DIRECTORY.] CHESHIRE, POTT SHRIGLEY • 425 • Stevenson Thos. frmr. Peover Eye fm Thorley Edward, carpenter & joiner, Wainwright John, frmr. Grotto fa.rm Street Alfd. frmr. Grotto Side farm Millbank cottage Ward Samuel, carter Street Joseph, woodman to Sir P. T. Thorley John, wheelwright White George, fanner, Free green Mainwaring hart. J.P Thorley Thomas, carpenter Wilkinson Hy. frmr Roadside farm Street Levi, shopkeepe1- Vaughan John, beer retailer Wood Luke, assistant overseer - PLEMSTALL (or Plemonstall) is a parish, in the Police Station, John Bennett, police constable Eddiisbnry division of the county, union and county court Parochial School (mixed), for I20 children•; average at­ district of Chester, lower division of the hundred of tendance, 76 ; Arthur Robe.rt .Aston, master Bro:xton, pett.y sessional division of Chester Castle and rural deanery, archd•ooconry and driocese of Chester. Railway Station9. The area is 2,397 aores; rateable value, £6,os6; the L. & N. W. & G. W. Joint, John Ratcliffe, station master population in 1891 was 620. Cheshire Line~ HSl"l'y Burton, station master MIOKLE TRAFFORD is a township and scattered vil­ PiarON (or Pickt.on) is a township I! miles oo.rth­ lage on the high road. from Che·ster to Frodisham, with we.st from Mickle Trafford railway station and 4! north­ two stations, one on the RuncDrn and Chester sectioru of east from Chest;.e.r. The trustees of the late Roberrt the London and' North Western and Great Western joint Ashton esq. a.re lords of the maoor and chief landownen. railway, and another on the Cheshire Lines railway, and The a·rea is 86o acres; rateable value, £I,398; the pop-u­ is 3! miles north-east f·rom Chester. The church of St. lation in I89I was I04. Peter is an aneient building in the Decorated style of the 14th century, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays-, Lette·rs through Chester, arrive about 8.30 a.m. ; dis­ north aisle, a chapel on the north-east, south porch and patched at 6 p.m. Chester is the nearest money ord~er an embattled western towe·r, with pinnacles, rebuilt in & telegraph office 1826 and containing 3 bells : the church affords 349 BRIDGE TRAFFORD is a township and small village sittings, in pa·rt appropriated•. The register dates from on the high road from Chester to Frodsham, It miles the year 1558. The living is a donative !rectory, average north from Mickle Trafford! junction station on the London tithe rent-charge £274, net yearly value £304, with 20 and North WesteTn and Great Western joilllt railway and aerea of glebe and residenoo, in the gift of and held! since the Che.shire Lines railway, and 4! noorth-east from 1885 by the Rev. Richa.rd Battison Lowe M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who resides at Birkenhead. He·re is a Chester, in the sec(}ndl division of the hundred of Eddis­ Primitive Methodist chapBl, built in IB8s. During the siege bury. Harry Barnston esq. of Crewe Hill, Farnd:on, is of Chester. a garrison was placed1 here for the Parliament lord; of the manor andl sole landowner. The area is 273 by Sir William Brereton. The· Ead of Shrews·bury and acres ; rateable value, £s68 ; the population in IB9:s Talbot is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The was 66. soil is clay; subsoil, ma.r}; the chief crops are wheat, oats By LocaJ. Government Boa.rd Order No. 22,405 (24 and potatoes; most of the lan<ll is in pasture. The area Ma.rch, I888), a detached part of Bridge Trafford was is I,I63 acres; rateable value, £4,090; the population in a<ided to Wimbo1dis Trafford and a detached part of that 1891 was· 284. township transferred to Bridge Trafford township. Parrish Clerk, John Chamberlain. LetteTs• through Chester, ar.rive about 7·30 a.m.; dis- Post Office. John Colley, sub-postmaster. Letters patched! at 6.30 p.m. Chester is the neare·st money through Chester, arrive at 7.20 a.m.; dispatched at orde·r & telegraph office 6.20 p.m. Hoole is the nea.rest money order & te:e­ Hoole township will be found under a separate headi~ grraph office PLEMSTALL. Brereton Thomas, farmer PICTON. Chamberlain John, fa1mer & parish Bromley William, Shrewsbury Arms Denton George, farmer, Picton hall clerk P.H. & farmer Hayes EliMbeth (Mrs.), farmer Lovesey John, farmer Dodd Henry, butcher & farme11 Newport Charles, farmer Ellison John, farmer Owen Thomas, farmer MICKLE TRAFFORD. Gorst John, wheelwright Chambres Angernon Dennil, Traffd.lo Harrison Sarah (Mrs.), mrkt. grdnr BRIDGE TRAFFORD. Garnett William, Strathalle!l J ones J oseph, farmer, Trafford farm ltaingill Mrs. Windsor lodge Littler Samuel John, coal dealer Gaudy James, The Cottage Lloyd Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Cheers Samuel, Nag's Head P.H COMMERCIAL. Owen J ames, miller & farmer Hassell Edward, farmer, Bridge Traf· Bayley Samuel, farmer Payne Edward, farmer ford hall Beach John, butcher Pickston John, farmer Hughes Peter, joiner Bell William, farmer Rowland Edward, farmer Price Mary (Miss), shopkeeper Bevins Thomas, farmer Taylor Isaac, farmer Pritchard John, farmer POTT SHRIGLEY is a township and village in the a Methodist New Connexion chapel at Green Close, erected parish of Prestbury, near the Macclesfield canal, 2 miles in 1861, with about 200 sittings. The charities for dis· north-east from Bollington station on the Macclesfield and tribution in clothing amount to £2 6s. yearly value, and Marple section of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln- there is a sum of £3 I2S. Sd. yearly from Bridget Downe's shire railway and 4! north-east from Macclesfield, in the gift, for the general uses of the poor. In the neighbour• Macclesfield division of the county, petty sessional division hood are several coal mines and two fire-brick and of Prestbnry~ Macclesfield hundred, union and county chimney-top manufactories. Shrigley Hall, the seat of Mrs~ eourt district, in the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Lowther, is a hands'Ome modern mansion of stone,. Macclesfield and diocese Df Chester. The church, formerly pleasantly situated in a. well-wooded park of 300 acres,. a chapel of ease to Prestburry, and erected in 1491, is a and affords an extensive view of the surrom1ding country:: building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, in the grounds are three sheets of ornamental water. nave of two bays, aisles and an embattled western tower1 Pott Hall, an ancient house, restored about I878, is the With pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 bells, two of which residence of George Swindells esq. Mrs. Lowther is lady are pre-Reformation, and said to be the oldest in Cheshire : of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clayey a:nd the east window is stained, and there is a fine memorial sandy; the subsoil, rocky. The land is chiefly used for window placed by Mrs. Lowther, of Shrigley Park, to her pasturage; oats are also grown. The population in I8g:. eldest son, and two other stained windows: in 1878 an old was 354· The area iSI I,7o6 acres; rateable value, £2,546. ga.llery was removed, a new pulpit, reading desk and font Parish Clerk, Henry Frost. were erected and new oak chancel seats fixed, the cost Letters through Macclesfield. The nearest money ordel" & amounting to about £150: there are 240 sittings, about telegraph office is at Bollington one-third of which are free. The register dates from the year x61g. The living is a vicMage, gross yearly value Wall Letter Box, cleared at 8.IS a.m. & 7 p.m. No col- £94• net /,So, with 4 acres Df glebe and residence, in the lection on sunday gift of Mrs. Lowther, and helc}l since I894 by the Rev. John National School (mixed), built about 1856, for 65 children; Caillard Erck M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. There is average attendance, 38 ; Miss Florence Best, mistress Erck Rev. John Caillard M.A. (vicar), COMMERCIAL. Birchenongh Wm.frmr.Sherrow Booth Vicarage Beard Catherine & Ann (Misses),!rmrs Brocklehurst John, surveyor, Wood- Lowther ~Irs. Shrigley hall Beard Mary (Miss), shopkeeper bine cottage Swindells George, Pott hall Board Sarah (Mrs.), cowkeeper, Park Brown Richd. cowkpr. Simpson lane Watts Mrs. Ivy cottage Beeley Hugh, farmer, Higher house Brown Wm. farmer, Mitchellfold farm .