104 HOPTON WAFRE. . [ KELLY'S stood here since 1604. It is surrounded l)y park-like Wall Letter Box, at Hopton Bank, cleared at 4.30 p.m. grounds of 3,000 acres, wh.ich was laid out and planted week days only in 1803 by the late Thomas Botfield esq. 'fhe soil is clay; subsoil, rock. The chief crops are wheat. The Public Elementary Church School (mixed &; infants), area is 1,574 acres; rateable value, .l1,447; the papula- built with residence for master in 1872 &; enlarged in tion in 1891 was 415. 18go, for 100 children; aveil'age attendance, 62; with Parish Clerk, Joseph Henry Reader. an annual endowment of £lg 14s. arising from [0400 Sexton, John Dawson. left by Mrs. Lucy Botfield, by will, dated 1852, &; Post, M. O. 0., S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.- the interest of £1,000 left by Thomas Botfield esq. Edwin Caldwell, SUb-postmaster. Letters through Cleo- 1836, which is divided equally between Hopton Corley bury Mortimer S.O. arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched at &; Farlow schools; J oseph Henry Reader, master; Mrs. 5.5 p.m.; no sunday delivery. MoTtitn:et'-is Kate Reader, mistress; Miss Margaret Reader, infants' fl.- --tele-gmplulffi~ t t' m!i~ress Payton Rev. James RA. Rectory hradiford James, "blacksmith Edwards Hro-bert, farmer &; tax col- Skill Charles, Manor house Breakwell Alfred, mason lector &; assessor, Shote Woodwarrd Rear-Admiral Robert C.R Caldwell Edwin, grocer, tea dealer, Haines Eliza (M,rs.),Minel's' Arms P.B (retired), Hopton court provision mel'chant, &; post office, Hinton Edwin, shoe maker The Stores Hinton George, shoe maker COMMERCIAL. Carloss Sarah (Mrs.),cowkpr.Glass ho HGrton Samuel, farmer, Down faTIll. Andrews Edwin, carpenter Crowe Henry, farmer, Stocking &; Stinton ~orge, farmer, Hopton bank Baldwm ReM. farmer, StGCkhall lane Rectory farms Whitehead Saml. Crown P.H.&; farmr Barrett Thomas, farmer, Hillocks Edwards Richard, farmer, Sproseley Woodhouse Charles, beer retailer HORDLEY is a parish, village and township, 3 miles £220, net yearly value £208, including 27 acres of glebe, south-wellt from Ellesmere, 8 east from and 3 with residence, in the gift of the representatives of the south from Rednal station on the Great Western rail- late J. R. Kenyon esq. and held since 1895 by the Rev. way, in the Western division of the county, Ellesmere Loftus Meade Owen B.A. of Corpus Christi college, division of Pinhill hundred, Ellesmere union and petty Oxford. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Bag­ sessional division, Oswestry county court district, rural ley. A farmhouse near the church incorporates the deanery of Ellesmere, archdeaconry; of Salop and diocese remains of the old Hordley Hall, a seat of the ancient of Lichfield. The and the Weston and Elles- family of Kynaston. The Rev. WaIter Charles Edward mere canal form the western and eastern boundaries Kynaston M.A., J.P. of Hardwick Hall, who is lord of respectively of the parish. The church of St. ~rary the the manor, T. J. Provis, of , Richard Gough, Virgin is a. plain but ancient ,building of stone, in the and Rolbert Lewis esq. of Ellesmere, are the principal Early Gothic style, consisting of nave, south porch a.nd landowners. The soil is a mixture of sand and gravel, a small western turret containing 2 bells; there are loam and peat; subsoil, sand and gravel. The chief tablets to Jlohn Kynaston esq. of Hardwick, d. 12 Sept. crops are 'grass, cereals, roots, wheat and barley. The 1733, Sir John Kynaston Powell bart. d. 25 Oct. 1822, parish, which .includes the townShip of Bagley, contains and Mary Elizalbeth (Corbet), his wife; the stained east 2,532 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable value, window as a memorial to the wife Df the late rector, the £3,797; the population in 1891 was 287. Rev. John WaIter Moore M.A. who died 1 Aug. 1836; the Bagley is a village and township, 2! miles south-east church was restored in 1880 at a cost of between £800 from Hordley and £goo, when it was new roofed and a turret Parish Clerk, WaIter Edward Tomlinson. porch and vestry added, and Q handsome marble Wall Letter Box, Bagley, cleared at 4.40 p.m.; no sun- reredos erected: there are two canvas tablets in com- day collection memoration of the Oureton family, with the var.ious Letters received through Ellesmere by messenger, arrive dates of the deceased memlbers from 1793 to 1826. In at 8 a.m.; returning at 4.40 p.m. The nearest money the vestry is preserved the sounding board,now converted order &; telegraph office is at Ellesmere into a handsome table. The churchyard was enlarged in National School (mixed), Sycamore Tree, Lower Hord- 1858 and 1885. The register dates from the year ley, built with residence in 1884, for 100 children; 1686. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge average attendance, 55; Miss Louisa Bowdler, mistrelis JIlORDLEY. B.A!GLEY. Kynaston WilIiam, cowkeeper Owen Rev: Loftus ,Meade RA.Rectory Lea Joseph, farmer Bebb David, farmer, Church house COMMERCIAL. Lea William, farrmer, Park house Boyling WilIiam, farmer Austin Joseph, cowkeeper Paddock Thos. farmer, Bromley green Butler William, farmer Brown Samuel, cowkeeper Peel John, cowkeeper Carsley Walter,blcksmth.Low.Hordley Cheshire John, blacksmith Peel Joseph, cowkeeper Cureton William Henry, farmer, Davies Samuel, assistant overseer &; Peel J oseph, cowkeeper Hordley hall tax collector Powell William, farmer, Shade oak Morgan William, miller (steam) & Dickin Hannah (Mrs.), cowkeeper Rogers William, Bromley house threshing moohine proprietor,Lower Dickin J oseph, cowkeeper RobeTts Edwa.rd, cowkeeper Hordley Dickin Wm. Hy. farmer, Oaks farm Roberts John, farmer Pearce Wm. Hy. farmer, Dandyford Evans George, cowkeeper Rogers Henry, farmer Reynolds Francis Ed'Ward, farmer, Hampson John, cottager Thomas George, bricklayer Lower Hordley Higgins Sarah (Mrs.),FoxP.H.&sohpkpr Tomlinson Waiter Edwd. wheelwright Richard1S Arthur, cowkeeper Riggins William, cowkeeper Woodlville John, farmer, Bagley hall Woodville Thomas farmer,The Grange Jacb John, brmeT lIUGHLEY is a township, parish and village, I! miles charities amount only to 12S. 6d. yearly, charged on an west from Presthope station on the Wenlock and Craven estate in the parish of Oardington, left in 1723 by the Arms branch of the Great Western railway, II south-east Rev. Jacob Littleford. The Earl of Bradford is lord of from Shrewsbury, and 4 south-west from , the manor and owner of all the land except in the glebe. in the Southern division of the county, Cound dIvision of The" Major's Leap," near Blakeway farm, in this neigh. Oondover hundred, Dorrington petty sessional division, bourhood, is so named from the tradition that l1 soldier union of Atcham, Shrewsbury county court district, of the Commonwealth-Major Smallman, of Wilderhope, rural deanery of Wenlock, archdeaconry of and near Lutwyche being pursued by a party a-f Royalists, diocese of Hro-eford. The church of St. John the Baptist, probably after the batt.le of BridgnoTth illl 1646, rode to is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, the top of the edge and leaped from a rock near Blakeway consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western farm, across the chasm and so escaped. Ippikin's Rock, turret containing 4 bells, dated 17°1; the original rood at Wenlock Edge, is reputed to have been the haunt of a screen of beautifully carved oak still remains and also 6 famous robber of this name, who lived in a cave near the carved oak pulpit and an ancient altar stone marked with summit and very difficult of access, where he was nlti­ five consecration crosses; in the east and west windows mately slain. The soil generally is of a clayey nat.ure. are some fragments of 15th century stained giass; a The crops are the usual cereals. The area is 1,105 acres; clock was given by the patron in 1893 at a rateable value, £838; the papulation .in 1891 was 72. cost of £75. The church affords 120 sittings. Parish Clerk Thomas Taylor. The register dates from the year 1576. The living is 8' . rectory, average tithe rent-charge £74, gross yearly Letter Box cleared at 4 p.m. Letters receIved by foot value £125, net £lOg, including 88 acres of g-lebe "ith post from Cressage through Sb;rewsbury. The nearest residence, in the gift of the Earl of Bradford, and held money order &; telegraph office IS at Much Wenlock since 1894 by the Rev. Edward Collett M.A. of St. Mary The children of this place attend the school at Church Hall, Oxford, who is also vicar of Church Preen. The Preen