394: SCROPTOY. . [KELLY'B of Scropton. The parish feast is on the nearest Sunday FOSTON is 1! miles north from Scropton. Poston to St. Paul's day. The soil is light loam; subsoil, Hall, the property of Gerald Holbech Hardy esq. J.P. gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, clover, man­ lord of the manor and principal landowner, is pleasant!] golds and turnips. The area is 2,821 acres of land! and situated here. 29 of water; rateable value, £9,099; the population Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Foston.-Mrs. Elizabeth Bridge­ in 1901 was 514 in the civil and 533 in the ecclesiastical water, sub-postmistress. Letters through arrive parish. at 5·35 a.m. & 4·5 p.m. (to callers); dispatched po Parish Clerk, Jacob Hancock. p.m.; also sunday, 7.20 p.m Post Office, Scropton. John Wilfred Hollis, sub-post­ Public Elementary School, erected in 1856, for 6o boys a; master. Letters through Derby arrive 7.30 a.m.; dis­ girls & 30 infants; average attendance, 55 boy& k patched 6.30 p.m.; no sunday delivery. Foston is girls & 24 infants; John Henry Richards, master; the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles Mrs. Richards, mistress distant SCROPTON. Ship ton John, rate collector & cor- A.ppleyard J oseph, gamekeeper to Archer Mrs. Stanley house respondent to the school managers G. H. Hardy esq. J.P Strutt Miss, Sunnyside Shipton J osepb, farmer Bentley Thomas, farmer Shipton Robert, farmer Bridgewater Elizabeth (Mrs.), shop­ Shipton William, carter keeper, Post office COMMERCIAL. Stanley Annie (Miss), shopkeeper Foster Joseph, farmer Archer John, farmer Sutton Mathew Henry, farmer Frith William, gardener to G. B. Archer William, coal merchant Hardy t~sq. J.P Beck Thomas, farmer FOSTON. Harrison Sarah (Mrs.) & Sons, Bullock Waiter B. farmer Archer Thomas, Hatton lodge farmers, The Oaklands Clarke J oseph, farmer Caldecott Edwin, The Firs Harvey Gilbert. farmer Fisher George, farmer Hardy Gerald HolbechJ.P.Foston hall Hewson Henry, stud groom to G. ll. Harrison Henry, farmer Johnson James G&rald Thewlis, 'fhe Hardy esq. J.P Harrison Thomas, farmer Cottage Hollis John, blacksmith J ohnson John, farmer Penley Rev. Warwick Stretton B.A. Nash Waiter, miller (water) Lygo Charles, Foresters' Arms P.H (vicar) Prince John ( exors. of), farmers Newton Henry, :liarmer Sutton Richard, farmer Roe Thomas, farmer, The Firs COMMERCIAL. Tunstall Stephen James, farmer Shaw Arthur, farmer, Heath farm Allsop Henry J. farmer W oolley Richard, cow keeper SHARDLOW with GREAT WILNE. SHARDLOW is a parish and head of a union, on bhe ceived from Derby at S a.m.; dispatched a~ 1.15 ~ borders of Leicestershire, I~ miles north from Castle 7·45 p.m. & sundays 5.40 p.m Donington and Shardlow station on the Trent and Mel­ Wall Letter Boxes.-Near the Aston road, cleared a\ bourne branch, 2! south-west from Draycott station on 12.50 & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 5·45 p.m.; London road. the Trent and Derby branch, 4! east from Trent Junction cleared at 12.50 & 7·48 p.m.; sundays, 5·52 p.m on the main line of the Midland railway and 7 south-east from Derby, in the Southern division of the county, SHARDLOW RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Derby petty sessional The District comprises the Derbyshire parishes in the division and county court district, rural deanery of Mel· Union. The area is 42,010 acres; the population in bourne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. rgn was 30,904 The Trent and Mersey canal runs through and joins the Council meets at the Workhouse, Shardlow. on mon· , about half a mile below the village, having on days, monthly at 12. its banks and branches various coal and timber wharfs. Chairman, R. Doncaster, Sandiacre CavandiSih bnidge, of three arC'hes, over lthe Trent, erected in 1771 ·at a cost of £3,333, is about a quarter of a mdle Officials. from this village. The parish is supplied with gas by the Clerk, James William Newbold, Poor Law offices, BeckM Draycott Gas Co. The church of St. James, erected in street, Derby 1838, is a building of stone in the Early Perpendicular Treasurer, Frederick W. Greaves, Parr's Bank, Derby style, consisting of chancel and nave, north and south Medical Officer of Health, John A. Hogg M.R.C.S.Eng). porches and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, L.R.C.P.Lond. Shardlow oonlta.ining a clock with chimes and 6 beil1s; the chancel Highway Surveyor, J. S. Wooddisse, Aston-on-Trenl, windows and one each side of the nave are stained: there near Derby are 500 sitting~S. The register dates from bhe year 1B39. Sanitary Surveyor, Henry Forman, The living is a rectory, net yearly value £250, including Inspector of Nuisances, F. G. Forman, Chellaston 85 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Edward sa., Sutton esq. and held since 1896 by the Rev. Robert SHARDLOW UNION. Lethbridge Farmer, of St. A.idan's, and chaplain of Board day, monday, fortnightly,at. the union, at 10 a.m. Shardlow union. There is a Wesleyan chapel here, built The union comprises the following places: In Derby· in 1829, with 200 sittings. Soresby's charity of about shire :-.Alvaston & Boulton, & , Aston­ £13 is distributed to the poor by the rector and upon-Trent, Barrow-upon-Trent, Breadsall, Breaston, churchwardens, and Fosbrooke and Burgin's charity of Chaddesden, Chellaston, Dale A.bbey, Derby Hills, £8 yearly by the trustees. Here is an extensive brewery Draycott & Church Wilne, Eaton (Little), Eaton and malthouses, worked by Messrs. Z. Smith and Co. (Long), Elvaston, Hallam (West), Hopwell, Kirk. Limited. Shardlow Hall, the property of Edward Hallam, Littleover, Melbourne, Normanton, Ock· Sutton €sq. of Maxey House, Market Deeping, is a brook, Risley, Sandiacre, Sawley with Wilsthorpe, mansion of stone, erected in r684, and at present (1912) Shardlow with Far or Great Wilne, Sinfin Moor, unoccupied. Shardlow House, also the property of Spondon, Stanley, Stanton-by-Bridge, Stanton-bji Edward Sutton esq. and tenanted by Mr. John Poyser, I Dale, & W eston-upon-Trent. Ill ~as erected in 1726, as appears by the quaint leaden Leicestershire :-Breedon-on-the-Hill, Castle Doningl. water pipes bearin!! grotesque castings of birds and ton, Diseworth, Hemington, Isley Walton, Kegwortlr. other animals. William Dickson Winterbottom esq. of Langley Priory & Lockington. In Notts :-Bramcote• Aston Hall. who is lord of the manor, the Misses Chilwell, Kingston-up on -Soar, Ratcliffe- upon -So&l\ Dickinson, Edward Sutton esq. and the Earl of Barring­ Stapleford & Toton. The population of the union in ton are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy ; 19u was 68,338 ; arc3, 71,265 acres; rateable value m subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are oats, wheat, barley 1911, £391,423, viz. :-Derbyshire, £293,338; Leicesteffo and pasture land. The area is 1,173 acres of land and shire, £37,493 & Notts, £6o,og2 31 <1f wat-er; rateable value, £4,461; the population in Chairman of the Board of Guardians, William Pl 1901, including Great Wilne, was 948. In 1912 there Bennett, Sawley were 1 r officers and 16o inmates at the workhouse. Clerk to Guardians & Assessment Committee, Jamet GREAT or FAR WILNE is a small village, through Wm. Newbold, Poor Law offices, Becket street, Derb1 which the river Derwent passes and afterwards joins A-ssistant Clerk, H. Newton Bancroft, Poor Law ()jiCeS, the- Trent. Here is a United Metho