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130 KNILL. . [KELLY'S

Henry Channer, is the property of Sir John · Scarlett Letters through Kington. W alton, Radnorshire, is the -n'alsham hart. who is lord of the manor and entire nearest tPlegraph office, z~ miles distant owner of the parish, with the exception of a few acres : Wall Letter Box cleared at 9·35 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. week he h th~ lineal descendant and heir of Sir John de Knill knl. lord of Knill in the 12th century. The soil is days only loamy; subsoil, stony. The chief crops are wheat, Public Elementary School (mixed), rebuilt in 1875, for barley, turnips, and a considerable· quantity of pasture. 40 children; average attendance, 20; Miss Henrietta The area is 812 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable Olifton, mistress valuP., £832; population in 19!I, 47· Ohanner Lt.-Col. Osborne Henry, Scott Rev. Montague B.A. (rector), Davies David Wm. farmer, Knill frm Knill court The Rectory LAYSTERS is a parish near the road from pla>Ce. The charities are of £37 ros. yearly value. Mrs. to Tenbury and on the Worcestershire border of the Lort and the trustees of the late C. D. Andrews esq. county, 4~ miles from Fencote station on the Leominster ' are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, and section of the Great Western railway, clay and marl, except where the rock, which is tile~ about 5 miles south-east from Ea;ston Oourt station on stone and cornstone, crops ·out at the surface. The the Tenbury and Bewdley branch of the Great ·western chief crops are wheat, beans, . oats, hops and ap·ples. oo.Hway, about 5 south-e'a,Sit from Woo:fferton, 6 north- The area is 1,995 acres; rateable value, £r•775; the east from Leominster and 4~ south-west from Tenbury, population in I9II was 177 in the civil and r67 in the in the Northern division of the county, W olphy hundred, ecclesiastical parish. Leominster union, petty s"essional division and county Woontun hamlet is at the ,south-western extremity of court district, west division of the rural deanery of Bur- the parish, ~~ miles from the church. ford, archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of . Pariill Clerk, James Stead. The church of St . .Andrew is an ancient building of stone Post Office, Laysters Pole.-Miss Jane Stubbs, sub-post- in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, south mistress. Letters through Tenbury arrive at 9.50 porch and a western tower containing 3 bells: the east a.m. & 4 p.m. Tenbury is the nearest money order and south windows are stained. The register dates from & telegraph office. Box cleared p.m the year 1703. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value 4 £ 2 'Jo, including go aGres of glebe, with residence, in the Public Elementary School (mixed), built about I86g, gift of F. E. Pre,soot1t esq. of Bockleton Court, and held with master's house, & rebuilt in 1898, for 6o children; since 1886 by t.he Rev. Arrf:ihur Hawkins M. A. of St. average attendance, 39; Horace Bale, master; Mrs . .John's CoLlege, Oambridge. The We's,leyan chapel wa.s Bale, mistress erected in r885. Near to the Church is a mound, or Carriers to Leominster from Laysters Pole, see Middle­ tumulus, which appears to have been an ancient burial ton-on-tJle-Hill Ohattock Edward Spencer, Rosedale Bullock John, farmer, Cinders wood Howells Jn. frmr. Great Heath lfarm Harrington Miss, Church house Colley Samuel, farmer, Woonton crt Jay John, farmer, Woonton Hawkins Rev. Arthur M . .A. Vicarage Davies William, farmer, Wilden Mercer Robert, farmer, Laysters COMMERCIAL. Gittins Edwd. farmer & hop grower, Lodge farm Banks Ernest Robert, farmer, Ghorst Laysters farm Small Arthur John, farmer, Cinde,rs farm Harrington Sarah Jane (Miss),farmer Staples William, farmer, Rosedale Brooks Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, The & hop grower, Church house Stubbs .Tane (Miss), grocer, Post Laurels Horsnett Henry, farmer, Pound farm office, Laysters, Pole LEA is a and village on the Ros,s and Glou- acr~s of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of ,cester road, on the Gloucestershire border, 4! miles south- :Cinton. and held since 1899 by the Rtw. Charles Lewis east frnm Ross, 12 north-west from Gloucester, 18! from Cater Buee M.A. of Downing College, Cambridge. The Hereford, in the Southern division of the county, St. charities are now (1913) of £7 yearly value, arising Briavel's (Gloucestershire) hundred, Ross county court from two house.s left in 1675 by Mr. Thomas Nourse. district, union and petty sessional division, rural deanery Maynard Willoughby Colchester-Wemyss esq. of West~ of The Forest (north) and archdeaconry and diocese of bury Court, Newnham-on-Severn, is lord of the manor Gloucester. Part of Lea was in Gloucestershire until and chief landowner. The soil is red sandy loam; sub- 1844, and the township was divided into L~>a Hereford soil, marl and rock. The chief crops are wheat and and Lea Gloucester, but by the Acts 7 and 8 Vie. cap. roo~s. The area is 793 acres; rateable value, £2,oo9; 6I, and 2 and 3 Wm. IV. cap. 64, it was added to Here~ the population in I9II was 203 in the civil and 276 fordshire for all civil purposes. In 1910 a portion of in the ecclesiastical parish. Holy Trinity parish, East Dean, was transferred to Lea Sexton, Harry Rudge. for ecclesiastical purposes. Mitcheldean Road station Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Ernest Christopher, sub-post- on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester section of the Great master. Office hours, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Letters from Western railway, 128 miles from London, is in this R:>'!s arrive at 7 a.m. & 2 p.m.; dispatched at 8.30 parish. The church of St. John the Bay.ti'lt is a build- a.m. & 3.5o & 6.20 p.m. ; no delivery on sunday ing of old t-ed sand~tone, in the Transition Norman Wall Letter Boxes.-Castle end, cleared at 8.35 a.m. & style, con sting of chancel, nave of three bays, north 5·55 p.m. week days only; Mitcheldean station, aisle', north porch and a western tower with spire con- cleared 8.10 a.m. & 6.10 p.m. week days only taining 3 bells: the east window is stained, and there Public Elementary School (mixed), with house . for is an ancient church chest : the chu,ch was restorf'd mistress, for 66 children; average attendance 66 ; in 1854, at a cost of £P.oo, and has 170 sitting-s. The :\frs. Edkins, mistress Tegister dates from the year 158r. The living is a Railway Station (Mitcheldean Road), William Albert perpetual curacy, net yearly value £n8. including 2 Mace, station master Buee Rev. Charles Lewis Cater M . .A. Chinn William,farmer & asst. overseer Evans Arth. Geo. farmer, Oastle end Rectory Christopher Ernest, shoeing & general Gooch George, farmer, Lea line Oarrodus Bernhard Molique, Castle smith & agricultural implement Gou1ding Samuel, farmer, Rock farm end rPp'lirer, Post office Hatton Alfred, Crown inn Comyn Mrs. Reedhay D<>w Rorlerick, farmer, New house Hawker James, Railway inn Terrett Mrs. Hunters hall Dowding Cornelius, farmer Jones George, farmer Yemm Charles, West Lea Dowding Thomas, frmr.The Moors fm Little Thomas, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Edkins James Samuel, watch re- Scudamore Rd. farmer, Bay Tree frm Bennett William, farmer, Carnage pairer, The School house Vizor Aaron, farmer, Blythe field LEDBUllY LEDBUR¥ is a markPt and union town, head of a count,· is the junction of the line to Gloucester. The town is on court rli,;trict and parish, on the road frum Hereforri tn the eastern side of the county, at the southern extremity of Tewlle!lbury, 14! miles east-by-south from Hereford, r6 the Malvern Hills, and stands on a declivity near the foot from Gloucester, r6 from Worcester and I 18 hum London of Dog Hill; it consists of two principal streets, running by road, m the Southern division of the county, Radlow north anrl south and intersected bv• smaller streets at hundred, rural defmery of Ledhury, and archdeaconry and right angles, and still retains many of the old-fashioned . The place derives its name from houses of brirk and timber, with projecting storeys. the river Leadon, which intersects the parish. The The stref't8 are hghted• with gas by a • company from Woree:.;ter and Herpford section of the G•'eat Western works in New street, and supplied with water from a railway passes through tbl'l town on the north side, and it reservoir south-east of the town, fed by springs.