DIRECTORY.] . ROWTON. 399 in ; the area is 4,871 acres, including 2,446 Western railway with the and joint acres in Herefordshire ; rateable value, £6,084, of Salop railway. Adjoining the railway station are the timber yards portion; £2,327, of Hereford portion. and a large steam saw mill of Messrs. Barlow and Sons, of Parish Clerk, Henry Rowe, Batchcott. Wilmslow, employing about 20 hands in the conversion of PosT OFFICE.-Thomas Hayle, sub-postmaster. Letters English timber for which the district is celebrated. The arrive from at 8.ro a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. mission room here, opened in r890, is a building in the week days only. Letters for Woofferton arrive from Shrewsbury Cottage style, with black and white oak fram­ Brimfield (R.S.O. Herefordshire). Orleton is the nearest ing on a brick foundation; it affords sittings for 160 per­ money order & Brimfield the nearest telegraph office sons. The west end is used as a working men's club and National School (mixed), built in 1874, for 130 children; reading room, and is well supplied with periodicals and average attendance, 89; ther~is a house for the mistress ; weekly papers; the site and building were the sole gift of · Miss Emma Reynolds, mistress Mrs. and Miss Foster, of Moor Park. Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway Station, Woofferton, James OVERTON is a township, 2! miles south from Ludlow, and A. Robotham, station master was a Roman settlement. Woo:fferton, 4 miles north from Ludlow, is a township B..&.TCHCOTT and MooR form a township, 2! miles south with a junction station of the Tenbury branch of the Great from Ludlow. A. Salwey esq. J.P. is lord of the manor. Richard's Castle. Millatt William, gamekeeper to Mrs. & Maddison Rev. George K.A. [curate] Bnffrey Mrs. The Bank Miss Foster, of Moor park Bache John, farmer Downes Mrs. Court house Oliver Jn. farmer, The Wheat common PeeleR. de Courcey, farmer Mason George, Westbrook cottage Postan John, farmer Rowe Henry, carpenter, & assistant Mason Henry Randall Thomas, jun. farmer overseer, rate collector & pansh clerk COMMERCIAL. Randel Joseph, farmer Woodhouse Charles, stone mason Amphlett John, brick maker . Roe Jane (Mrs.), farmer Woodhouse John, mason Basnett Benjamin, farmer, Bilbury Samuel George, farmer llemand Richd. farmer, Woodhouse frm Tay John Sydney, farmer Woo:fferton. Berrington William, farmer Thomas John, farmer Bradley Henry, shopkeeper Town Arthur, farmer Benians Henry, Twyford villa Brown Edwin, farmer, The Berry Turner -, farmer, Church house Barlow & Sons, steam saw mills & tim­ Child Robert, shoe maker Williams John, Salwey Arms P.H beryard Downes Thomas C. tax collector Bott George Edward, coal & commission agent, &; agent for Joseph Ashworth Hayle Thos.shopkpr. & boot ma.Post off Overton. Herbert William, farmer, The Greens & Sons' noted manures Hicks James, under gamekeeper to Mrs. Betton Richard J.P. Overton house Gittins John, Salwey Arms hotel & re· & Miss Foster, of Moor park Rouse-Boughton Wm. St. Andrew J.P freshment rms.Railway statn.&farmr Howells John (Mrs.), farmer Salwey Alfred D.L., J.P. Overton Openshaw John, farmer & estate agent Hull Edwin, Castle iun Venables Rowland Geo. J.P. The Lodge Pound Thomas Henry ( estab. 30 years), .Jones George, farmer, Mitnal Brown Titus, farmer miller (water),corn merchant & baker .Tones Ruth (Mrs.), farmer, Merefield Edwards Robert (exors. of), farmers, Rawlings John, farmer .Tones William (late Bynon), shoeing & Hucksbarn Salwey Arms .Agricultural, Family & general blacksmith ; all kinds of Oliver J ames, farmer Commercial Hotel & Posting House agricultural implements repaired on (John Gittins, proprietor); home short notice at moderate charges Batchcott & Moor. comforts ; charges moderate ; w'ltbin • Lewis William, farmer Foster Mrs. & Miss, Moor park 5 minutes from G. W. & L. & N. W, Mattinson Thomas, farmer, Burnt Maddison V en. George u.A. [rector, Railway station House farm surrogate & archdeacon of Ludlow] South WalesCoalCo.Lim.(P.Hogan,agt) RODINGTON is a village and parish, 7 miles north- principal landowners are John Tayleur esq. D.L., l.P. of east from Shrewsbury, 6 north-west from Wellington and 2! Buntingsdale, Sutton and the Duke of Cleveland K.G. north from Walcot station, on the L. & N. W. & G. W. Joint The soil is sandy and strong loam; subsoil, clay and Railway, in the Northern division of the county, Wellington gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, clover and division of Sonth Bradford hundred, Wellington union and turnips. The population in 1881 was 396. The area is county court district, petty sessional division of Bradford 1,599 acres of land and 29 of water; it includes the town· Wellington, rural deanery of Wrockwardine, archdeaconry ships of RomNGTON, SUGDEN' and part of SoMEBWOOD,