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chiefly in and is on the old road from Lud­ an elevation, skirted by extensive woods; from the summit low to , 3! miles south-west from and of the contiguous motmtain, called "'Mary's Knoll," Or 2 west from Woofferton station on the and " Marinoll," an extensive view of the surrounding country Hereford section of the London and N. W. and Great is obtained. The principal landowners are Miss Foster Western joint railway. The place takes its name from a Alfred Salwey esq. D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor' castle built here in the time of Edward the Confessor, by Riohard Betton esq. J.P. and: GenerallSir Edward Lech: Richard, the son of Scrob, a Norman. The church of St. mere Russell K.C.S.I. The ·soil is a light loam; subsoil, Bartholomew is a fine edifice of stone in the Norman style, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, sDuth aisle, north beans, seeds and turnips. The population in 1891 was transept and a semi-detached tower, standing a few feet 735, of which 249 are in Herefordshire; the area is 4,890 distant from the body of the church and containing 3 acres of land and 19 of water, including 2,499 acres in bells: it had! formerly a. spire, which was burnt down: in Herefordshire; rateable value, £6,045, of Salop portion; 1861 a. fine stained east window was erected' by Richard £2,293, of Hereford portion. Betton esq. J.P. of Overton house, in memory ()f his wife Parish Clerk, Henry Rowe, Batchcott. Oharlotte Margaretta: this church is now used as a Post Office.-Thomas J ones, sub-postmaster. Letters mortuary chapel. The church of All Saints, now the arrive from Ludlow at 8. IO a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 parish church, was built in 1891-2, at a. cost of £8,000, on p.m. week days only. Letters for Woofferton arrive elevated ground at Batchcott, three-quarters of a mile from Brimfield (RS.O. Herefordshire). Postal orders distant from the existing church, and is the gift to the are issued here, but not 'Paid. Orleton is the nearest parish of Mrs. Johnston Foster and her two daughters, money order & telegraph offic~ the Misses Ethel J. and Gertrude S. Foster, in memory National School (mixed), built in 1874, for 130 children; of the late JohRSton Jonas Foster esq. and of his eldest average attendance, 93; there is a house for the mis­ daughter, Katharine Laetitia; the building is of local tress; Miss Emma Reynolds, mistress stone, with dressings of white Grinshill stone, in the Early Shrewsbury &; Hereford Railway Station, Woofferton, Decorated style, from designs by R Norman Shaw esq. James Alexander Robotham, station master R.A. architect, of London: it affords sittings for 300 per. sons. The register dates from 1559. The living is a WOO:I'1FERTON, 4 miles north from Ludlow, is a town· rectory, average tithe rent charge £478, net yearly value ship with a. junction station of the Tenbury branch of the £650, including 32 acres of glebe with residence, in the Great Western railway with the Shrewsbury and Here· gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1892 by the ford: joint railway. Adjoining the railway station are the Rev. Timothy George Watton M.A. of Emmanuel College, timber yards and a large steam !law mill of Messrs. Barlow Cambridge. Moor Park is the residence of Mrs. and Miss and Sons, of Stockport, employing about 30 hands in the Foster; the mansion is a handsome structure of red conversion of English timber for which the district is brick, with terra. cotta facings, in the Queen Anne style, celebrated!. The mission room here, opened in 1890, is a and! stands in a park of 133 acres; Overton is the residence building of black and white oak framing on a. brick faun· of Alfred Salwey esq. D.L., J.P.; and Overton House, of dation and affords sittings for 160 persons. The western Richard Betton esq. J.P. ; the Betton family, originally of portion of the building is arranged so as to be used: as a Betton Strange, 1 Edw. 1 (1272), and afterwards of Great working men's club; the site and building were the sole Berwick, near Shrewsbury, sold that property in 1819, and gift of Miss Foster, of Moor Park. the present representative of Overton is the last lineal Overton is a township, 2! miles south from Ludlow, and heir;The Lodge,Overton,belonging to A. Salweyesq. D.L., was a Roman settlement. J.P. and now the residence of Rowland Geo. Venables esq. Batchcott and Moor form a township, 3 miles south J.P. is a comparatively modern building, standing upon from Ludlow. A. Salwey esq. J.P. is lord of the manor. RICHARD'S CASTLE. Mason George, farmer (retired) Waller R James, Hanway lodge Buffrev Mrs. The Bank Maso~ Henry, farmer Watt