36 ) VINEY HILL. G LOUCESTEH~HIRE. [KELLY'S Public Elementary School, .All Saints (mixed), built, charge. The inhabitants are chiefly employed at the with teacher's residence, in I85o, & enlarged in I893, coal mines in the neighbourhood. The hamlet is in the for 2oo children; average attendance, I40 boys & girls petty sessional division of Coleford. There is a Baptist & 45 infants; James H. Hudson, schoolmaster chapel, built I86o, with 230 sittings, and Primitive Methodist and United M€thodist chapels. YORKLEY, 2 miles from Park End station, 2 from Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Albert James, sub-postmaster. Whitecroft station on the Severn and Wye and Severn Letters arrive from Lydney at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at Bridge railway, 3 north from Lydney and 5 south-ea•t 8.40 a.m. & 5·45 & 7.28 p.m.; no delivery of letters from Coleford, is a large and scattered hamlet, partly on sunday in .All Saints and partly in St. Paul's; some parts of Wall Letter Box, Yorkley Slade, cleared at 5·45 p.m the place are very steep; all the honses are detached and built in positions of g-rotesque irregularity. Here Public Elementary Council School (mixed), built in is a chapel of ease; the Rev. George Herbert Duder, I909, for 320 children; average attendance, 250; of St. .Augustine's College, Canterbury, is curate in Edwin Sims, master; Miss Ellway, infants' mistress VINEY HILL. James Jim, Claremont house Jones James, beer retailer Chatfield Rev. John Kyrle M.A., Turner Rev. William (Prim. Meth) Monis Aminda (Mrs.),Nag'sHead P.H LL.B., B.D. (vicar), Vicarage Mortimore George, greengrocer Bictdington Reuben, beer retailer COMMERCIAL. Pensome Charles, shopkeeper Gilmour Andrew, jnn. farmer Baghurst Charles, shopkeeper 1 Phillips Emily (Mrs.), beer retailer Halford & Son, builders Brown Frances (Mrs.), grocer Phipps Philip, surveyor & sanitary in- Halford Edwin, Albion P .H Eisom Rev. Sidney J., J.P. registrar spector for West Dean Rural Dis- Phelps Robert, farmer of marriages for Monmouth district, trict Council Saunders James B. grocer, Post office Forest villa Robins William, beer retailer 'Thomas George, grueer Gilmour .Andrew, farmer, Yorkley crt 'Smith Alfred, boot maker Gnnter Geo. frmr. Badhams Field fm Wintle Alfred, shopkeeper YORKLEY. Hale Henry, Stag inn Wintle David, farmer,Oakenhill house Duder Rev. George Herbert (curate Hattun John, crown keeper Worgan Edwin Jesse, assistant over- in charge), The Parsonage James Albert, stationer, & post office seer for West Dean, Prospect house Elsom Rev. Sidney Jones J.P. (Bap­ James Benjamin James, draper Yarworth Robert, butcher tist), Forest villa James George, beer retailer Yorkley Supply Co. grocers W ALTON CARDIFF is a village and parish, I mile Yerburgh M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who is also ·south-east-by-east from Tewkesbury station on the Ash­ vicar of Tewkesbury, hon. canon of Gloucester, proctor church branch of the Midland railway, in the Northern in convocation, rural dean of Tewkesbury, and surrogate, division of the county, lower division of the hundred, and resides at Tewkeshury. At the Manor House is a union, petty sessional division and county court district fine mineral spring, considered equal to the waters at of Tewkesbury, rural deanery of Tewkesbnry, and arch­ Cheltenham. N. P. Milne esq. of .Ashchurch House, deaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The Thirle brook, who is lord of the manor, and :Mr. Frank P. Clift, of a feeder of the river Swilgate, flows through this parish. Lulsley, Worcester, are the principal landowners. The The church of St. James, rebuilt in I869, is a small edifice soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief of stone in the Franco-Norman style, from designs by crops are wheat and beans. The area is 649 acres; Mr ..John Middleton, and consists of chancel, nave and rateable value, £994; the population in I9II was 43· a ·bell-cote containing one bell : in I9o8 an oak reredos Parish Clerk, William Taylor. and pulpit, carved by Miss Steward, of Northway, were Letters through Tewkesbury arrive by messenger about placed in the church: there is a small stained window: 6.30 a.m. Tewkesbury, I mile distant, is the nearest the church affords roo sittings. The register of bap­ money order & telegraph office tisms dates from the year r677: marriages, I697; Wall Letter Box, Manor house, cleared at 6.40 p.m. week no burials take place h€re, but the parishioners have t-he days only right of burial in the neighbouring parishes of Ash­ The cbiltlren of this place attend the schools at Tewkes­ church and Tewkesbury. The living is a vicarage, net bury yearly value £64, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester, Assistant Overseer, Frederick J. Pullin, Barton street, and held since I899 by the Rev. Oswald Pryor Wardell- Tewkesbury Gravenell John Waiter, coal merchant. Taylor Elizh. Hannah (Mrs.),laundrss COMMEllCJAL. Cottage farm Theyer Horace, tarmer, Manor house Day Charles, farml'r ~ind Charles, farmer, Chapel farm W APLEY is a parish and village, 3 miles south-east vicarage, net yearly valu-e £270, including 6 acres of from Yate station on the Bristol and Birmingham section g-lebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and of the Midland railway, 3 south from Chipping Sodbury Chapter of Bristol, and held since 1899 by the Rev. station on the new section of the Great Western rail­ Daniel Hezekiah Cogswell M.A. of Edinburgh Uni-versity. way from Patchway to Wootton Bassett, 9! north-east Sir Gerald William Henry Codrington bar!. of Tormar­ from Bristol, I2 north from Bath, in the Southern divi­ ton, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The sion of the county, Grumbalds Ash hundred, Chipping soil is clay<Jy; subsoil. clay stone. The chief crops are Sodbury union and county court district, Sodbury petty wheat, oats, beans and roots. The area is 2,598 acres; sessional division, rural deanery of Bitton, and arch­ rateable value, [3,780; the population in I911 was 242. deaconry and diocese of Bristol. The church of St. Peter is an ancient building of stone in the Early Eng­ CODRINGTON is a hamlet I mile south-east. Here lish style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and is a Baptist chapel. an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing Sexton, John Hinder. 5 bells: the east and west windows are stained: there is a chapel on the south side belonging to the Codring­ Letters throngh Chipping Sodbury, Glos. arrive at 8 ton family, containing an altar to1nb with inscription a. m. & 5 p.m.; & those for Codrington arrive at on the wall above to John Codrington esq. ob. I475• ro a.m. Chipping Sodbury is the nearest money the foundPr of that family. who was nr years of age order & teleg-raph office, 3 miles distant. Wall when he died: the church was partially restored in Letter Boxes cleared at 8.30 a.rn. & 5.Io p.rn. Wall I862, the repair of the chancel being undertaken by the Letter Box at Codrington cleared at 8.30 a.m. & 5·45 late C. W. Codrington esq. : further repairs w<Jre effected p.m in I897, and again in rgoo. when the tower was restored Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1865, for 6o and the bells re hung: there are ISo sittings. The children; average attendance, 40; there is a residence register dates from the year I662. The living is a for the mistress; Miss Edith C. Barn"tt, mistres. WAPLEY. Fear Edward, farmer Evam Fred, farmer Cogswell Rev. Daniel Hezekiah M.A. Holloway Wm. farmr. Bowring farm Gibbs William, farmer Charle~, Vicarage 1 Keene George, farmer Hudson Frtderick farmer ·Masters Alfred, farmer Riddiford James, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. I Parsons Frrd, farmr. Mowswell farm Roach Ashton William, farmer, & re­ Anstev Charles, farmer, Cliff farm Whitcombe Wilfred, farmer lievin!l' officer for No. I district, .Anstey Oliver, farnwr Chipping Sodbury union Bnldwin Sidnev. farmer. Dump farm CODRINGTON. Shewell Arthur William, Codrington Bowles William, farmer Arms P.H CO:YMEllCIAL. ChampiOn James C. farmer Shugar Joseph. carpenter Dowlmg & Carpenter, farmers 1 Brewer George, farmer, Spring farm Whitcornbe George, farmer .