216 SEDGEBERROW. . [KELLY'S Coldirott esq. Francis William Smith esq. William Smith, Post Office. George Farmer, sub-postmaste? Letters Thomas Parkinson and William Smith, of Kemerton. The arrive through Evesham at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 5.55- soil is light and heavy clay; subsoil, gravel, clay and p.m. week days only. Postal orders issued here, but stone. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and barley. not paid. Nearest P. O. & telegraph office, Evesham. The parish contains 1,°42 acres; rateable value, £1,644; Wall Letter Box, cleared week days only at 5.50 p.m the population in 18g1 was 281', National School (mixed), built in 1876, for 60 children; Parish Clerk, John Hunt. average attendance, 56; Ernest Edward Sutton, master Ashwin Miss Farmer Geo.R.S.S. farrier&blacksmith Smith Francis WiIIiam, farmer, Sedge- Marsh Rev. Frdk. Thos. B.A. Rectory & sub-postmaster I berrow hall Smith Francis Wm. Sedgeberrow hall Grinnall Henry, farmer,brewer & over-: Taylor Bros. millers (water) & farmrs, COMMERCIAL. seer, Sedgeberrow house I Taylor Joseph, market gardener Ballinger Herbert, market gardener Hollington Harry, farmer ' Terry John, Queen's Head P.H Ballinger William, market gardener Humphris James, shopkeeper Timms William, market gardener Barrett Alfred William, farmer Pension Thomas, market gardener White Thomas, shopkeeper Clarke Charles, market gardener Smith William, farmer . 'Vinnett Wm. market gardener SELLY OAK, in the parish of Northfield, is a suburb of Birmingham, full particulars of which are given in Kelly's Directory of that city. SEVERN STOKE is a village and parish, on the east magnificent woods, stretching away to the Severn, and bank of the navigable Severn and the road from Wor- affords delightful views of the river, Severn Stoke church~ cester to Tewkesbury, commanding fine views of the and of the park-like scenery in the neighbourhood. The Malvern Hills, 3 miles north from Upton-on-Severn rail- Earl of Coventry P.O. (lord-lieut.), IS lord of the mano~ way station, on the Tewkesbury and Malvern branch of and principal landowner. The soil is loam (in some the Midland railway and 7 south from Worcester, in parts), and gravel, sand and clay; subsoil, various. The­ the Southern division of the county, hundred of Lower chief crops are wheat, barley, roots and early peas. The­ Pershore, Upton-upon-Severn union and petty sessional area is 3,313 acres; rateable value, £5,532; the popu­ division, county court district of Malvern, rural deanery lation in 1891 was 653. of Bredon and archdeaconry and diocese of Wor- Kinnersley is a large hamlet, I mile south-east; Sand­ cester. The church of St. Denis is a building of ford is one mile north, on the road from Worcester to stone in the Early English, Decorated and Perpen- Tewkesbury; Clifton is I! miles north; Birch Green~ dicular styles, with some traces of Norman work I mile north-east. at the west end, and consists of chancel, nave, south Parish Clerk, Henry Fowler. aisle, south transept, south porch, and an embattled Sexton, Thomas Wiltshire. tower, with a small embattled turret, on the north County Police, Richard Jeffs, constable side, occupying the place of a north transept, and . . containing a clock and 5 bells: the piers of the nave are Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B:, Expre.ss Del.1very &:; Annmty Early English, and the tower Decorated: the chancel was &. Insurance Office,-~'lIss LOUlsa Lmton, sub-post- restored in 1872, and in 1890 the church was thoroughly mIstress. Letters receIved through Worce~ter at $·35 · t' f a.m. & 5.20 p.m. & sundays, 5·35 a.m.; dIspatched at d t 0 f 0 u· restore , a a cost £ 2,000, under the dIrec IOns &.... 10 11 L MT C lli f T k b th 'tt' 11 a.m. 7· 10 p.m. "" snndays 7. p.m. .. a etter r. . . t0 ns, d t0 f ewesth ury: ere8 areThI5li" 0 SI mgs. Box, Cl'ftI on, cIeared, 11,20 a.m. 7. 20 p.m. & sunday;;. The regIS er a es rom e year 153 • e vmg IS a m WIlL tt B Ki I' week rectory, net yearly value £550 , with 60 acres of glebe and ~.20 Pcl . a e er ox, nners ey, 5·45 residence, in the gift of the Earl of CDventry, and held _ ~ys 0 y . since 1869 by the Rev. Henry William Coventry M...!. ::-iatlOnal .School (mIxed) (fo:r:merly a farmhouse & en- of Pembroke College, Oxford, hon. canon of Worcester, larged m 1887), for 140 chIldren; average attendance-~ rural dean of Bredon, rector {If Hill Cl-oome and J.P. 90; Arthur Langfield, master The Severn Stoke "'orkmen's Club was built in 1891. Carriers.-Samuel Goodwin, Oifton to Worcester, sat.; Severn Bank, now occupied by Col. Charles 'Yigram William Sanders, Kinnersley to Worcester, wed. &, sat.; Long M.P., D.L., J.P. is a mansion surrounded by & Arthur Taylor, Kinnersley to Worcester, wed. &, sat Ooventry Rev. Hy. William M.A., J.P. Evans Ellen (Mrs.), grocer :& baker Revill Mark, farmer, Sandford house (rector, hon. canon of Worcester & Farmer George, beer ret. & shopkpr Rogers John, beer retailr. Kinnersley rural dean of Bredon & rector of Fowler Henry, parish clerk Sanders 'Villiam, carrier, Kinnersley ), Rectory Gill David Richard Cowell, farmer, Scott Henry, wheelwright, Sandford Hill John, Ohurch house Kinnersley Scott William, blacksmith, Sandford Hunter Mrs. Springbank Goodwin Samuel, carrier, Clifton Smith Harriet (Mrs.),beer ret. Cliftorr Kruger Mrs. Orchard ho. Kinnersley Hemus William, farmer, Kinnersley 8tevens Joseph Sander, farmer, Kin- Long Col. Charles Wigram M.P., Hooper Thomas, butcher nersley D.L., J.P. Severn bank House George, stud groom to Hon. Taylor Arthur, carrier -& shopkeeper,. Osborne Edward ~1iall, Kinnersley Henry Co.ventry, Kinnersley Kinnersley Robert Charles Lea, Hill house Linton Ellen (Miss), vaccination officer Vaughan In. blacksmith, Kinnersley COMMERCIAL. & registrar of births & deaths for Wadley John, farmer, Dunstal Bennett JamesHerbert, farmer,Hill ho Kempsey sub-district, Post office Warman James Hy. hay & coal dealer Brooke George, farmer, thrashing ma- Morris Geo. Wm. farmer,Clifton court 'Yiltshire Thomas, sexton chine owner & assistant overseer Mytton James, farmer ''rood'Vm. estate clerk, Kinnersley Broomhall In. cattle dealer, Kinnersley Nixon Charles, farmer, Kinnersley 'Woodward Fredk. farmer, Park farm Cosnett Edwin Harold, farmer & Nixon Edward, farmer, Birch farm (letters through Kempsey) market gardener, Clifton Phillips John, farmer, Clifton Workmen's Club (Arthur Langfield... Davies Sarah (Miss), Boar's Head P.H Redding Alfred, painter hon. sec) SHELSLEY :BEAUCHAMP (or Great Shelsley), cross. The register dates from the year 1538, and is one' including the hamlet of Shelsley Kings, is a parish on of the few registers found intact up to the present day. the east bank of the river Teme, 8 miles south-west The living is a rectory, net" yearly value £269, including 12 from Stourport station on the Severn Valley section of acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of the Great Western railway, and 10 north-west from Wor- Dudley, and held since 1887 by the Rev. William Griffiths, cester, in the Western division of the county, Hundred hon. M.A. of Durham University. William Jones esq. House petty sessional division, union, Worcester D.L., J.P. of , who is lord of the manor, thg county court district, western division of the rural Earl of Dudley, 'Yilliam Hyde Cook esq. Ernest Day esq. deanery of West Worcester and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester and Henry F. B. Moore esq. are the princi­ of Worcester. is in the hundred of pal landowners. The soil is clay and red marl; subsoil, Lower Doddingtree, and Shelsley Kings in Upper Dod- gravel. The chief crops are wheat, beans and hops. The dingtree hundred. The church of All Saints, rebuilt, area is 2,196 acres; rateable value of Shelsley Beauchamp with the exception of the tower, in 1846, under the direc- is £1,497; of Shelsley Kings, £1,522; the population, in tion of Mr. Oranston, is an edifice of stone, in the Early r891, of Shelsley Beauchamp, was 253 (which included 4ff English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel with officers and inmates of the 'Yoodbury Hill Reformatory~ vestry, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch, and a closed since 1894) and of Shelsley Kings 245. western tower, with plain parapet and small pinnacles, Post Office.-Arthur William Evans, sub-postmaster. containing 6 bells: the communion table is of stone, and Letters arrive from Worcester at 7.15 a.m.; dispatched there is an arcaded reredos and a stained east window: at 5.50 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not an hour-glass stand, formerly on the old pulpit, is now paid. Standford Bridge is the nearest money order &5 in the possession of the Diocesan Architectural Society; telegraph office, 3 miles distant the church was restored in 1859, at a cost of £140, and Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B.• Exprec:s Delivery &, .Annnit~ has 209 sittings; in the churchyard are the remains of a & Insurance Office, Standford Bridge.-Mrs. Elizabeth