DIRECT• IRV. J . WBIXALL. 309.

Whittington, the central township, in which the . dist chapel, also built in r88o, will seat ·lOO p&I\Wns. village lies, contains 3,631 acres. The ancient name of Mrs. Swann and Capt. J. H. Lovett D.L., J.P. a.re the Whittington was Tre-Wen, the Welsh for White Town; :principal landowners. it is called "Wititone" in Domesday Book; in a i Wall Letter Box cloored 5.45 p.m. week days only Norman MS. in the British Museum, of the 13th or I • • • r 4th century, it is "Blanche Ville." In the hamlet of j H.A.LSTO_N, formerly an. e_xtra-paroch1al p~r1sh, xs Babbin's Wood (Miles End), half a mile south-east, I about r mile east from Whittmgton and 3t miles east~ which belongs to Whittington township, is a Wesleyan by-north from and 4! west from Ellesmere. chapel, erected in r863 and a Primitive Methodist / Halston Hall, the seat of Mrs. Swann, sole landowner. chapel, built in 1 855· ' I is a _large an~ handsome mansion. of brick, with a stone Bergh ill is a small hamlet z~ milea south-east from I portico, and Is pleas~ntly. seated m a park of 2.00 acres, Whittington. Mrs. Swann, of Halston, is solP land- 1 the entrance to wh1ch 1s on the road leadmg from owner. Oswestry to Ellesmere; the grounds are well laid out and planted. The passes through the park DAYWELL is a hamlet 2~ miles north from Oswestry and forms a handsome lake therein. The private chapel, and r west from station on the in the park, is a small but interesting sbructure of brick and section of the Great Western railway. In and timber, in mixed styles, with a western tower con­ I853 the township of Daywell was assigned, for eccle- taining one bell, dated 1 678, and contains a Norman siastical purposes, to the district of St. Barnabas, Hen- font: the chapel is now used for the regular services goed-cum-Gobowen. The trustees of Thomas Maitland of the Church of The soil is clay; subsoil, Lovett esq. who is a minor, and Major-Gen. Sir John varies from loam, sand and clay. The chief crops are Gatacre K.C.B. of 33 Bury street, St. James', barley and wheat. The area is 700 acres. This plaee, SW, are the landowners. The area is 1,376 acres. which had a population in rgu of rg, is reputed to EBN.A.L is a hamlet 4 miles north-north-east from be extra-parochial for ecclesiastical purposes. Oswestry and xi north-east from Gobowen station, and Frankton has been formed into an ecclesiastical contains 744 acres. The trustees of Thomas Maitland parish and is given under the head of Frankton. Lovett esq. who is a minor, and Thomas Carew TrolJope esq. of Crowcombe Court, Taunton, , are the Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Whittington.-Edward Enwyl principal landowners. At Rhewl, in this township, is Jones, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Oswestry a chapel of ease, erected on a site given by the late at 7 a.m. & 3·5° p.m. ; dispa~hed thereto at 9-.IS Col. T. H. Lovett J.P. ; it is an edifice of brick with a.m. & 7-45 p.m.; sundays, arnve at 7·35 a.m.; d1s~ stone facings in the Early English style, consisting patched at 6 p.m of chancel, nave and a north transept, added in r87o; 1 Wall Letter Box cleared at 7·4° p.m. week days; sun- service is held on Sundays alternately in the morning . days, 7·4° p.m. and afternoon; since r8g6 it has been ecclesiastically Pillar Box, outside Great Western Railway station, attached to St. Ba.rnabas, Hen~oed, and the services cleared at 9·15 a.m. & 7·45 p.m. daily; sundays, are conducted by the Rev. George Owen Browne M.A. 7-45 p.m vicar of St. Barnabas. Public Elementary Sc'hool (mixed), erected, with ma!!ter's residence, in x853, at a cost of £950, for 230 Fernhill is a small hamlet, r mile north from Whit.­ children ; average attendance, 16o; it has an endQw­ tington. Capt. John Henniker Lovett D.L., J.P. is sole landowner. The river Perry :flows through this town­ ment of £55 yearly; Edward George Cleugh, master; ship, which contains 274 acres. Jonathan Morgan, assistant master; in 1895 the infants' class~room was enlarged Henlle (pronounced Henthley) is a small hamlet, ri The school is controlled by the Shropshire Education miles north-east from Whittington, containing 386 Authority acres. Capt. J. H. Lovett D.L., J.P. is the landowner. Railway Stations. HINDFORD is a small hamlet, rlt miles north-east Great Western, Thomas Henry Lewis, station master from Whittington, containing 234 acres. The church Cambrian, John Jones, station master mission room here, an iron structure, built m r88o, will hold 70 persons. The Hephzibah Primitive Metho- Carrier to Oswestry--George Charles, wed. & ea.t WIDTTINGTON. Fiddian Emma (Miss), apartments, Wainwright Thomas Minett, farmer For other places & names in this Western view Williams Richd. farmer, Drenewydd parish, see Hengoed-cum-Gobowen. Fitzgerald Richd. Stephen, boot repr Windsor Wm. farmer, Babbin's wood Forrest George, head gardener to .A.. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. W. Corrie esq BERGffiLL. Bathe Misses, Oakville Griffi.ths John, estate carpenter to Evans Robert H. farmer Cook Edwin, Grove house Mrs. Swann Groom Alfred, head gamekeeper to Corrie Alfred Wynne J.P. Park hall Hallsworth S. & Co. maltsters Mrs. Swann Edmonds Rev. Edward Pell M . .A.. Humphreys Mary (Mrs.),frmr.Evenall H umphreys Edward Whitfi.eld,farmer, (Rectory) Huxley William, butcher Perry Elson Robert, Church house lkin Jas. Hy. farmer, Park Hall farm Morgan Joseph George, jun. farmer Francis Mrs. Fitzwarren house .Tackson Frank, beer retailer Griffiths Robert, The Lodge J ones Bros. farmers, Perry moor FERNHILL. Last William, The Laurels Jones William & Son (Maltsters) Ltd. Lovett Capt. John Henniker D.L., J.P. Lewis Rev. Edward Scnlthorpe M.A. maltsters Fernhill hall (curate), Western view Jones Edward .A.nwyl, grocer, Post off Morgan J'oseph George, sen. farmer, Lloyd Wilham, Penybryn Jones John Richardson, farmer, Great Fernhill Matthews George, Pl

WHIXALL is a parish and township, three-quarters~ Shrewsbury and Crewe branch of the London and North of a mile west from the Shrewsbury and Whitchurch Western railway, 4! north from W em, 14 north from road, 2~ miles north-west from station on the Shrewsbury, and 6 south from Whitcburch, in the