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Littleworth is I Ul:ile south-east, and haa a Wesleyan at 7.20 a.m. & 7·55 p.m.; sundays, 7·55 p.m. f Hat- chapel. Hatfield is another hamlet, a quarter of a mile field,., cleared at 6.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; o~mndays, 6.30 south. a.m.; Littleworth, cleared at 7'-40 a..m. & 5.40 p.m.; Pa~ish Clerk, Thomas iHartber. sundays, 7.40 a.m . .& Hyde Park, --cleared at B.ao .a. m Post, M. 0 . .& T. Offi.c~. Tlwmas Barber, imb-p&St- & 5·45 p.m.; sunday1, 9.20 a.m master. Letters received through Worcester arrive at Public Elementary School (mixed), buHt in ,~a 57, & S·Io. a.m. & 4-IS p.m.1 lflnndays, 5-IO a.m.; dis- since enlarged, for no children; average attendance, patched, 10.45 a.m. & 4·15 & 7-40 p.m.; sundays, 95; Miss Martha Watson, mistress 7.40 a.m Letter Boxes. Norwn Barracks, cleared at n a-.m. & 4 Railway Station (Norton Junction) (Great Western), & 7·55 p.m.; sundays, 7·55 p.m.; Broomhall, cleared John Thomas, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ryder Capt. & Quartermaster J. J Jeynes George, farmer Barker Capt. W. Norton barracks Sandham Major S. Norton grange Keen George, farmer Crawford Lieut. C. F. G. Norton Thornely Samuel, Hatfield Kyte James, farmer. Lower hmue barracks Traill Lieut. B. F. Norton barracks Lakey Thos. farmer, Newlands farm Gillum-Webb Lieut. H. A. Broom- Vevers Rev, William Winnall B.A. Merriman Wm. Norton Retreat P.H hall (letters through Worcester) Vicarage Partington John 'Sherwood, farmer & Graham Capt. Alec, The Orchards Whalley Capt. P. k. Narton barracks prick manufacturer, The Grang~ Joynson Francis, Norton hall Partington Tom, farmer,Pound house Martin Stapleton M.A. The Firs COMMERCIAL. • Petford James, blacksmith Messervy Capt. C. C. Norton barracks Allington Frederick, dairyman Phipps John, farmer, Hatfield Milward Major H. D. Norton barracks Ballard Alfred, farmer, Hatfield Rea Ann (Mrs.), dairy, Winnall Nesbitt Capt. A. S. Norton barracks Cubberley Thomas, czab proprietor Smith Agnes (Mrs.), farmr.Norton et Northey Litmt. A. Norton barracks Ewins Edwin Charles, coal dooler Taylor Daniel, farmer Partington John Sherwood, The Graham Capt. Alec, fruit grower, Wahon George, farmer,Norton house Grange Hatfield Wright Wm. L. shopkeeper, Broom- Penny Capt. Frank, Hatfield Barber Thomas, baker, & post office hall (letters through Worcester) • is a village and parish, 3l miles south- is a hamlet, 1 mile north, partly in east from Droitwich station on the Worcester and Stour• this parish and partly in that of Hambleton, with a sta­ bridge section of the Great Western railway, 6 north- tion on the Midland railway for goods only. east from Worcester, and 118 from London, in the Mid division of the county, Lower Oswaldslow hundred, Netherwood, half a mile south-east, is a farm, and Droitwich union, petty sessional division and county was the scene of a tragedy in IBo6, when a person named court district, rural deanery of Droitwich and arch­ Hemming, a carpenter, having been employed to as­ deaconry and diocese of Worcester. The Worcester and sassinate the Rev. G. Parker, then rector, was after­ Birmingham canal runs through the parish. The wards himself murdered by his employers, who were church of St. James, almost wholly rebuilt in I851, fearful of the perpetrator of the horrible deed being from the designs of Mr. Hussey, at the expense of J. H. found out and themselves implicated. Galton esq. is a cruciform building of stone in the Per­ Parish Clerk, Henry Greenhill. pendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a western tower containing 3 bells: Dunhampstead Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.15 p.m. there is a considerable quantity of old stained glass, week days & n.3o a.m. sundays. Wall Letter Box at and one of the bench ends has a wrought-iron standard School, cleared .at 6.25 p.m.; sundays, 11.40 a.m. hour-glass frame: the church affords ISO sittings. The Letters received through Droitwich at 7 a.m. The register dates from the year I66I. The living is a rec­ railway station "is the nearest telegraph office for tory, united in 1878 to Hadzor, joint net yearly value dispatch, & Droitwich, 3 miles distant, the nearest £260, including I2 acres of glebe, with Tesidence, in for delivery of telegrams. Droitwich is the nearest the gift of Major H. G. Howard Galton R.A. and held m~mey order office since I898 by the Rev. Nigel James Freer M.A. of Public Elementary School (mixed), for Oddingley & Christ's College, Cambridge. Major H. G. Howard Galton. of Hadzor, is lord of the manor and principal Hadzor, erected in I85o, for 64 children, has Bince been landowner. The soil is loamy; subsoil, principally marl, . enlarged for the accommodation of children within a and in some parts clay. The chief crops are all kinds radius of 2 miles ; average attendance, 6o; Mrs. of cereals and a few roots. The area is 887 acres of Florence W ootton, mistress land and 7 of water; rateable value, [1,739; the popula­ Dunhampstead Goods Station, George Martin Knight, tion in J:9or was I3o. station master Freer Rev. Nigru James M.A. The Burton l'aul, farmer, Pound farm Preston Herbert, farmer, Park farm Rectory Grizzell Martin, Fir Tree P.H South Wales & Cannock Chase Coal COMMERCIAL. .Tenkins Thomas, Pine Apple' farm & Coke Co. Ltd. Midland goods wtn Blackburn Edwd. farmer, Netherwood Jenkins Wm. farmer, Church farm ()FFENHAM is a small village and parish on the erected in 187I. There are two charities, Brent's and navigable river Avon, with a station (called Littleton Kerry's, of the aggregate value of about £ ro yearly~ of and ) on the Oxford and Worcester section of the which sum £~; is given to the vicar for preaching a Great Western railway, 2 miles north-by-east from sermon Good Friday: the poor's land and the rent of a stations on the Great Western and Midland cottage produce together about £10 yeaTly, which is railways, and r6 south-east from Worcester, in the given to the poor in bread at Epiphany. Offenham is Southern division of the county, Upper Blackenhurst said to have been a retreat of the Abbots of Evesham, hundred, Evesham petty sessional division, union and and the present farmhouse, known as " Offenham Court," o(!ounty court district, Evesham rural deanery, Warwick is believed w stand upon the site of the ancient abbatial 'archdeaconry and Worcester diocese. The church of mansion : in one of the Tooms is a fine carved oak St. Mary and St. Milburg, entirely rebuilt, with the mantel-piece, in the centre of which are the arms of the -exception of the tower, in I86I, is an edifice of stone in Haslewood family : extensive foundations, and fragments the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four of an old building, were discovered about J-S6o, and the bays, north aisle, south porch, and an em battled western moat which surrounded the residence may still be traced: tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells and a clock in the neighbourhood, towards the north~west. is a -erected in 1887, at a cost of about {,Bo: the east window broad fosse, called "Deer's Leap," supposed to be a ;,. stained, and there are memorial windows to the Rev. portion of the boundary of the deer park. e:lltending along R. Lawson, late wicar, and to Lieut.-Col. B. Preedy; the river side, and belonging to the mansion: in 1887 in the tower is another stained window, the gift of the 20 skeletons were dug up in a field adjoining the Faulk Rev. R. Lawson 1 the pulpit is Of carved Derbyshire n.ill : three of these were headless, and one was found marble, SUJPported on a cluster of six polished piers : lying upon a slab, togethed with several bronze coins : there are 2I7 sittings. The registers date from the at the end of the village stands the May pole. erected year 1538, and include both the paper register of King in place (lf an older one blown down during a gale. The 1Ienry VIII.'s time and the parchment copy of Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, who are that register made in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. the lords of the manor, George Hugh Digby esq. of 1.'h.J living is a vicarage, net yearly value {,3oi, in­ Chalmington House, DorchesterJ th~ representatives of -cluding 4 acres of glebe, with residence, in the !rift of the late John Gibbs and Geor~e Swift esq. of Man­ the Dean and Chapter of ChTist Church, Oxford, and chester, are the principal landowners. Tht> soil is held -'Since I897 by the Rev. Charles William Anthony light sandy; RUihsoil, gravel and sand. The chief crops Pre:iton M.A. of that house. There is a EaptU!t chapel, are wheat, m:uket garden prolnee, oats and barley.