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CY;-"''YNION. Evans In. Thos. farmer, Tan-y-craig Lloyd In. farmer, Cefn-y-maes Mawr Morris Rev. William Arthur B.A. Issa Morris Maurice, farmer, Cefnbyrallt (rector of Rhyd-y-Oroesau) Evans Lloyd, fa~mer Nagington Hy. smallholder, Cefny- COMMERCIAL. °Ffoulkcs Watkm, farmer, Cefn-y- drinog maes Bach Owen In. Rt. smallholder, Pandy Marked thus ° farm ISO acres or over. Griffiths Margt. (Mrs.), farmer, Tan- Newydd Arden Herbt. farmer, Bryncoch y-craig Vcha °Roberts Wm. farmer, MontygoUen Baines In. Rd. smallholder, Green- Hughes Lloyd, farmer, Middle Weston Elizabeth McLellan Watson fields Cynynion (Mrs.), guest house, Old Cross °Davies In. farmer, Bryncoch Humphreys In. farmer, Fochddu Foxes, Lawnt Davies In. farmer, Bwlch-y-Rhiw Humphreys 'rhos. farmer, Lledrod °Edwards David Jerman & John Jones David, farmer, Brongoll PENTRE-GAEB. Ffoulkes, farmers, Cynynion Fawr Jones Hy. farmer, Rallt Edwards Edward, farmer °Edwards Thos. & Catherine (Miss), Jones John Gwynfryn, baker, grocer, Jones Morris, smallholder, Pen-y-Bryn farmers, Top Cynynion provision dealer & corn & flour Jones Thomas, farmer, Henblas Edwards Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Lower merchant Richards Watkin, farmer Cynynion Jones In. L. farmer, Bryn-Lyfryd Roberts Edward, farmer, Tan-y-coed Edwards In. farmer, Rhandir Isaf Lloyd E. farmer Williams John, farmer

DAWLEY MAGNA is a town and parish on the URBAN DISTRIGr COUNCIL. road from Wellington to , with a station at in this parish on the Wellington and Severn Members. Junction branch of the Great Western railway, 4 miles Chairman, R. A. Rhodes J. P. south-east from Wellington, about 2! north-west from Vice-Chairman, Edward Fellows. Madeley and 5 south-west from : it is in division of the county, in Wellington division of E. Attwood Thoma. Jones J.P South Bradford hundred, Madeley county court district, J. H. Ball Herbert Simpson petty sessional division of Wellington, rural deanery of E. Biddulph C. H. Taylor Shifnal, arch deaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. G. Houlston H. C. Woodhouse M B, The town is lighted with gas from works in Chapel H. Jaundrell Ch.B., J.P street, built in 1857, and belonging to the Dawley Gas J. M. Johnston Co. Limited. In 1909 an arrangement was made with the Madeley and Water Co. of Harrington, for the Officers. supply of water at a cost of about £15,000; the pump- Clerk, Henry Revell PhilIips, jun. solicitor, 69 King st ing station is at Little Dawley; the engines are of the Treasurers, Lloyds Bank Ltd Producer type and force the water to the two reservoirs at Lawley Bank for distribution to the district. The Medical Officer of Health, Alfred E. White M.B., C.M. parish was formed into a Local Government District in Edin., D.P.H.lrel., L.R.C.P. & S.Edin., L.R.F.P.S. 1876, but under the Local Government Act, 1894 (56 Glas. 7 Waterloo road, Wellington and 57 Vict. c. 73), an Urban District Council was Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, R. Lewis Price, 69 King established. The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in street 1845, is a building of sandstone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, baptistery and an embattled Market Hall, High street western tower containing 6 bells: there is a font of Police Station, Burton street Norman date: on the east wall is a tablet in memory Town Hall, R. Lewis Price, sec of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, !914-18. The register dates from the year 1666. The living- was declared a vicarage Dec. I!, 1866, net PUBLIC OFFICERS. yearly value £350, including 2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the g-ift of the Bishop of Lichfield, and held Collector of King's Taxes, R. Lewis Price, Council since 1936 by the Rev. Edgar Stanley Banfield, of Lin- offices, 6g King street coln Theological College. There is a Mission church in Collector of General & Water Rates, Bertram H. Ellis, Hinkshay; a Baptist chapel, erected in 1846, seating Conncil offices, 69 King street 5'50 persons; also two Methodist chapels. The Town Customs, Excise & Old Age Pension Officer, William Hall, a commodious building, is the property of John Hawk.ins, Market Place chambers, Wellington the Urban District Council. The Market Hall, erected Medical Officer, Dawley District, Wenlock Guardians in 1867 and also the property of the Urban Council, is Committee, Herbert Clement Woodhouse M.B., Ch.B. an oblong structure of red brick, with an ornamental Vict., J.P. 30 King street frontage and vaults underneath, and is surmounted by a turret containing one bell and a clock, presented in 1867 Public Vaccinator, Dawley District, Wenlock Guardians by the late Lt.-Col. William Kenyon-Slaney. A piece Committee, James Bryce Robertson M.B., C.M.Glas. The Shrubbery, King street of ground of about 2 acres in extent was given by the late Rt. Hon. Col. William Slaney Kenyon-Slaney M.P. Rating & Valuation Officer, R. Urban Callear, Council and H. C. Simpson esq. to be used as a public park, offices, 69 King street and was opened in 1901. In the High street is a Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Dawley Sub- monument, erected in IgIO, in memory of Capt. Webb, district, Madeley Registration District, Bertram H. born in this parish in the year 1848, who lost his life Ellis, Council offices, 6g King street; deputy, Ernest in an attempt to swim the Niagara rapids in 1883. A S. Callear, 73 King street charity of £7, derived from land, was left in 1684 by Relieving Officer, No. I Dawley District, Wenlock Richard Hodden, gentleman, of , and a third Guardians Committee, Frank Percy Mole, 32 Chapel st of this is distributed to the poor of this parish on St. Thomas' Day. Lewis' charity of £200 was left in Vaccination Officer, Dawley Sub-district, Bertram H. 1887, and the interest is given to the poor annuallv Ellis ~n blanke.ts: Greenhalgh's charity of £1 yearly, left III 1892, IS also for the poor. The Coalbrookdale Co. PLACES OF WORSHIP. Ltd. are the principal landowners. The soil is various. Holy Trinity, Rev. E. S. Banfield, vicar The minerals are ironstone and coal. The chief crops Mission Church. Hinkshay are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 3,259 acres of land and inland water; the population in 1931 was 7,669 Baptist, Dawley Magna, Rev. Henry Mostyn Jones in the and Urban District and of the eccle- Methodist, Dawley , Finger road; Horeshay & Rock; siastical parish, 2,815. Rev. G. T. Hodgson Methodist, High street; Dawley Parva ; Dawley Bank; By the Salop Review Order, 1934, parts of the Horsehay & Stirchley; Rev. W. E. C. Elliott parishes of Priorslee, Stirchley and Wellington Rural were added to the parish and Urban District. Railway Stations.-Horsehay (G. W.); Stirchley (L. M. & S) Post, M. 0., T. & T. E. D. Office, 51 High street, Dawley (letters should have Wellington, Shropshire, added) Conveyunce.-The omnibuses of the k Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd. running between Post, M. O. & Tel. Call Office, Dawley Bank. Letters Wellington & Madeley, pass through; an additional arrive from Dawley, Wellington, Shropshire. Dawley omnibus service to Wellington is run daily; & a ser- is the nearest T. office vice to by J. A. Darrell, of St. Leonard's road, Malinslee 88 DAWLEY MAGNA. SHROPSHIRE. [KELLY'S D..HVLEY, Callear Fras. Arden, insur .. agt. 65 Jones Herbert S. ironmonger, 53 King st High street PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Callear Ralph Urban, rating &; valua .. Jones Horace C. grocer, &; post office, (For T N's see general list of Private tion officer, Council offlces.SoKing Dawley bank Residents at end of book.) st. ('1'N 229) & sec. to Independent Jones Minnie Lucy (Mrs.), china Banfield Rev. Edgar Stanley (vicar), Order of Oddfellows, 73 King st dealer, 55 High street . Vicarage, Dawley, Wellington Chilton Ruth (Miss}, shopkpr, 87 Jones Wm. Percy, Iruitr, 34 High st Browne Samuel Noel M.C., M.B.., Kin" st KetJey Francis, grocer.z Hinkshay rd Oh.B. 88 King st Cosy bCinema (In. White, mngr.), Ketley Francis Wm. Queen's Arms Callear Francis Arden, 65 King st Burton street P.H. 31 Finger road CaIlear Ralph Urban, 73 King street CottreU Frank Regnld. mngr.. to Latham Fanny (Mrs.), shopkpr. 9 EIliott Rev. William E. C. (Metho- Lloyds Bank Ltd. 12 High st. T N New st . dist), Westley house, Chapel street 254 . . Lees Norm~ G. dentist (attends Ellis Bertram H. 29 Church road Dabbs Ohas. credit draper, 18 High ~at.), 21 Kmg st . Hodgson Rev. George '1'.. (Methodist), st. T N 22:1 Leighton Edwd. W. H.. wireless dlr. 71 King street Darrall &; Co. grocers,47 &; 8 High st 13.High st . Jones Thomas J.P. 5 Burton street Darrell & Co. coal mers .. 74 King st. Lewl.s In. Aston, butcher.jo High st Price Harry A. L. The Shrubbery, TN 251 Lewis Rd. Wm. shopkpr.ag Chapel 8t King street Davies Arth. butcher, Church rd Lloyds Bank Ltd. (sub-branch) Price Rcbert Lewis, 8 Heath hill Davies Joseph, confectnr. 49 King st (F.rank Regnld. Cottrell, mngr.), 12 Rhodes Richard ..,L J.P. 80 King st Davies Lucy (Miss), shopkpr. 34 High st .. (TN 254) (open from la Robertson James Bryce M'.B., C..M.. King st e..~. to 2.30 p.m. on Mon. Wed. & The Shrubbery, King street Dawley British Legion (Thos, Dood- Fn.; head office, 71 Lombard st. Woodhouse Herbert Clement M.B. son, SI;lC) , King st London E C 3 Ch.B., J.P. 30 King street 'Dawley & District Child Welfare Machin Saml, boot repr. 22 Chapel st Wooding Frederick Thomas 67 Kinrr Centre (Miss Eliz.. Thomas, supt.), Martiu Fredk. grocer, IS Chapel st street '" King's st Matthews Annie L. (Mrs.), draper, Dawley &; District War Memorial 33 New rd COMMERCIAL. Club (Frank Mole, sec.), King st Melias Ltd. provsn. dlr. High 8t Early closing day, Tuesday. Dawley (The) Gas Co. Ltd. (Frank Melville Ida (Miss), district nurse, 6 Clayton, sec.; Arth . .A.. Leonard, New rd A,fler Geo. beer retlr. 4 Finger rd manager) (works) Ohapel st, 'I' N Mill,,~rd Albert Edward, blacksmith. Allworth Maud (Miss), confctnr .. 1 331 .3 Klllg 5tree~ . Doseley rd Dawley Industrial Social Service M~tton Geo. fried fish dlr. 37H1gh st Ayres Thos, grocer, 42 High st Centre, New st Mitton Susan (Mrs.), shopkpr. 4i1 Bache Frank, newsagt. 65 High st Dawley Town Hall (R. Lewis Price, Bank rd Bailey Edwd. hairdrssr. 18 George st sec.; J. Jones, caretaker), New st Mole Frank Percy, relieving officer, Bailey Martin Clarence, butcher, 43 Duncombe Aubrey Chas. Red Lion 32 Chapel st High st P.H. Holly rd Morgan Fras. W. greengro. 9 &; la Bailey Wm. G. butcher, 16 High st. Ellis Bertram H. general & water Burton 5t T N 268 rate collector &; registrar of births, Morgan William, boot ma, Finger rd Bailey Wm. Hy. beer retlr.32King st deaths & marriages for Dawley sub- Nelson Frank, corn mer. see White .. Ball Bros. shopkprs, 59 High st district, Madeley Public Assistance head &; Nelson Banks In. Wltr. shopkpr. JIO King st Committee, Council offices, 69 King North Constance (Mrs.), grocer, 47 Barclays Bank Ltd. (sub..branch) st. T N 229 Bank rd (E. C. Ball, manager) (open 10 a.m. Evans Reuben &; Son, drapers, 10 Oakengates &; District, Co-operative to 2.30 p.m. on mon.. wed. & frL), High st Society Ltd .. Bank rd 56 High st.; head office, 54 Lom- Evans William, farmer, The Wallows Panter Jack Maurice. shopkpr. 41 bard st. London E C 3 Fellows Ruth (Mrs.), shopkpr. 9 High st Barnett Jsph. Stanley greengro. Jl Finger rd Parton Albt. Edwd. Duncow Hotel High st Ferguson Wm. Lord Hill P.H. Dawley P.H. New st Baugh Thos. insur. agt. Southa11 green Perkin Percy George, watch maker, Beckett Fredk .. Harry, wheelwright, Follows Geo. cycle dlr. 13 King st 28 High street ~1 SouthaU rd France Emily June (Mrs.), antique Perry Jsph. boit repr. 30 Bank rd Bemrose Rd. Weightman, chemist. dlr. 3 & 4 New st Phillips Hy.. Reve11 &; Son, solctrs. 46 High st. T N 257 France Jas. Rd. motor car propr. High st Binnall Miriam (Mrs.), shopkpr. 3 & 4 New st Phillips Hy. Revell, jun. solctr ..(firm, Hinkshay (letters should have Frances Lucy (Mrs.), refrshmt. rms. H. Phillips &; Son) &; clerk to Wellington only added) 27 High st t.h~ Urban District Council, High st Bird Sarah Jane (Miss), shopkpr, 2 Garbett Geo. Wm. beer retlr. 75 Phillips In. shopkpr. 2 New st Finger rd .King st . . rhi.1I~p8Saml. s,hopkpr. 28 .Bank rd Bott Jsph. shopkpr, II Heath hill Gibbs Anme (Mrs.),draper,58 High st PhJlhp~ Wm. Ernest, furmture dlr.: Bott Wm. coach bldr. II Heath hill Giles A. E. & Co. (A. E. Giles, 57 HIgh st Bowdler Alfred William, news agent, propr.), tobccnsts. 38 High st Phillips's Stores Limited, grocers & 16 Burton street Gogerty JI1. grocer, 24 Finger rd tea dealers, 19 High street Bowdler Martha (Mrs.), shopkpr. Graham Rt. White Horse P.H. Heath Plimmer Enoch Howard, butcher, 89 Hinkshay (letters from Wellington Hill Dawley bank direct) Greenhalgh Cecil Hy. grocer, 31, 33 PJimmer Rebecea (Mrs.), beer retlr. Boyle Albt. L. fruitr. 23 High st & 35 High st. T N 210 Dawley bank . Bray Geo. E. grocer, 12 Killg st Groueott May (Mrs.), shopkpr. 10 Poole Jsph. Herbt.. motor omnibus Bray Maggie (Mrs.), fried fish dlr. Old Vicarage rd propr. 62 High st, '1'N 236 2 Doseley rd Harper Wltr. Rd. Oscar, White Hart Poole Leah (Mrs.), beer retlr. 6 Bur.. Breeze In.. Vaughan, wheelwright, P.H. Hinkshay (T N 324) (letters ton st Dawley bank should have Wellington only added) Povey Bros. butchers, 4 King st Brown Eliz. (Miss), district nurse, 6 Harris John Robert, painter, 27 Preece &; Son, shoe mkrs .. 4 High st New rd Chapel street Preece Sarnl. boot repr. 52 High st. Brown Florence (Miss), shopkpr. 4 Hayward William, Elephant &; Castle &; 5 South all rd South~ll rd . P.H. 1 High street Price H. A.. L. & Co. Ltd .. haulage Brown Jsph. Wm. farmer, Old Vicar .. Hilton S. & Sons Ltd. boot & shoe contractors, Heath Hill. '1'N 258 age rd . . t B t makers, 48 High street Price Martha Ann (Mrs.), confctnr. Brown w1lllam, carpen er, ur .on st H 11' Edwi L Ii B 1 R' h t t BSI N 1 M C M B 0 1S win es le, grocer, 1 an ( 14 19' S ree rowne . am.. , I oe" .., .., rd Price Robert Lewis, surveyor, sani.. CI~·Bd·BJrpmh~'sM.R.C&..:::;.Eng.,L.R(·f9·P.Independent Order of Oddfellows tary inspector & collector of King's .xmu. J cn. surgn. irm, (R 1 h U C 11 ) K' t C'I ffi 6 K' t Woodhouse &; Browne) 88 King t .3 p . a e~r, sec. ,(3 mg s tax:s,ouncl 0 ces, 9 mg s . T N ,s . Jarvis Frank, frmtr. 20 HIgh st '1'N 229 Bryce ~~~n, shopkeeper Dawley bank Jaundrell Hubert, butcher, 1$ Bur.. Prime ;'\nnie (Mrs.), fried fish dlr. Bullock Geo Harold' ri t ton at 61 HIgh st Hi h st· , p n er, 37 Jones Benjamin &; Son, builders, Reynolds C. R. shopkpr. 41 Dawley C 11g E S . 3 Brandlee bank abirths,ear rnestdeaths. deputy& marriagesregistrar forof JEWones' . . (El.ectrirrcaI) Ltd'. eIectrc.1 R'IChards Albt . shopI'-pr. H'1Ilkshay Dawley sub..district, Madeley Public engnrs. 32 High st (let~ers should have Wellington Assistance Committee, 73 King st only .added) DlREC'rORY. ] SHROPSHIRE. DEVXHILL. 89 Roberts Mary Lizzie (Mrs.),shopkpr. Smith Wm. hair dresser, 153High st, Whitehead &; Nelson, corn mers. 11 Burton st Summers Laura Mabel (Mrs.), leathr. George It Robertson Chas. H. painter, 29a, mer. 2 High st Willetts Absalom, watch repr. 10 Station rd Sotch Harry. cycle dlr, 27a, High st Spring hill, Chapel st Robertson Jas. Bryce M.B.,C.M.Glas. Tart Jn. shopkpr. I Hinkshay rd WilIiams Rd. butcher, High st surgn. &; public vaccinator Dawley Taylor Abraham, fried fish dlr. 315Williams Rd. Geo.boot repr.George st district, Madeley Public Assistance High et Windsor Wltr. cabnt.mkr.so Bank rd Committee, The Shrubbery, King Taylor Albt. Crown inn, 44 High st Wood Geo. Wm. dentist, SOHigh st. st. TN 235 Taylor Chas. Herbt. draper, Dawley (attends tues. 2 to 4 p.m) Roden Thos. F. beer retlr. Bank rd bank Woodhouse &I Browne, physcns. & Rowe Fanny (Mrs.), shopkpr. Dawley Taylor Frank, farmer, Langley surgns. 30 (T N 213) & 88 King bank Waddilove Thos. butcher, Finger rd st. T N 242 Rowley Thos. outfitter, 40 Hi:;h st Walker Emmie (Mrs.), confctnr. So Woodhouse Herbt. Clement M.B., Simmonds Brothers, football manu- Hilth at Ch.B. Vict., J.P. surgn. (firm, facturers. 17 Chapel street Walton Jack, beer retlr. Hinkshay rd Woodhoose & Browue), & medical Smith's Stores, grocers. 22 &; 24 Wattg Ohas. Harry, insur. agt. 49 officer, Dawley district, Madeley High st. T N 224 High st Public Assistance Committee, 30 Smith Annie (Mrs.), shopkpr. sa8 Watts Eliz. (Mrs.), shopkpr. 49 King st. T N 213 Station rd High st Wooding In. provsn. mer. 101 King Smith Horace Edmnd. hairdrssr. 115Whitefoot George & WiIliam, hard- st. TN 330 Burton st ware dealers, 21 High street Wright Geo. Harold, Talbot P.H. 26 Smith Lucy (Mrs.), statnr. & post Whitefoot Cecil Geo, chemist, 'J-7 High st office, SI High st High et Yates H. .lo.Son, pork butchers, 157 Smith Richard, builder, Burton st High st

DA WLEY P ARV A is an ecclesiastical parish formed vicarage, net yearly value £378, including 11 acres of Oct. 24, 1845, from the parish of Great Dawley, and glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Crown and. includes Lititle Dawley, Doseley, Horeehay, Lightmoor, Bishop of Liohfield alternately, and held since 1929 by StoneyhiIl, The Potteries and Burrouzh's Bank, in the the Rev. Harry Gordon DaviElSiB.A.of St. David·'s College, Wrekin division of the county, South Bradford hundred. Lampeter. The vicarage house was considerably enlarged Madeley county coort district, petty sessional division in 1899. Attached to the church is a Sunday school, of Wellington, rural deanery of Shifnal, arehdeaconry erected in 1912. At Horsehay are extensive iron works of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. Dawley Parva belonging to the Horsehay Co. Limited. The minerals is I mile from Horsehay station on the Wellington, Shif- are coal and ironstone. The trnstees of the Earl of nal and Oraven Arms section of the Great Western rail- Craven (who is a minor) are lords of the manor and way, 5 west from Shifnal, 4 from Wellington and 3 principal landowners; part of the property has been from Made1ey. The church of St. Luke (locally at divided into sections and sold. The chief crops are Doseley, and erected in 1845) is an edifice of brick in wheat, oats and barley. The soil is various; the sub- the Norman style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, soil is clay. The population in 1931 was 1,474. south porch and a stone turret at the south end contain- ing one bell: there are 508sittings. The Iych gate was Post & M. O. Office, Little Dawley. Letters from erected by the parishioners in memory of the men of Wellington. Dawley is the nearest T. office the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Liohfield in January, 1920. Post, M. 0., T. &; T. E. D. Office. 1I0rsehay, Welling· The register. date from the year 1846. The living is a too, Shropshire

PRIVATB RESIDENTS. Price Tbos. Whitne}" carpntr. Frame Davies Albt. Hy. beer retlr. Wood· (For T N's see general list of Private la. Doseley house la Residents at end of book.) Reynolds In. & SOD, grocers, Little Davies Stanley, frmr. Woodlands frm Davies Rev. Harry Gordon RA. Dawley Duce Winifred Rose (Mrs.), shop- (vicar), The Vicarage, Doseley Roberts Rt. Eddie, beer retlr. Dose- kpr, Springfields Simpson Herbert, Greenhurst.Doseley Iey Harrison Edwd. fArmer, Croppings Sheword In. Unicorn P.H. Little farm COMMERCIAL. Dawley. T N Dawley 234 Horsehay Co. (The) Ltd. engine en BASALTS LIMITED, quarry Thomas Grace Lilian (Miss). nurse, & iron founders, bridge builders t owners; manufacturers of road- Doseley gas plant manufacturers; sole atone tarmacadam; bituminous makers of Wilson's producer plant. macadam; all classes concrete HORSEHA.Y. TA" Bridge, 1I0raehay;" T N 1[5 products, Doseley. T N's Dawley PRIVATE REBIDBlIlT8 Wellington 5 &. 150; TA" Basalts, Dawley" _, . . . Irunbridge &; Coalbrookdale Industrial Corbett Albt. Archbld. farmer,Manor (For T N.s see general hst of Private Co-operative Society Ltd. Poolside farm, Little Dawley Residents at end of book.) Machin CecilHarry,ForestersArms P.H Doseley Pipe Co. Ltd. Doseley. TA Cartwright Richard, Holly croft, Mainwaring Ethel Barbara (Mrs.), "Basalts, Dawlev i " Dawley 3152 Frame lane draper, Wellington rd Gwynne In. Rd. farmer, Stocking Gray Edgar Charles, Woodlands. New Coalmoor Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd. farm Perks Henry John, The Holhes, sanitary earthenware mfrs. Dawley J 0 H N S TON BROTHERS Si~r;s~; l1f~. Hy. The Cottage Pri: W. B. &; Sons, butchers, (CONTRACTORS) LTD. COIDIBRCIA.L Bridge rd manufacturers of all classes of . Shuker Geo. & Son, motor haulage roadmaking appliances; also road- Marked thus 0 farm 150 acres or over. contrctrs, Stanley ho. Dawley 238 stone chippings; tarmacadam; Ball Bessie (Mrs.), shopkpr. Poolside Tarr Geo. Wm. beer retlr. Station rd concrete products; road conatruc- Ball Nellie (Mrs.), shopkpr. Spring Ward Wm. Hy. statnr. & post Office. tion, Doseley. TA." Basalts, village Dawley 220 Dawley j " TN's Dawley 262 & 2153Bott Enos, shopkpr. Spring village Whittingham Harry, shopkpr. Sta- Morris Wm, Vaughan, smallholder, Collier' Jsph. Hy. shopkpr. Welling· tioD rd Bath farm ton rd Williams Howard Bickerton, g-rocer PowelI Harry, smallhldr. Lit. Dawley 0Corfield Edwd. farmer Woodhouse la. Dawley 239

DEUXHILL is a very small parish on the road from living is annexed with Glar.eley to the rectory of Chet- Bridgnorth to Bewdley and , 4~ miles ton and the inhabitants attend the church at Glar.eley. south-by-west from Bridgnorth station, Severn Valley R. W. B. Clutterbuck esq. and Mrs. L. Hewitt are the Ml'ction of the Great W"~tern railway. in the Ludlow principal landowners. The soil is clayey; the subsoil is division of the county, Bridgnorth rural district, petty similar. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. sessional division and county court district, rural The area is 493 acres; the population ill 1931 was 41. deanery of Bridgnorth, archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The church, a small but ancient Letters through Bridgnorth, nearest M. O. office; building of rubble stone, has been pulled down; the Billingsley is the nearest T. office

Marked thus 0 farm ISO acres or onr. °Harrison John, farmer, Hall farm °Hewitt Louisa (Mrs.), farmer, Church farm 152 MADELEY. SHROPSHfRE. [KELLY'S

Maddox Victor Cecil, shopkpr. 40 High st Pooler Ernest, butcher, 10 High street Madeley Wood Cold Blast Slag Co. Ltd. Blests hill. Pooler Neville, greengro. 6 Park av T N 21 Pope Henry, beer retailer, 77 Court street Madeley Wood Co. Ltd. colliery proprietors, Kemberton Pope Wm. Peter In. cycle agt. 72 Prince st. T N Iron- colliery &; Ha,Iesfield. TA." Iron, Kadeley, Salop; ,. bridge 2Yl T N Ironbridge 38 Pott.~ George, registrar &; high bailiff County Court, Marsden Alfd. farmer, Rough park High street Mason Wm. Jas. butcher, 44 Park st Preece In. Geo. boot repr. 42 Church st Melias Ltd. grocers, 63 Park st Price Eleanor (Mrs.), shopkpr. Prince st Midland Bank Ltd. (sub-branch) (open tues. &; fri. Pritchard Mary (Mrs.), confctnr. ']6 Court st 10.15 a.m, to I p.m.), High st.; draw on head office, Pugh Herbt. In. chief clerk to the County Court, High st Poultry, London E C 2 Randall Jessie Louisa (Miss), stationer, Post offioe, Millard 'rhos. shopkpr. IS Aqueduct Park avenue. T N Ironbridge 26 Mitchell Rt. Smith M.B., Ch.B.Edin. surgn. &; medical Roberts Clem, Hammer inn, 78 Park la officer .to Madeley No. I district, 39 Church st. T N Shaw Gertrude Mary (Miss), milliner, 13 High st Ironbndge II7 Shum A. G. Ltd. chemists, 9 Park av Moore F. L. & Go. grocers, 87 Court st. Ironbridge 148 Slatter Jas. Cuckoo Oak P.H. 18 Bridgnorth rd Moore Rt. N. grocer, 53 High st. T N Ironbridge 2Y3 Smith Charles George, fishmonger, 4 Court street Morgan Mary (Miss), confctnr. 34 High st Stead F. G. motor engnr. Ironbridge I'd. T N Iron- Morris Chas. butcher, I Aqueduct bridge 55 Morris In. AlIen, farm bailiff to E. W. James esq. Hay Stodd William &; Sons, ironmongers, 57 &; 58 Hillh farm. T N Ironbridge 89 street &; drapers, Park avenue Morris Jsph. beer retlr. 41 High st Taylor In. Arth. shopkpr. Beech I'd Neville Arth. Barley Mow P.H. 16 Court st °Taylor Norman In. farmer, Windmill farm, Bridg- Newbrook Herbt. confctnr. 23a, Church st north rd Newbrook Thos. Arth. nurseryman, 30 Church st Ward Arthur E. clothier, 40 Park street Oakes Nellie (Mrs.), shopkpr. Park av Ward Thos. boot dlr. 75 Park la Oliver Geo. beer retlr. 23 Church st West End Cinema Theatre, Park st Owen Enoch, grocer, 30 High st. T N Ironbridge 137 Whitehead F. H. beer retlr. 14 I'd Owen Frank (Mrs.), hall keeper &; librarian, Anstice Whittingham Arth. beer retlr. 73 Prince st institute, Park av Wilson Benj. Edwd. newsagt. 69 Park st Bros. farmers, Hill Top farm Wood Bernard W., L.D.S.B'ham, dental surgn. Plant Crimea, chimney sweeper, Bridle road (attends mon., wed. & fri.), High st Poole Geo. Edmnd. saddler, 74 High st COALPORT. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Heighway Fred, beer retlr.18 High st BruJf Chas. Clarke J.P. Coalport ho Gough Millicent (Miss), Brewery inn Nuway Manufacturing Co. Ltd. mat Cheadle Mrs. Ivy dale Green Mary (Miss), shopkpr mfrs. T N Ironbridge 87 Griffiths William Henry, Broomyoroft Griffiths Thomas (Thomas I. &; T. Preece Ann Mabel (Mrs.), shopkpr. Richards William, Rose cottage Griffiths, proprietors), timber mer- POllt office chant MAESBROOK UPPER & LOWER, see Kinnerley. MAESBURY, see .

MAINSTONE is a wide and thinly-populated parish Castle, joint net yearly value £501, including 5 acres and township, partly in Salop and partly in Mont- of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held gomeryshire, comprising the hamlets of Castlewright, since 1935 by the Rev. Harold John Smith M.A. of Edenhope, Knuck and Reilth, in the Ludlow dirision Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, hon. canon. of of the county, hundreds of and , Clun Manchester, rural dean of Stokesay and surrogate, rural district, Cln and Purslow petty sessional who resides at Bishop's Castle. The charities, of £5 division, county court district, rural rearly value, are distributed on Easter Monday. Here deanery of Stokesay, archdeaconry of Ludlow and IS a Methodist chapel, erected in 1892. Sydney Rankin diocese of Hereford. is south-west from the Heap esq, J.P. Montagu William Lowry-Corry esq. road from Bishop's Castle to Clun, 4! miles west-by- (who owns most of Edenhope), Sydney Wilson esq. south from Bishop's Castle railway station. From T. M. Wilding esq. and Mrs. A. M. Harris, are the Bishop's Moat (an ancient earthwork) a commanding chief landowners. The soil is chiefly loam; the subsoil view of the country for many miles round is obtained. is stone and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats OlIa's Dyke intersects the parish. The church of St. and barley. The area of the entire parish is 4,993 John the Baptist, built at an unknown date prior to acres; the population in 1931 was 155 in the civil and the Reformation, and rebuilt in the year 1887, is of the ecclesiastical parish, 250. situated in a narrow valley at the foot of ; Edenhope, I mile north, Knuck, adjoining Mainstone it is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, on the south, and Beilth,' half a mile south-east, are south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells. hamlets. The east stained window was erected in memory of Richard Sankey esq. d. 1871, and his brother John, Castlewright is a hamlet 2 miles north, in the parish d. 1890, by Susan Sankey, of Bishop's Castle, and of Mainstone, but in the county of Montgomery. there is also a window in memory of her son, d. 1903. The register dates from the year 1604. The living is Letters through Bishop's Castle, Salop, the nearest M. O. a rectory, annexed in 1935 to the vicarage of Bishop's &; T. office MAINSTONE. Jones Thos. farmer, Rolver °Venables Thos.Edwd.frmr.Hill End Marked thus * receive letters through Jones WiIliam, farmer, CwmlIrydd WeaTer Thos. smallholder Church Stoke, Montgomery. Lewis A. farmer, Upper Knuck & COMMERCIAL. SheItons EDENHOPE. Marked thus 0 farm ISO acres or over. *Lewis Thomas, farmer, Pantglas 0Richards Thos. & Austin, farmers Bayliss In. farmer, The Knuck Lloyd Edwd. smallhldr. Chapel ho °Davies John Castlewright, farmer Matthews Rd. farmer,Cwm Colebatch Edwards In. farmer, The Moat Morris Geo. blacksmith REILTH. Francis John, smallholder Morris In. wheelwright Marked thus 0 farm ISO acres or over. Gibson In. Hy. smallhldr. Hetfield Price Sidney Evan, smallholder, The Davies John, farmer, Reilth top *Gough Edward, farmer, Pantglas Ashes °Deakins Mrs. farmer, Reilth ho °Heap Sydney Rankin, frmr. Dolfawr °pugh Jnthn. Josiah, farmer, Main- 0Deakins Rd. E. farmer, Reilth farm °Hudson Geo. Martin, farmer, Main- stone farm Huffer Arth. farmer, Hen ho stone ho Price Andrew, farmer, The Vron MALINSLEE, or Dawley Nova, is a township, and of Wellington, Madeley county court district, rural was formed into an ecclesiastical parish July 28, 1843, deanery of Shifnal, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese from the parish of Dawley Magna, which township it of Lich1ield. The church of St. Leonard, erected in adjoins; it has a station on the Coalport branch of the 18°5, is an octagonal building of freestone in the Classic London, Midland and Scottish railway, and is 3 niiles style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an em- north from Madeley, 4 west from Shifnal, and 4 south- battled western tower containing 6 bells: four of the east from Wellington, in the Wrekin division of the windows are stained. The registers date from the year county, South Bradford hundred, petty sessional division 1835 for burials, 1837 for marriages and 1848 for bap- DIRECTORY. ] SHROPSHIRE. MARKET DRAY'rON. 153 tisms. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value f,391, land is divided. The soil is loamy; subsoil, gravelly. including about at acres of glebe; with residence, ID the The minerals are coal and ironstone. Population in gift of the vicar of Dawley Magna, and held since 1936 1931, 2,965. by the Rev. Thomas Norman Crowther-Green, of London College of Divinity. There are two Methodist chapels. Post &, Tel. Call Office. Letters through Wellington, Here are the remains of an ancient chapel, supposed to Salop. Oakengates nearest M. O. &, 1'. office have been connected with the Cluniac monastery of St. Post &; Tel. Call Office, Old Park. Letters through Milburga, at ; it is a plain rectangular Oaken~ates, Wellington, Salop. The nearest M. O. building of the rath century, of which the walls and a office IS at Dawley Bank &, T. office at Oakengates portion of the east window still remain. The charities are of about £13 yearly value. The ownership of the Railway Station CL.M. &; S) MALINSLEE. Jones Annie ){. (Mrs.), midwife, .54 Clemson Danl, shopkpr Marked thus * receive their letters Alma rd Crawford Adela (Mrs.), shopkpr. through Dawley, Wellington. Jones Hugh Clayton, farmer, The Forge row . Spout farm. Dawley 317 Icke Hy. shopkpr PRIVATB RESIDENTS. Payne &; Oo. shopkprs. &; post office. Jones Geo. Richmond, beer retlr Attwood Ernest, Malinslee hall T N Oakengates 35 Jones Thos. baker. Dawley 246 *Chilwell Percy Shuttlewood, Malins- Plant Cecilia (Mrs.), shopkpr. 22 Oakengates &; District Co-operative lee house Alma av Society Limited, grocers *Crowt.her-Green Rev. Thomas Nor- Plant Harriet (Mrs.), midwife, Onions Edith Mary (Mrs.), baker, k: man (vicar),St.Leonard's vicarage Dark la post office. Dawley 2J2 *Parry Rev. Edward, Yeates Ville *Rainford In. Arth. Russell, New Roden Frank, shopkpr Church Wickets P.H. Church rd Samuels Wm. butcher COMMERCUL. WiJlets Rd. farmer, Dark la Spragg Salome (Mrs.), shopkpr Attwood Bros. farmers, Malinslee hall Withington Herbt. shopkpr. Dark la 'l'onks Thos. undertaker Bowyer Lloyd, shopkpr, Alma av Watkiss Helena (Mr6.). shopkpr. *Darrall Geo. Arnold,omnibus propr. OLD PARK. Springfield pI St. Leonard/s rd COMlItERCllL. Watkiss In. Ernest, butcher Hulme Frank W. farmer, Malinslse Clements Jsph. Albt. wireless dlr. Watkiss Wm. Parsons, coal mer farm Plough la Willets Wm. smallholder }IARKET DRA.YTO~ is a parish and market town impropriator (the yearly value of the impropriated tithes and head of a county court district, situated on a hill being £785), and held since 1927 by the Rev. Wiltiam near the Tern stream and the , Benjamin Dowell Lee M.A., B.D., LL.D. of Trinity Col- with a station on the Great Western Railway Company's lege, Dublin, who is rural dean of and a surro- main line from London to Manchester, 173 miles by gate. The parish room was erected in 1907. Emmanuel rail and 154 by road from London, 19 north-east from church, in Bur~age street, erected in 1882,was a proprie- , 16 north from Wellington and 14 north- tary chapel until February, 1904,when it was consecrated west from Newcastle-under-Lyme; the London, Mid- and the living made a full benefice: it is an edifice of land and Scottish Railway Company's branch line from red brick, in a modern Gothic style, from designs by Mr. Stoke-upon-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Silverdale Bower, architect, and consists of chancel, nave, vestry, also forms a junction at the station. which is con- west porch and a low western turret containing one bell; veiliently situated a short distance from the town on in 1899a new vestry was added at the expense of J. Cecil the side; for civil parochial purposes it was Clay esq.: in 1891 a memorial window was erected to divided into four districts, viz. Market Drayton, Little Mr. and Mrs. Embrey, who built the church and left Drayton, the hamlets of Sutton, Betton, Woodseaves, money for its partial endowment: in 1900 new choir and Longslow, and the township of Tyrley, which latter stalls were erected, and in 1904 a stone font was pre- place is in the county of Stafford. By Local Govern- sented by the vicar: there are 320 sittings. The living ment Board Order dated 24th March. 1914, Drayton is a vicarage, net yearly value £280, with residence, in Magna and Drayton Parva were constituted an Urban the gift of the Church Pastoral Aid Society Patronage District, governed by a council of fifteen members. B)' Board, and held since 1928 by the Rev. WilIiam Cole, the same Order Betton was transferred for civil purposes of St. Aidan's and the Royal University of Ireland. The to Norton-in-Hales, Longslow to , and Roman Catholic church, in Great Hales street, dedicated Sutton and Woodseaves were formed into a new civil to SS. Thomas Aquinas and Stephen Harding, was parish named Sutton-upon-Tern. The old manorial cus- erected in 1886. The Methodist chapel, .in Frogmore toms still obtain. the fairs being proclaimed by the road, was built in 1867,and the Congregational chapel in steward of the manor, during which a court ofpiepoudre 1776; both will seat 300 persons. The cemetery, opened is held, to determine all disputes that may arise during in 1868, occupies 4 acres, 2 of which have been conse- the time of the fairs; the market was originally crated; two-thirds of the other portion of the ground, granted by King Henry the Third. The parish com- with the use of one of the two mortuary chapels, is prises the hamlets of Drayton Magna, Drayton Parva, reserved for Dissenters of all denominations; it is under Sutton, Betton, Woodseaves and Longslow, in Shrop- the control of a burial board of 9 members. The Town shire, and the township of Tyrley, in , in Hall, in Cheshire stret, built in 1897, will hold 500 the Oswestry division of the county, North or Drayton persons. There are manufactories of agricultural division of the hundred of Bradford, rural deanery of implements and a foundry in the town. The Fire Hodnet, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield; Brigade Station is at the Town Hall; there is a the town is lighted with gas by a company, formed in Morris fire tender and Dennis trailer pump, a port- 1862, from works at Market Drayton, rebuilt in 1889, able fire pump and a hose cart. The market for and also by electricity, from works in Great Hales fish and meat is in High street; the general market street belonging to a company formed in 1902; water is held on Wednesday, one for meat on Saturday and is supplied from springs at Burnt Wood and Cold Com- another for cheese every third Thursday. A large fort farm, Bloore Heath. The church of St. Mary is business is also done here in corn. The cattle market a 12th century building of stone in the Gothic style, adjoins the railway station, and the sales are held every consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled Wednesday. Fairs are held in the town on September western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 19th, October 24th and November 24th. The Butter Cross 8 bells, the 6 old bells having been re-hung and 2 is in Cheshire street. The charities amount to about £247 new ones added in 1887; in 1931 the bells were re-cast yearly, which sum is partly distributed in coals, bread and a new metal frame added: the west door is a and money, and partly appropriated to the apprenticing fine example of Norman work: the stained west of poor boys and the clothing of a number of poor men window, erected in 1901, is a memorial to Queen and women. Blore Heath, a short distance from the Victoria: there are other windows to the Corbet and town, was the scene during the Wars of the Roses of a Radford-Norcop families; in 1898 a rood screen was sanguinary encounter, September 23, 1459. between the put up: in 1884 the church was completely restored Yorkists and Lancastrians, in which the latter were at a cost of between £8,000 and £9,000; it was reseated defeated and their leader. Lord Audley, slain; a cross is in 1901: a reredos and altar were erected in 1912: a erected on the spot where he fell. The chief.landowners War Memorial chapel was opened in 1921: there are are Reginald Corbet esq, J.P. who is lord of the manor, 500 sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. John Radford-Norcop esq. J.P. the Earl of Powis (lord- The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £570, with lieut.) and Maj. A. E. C. Wilson. The land is nndula- residence, in the gift of Reginald Corbet esq. who is lay ting; soil, loam; subsoil, gravel and sandstone.. The