DmECIORY.J " .. ARWICKSHIRE. STOKE. 215 is a room, formerly a factory, where divine service is National School (mixed), built in r855 & enlarged in performed by the vicar every Sunday afternoon. IBgo, for 340 children; average e.tt~ndanoe, 300; a. Parish Clerk Leonard Neal. Reed, master; Miss L. L. Pratt mistress; tha school Post & M. 0. ~ 'f. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance is about to be enlarged Office, Church lane.-Christopher Reed,sub-postmaster. Railway Station, J. Martin. station master Lett&Ts through Nuneaton arrive at 7.20 & n.ss a.m. dispa.tched 8.20 & 12 a.m. & 6 p.m. no post on sundays Carrier.-Joh Percival, toCoventry,on mon.wed. fri. k sat lJeck Goorge Dale Frooerick, fat'IIIler, Wood fal'm Malla.bone AJban, beer retlr. Arbury N Bradlbury Mrs. Grove house Eale;s John, butcher, A.rlbury road :\Ioore ReUiben, grocer Morris Georg& Henry, Hill house Enson Aaron, farmer Okell Thomas, farmer, Church farm ltogers Arthur Houghton, The Poplars Fairfield James, bla.cksmith,Arbury rd Petty Joseph, shopkeeper, Arbury rd Rose Alfred William, Haun-chwood Ford Charles, shopkeeper Rickus John Benjamin, picture frame :Shertabt Joseph Foster Robert, Midl.and Railway inn maker, Whittleford WBTlow Rev. George Ed.mund M.A. Fowkes James, shqpkeeper, .Atbury rd Simpsonr Samuel, shopkeeper Vicarage G-rimes Edwa.rd, farmer Spencer Henry, grooer, Church lant9 Winfiald John Martin, Haunchwood ho Haddon Benjamin, beer rtlr.Whittlefrd Stanley Bros.colliery pr()prietors&blue COMMEROJ:AL. Hardy J ames, beer Tetailer, .Arlmry rd brick & terra cotta manufaclurers Baldock. Emma(Mrs.),farmer,Hounch- Haun<:hwood Brick & Tile Co. Limited W6blb Elzbth. (Mrs.),butchr.Chureh la wood farm (.Tames Knox, ma.naging director); Webb Jn. Wm. butcher, .Arbury road Bell Henry,CherryTree P.H.Arbury rd & Hea.th End & Griff, Chilvers Coton Whiles Thos. farmer, Galley common Bell Willia.m, wtheelwright-, Arbury rd Haywood John, shopkeepeT, Whittlelrd White Thos.Loowb&FlagP.H. Whtblefrd lJetts John, shopkeeper Hickrmau Sir Alfred, coal master & Wilson John, White Lion P.H Buckler Albert Charles, shopkeeper brick manufaclurer, Haunchwood Wright Charles, Black Swan P.H. Ca:rt Edwin, Royal Oak P.H colliery (Wm. Nowell, mana.gel') · Arlmry road Cox Thomas, lime burner, Wharf 1Lee Ambl'OSe,farmer,Poplar Tree farm Wright Jonathan, farmer, Plough hill

STOCKTON is a village and parish very pleasantly tured here by Messr~. Grea.ves, Bull and Lakin, Charles .eitaatedl 2 miles north-east from Southam, with a station Nelson and! Co-. Limited and! Griffin and! Co. There is .oo on the Leamington and' Daventry branch of the London manor. The principal landowners are William Thoma.s and; North Western railway, in t!s.e South-Eastern division Bayes esq. Frederick Robert Welchman esq. of ~4 London of th& county, Southam dllvision of Knightlow hundlred, road, Lowestoft, Suffolk; Nelwn and! Oo. Limited anfl­ Southam petty sessional divisioD', union and! county court lsaao Edward! Lovell esq. of Nortoft, Guilsborough, district, rural deanery of Southam,arohdeaconry of Coven- Northants. The soil is stiif clay; subsoil, clay, The try a.ud diocese of Worcester. The Warwick and1 Napton chief crops are wheat and beans. The area ia IJ3op canal passes on the north of the parish. The church· ot acres; rateable value, £2,818; the population in ~BQ;t St. Michael, belonging originally to the priory of Hert- wag 702. ford, is an edifice of stone in the Decorated! -style, con- Parish Qlerk, Job Rawbone. sisting o! chancel, nave, aisles, north porch, and! an em- Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office, Savings Bank: & battled western tower with pinnacles, containing a. clock Annuity & Insurance Office.-Cha.rle9 Rawbone, post- and! 3 bells: the chancel and tower, forming the most. master. Letters through Rugby arrive a11 5.20 ".m.; .ancient portion, date from early in the 14th century: the dispatched. at 7·45 p.m nave and north aisle were rebuilt in z863 and! the south A School Board of 5 members was formed November :r3, aisle in 1873: all the windlows in the chancel are stained, 1 s78; w. Wood M.A. Southam, clerk 00 the board;. 1.;. and! there are memorial windows to Mrs. Pllkington, wife White, Fenny Compbon, attendance officer of a former rector, Mlr.s. IMa.kin andl the elde$ son of Board School (boys), built in 1ss 31 at a. cost of £400, fDr Willia.m Tyrer esq.: there are sittings for about 320 75 boys; average attendance, 46; William Hy. Boulter, persons. The register dates from the year 1718. The master; (girls & infants) for rso children, averag~ at• living is a. re-ctory, tithe rent-oharge £s, net yearly value tendance, us ; Miss Laura Howelli, miitreas £x8o, including 219 acres. al Thomas, farmer Lingen Mrs. Stockton house Gardener Joseph, shopkeeper Nelson Charles &; Co. Limited, lime k Lloyd Th-omas, Dudley house Greaves, Bull & La.kin, blue lias lime cement & brick & tile maker& Farker Rev. Charles Lewes Edward & cement manufacturers Newitt George, baker & farmer &; as• M.A. Rectory Griffin & Co. blue lias lime manufct1·s sessor of taxes Griffin Frank A. wheelwright Plummer George, sha& maker COMMERCIAL. Griffin John, farmer Pratt Henry, farmer Ada.ms James, shopkeeper & butcher Hammond Richard, farm bailiff to I. Rawbone Chas. shoe maker,Post o:fti~ .Bayes Thomas, farmer, The Grange E. Lonll esq Sanders John, beer retailer & fat'lUer JUne Lias Co-operative Society (Thos. Hawkes William, farmer Sharman George, shopkeeper J. Townsend, manager) Jea.cock Thomas, blacksmith . Shelton Richard, shopkeeper Elyt:h Thomas Philip, manager Nel- Kendall John, grooor Smith MaryJane(Mrs.),King's.ArmsP.H son's lime works Lloyd Thomas, manager tf Knightlow hundred, Coventry petty sessional division tithes, amounting to about £64, are the property of and county court district, Foleshill union, rural deanery William Pridmore esq. Here are Congregational and of Baginton,archdeaconry of Coventry and diocese of W or- Primitive Methodist chapels. Here was born, about I471, c;:ester. The roads from Coventry to Hinckley and Lutber- William Hollis, son (according to some authorities) of wor.th, as well as the Coventry canal, pass through the Thomas Hollis, yeoman, of this place, but stated in the parUlh. The church of St. Michael, erected in the 13th Diet. Nat. Biog. to have been the son of William Hollis., century, is an ancient building of stone, consisting of citizen and baker of London: having served his appren­ chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower, ticeship to a merce-r in London, he wall in ISII chosen containing 3 bells: the stained east window is a memo- Warden, and in 1530 Master of the Mercers' Company; rial to Harriet Anne, daughter of the late Michael Sadler in 1527 he served the office of Sheriff of London, and ~sq. M.P. and wife of the Rev. Canon Henry Temple M.A. became Alderman of Aldgate ·ward 31 Mar. 1528, from rector of Oswaldkirk, Yorks; she died 25 Dec. 1862; the which he. was transferred! to Bread street. Ward, 27 memorial tablets include one to the Rev. Joseph Harwa:r August, 1534, and being elected Lord Mayol" 13 October, D.D. a native of Stoke, and 16 years president of 1539, served that office during 1540, and on 3 January, l\lagdalen College, Oxford, who died 15th July, 1772: the 1539-40, recpived the Princess Anne of Cleves, on her church affords s6o sittings, of which 422 are free. The progress through the city previous to her marriage wiib. Tegister was in 1892 ocmprised in 14 vols. and dates from Henry VIII.: he was the owner of Clement's inn in the the yeaJ."" IS74• but is deficient, in some part~ illegible, and Strand, removed in the year 1892, and died in