.OIRBOTORY .] HER~:FORDSHIRE. SHOBDuN. 185

manufacture with the initials of Richard &uda­ main road from to Ross, is built on the site more, 1631: the l.'hurch was enlarged in 1841 and re­ of an ancient mansion. Mis·s Svmonds,• Edward Caddick seated in 1883, and affords 253 sittings. The register esq. uf Edgbaston, Birmingham and the Governors of dates from the year 1566. Near the church porch, on Guy's Hospital are principal landed proprietors. The the south side, stands an ancient stone cross of the soil is sandy loam; subsoil, red sandstone. The chief Early English period, with a square base and octagonal crops are oats, barley, mangold and wheat. The soil is steps and shaft, the total height being about 15 feet. extremely fertile. The area is 2,010 acres of land and The Jiving is a vicarage, with the chapelry of King's 55 of water; rateable value, £3,392 ; population in Caple annexed, joint net yearly value :f24o, including I9II, 334 in the civil and 594 in the ecclesiastical 98 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the parish (which comprises part of Sellack and King's Dean and Chapter of Hereford, and held since rgo8 Caple civil parishes). by the Rev. George Whitehouse. The vicar is patron Post Office, Sellack Marsh.-Rees Evans, sub-postmaster. of the living of Marstow. A Mission room, erected at Let.ters through Ross arrive at 7.10 a.m. & 4.20 the Common, was opened for service in December, 1883, p.m. ; dispatched 9.15 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ; no delivery and a reading room in I90J· The annual charities of on sunday. Ross, 3 miles distant, is the nearest this parish amount to £22 IOS. arising from land and money order & Picts Cross the nearest telegraph office funded m John, blacli:smith, Hackney Upper Caradoc farm Poulton James, farmer, Strangford , Wall Thomas, farmer, The Grove

SHOBDON is a parish and village, on the road between owner, is a handsome Queen .Anne mansion of brick and Leomin·ster and Presteign, 8 miles west-north-west from stone, in the style of Louis XIV. standing in a fine Leomino;ter and 2! north-east from Pe.mbridge station park about 3l acres in extent, studded with fine on the and Kington branch of the Great old timber and containing six large ornamental lakes: Western railway and 18 north-west from Hereford, in in the house are many valuable paintings by Sir Joshua the .Northern division of t·he county, Stretford hundred, Reynolds, Opie, Gainsborough, and various well-lmown petty sessional division of Wigmore, l,eominster union and Dutch, Spanish and Italian artists: it is the residence oounty court district, rural deanery of Kingsland and of Capt. Charles L . ..\. Ward-Jackson. The river Lngg archdeaconry and . The church of affords good trout and grayling fishing. The soil is St. John t.he Evangelist, erected about 1753, is a cruci­ various ; subsoil, bastard limestone, gravel, clay and form building of stone chiefly in the style of that period, red loam. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oat-s, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south transepts, beans and orchards of apples and pears; there is also western porch and an embattled western tower of Nor­ much pasture and large wood lands. The area is 3,604 man date c:mtaining 2 bells: there is a fine monument acres of land and 35 of water; rateable value, £3,906; bv• Nollekens, to John, last Viscount Bateman and Baron population in Igii, 345· of Culmore, who died March 2nd, I80I, and a monument Downwood, Easthampton, Leddicott, Uphampton and to William (Hanbury), ISt Baron Bateman, who died Hillhampton are hamlets, varying in distance from half 22nd July, 1845: a handsome oak lectern was presented a mile to I! miles from the village and parish church. October gth, I8g2. as a memorial to the Hon. Geoffrey Bateman-Hanbury, 4th son of Lord Bateman, who died Sexton, Francis W. Howells. December 4th, I888 : the font belonged to the old Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Shobdon, .-Henry church : in the churchyard are several fine cedar trees : Ernest Addis, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 6.25 there are sittings for ISO persons: the church was built a.m. & 3 p.m.; delivert>d at 7 a.m. & 3.15 p.m.; on the site of an ancient Norman structure, the remains dispatched at 10.25 a.m. & 6.30 p.m of which, excepting the tower, are erected in Shobdon Pillar Letter Box, Lady court, cleared at ro.5o a.m. & Parlc 'l'he register dates from the year 1556 and is 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 6.30 p.m in good preservation. The living is a rectory, net County Council (non-provided) School, built, with resi­ yearly value £3oo, with residence, in the gift of Lord dence for master, by Lord Ba.teman; the school will Bateman, and held since r853 by the Rev. the Hon. h

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Kane J,ieut.-Col. Frank, Belgate ho Clifton Jesse & Son, blacksmiths Aylward :Mrs. Hilihampton house Tuke Rev. Fras. Edwd. 'M . .\. (curate) Davies Brian, farmer, North End frm Bateman-Hanbury the Rev. the Hon. Ward-Jackson Cant. Charles L. A. Griffiths Edwin, farmer, Easthampton Arthur .Alien M.A., J.P. (prebendary Shobden Court - Hall Rt. Wm. J.P. farmr.Uphampton of de Hampton in Hereford cathe­ W oodhouse "Mrs. Ty'n-y-Coed Ingram Charles, Bateman Arms P.H dral & domestic chaplain to Lord Jenkins James, farmer, Lady court Bateman), Rectory COMMERCIAL. Lawry Thomas, gamekeeper to Capt. Chignell William Hy. Pencombstone .\ddis Henry Ernest, grocer, Post off 0. L. A. ~·ard-Jackson