DIRECTORY.] . WO ORE. 481 of a priory of canons regular of St. Augustine, fffllltded. by and chief landowners. The soil and subsoil vary from sand William :Fitz-Alan, of , who dedicated it to God, St. to stiff clay. The chief crops are wheat and barley. Th8 Mary and St. Leonard : the Lords of Cherriugton gave area is 698 acres ; rateable value, £9, Boo ; the population in various lands and revenues to this religious house and all x88I was 3,II3. itsdossessions and the liberties of the canons were revived I Clerk, Thomas Perrins. an confirmed by King Edward II.: the revenues of the Letters through Wellington. Oake~ooa.tes is the nearest post. monastery at the Dissolution were valued at £65 7s. 4d. money order & telegraph office 'fhe Duke of Sutherland K.G. and Col. Sir Thomas Meyrick The National schools of the parish for boys & girls are in bart. D.L., J.P. of Apley Castle, are the lords of the manor Oakengates, a large portion of which place is in this parish Sabben Rev. Wm. Morey B.A. [vicar] IHopley Brothers, colliery proprietors IWombridge Iron Co. wire rods manu­ Edwards John, farmer & maltster Turner Harry, blacksmith facturers (Henry Harrison, manager) WOODCOTE is a township and chapelry in the parish of a chapelry annexed to Sheriff Hales, average tithe rent­ Sheriff Hales, situated on the road from Newport to , charge £558, joint net yearly value £416, in the gift of the 2! miles south-east from Newport station on the Stafford Duke of Sutherland K.G. and held since 1879 by the Rev. and Wellington section of the North Western railway and Arthur Tompson Michell M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, about 16 from , in the Northern division of the who resides at Sheriff Hales; the Rev. William Wegg county, Cuttlestoo hundred (Staffordshire), Newport union, Th.A.K.C.L. has been curate in charge since x88o. Woodeote petty sessional division and county court district, rural Hall, the property of Capt. Charles Cecil Cotes and now in deanery of , archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese the occupation of Joseph William Williams esq. ;r.P. is a of . On the eastern side of the township a small spacious and handsome mansion of brick, pleasantly situated stream, called Moreton Brook, divides this county from that and surrounded by park-like grounds, finely timbered. A of Stafford. The chapel is a plain building of stone, consist- little south from the hall is an eminence, called " Heath ing of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret con- Hill," which commands an extended view over this and tbe taining one bell : placed against the south wall of the chancel adjacent county of Stafford. Sheriff Hales, except Lilleshall is a large marble slab with two full-length originally recum- House and a few scattered farms, is within the county of bent effigies of alabaster and a mutilated and now illegible Stafford, and the other p!Jrtion of Sheriff Hales, which is in inscription round the edge: there are also mural tablets to Shropshire, is given under Lilleshall. Capt. Charles Cecil Jane, wife of Rev. Washington Cotes LL.D. Dean of Lismore, Cotes D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and owner of the whole in Ireland, d. 31 May, 1759; Lieut.-Col. James Cotes, d. xo township. The soil varies from strong clay to good turnip Feb. 1766; John Cotes esq. d. 12 May, 1756, and Dorothy, and barley soil; the subsoil is red sandstone. The chief crops his wife, daughter of Robert, Earl Ferrers, d. 24 March, are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,974 acres i rate­ I72I ; Lettice, daughter of the Right Hon. Kildare, Lord able value, £3,009 ; the population in x88x was 190. Digby and wife of Charles Cotes esq. d. 24 Jan. 1695, and LYNN, half a mile north-east, and Pave Lane, 1 mile north- John Cotes esq. M.P. d. 25 Aug. 1821: in 1883 the chapel west, are places here. was thoroughly restored, the east wall rebuilt, the chancel Parish Clerk, Thomas Ralph. new roofed, a stained east window inserted, a new Letters through Newport, which is the nearest money order built and the interior refitted with handsome oak seats on & telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 a.m. Nearest WALL a flooring of wood blocks, by the late Lady Louisa Cotes, LETTER Box at Church Aston at a cost of £x,IOo. The separate register of marriages School (mixed), for children living on the estates of Capt.

dates from 18371 but for other entries only from 1862; all Charles Cecil Cotes, built in 1839, for 63 children; aver- entries previous to 1837 were made in the registers of Sheriff age attendance, 40; & supported by Capt. Charles Cecil Hales, Staffordshire, which date from I557· The living is Cotes; Miss Mary Norbury, mistress Wegg Rev. William T.A.K.C.L. [curate Chapman Thomas,farmer,Stocktonfrm Plevin Robert, farmer, Lynn in charge] Edwards Edwin, frmr.Brockton grange Rogers Samson, farmer, Child Pitt frm WilliamsJoseph Wm.J.P.Woodcote hall JamesEdward, farmer Simmell Joseph, blacksmith Bracegirdle William, farmer WOOLASCOTT is a small township, consisting of two farm houses, in the parish of St. Alkmonds, Shrewsbury, Letters through Shrewsbury arrive by messenger from Northern division of the county, union of , petty Bomere Heath post office at 7 a.m. ; dispatch at 8 p.m. sessional division of Albrighton and county court district of is the nearest money order & telegraph office Salop, 5 miles north-west from Shrewsbury. ... Birchall Herbert, farmer, Little Woolascott 1Teece William, farmer, Great Woolascott is a village and parish Ii miles west of the Rev. F. H. Wolrych-Whitmore M.A. and held since from the station on the Shrewsbury and Here- x865 by the Rev. Edmund Donald Carr B.A. of Emmanuel ford section of the London and North Western and Great College, Cambridge. The rent of 4 acres, left by the Pope Western joint railway, 4 north from and u family, and now (1891) producing £x 6s. 4d. is applied to south from Shrewsbury, in the Western division of the the repair of the church. The extraordinary escape of the county, division of the hundred of Condover, present rector on the stormy night of the 29th January, petty sessional division of Condover, union of Church Stret- 1865, on his return from taking the service at ton, county court district of Shrewsbury, rural deanery of church, then held by him, deserves to be recorded: owing to Wenlock, archdeaconry of and diocese of Hereford. the violence of the snowstorm, the rector unfortunately lost The countryround is highly picturesque, affording extensive his way on the Long Mynd and remained ~n the snow all Tiews of the Caradoc, Lawley and Longmynd hills, with night, or 27 hours in all, at the imminent peril of his life. the Wrekin in the distance. The church of St. Michael and The Rev. Francis Henry W olryche-Whitmore M.A. of Dud­ All Angels is a small building of stone, in the Lancet style, maston Hall, is the principal landowner and lord of the -consisting of chancel, nave, porch and a half-timbered manor. Woolstaston Hall, formerly the residence of th& turret at the west end with spire and containing 2 bells: Pope family, has one room exhibiting fine specimens of oak the interior contains some fine specimens of carving, and carving, the floor, ceiling and sides being of polished oak: there are memorial windows to the late Mr. W. Whitmore, the Everall family have occupied this hall for several gener­ of Dudmaston, d. 1858 (presented by his tenants) and to the ations. 'fhe soil is loam and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief Rev. Edmund Carr, late rector, d. x864, presented by the crops are wheat and turnips. The area is 804 ec":"es; rate­ present rector and his sisters; the stained west window was able value, £888; the population in 1881 was 9"1· presented in x865 by Mr. Robert Craig of Church Stretton: Sexton, Thomas Evans. the small Saxon doorway on the south side is remarkable, as Letters are received from Shrewsbury, via leehotwood. is also the curious double font: the church was thoroughly WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6.15 p.m. 'Jbe nearest repaired during the years 1864-65. The register dates from money order & telegraph offices are at Church Stretton & the year 1601. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- Dorrington charge £u6, net yearly value £IOo, including 6 acres of The children of this place attend the district school in the glebe, with residence, built by the present rector, in the gift adjoining parish of 8methcott Carr Rev. Edmd. Donald B.A. Rectory Heighway Thomas, farm bailiff to the Hodges James, miller (water) & farmer Clee Peter, farmer Rev. Edmund Donald Carr B.A Jones Aaron, cowkeeper Edwards William,shoe maker & farmer Hughes Thomas, cowkeeper & assi~nt John, farmer Everall Richard, farmer, The Hall overseer is a pleasant village, township and parish,formed I North Staffordshire railway, in the Northern division of the January 21, 1:842, from the of Mocclestone, county, Drayton division of the hundred of Bradford, Mar­ Staffordshire, on the old London and Chester road, 7 miles ket Drayton petty sessional division, union and county court north-east from and x mile north-west from district, rural deanery of Eccleshall, archdeaconry of Stoke­ Pipegate station on the 1:5ilverdaleand Drayton. branch of the on-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. 'l'he church of St.