gorsehrook Holdcroft John, Mos(>ley Old hall Canal Co. (Thos. Cotton, collector) Perkins Henry Samuel Francis ThoJ. Jackson Jsph. The Grove,Ford Houses Banks Kate (Mrs.), shpkpr. Jones rd beer retailer, Ford Houses Johnson Thomas, Orley house Brotherton Lucy (Mrs;). shopkeeper Pettit Louis Jn. farmer, Wobaston ~ Jones- Harry, Go·rsebrook housP. Brown Wm. boot repauer, Shaw road Price Thos. beer retlr. Ford Honsea Jones Thomas, villa Clarke Flora (Mrs.), Golden Ball Richnrds William, butcher,Staffordrd Mentz-Tolley Richard J.P. Moseley et P.H. CovPn Heath Robinson Louisa (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Moreton Loftus Balfour D.L., J.P. Coldclongh Jn. frmr. Moseley Hall fm South street Moseley hall Cope Frederick, Plough inn, Scotlands Russell John shopkeeper Shaw road O'Connor Rev. Denis Charles M.A. Electric Constr!lction Co. Limited Sanders Wali.Harld.groc;.Stafford rd (vicar), The- Vicarage ForrestPr Ameba (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Slynn Jas. Albt. grocr. Fotd Houses Paget -Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Shaw road , Stokes Thomas, farmer hart. Old Failings Ganley John, grocer, South street Thompson Waiter Henry, farmer Probert Jeremiah,Vauxhall, Scotlands Hammond Robert. farmer V