DIRECTORY. J STAFFORDSHIRE. ONE COTE. 305 Wellings Thos. B. & Co. shipping ta<'kle mas.24 Elbow st Williams David, draper, 94 High street Wellings William, shopkeeper, 262 Halesowen road Williams Eli, tobacconist & news agent, 195 & 196b, Wesson Henry Thomas, boot maker, 92 High street Halesowen road Weston Frederick, Old Engine P.H. 71 Waggon street Williams Elijah, chain maker; t16 Brook lane Westwood Benjamin, shopkeeper, 16 High street Williams John, chain maker, 19 Plant street Westwood Emma (Mrs.), greengrocer, 6•1 Halesowen road Wood James, shopkeeper, King street Westwood Harry, boot & shoe dealer, 45 Spring meadow Woodall Alexander, chain maker, 23 New Town street Westwood James, greengrocer, 267 Halesowen road '\Voodall Charles Frederick, builder, Trinity street Westwood Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 43 Station road Woodall Ephraim, chain maker, 16 Plant street Wheeler Enoch, jun. metal merchant, Mace street tWoodall Esther (Mrs.), shopke~per, 50 Reddall Hill rd Wheeler James, boot & shoe dealer, 66 Halesowen road Wocdall Fanny (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 178 Halesowen road Willetts Bros. nail, chain & rivet manufacturers & malle- Woodall George William, chain maker, 18 New Town st able & cast iron founders, Lawrence lane Woodall Hannah M aria (Mrs.), shopkpr. 44 Wright's la tWilletts William & Sons. sculptors & builders, Red- Woohall John, milliner, Lawrence lane dall Hill road W oodall Samuel, chain maker, 22 New Town street Willetts Alfred, draper, 103 & 104 Lawrence lane Woodall William, chain maker, 44 Wright's lane Willetts Daniel, shopkeeper, 1 Dudley street Woodall William, shopkeeper, 40 Elbow street Willetts David, shopkeeper, Peartree street Woodhall Daniel, chain maker, 78 Spring meadow Wllletts Edward

ONECOTE is a scattered township, formerly a chapelry Post Office. Mrs . .Annie Poyser, sub-postmjstress. Let­ under the parish church of Leek, but since Sept. s. 1862, ters through Leek arrive at 7-SO a.m.; dispatched, 5 has constituted with the township of Bradnop a separate p.m. Postal Orders are issued & paid here. The parish, and is 6! miles north-east from Leek station and nearest money order office is at Leek & telegraph office 7 from Froghall station, both on the North Staffordshire at Warslow, 4 miles distant railway, in the manor of Bradnop, Leek division of the county, North Totmonslow hundred, union, petty sessional Upper and Lower Mixon, comprising a few cottages and division and county court district of Leek, rural deanery two farmhouses, on a lofty ridge in Onecote ecclesiastical of Leek, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of parish, are 5 mi.Jes east-by-south from Leek and z! west Lichfield. The river Ramps passes through the township. from Butterton. At Lower Mixon is a. copper mine, no\ The church of St. Luke, a small edifice of stone, built in now worked. 1753·5, but not consecrated till June 28, 1782, consists BRADNOP AND COWDRY is a civil parish on the main of a chancel (added in 1837), nave, south porch and an road from Leek station, from which it is 3 miles south-east. embattled western tower containing one bell: there are Ashenhurst, the ancient seat of the family of that name, is 200 sittings, of which 6o are free. The baptism and now the property of Major-General Thomas Phillips J.P.: burial register dates from 1755 and of marriages from on a stone in the fioor of the house are the initials of 1863; previous to that year the register of marriages was Francis Hollingshead esq. who owned it in 1675· A incorporated with that of Leek. The living, called One­ Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1840. There is also a cote-cum-Bradnop, is a vicarage, net yearly value £xso, Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1889. Dryden H. including 82 acres of glebe, with residence, built in I 863 at Sneyd esq. is lord of the manor. Major-General T. a cost of £x,o45, in the gift of the vicar of Leek, and Phillips is the principal landowner. The soil is princi· held since 1902 by the Rev. William Adams Timmis B.A. pally light; subsoil, clay. The only crops are oats and of Selwyn College, Cambridge. There is a Primitive roots. The area is 3,560 acres of land and 8 of water; Methodist chapel here, erected in 1822. The poor of One­ the population in xgox was 405. cote and Bradnop have the following charities : 5 acres, Post Office, Bradnop. Miss Mary Bott, slfb-postmistress. let for £B 15s. a year, distributed at Christmas; in 1788, Letters through Leek arrive at 6.50 a.m. ; dispatched John Adsetts left to the poor widows of Onecote £3o, 5·55 p.m. Postal Orders are issued & paid here. T4e which was expended in purchasing 1a. 2r. of land, now nearest money order & telegraph office is at Leek producing 20s. yearly. Dryden Henry Sneyd esq. of Ashcombe Park, who is lord of the manor, John William Public Elementary Schools. Phillips esq. of Heybridge, Upper Tean, and Mr. William Onecote School, built in 1871, for 96 children; a,verage Finney, of Onecote Grange, are the principal landowners. attendance, Oo; Frank Scott, master The soil is very light on the hills, but improves in the Bradnop, for go children; average attendance, 61 ; '.l,'hos. valley; subsoil, rock and clay. The land is all in pasture. Hargraves, master; erected in 1862 & licensecl for The area of Onecote civil parish is 4,936 acres; the popu­ divine service lation in 1901 was 389, and of the ecclesiastical parish Carriers. Tom Ooldstraw, R. Thompson & 0. Alcock (Onecote-cum-Bradnop, St. Luke), 794· pass through to Leek on wed ONECOTE. Chapman Thos.Hy. frmr.HobMeadows Goldstraw John, Dog & Partridge P.H Timmis Rev. William Adams B.A. ClewesWilliam, farmer, State Ho. frm Goldstraw Thos. farmer, Bank Top fm Vicarage Critchlow Geo. Henry, farmer, Back la Grindey J oseph, farmer, Dunlee farm COMMERCIAL. Deaville James, farmer, Dale house Grindy William, farmer, Mixon Armitt Abel, farmer, Clough house Deaville Thomas, farmer, Intakes Hall William, farmer, High cross Bentley Esther (Mrs.), farmer, Ford Felthouse Thomas, farmer, Rue Bays Hampson Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Wetley Felthouse Wm. farmer, Ford grange Skinner's Field Bold Charles, farmer, Pethills head Fernihough John William, farmer,New Hill John, farmer, Pethill Bonsell William, farmer, Sycamore lo :Mixon Haye Hill William, tailor Bould William, farmer, Bingham farm Fernihough Thomas (Mrs.), farmer, Houslum Jolin, farmer, Upper green Briddlebank James, farmer, White lee Hopping head Hulme Josiah, farmer, Harvey gate Brindley John, farmer, Worm Low fm Ferns William, Jervis's Arms P.H Kelsey John, farmer, Water house Burnett John, farmer, Moor end Finney William, farmer & land owner, Kidd Sampson & William, farmers. Burton Joseph, farmer, Wellington fm Grange farm Westbrook Cantrill Jabez, farmer, Lane head Finnikin James, farmer, Pethill Kidd Elijah, farmer, Acre farm Chadwick William, farmer, Lower grn Gibson George, farmer & wheelwright Knight James, farmer, Moor side ChadwickWilliam,farmer, NewHall fm Gillman WiUiam, beer retailer & far- Lane Albert, farmer, Westbrook head Chapman William, farmer & beer re- mer, Blakemere Meakin William, farmer,Well)feadows tailer, Bower's bank Gibson Sarah (Mrs.), farmer,Lane end Melior Tbomas, farmer, Moorside :Cm STAFFS. 20