DIRECTORY. J CHESHIRE. HOOTON. 373. Lloyd John, fi,;hmngr. 38 Faulkner st Pinnington Richard, plumber, 26J Smith Wm. boot ma. 27 Faulkner st Lloyd. Jn.Royal Oak P.H.6 Faulkner st 1 Panton road Stockton William James, insurance London & North Western Goods Depot' Polinker Solomon, travelling draper, agent, 4 Pan ton road (Joshua. Taylor, agent) I 26 Lightfoot street Stuttard Hy. tripe d.rssr. 7 Walker st Lupton James L. shopkeeper, 167/Power & Sons, greengrocers, 52 Sunter Michael C. traveller, Wendel- Westminster road Faulkner street holme, Vicarage road Mangell Thomas, carriage proprietor, ~Purki~s Waiter John. Bromfield Arms Sutton Harriet (Miss), smallware dlr. School street P .H. 43 Faulkner street 5 Faulkner street Moore Thomas, sho,pkpr. I3 Prescot st Rt>E>s Thos.Hy. grocer, 45 Faulkner st Taylor Olive (Mrs.), Royal Oak P.H. 1 Morcom Misses, ladies' school, Stone I' Richard.s.:m Alexander (Mrs.), shop- Hoole Village villa, Hoole road . keeper, 55 Faulkner street Thomas John, dairyman, 29 &; 31
Morgan John, builder, 4 Lightfoot st 1 Richardson James, farmer, Hare lane Walker street Morris Charles, draper, 76 & 78 Roberts Jn. greengro. 35 Faulkner st Tomlins Henry, shopkpr.42 Walker st Faulkner street Roberts William, beer retailer, 31 Tucker Flor·ence (Miss), dress maker~ :W:oxon Arthur, boot ma. 19 Walker st Westminster road 36 Lightfoot street !\elson James & Son Ltd. butchers, I Hult Brothers, brick manufacturers, Twiss Oyrus, boot maker, 69 West- 24 Charles street i Hoole Bank brick works minster road Neville Ka·te (Miss), ladies' school,: Row lands· Alfred James, provision Watmough Benjamin, teacher of The Elms, Hoole road 1 dealer, 56 Westminster road music, 22 Edna street Nixon Hannah (Mrs.), grocer, 25/ Sheen Josiah David K. fried fish Wilding Jas.S.L.shopkpr.98 Philip st Faulkner street dealer, 32 Walker stl·eet '\Hoole Village Peers Isabel & Dora (Misses), teachers I Lane farm Woodward Thomas, hair dresser, 3<>- of music, 9 Lightfoot street I Simpson Isaac, dairyman, 54 '\-Vest- Westminster road I minster road HOOTON is a village and t·nwnship, and has a junc mile from the Little Sutton station on the Great Western tion station on the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire and LIJndon and North Western joint railway, 8 miles· section of the London and North Western and Great north-north-west from Chester, 9 south from Birkenhead Western joint railway, 8 miles north from Chester, 7 and I from Hooton. St. Mary of the Angels Catholio· south from Birkenhood and :z miles from Eastham, in the church, opened in 1879• is an edifice of red sandstone, con-· Wirral division of the county of Chester, higher division sisting of chancel, nave, porch and a small tower sur of the hundred of Wirral, petty sessional division and mounted with six pinnacles and turret containing one union of the same name, county couxt district of Birken· bell : there are seven stained memorial windows: Sir head, and rural deanery of Wirral and archdeaconry and John Stanley hart. the last of the Stanleys of Hooton Hall,. diocese of Chester. From Hooton station there are branch Cheshire, is interred here, and in I9IO a chantry wag. lines to Helsby on t.he east and to Parkgate tmd West er~cted over his tomb and those of his wife and sister: Kirby on the west. The ecclesiastical parish was formed the church will seat 180 persons. The trustees of R. C. June Io, I·862, from the civil parish of Eastham. The Naylor esq. who are lords of the manor, the trustees of chnrch of St. Paul, locally illl Little Sutton, was T. -·L Hope esq. Miss E. Hayward and Henry Alexander erected in I858 by R. C. Naylor esq. in memory of Latham esq. are the chief landowners. The area is Mary Sophia his wife, and consecrated 25 January, n6 acres; rateable value, £8,239; the population in 1862: it is a cruciform building of red sandstone with I9I I was 688. w·hite stone facings in the Byzantine style, and con sists of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, north porch, and Post & M. 0. Office.-Thomae Littler, sub-postmaster. at the south-east angle a low tower carried on open Letters through Ohester are delivered at 6. I5 a.m. & arcades and containing one bell; from the centre of the 2-45 & .'J. p.m.; sundays at 6.15 a.m.; dispatched 8.55 building rises a dome, surmounted by a glazed turret : a.m. & 8.I5 p.m.; sundays, 8.15 p.m. The nearest the pulpit, of carved stone, is supported on variously telegraph office is at Little Sutton, I mile distant coloured marble pillars : the church affords about 450 Wall Letter Box, Hooton station, cleared at 7-40 a.m. & . sittings. The register dates from the year r862. The 5.30 & 8.5 p.m.; sundays, 8.5 p.m living is a vicarage, net yearly value £227, with resi dence and 3! acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), built in,·. the late R. C. Naylor esq. and held since 1900 by the r913, for 200 children; William J. Barker, master Rev. Alfred Ernest Cooper M.A. of Durham University. Hooton Hall, the property of the trustees of the late LITTLE SUTTON is a pleas:mt village and township, in•J R. 0. Naylor esq. and now in the occupation of Hooton the ecclesiastical parish of Hooton, with a station on Park Club Limited, stands on a high balustraded ter the Hooton and Helsby branch of the Great Western race in a park of about 300 acres, about a mile and a and London and North Western joint railway, 7 miles half from Hooton station, and is a large mansion with north-north-west from Chester and 8 miles south from advanced wings and annexes in the Italian style, erected Birkenhead. Th~ villa~e is lighted with gas by the Sutton · in 1778, from designs by James Wyatt, architect; it and Hooton Ga.~ Co. Lim. and supplied with water by the commands a delightful view of the river Mersey and Wirral Waterworks Co. Here is a Presbyterian Church.. surrounding country. The trustees of R. C. Naylor esq. of England, built in I838, with 193 sittings, and a Wes are lords of the manor and chief landowners. The area leyan Methodist chapel, built in 1840. The trustees of is 1,146 acres of land, 48 of inland and 402 of tidal the late Richard C. Naylor esq. and the trustees of the water and 783 of foreshore; rateable value, £5,768; the late James W. Haigh esq. of Little Sutton, are the chief population in I9II was 226 in the township and 2,241 landowners. The area i~ I,l30 acres; rateable value~ In the ecclesiastical parish. £10,548; the population in 19II was 1,327. Wall Letter Box, Hooton, cleared at 4·45 & 8.10 p.m. Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-F'rancis Walker, sub-post daily; sundays, 8.Io p.m. Wall Letter Box, Hooton master. Letters from Chester arrive at 12.15 &; 5.15 hall, cleared at 7 a. m. & 7·3>5 p.m. daily; sundays, no a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; sundays, 5-I5 a.m.; dispatched at collection. \Vall Letter Box, Oakfield, cleared at 7-30 Io a.m. & 8.30 p.m.; sundays at 8.30 p.m a.m. & 6. I5 p.m.; snndays, 7.30 a. m. The· nearest money order office is at Childer-Thornton & telegraph County Police Station, Chester road, Alfred Cooper,sergt office at Little Sutton, about one mile distant PuBlic Elementary School (mixed), built in 1867 & en Railway Station, William Jones, station master larged in r8g1, for 320 children; average attendance, z6o; Waiter Jenkinson, master CHILDER-THORNTON (or Thornton-Cbilder) is a towns-hip and small village i-I:t the parish of Hooton, 1 Railway Station, John Henry Bailey, station master
HOOTON. Hilditch Thomas, The Oaks COMMERCIAL. PRIVATE RESID:to:NTS. Holland Mrs. J~owfields, Neston road Bagnall John Arthur, Hooton hotel~ Collard Alfred Stephen J.P. Elmwood Lockett Gordon, Rivacre, Pooltown rd Neston road Cunningham Reginald T.Hooton lawn Lockett Mr:;;. St. Martin's, Whitby 'I'd· Beecroft William, farmer, Park ho Dawson Mrs. West Oakfield Lonsdale Thomas, Hawthornden Birchall Jas. & Sons,fruiters.I Oak la Dean Col. Charles Stewart, East Moyers William Wilson, Heathcote Broady Edwin, nurseryman Oakfield · 8inglehurst Joseph, Brookfield Chri!!topher-son Margaret (Mrs.), far- I>uckworth Waiter, The Grange Turner Robert, The Oaklands mer, Stud farm, Pooltown )'oad Harding Arthur. Focton farm , Will"on Herbert Lewi~. Woodcote f'nnnah & Roberts, auctnrs.Sale vard Rarding Mrs. Oakfidd cottage 1 Wyatt Charles W. The Priory Frost George Thomas, nurseryman