DIRECTORY. J STAFFORDSHIRE. LE~K. 249 LAPLEY with W'HEATON ASTON. LAPLEY is a village and parish, 4 miles west from Post Office, Lapley. Miss Alice Harper, sub-post­ Penkridge station and 3 north-west from Gailey station, mistress. Letters srrive from Stafford, via Stretton, both on the Birmingham and Stafford section of the Lon­ at 6.15 a.m. & 4.30 p.m.; dispatched at 7·45 p.m.; don and North Western railway, and 10! from Wolver­ no sunday delivery. Wbeaton Aston is the nearest hampton, in the Western division of the county, money order office & Stretton, 2 miles distant, the hundred of West Cottlestone, Penkridge petty ses­ nearest telegraph office sional division, Cannock union, Wolverhampton county court district, rural deanery of Penkridge, archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield. WHEATON ASTON is a large and populous village in The Birmingham and Liverpool Junction canal the parish of Lapley, from which it is It miles west. The passes through the parish. The church of All Saints'. Birmingham and Liverpool Junction canal passes on the originally cruciform, is a large edifice of stone, with some east side of the village, The chapel of ease here is a Norman portions, consisting of chancel, nave, and a cen­ building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of tral embattled tower containing a clock and 5 bells; the chancel, nave, transept, north aisle and a small western ehancel is divided from the nave by an oak screen: there turret with spire, containing a. clock and one be1l ; the is a memorial window to Mrs. Mary Rate, I 862 ; a tablet chapel was rebuilt in 1857 at a cost of £1,320 and re­ to the Rev. Sampson Webb, 38 years vicar of the parish, paired in I882 at a cost of .£Ioo: in 1893 a stone chancel d. I8o6, and Ann his wife, d. I82o, and a brass to Edmund was built fitted with a carved oak screen and choir staills, Mallett Vangbam, d. I882: in the chancel is the incised and the east window filled with stained glass at a. cost of ilffigy of a priest: the font is ancient: the church was £650 by George T. Hartley esq. in memory of his wife, repaired in I857, and affords sittings for 200 persons. who died August, IB92: there are 260 sittings. Here are 'The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a also Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. vicarage, net yearly value £220, including 24 acres of A reading-room was built by public subscription in 1887, t?lebe and residence, in the gift of the Rev. Arthur and is also used as a public institute. Wheaton Aston .John Wright, and held since 1909 by the Rev. Stewart Hall is the residence of George Thompson Hartley esq. Graham Craig M. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. D.L., J.P. Tbis village contains about two-thirds of the 'The -charities am()unt to £25 us. yearly, of which £Io population of theo whole parish. is applied to education and £5 goes to the vicar, the Ivetsey Bank, It miles south-west, is situated on the remainder being divided amongst the poor on Good Roman road known as Watling Street, which bounds thr Friday and St. Thomas' day. During the Civil War parish on the south for 2 miles. this place was fortified and Captain Smith, who com­ manded the garrison, is buried in the chancel (){ the Sexton, Dennis Blakemore. • church. Lapley Hall, now occupied by J. Cyril Beard Post, M. 0. & T. 0. & Telephone Call Office, Wheaton esq. was once a Benedictine priory, colonized from the Aston.-George Rhodes Mayland, sub-postmaster. Abbey of St. Remigius, at Rheims, to which it was given by Algar, Earl ()f Chester and Mercia, in the Letters from Stafford, via Stretton, arrive at 7·5 a.m. & 4.50 p.m. ; dispatched at 7·5 p.m.; no sunday reign of Edward the Confessor: Henry V. seized it as delivery ~n alien priory, and gave it to the college of Tong, in Shropshire, and it was granted with the Qtber posses­ Wall Letter Boxes, Ivetsey Bank, cleared at 6.30 p.m. & sions of that college to Sir Richard Manners in the Edgelands, 7·I5 p.m reign of Edward VI. John N eve esq. is lord of the Public Elementary School (mixed), Wheaton Aston, manor and George Thompson Hartley esq. D.L., J.P. of enlarged in I8g8 & again enlarged in 19II, for 16o Wheaton Aston Hall, Edward Smith esq. and Mrs. children; average attendance, 155; the school house Vaughan are the principal landowners. The soil is is a building in the Elizabethan style, erect~d in what is usually termed " strong soil," for wheat, oats IB53; Joseph William Swift, master and beans, and in some parts there is a good barley soil. The area is 3,422 acres of land and 20 of water; Carriers.-To Wolverhampton, Joseph Swift, Mrs.Harriet rateable value, _£6,2o8; the population of the parish in Weate, William Thomas & John Fletcher (& to New­ tgn was 788. port on friday), of Wheaton Aston LAPLEY. WHEATON ASTON. Kendrick Edward, farmer Beard James Cyril, Lapley hall Hartley George Thompson D.L., J.P. King&ton George, farmer Craig Rev. Stewart Graham M.A. Wheaton Aston hall Lee Henry, farmer, Mount Pleasant Mansell Wm. frmr.White Pumps frm (vicar), Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Jenkinson Miss Mason Charles, butcher & farmer Perry Henry Fras. The Old Manor bo Aldridge John, butcher Mayland George Rhodes, grocer, & Rogers Henry, Bickford grange A.ston George, farmer, Provident farm post office (postal address, Penkridge) Bagnall William, chimney sweep Miller John, farmer Shuker Waiter, Longnor hall (postal Blakemore Dennis, farmer Reading Room (Jsph. Wm. Swift,sec) address, Penkridge) Bould Joseph, farmer, Yew tree Riley Mary (Mrs.), farmer Tudor Major George H Bowdler J oseph, Hartley Arms P .H Sharp John, saddler Vaugban Mrs Brewster Bernard, farmer Sberwin John, grocer Burgess Waiter, Hare & Hounds P.H Smith J oseph. wheelwright Cartwright AliceMary(Miss) ,machinist Stokes Percy H. builder C0MM!£RCIAL. Child John, farmer, Gorsey hall Stokes Thomas, farmer, Hurst farm :Bayley John H. farmer Child Samuel, shopkeeper Swift Harriet (Miss), shopkeeper Holt Henry, farmer C'hurC'hill Thomas, butcher Swift Josepb, hay dealer & carrier ldiens John Edwin, farmer, Longnor Eccleshall William, builder Taylor John, blacksmith .Jones Edwin, Vaughan Arms P.H Equitable Pioneers'Co-operative Indus­ Taylor William, farmer Kingston John, farmer, Bowling trial Society Ltd. (Benjamin Blake­ Thomas William, carrier Green farm more, sec. ; Mrs. Elizabeth Blox­ Tomlinson Wm. farmer, Brook farm Leek William, farmer ham, manageress) Venables George, cowkeeper Rogers Henry, farmer,Bickford grange Evans W alter Lees, farmer Wallis James, farmer (postal address, Penkridge) Fletcher John, carrier Ward John, shoe maker Shuker Waiter, farmer, Longnor hall Hartell George, baker W eate Abrabam, cowkeeper (postal address, Penkridge) Holland Frederick, butcher & farmer Wea.te George, cowkeeper Tonkinson Joseph, farmer, The Burst Hoskins William, wheelwright Weate Isaac, cowkeeper Worsey Chas. Pateman, farmer Ireland Edmund, Coach & Horses P.H W eate Harriet (Mrs.), carrier Jones Henry, carpenter, Ivetsey Bank Wright Thomas, cowkeeper LEA:MORE, see Bloxwich. LEEK WITH LOWE AND TITTESWORTH. LEEK is a market and union town, parish, and bead of from Manchester, and 152 from London; in the Leek a petty sessional division and county court district, with a division of the county, hundred of Totmonslow North, 1tation on the North Staffordshire railway, 10 miles north­ rural deanery of Leek, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and east-by-east from Burslem, 10 south-west of Longnor, diocese of Lichfield. The town, which ~;~tands on the sum­ I3l south east of Macclesfield, ro! north from Cheadle, 31 mit and declivities of a delightful eminence above the .