DiRECTORY.] SHROPSHIRE. COALBROOKDALE. 301 Bsc:uAY township is about three-quarters of a mile r BROOME and RowToN townships are partly in this and :south. partly in Hopesay parish. SHELDERTON township is about three-quarters of a mile Parish Clerk, Richard Jukes. •80 uth-ea.st. .l Letters are delivered f~om .Aston-on-Clun (Railway Sub- Office) by foot post at 7 a.m. The nearest money order BROADW ARD township is rt miles south, on the river Clun, & telegraph office is at .Aston-on-Clon .and on the Herefordshire border. Broadward Hall, a eastel- WALL Box cleared at 6.r5 p.m. on week days & 3.15 p.m. Jated mansion, approached by a noble avenue, is M present on sundays (189r) Wll.occnpied. Sir Edward Ripley hart. B.A.\ J.P. of free School (mixed). built iu r855, for 128 children~ aver• Bedston.e, is lord of the manor. age attendance, 70 ; & supported in part by an endow· BR.!lm HILL is 2 miles east-by-north. ment of £6o, left by an unknown donor;, Henry Poole, 'TwiTCHJ!lN is ri miles west. master; Mrs. Ellen Poole, sewing mistress l!()P'IIO:Ii HEATH is xi miles li!Outh-west, with a station on Railway Station, Hopton Heath, David Edwa.rds, station lth.e 1-Clungunford. Jones Thomas, castrator Abcott. (;oolre Rev. Frederic B.A.. (curate in Jukes James, mason Jones Thomas, farm bailiff to Mr. charge], Rectory J ukes Richard, mason, The Lodge Dervis Bed does, of W ettleton lEiurt-Sitwell William Willoughby Lawley John, blacksmith W olley Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Abcott ho Georga l.P. Ferney hall Lewis John William, saddler Woodhouse William, Roche Arms P.R. Hurt-Sit well Willoughby Harford J.P. Meyrick John, blacksmith,Hopton heath & carpenter ferney ll.all Radnorshire Coal Co. Lim. (Wm. Smith, .Roeke Joha Charles L.son J.P. Clun~ salesman)', Hopto» Heath station Beckjay• gunford house Rogers Charles, slloe maker Miles Geo. miller (water), Beckjay mill COMMERCIAL. Smith William, grocer, ale & porter Myddleton Thos. farmer & landowner llarding George. shopkeeper merchant & salesman to Radnor Coal !Hill Joh.n, tailor & assistant overseer Co. Limited Shelderton. Howells Thomas, landowner & farmer Wolley Thomas John, farmer, & agent Davies Edward, farmer .J{)nes Edward, grocer to J. C. L. Rocke esq W olley Charles Richard, farmer .COALBROOKDAI.E is an ecclesiasticat parish, taken 1 £6,ooo, is a building of blue brick with white facings, in the -out of the parishes of Madeley and Dawley Magna July 25, Tudor style, and has now {1891) a library of upwards of 1185r, but still in connection with the former for al~ its civil 3,500 volumes and is well supplied with newspapers and :and township purposes: it is 5 miles south from Wellington, magazines: there are about 100 members: .Alfred E.) :2 west from Madeley, 2t north from Broseley, and 12 east- Darby esq. is president; the District School of Art has by-south from Shrewsbury, in the Mid division of the county, its central school in the building. Here are the exten­ 'Wenlock municipal borough and petty sessional division, sive iron works of the Coalbrookdale Company, celebrated Madeley union and county cout1; district, rural deanery of for their iron castings of every description, for agricul­ 'Wenlock, archdeaconry of Ludlow and lliocese of Hereford, tural, horticultural, architectural and ornamental purposes; .situated on the river Severn, which is the southern boundary there are also large Fire Brick & "' Broseley" Roofing ~~ the parish. The brook, which gives its name to the Dale, 'file Works, belonging to the same company, and upwards of rises in the high lands of Little Wenlock. The Wellington Soo people are employed in these works. The .Albert :and. Craven .Arms section of the Great Western railway Edward Bridge, carrying the Wellington and Craven Arms 'Passes through and has a station nearly in the centre {)f the line of the Great Western railway across the Severn, cast village. The parish is lighted with gas from the workS' at and erected by the Coalbrookdale Company, from plans by Madeley Wood of the Ironbridge Gas Light Company and is Col. Sir John Fowler hart. x.c.M.G., c.E. consists of a cast supplied with water from springs in the neighbourhood. iron arch 200 feet span, with an ornamental fence on each 'The church Of the Holy Trinity, erected in r854, on a site side of the bridge; the weight of iron in the entire structure :forming a portion of the estate of the late .ll'ranoiS" Darby is:' 420 tons. The Coalbrookdale Company and Mrs. Whitmore -e.sq. -and situated in the midst of an amphitheatre of hills, are the chief landowners, The soil is limestone, sand, stone -QD the richly-wooded slope of ohe of 'the loftiest .of which it and dye earth. The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. stands, is a building in the Decorated style, consisting of The area is 4~5 acres; the population in r88r was I,707. -chancel, nave of eight bays; aisles, west porch and a massive Parish Clerk, Joseph Pritchard. ~mba~tled western t?wer witb ~innacles and containing an PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., s. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office Illummat~ clock _mth three dials a~d 8 bells: t.her~~ are (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Shrop- :88Veral staln?~. wmdo:ws, one (jf Which, repr.esentmg ~he shire added).-John Dorsett, postmaster. Letters arrive Last Supper, IS F'lemtsh work; t~e -church ts seated 'WitH at 4 a.m., & 1 •30 p.m.; dispatched 9 a.m. & g.ro p.m. benc~es. of car'!ed oak ends, and ~Ill hold soopersons, about Delivery pf letters commence at a.m. & 2 p.m aoo stttmgs bemg free. The regxster dates from the year 1 . . r852. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £ 2 s4, Church of Englan~ School, ~qr 200 gxrl~ & mfants; average with residence, in the gift of Mrs. .Abraham Darby, of at~dance, ~8 girls & 68 mf~nts; ~:11~ Hannah Row~ey, "Treberfydd, Breckno::kshire, and held since 1 88~ by the mistress~ Miss Kate Sla~er, mfants mistr~ss j th~re IS ~ lRev. Hadrian Harries B.4. of Worcestet College, Oxford. school house for the mistresses of the girls &; mrants The Friends' meeting house is of brick, and has a burial- ~c.hools ,ground attached; here is also a chapel for W~leyans, a Bntish Sc~ool, for 262 boys; average attendance, 98 boys; bricK building, re-erected in r886 and seating 200 persons. 'Theophilus C. Rowley, master 'The Literary and Scientific Institute, erected in the year Railway Station, Thomas Harry Holt, goods manager ::x859, by the Coalbrookdale Company, at ar cost of about Railway StatiQn (Passenger), Wm, Marshall, station master <[NameR marked thus • receive their letters *Maw ~:rthur, Severn house COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED, .through the Ironbridge railway sub-omce.] Norris William Gregory, Dale house IRONFOUNDERS & ENGINEERS, *Owen Edward, White house manufacturers of CASTINGS of PRIVATE RESIDENTS., *Owen Mrs. F. Build was road every description & BRICK .k TILE •Anstice Lieut.-Col. John Arthar S.P. *Owen William Yate, Severn cottage MAKERS (W. G. Norris, resident Marnwood hall west director ; E. L. Squire, general Bowen Thomas Roberts Edward, Mount Pleasant manager), Coalbrookdale works. See '*Boycott Henry, The Firs Roberts Joseph, The Oaklands advertisement .Burgess .Ashton, Prospect house Roberts William Hazeldine, Model Dorsett John, grocer & ale & porter mer- Darby Miss house chant, & post office Da.vies Thomas Edmnnd, Pal'adise ho *Robertson Alexander, Dale end *Evans Enoch, shoe maker '*Dickenson Mrs. The Elms Rogers Mr8. Rose cottage Fletcher John Hughes, draper', grocer, ·4tDixon Charles, Rodney bank *Rowland Miss, Severn cottage east provision & flour merchant Dunbar William, Greenbank house *Smith Francis Rawdon, Eastfield *Hayward William Henry, Meadow inn, Fowler Thomas, The Ferns cottage Squire Edward L. Wood side & brewer Fox John, The Villa • Truscott James, Mount Pleasant *Hayward Thomas, Swan inn, Wharfage Garbett Miss, Paradise cottage Weston Phillip, Woodside house Hughes Herbert, boot & shoe maker Harries Rev. Hadrian B.A. [vicar], The Whitmore Mrs. Sunnyside *Jones David, Talbot inn. Wharfage Chesnuts Wilson William, Hill cottage *Ketley Bros. grocers, Dale end Hill Benjamin, Monnt Pleasant Literary & Scientific Institution (Alfred lbbot.son Mrs. Mount Pleasant COMMli:RCIAL. E. Darby esq. president i lsaac Dun­ *Langford Samuel, Rotunda cottage Bailey Michael, Coalbrookda1e inn bar, librarian) Laogford Weldon, Paradise Carr Frederick, farmer, Westminster *Lee George, coal dealer, Wharfage B. & S. 20