DIRECTORY.] . :BODENHAM. 21 reared and shot; there are some large ponds frequented by Post Office, Howle Hill.-Richard Young, sub-postmaster. wild duck. The population in 1891 was 386. Letters arrive from Ross at 8 a.m. ; dispatched 6.15 p.m. Sexton, William Williams. Ross is the nearest money order & telegraph office Post Office.-Miss Jane Rodman, sub-postmistress. Letters Kerne Bridge Letter Box cleared at 4.45 & 6.20 p.m. ; sun- arrive from Ross at 7.45 a.m. & 1.10 p.m. for callers; days, II.50 a.m dispatched at 4.25 & 6 p.m. ; sundays, II.30 a.m. Wal- Free School (mixed), built in 1846, for 100 children; average ford is the nearest money ordar office & Lydbrook the attendance, 60; Harry Halliday, master nearest telegrapc. offic~ Railway Station, Kerne Bridge, John Hunt, station master Aldrich-Blake Rev. Frederic Hooper Philips Miss, Hazelhurst JonQJil James, farmer, Howle green M.A. Vicarage Russell Alfred James Little Charles, farmer Bannerman James Murray RA., D.L., COM1IERCIAL. Little John E. Kerne Bridge inn J.P. Bishopswood house Brain Howard G. sub-agent to H. L. R Meredith Thomas, farmer, Quabbs Cockshott Miss, Hazelhurst McCalmont esq. Coppice farm Mills Charles, tiler Currie Col. Albert Purcell, The Queach Brown James, farmer, Atlas farm Surbey James & Co. coal merchants Partridge Capt. WaIter Croker St. Ives, Gwatkin John, carpenter & beer retailr Williams Alice (Mrs.), toll keeper, J.P. The Coppice Gwatkin Thos. farmer, The Dam farm Kerne Bridge toll gate BLAR.EMERE is a parish and village on the College, Cambridge, who resides at Preston-on-Wye. The and Hay road, 6 miles from Moorhampton station on the Rev. Sir George Henry Cornewall bart. is lordofthemanor. Hereford, Hay and Brecon section of the Midland railway, Robert Henry Lee-'Warner esq. of Tyberton Court, the Rev. II west from Hereford and 10 east from Hay, in the Sir G. H. Cornewall bart. of Moccas Court, Henry Haywood Northern division of the county, Webtree hundred, Weobley esq. and J. W. Humfrys esq. of Hereford, are the principal union and petty sessional division, Hereford county court landowners. The soil is chiefly light loam; subsoil, sand­ district, and in the rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, swedes, hops of Hereford. The church of St. Leonard, rebuilt in 1877, and fruit. The area is 1,127 acres; rateable value, '£1,233; as nearly as possible on the same lines as the old church, and the population in 1891 was 165. at a cost of .£1,000, from plans by Mr. G. Truefitt, archi- Parish Clerk, John Williams. tect of London, is a building of stone in the Transition Letters through Hereford, vii Madley, arrive at 10 a.m. & style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western are collected from PIllar Box 4.15 p.m. week days only. turret containing 3 bells: there are three stained windows, Ploughfield is the nearest money order office; & telegraph a fine Norman arch, and a brass dated 176o: there are 120 office at Staunton-on-Wye sittings. The register dates from the year 1600. The National School (mixed), built in 1865 for the joint parishes living is a vicarage, annexed to that of Preston-on-Wye, of Preston-on-Wye & Blakemere, for 67 children ; average average tithe rent-charge '£128. joint net yearly value attendance, 41; Miss Jessie Turner, mistress £255, including 67 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Carriers.-John Reece to Hereford, wed. & sat.; Mrs. Eliza., gift of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and held since beth J ones, from Shenmore, passing through to Hereford 1881 by the Rev. William Robert Shepherd, of Caius wed. & sat. returning same days Ambury Miss, Lower Godway & hop growers & land agents &; Jones John, farmer, Church farm HaywoodHenryJ.P. Blakemere house agents for the Rev. Sir G. H. Corne- MarstonJames, shopkeeper Haines William, cowkeeper wall bart. Guy's hospital & others, Reece John, carrier Jackson Thomas, wheelwright & black- Blakemere house; & at West street, Rees Edward, farmer, Lower Blakemere smith, Holywell Hereford Watkins John, farmer, Woodland house Haywood H. &Son, landowners, frmrs. Jenkins Joshua, cowkeeper Williams James, builder, Rose bank

BODENHAM is a parish and village about I' mile west Thursdays and Saturdays; Francis Vaughan-Williams esq. from the and Ledbury road, and is intersected master (1894): Hereford, Leominster and Bromyard are by the , 6 miles south from Leominster and 8 convenient places for hunting visitors. Broadfield Court, north from Hereford, in the northern division of the county, an ancient mansion, the residence of Mrs. Helme, is 2i Broxash hundred, Leominster union, pettysessional division miles north-east; Vennwood, the property of Hugh Jenner and county court district, in the rural deanery of Weston, esq. at present occupied by Benjamin Thorne Turner esq. is and archdeaconryand diocese of Hereford. The Shrews- 2~ south-east. Dinmore Hill, about 1~ miles north-west, bury and Hereford section of the Great Western railway commands a very extensive and beautiful prospect. John passes through the parish and has a station here named Hungerford Arkwright esq. of Hampton Court, Leominster, Dinmore, I mile west from the village. The church of who is lord of the manor, and Higford Higford esq. W. H. St. Michael is an ancient and substantial building of Apperley esq. and Hugh JeImer esq. of Vennwood, are stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, the principal landoWners. The soil is clay and gravel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, north porch, ·north sand, loam and rich pasture; subsoil gravel. The chief and south transepts and an embattled western tower crops are apples, hops, wheat and beans. The area is with pinnacles and an unfinished octagonal lantern spire, 5,276 acres; rateable value, £7,7°5; the population in 1891 containing 5 bells dating from 1665, and a clock, presented was 883. to the parish in 1849 by the.late John Arkwright e~q. 9f Bowley is 1~ miles north-by-east; the Moor, three Hampton Co~rt, near Leommster: . on the north Side of quarters of a mile east; Maund Bryan, 2~ miles south-east; the chancel IS a recessed tomb, WIth effigy, at present Whitechurch Maund 3 south-by-south-east unidentified, and there is an ancient font of the 13th Parish Clerk Johd Perks . century: the church was thoroughly restored in 1891, ' . . . as a memorial to the late vicar, at a cost of upwards of Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. R, Express DelIvery & AnnUlty & £4 000 including an orO'an and stained east window under Insurance Office.-Wm. Henry Smalley, sub-postmaster. th~ di;ection of Sir A:thur Blomfield A.R.A., F.8.A. of Letters arrive from Leominster at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched London, architect, and seated for 342 persons. The register thereto at 5. 10 p.m dates from the year 1584. The :living is a vicarage, net Wall Letter Boxes.-Th.e Moor, ~leared 6)0 p.m.; The yearly value about £400, with residence, in the gift of Ketch, 5. 20 p.m.; & Dmmore raIlway statIOn, 4.50 p.m. John Hungerford Arkwright esq. and held since 1889 by week days only the Rev. Herbert Court Sturges M.A. of University College, Schools:- Oxford. Services are also held ~n the school room at Parochial (mixed &infants'), with master's house, built in Maund Common, on Sundays at 3.30 p.m. by the vicar or 1863 for 130 children; average attendance, 92; Alfred curate; the school room will seat 60 persons. There is a Joseph Dean, master; Mrs. :Mary A. Dean, infants' small Wesleyan chapel at the Moor, rebuilt in 1~ There mistress are charities of £17 yearly value. The river Lugg is noted for Carriers to :- its superior grayling and trout, and is preserved for a distance Hereford-Thomas Gravenor &Mrs. Prosser, to 'Hop Pole, ' of several miles exclusively for a club of about 30 members, wed. & sat of which John Hungerford Arkwright esq. of Hampton Leominster-Thomas Gravenon, to 'Elephant& Castle,' & Court, is president. Here are the kennels of the North Mrs. Prosser to 'King's Head,' fri Herefordshire hounds, which hunt the district on Mondays, Railway Station, Dinmore, Joseph Lloyd, station master BODENHAl\'L Hall Ben l\I.R Red house Sturges Rev. Herbert Court M.A. Marked thus * receive their letters Belme Mrs. Broadfield court [vicar], Vicarage through Marden, Hereford. Helme W. John, Broadfield court *Turner Benjamin Thorne, Vennwood PRIVATE RESIDENTS. King-King William Edward D.L., J.P. Ashworth Henry, Ashwol"th Hill house Bodenham manor COMMERCIAL. Appleford Rev. Frank Langey l\1.A. l\Iorton James BodenhamCricketClub (Jas. Davies, sec) [curate] Moseley William, The Hollies *C'ooke Philip, farmer, Upper Venn Duncan Charles William, Isle Rhea ho, Smith Capt. O. B. Fordham house *Cooke William, farmer, LoweT'Venn