338 KNOC.KIN., . KNOCXIN is a parish and village on the road from castle. Knockin Hall, the residence of the- Rev. Edmund Shrewsbury to Oswestry and Holyhead, J mile north from Wolryche Orlando Bridgeman B. A. situated about half a Kinnerley station on the Shropshire railway (when <:om- mile east, is a good modern building with ornamental pleted), 6 miles south-east from Oswestry and x:a north- grounds. The village has a good hotel, the "Bradford west from Shrewsbury, in the Western division of the Arms," some old half-timbered houses and a malting as­ county, lower division of Oswestry hundred, Oswestry petty tt~blishment. The Earl of Bradford P.C. is lord of the manor sessional division and incorporation, county court district and chief landowner. The soil is light loam; subsoil, sand­ and rural deanery of Oswestry, archdeaconry of Mont- stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips, gomery and diocese of St. Asaph. The church of St. Mary and there is much land in pasture. The area is 1,562 acres; (almost entirely rebuilt in 1847), is an edifice of stone, in rateable value, £2,058 ; the population in 1881 was 264. mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept, THE HEATH FARllr, rj- miles north-east, formerly a north porch and a western turret containing one bell: there parochial liberty, is now chargeable to the poor~ at the rate­ are several stained windows: the churchyard was not con- able value'Of £96, and contains 131 acres. secrated till t8r8. The register of baptisms dates from PosT, M, 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- the year 1672; marriages, 1681; burials, 1817. The living William Samuel Turner, postmaster. Letters arrive from is a rectory, gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £328, Oswestry at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6.5 p.m in the gift of the Earl of Bradford P.c. and held since 1876 National School (mixed), for 6o children; average attend- by the Rev. Edmund Wolryche Orlando Bridgeman B.A. of ance, 42; there is a house for the mistress; Mrs. M. Ellis, 'frinity College, Cambridge. Here is the site of an ancient mistress Bridgeman Rev. Edmond Wolryche Griffiths Edward, jun. land & estate Owen Richard, farmer & maltster Orlando B.A. [rector], Knockin hall agent & surveyor Owen Thomas, farmer Hodges Mrs Hanmer Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress Payne Henry, Bradford Arms hotel Williams Richard 1 Harris Thomas, wheelwright Roberts Jane (Miss), shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. I Jones Hy. farmer, Farm of the Heath Turner Wm. Samuel, registrar of births Cambridge Thomas, farmer,New house Lloyd Edward, farmer, The Hall farm & deaths for Knockin sub-district, Evans John & Sons, nurserymen I Maddox John, blacksmith Oswestry Incorporation, & post office Green Thomas, farmer Maddox William, blacksmith Watkins Henry H. clerk to the ~rl of Griffiths William, shopkeeper & builder Morris Isaac, butcher Bradford's agent XNOWBURY is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1840 · and transported thence by rail to London. Manches­ from the parishes of Bitterley and Cainham, about 6 miles ter, Liverpool, Stockport, Birmingham and Stafford t; it is east from LucUow station on the London and North Western used extensively for paving and repairing of the mac­ and Great Western joint railway, and 6 north from Ten- adamized roads and streets: the quarries are leased from bury,~n the Southern division of the county, Overs hundred, Earl Craven by the Clee Hill Granite Company. Messrs. petty sessional division of Lower Munslow, Ludlow union Field and Mackay are owners of the Titterstone quarries on and county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry Clee Hill, and opened in 1881: they cover 100 acres of land, of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. and employ upwards of 250 hands ; Mr. James Thorpe, Paul, built in 1839, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chan- manager. Here also are the quarries of the Clee Hill Dhu eel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower Stone Company. The Knowbury Brick and Tile Compa~;ty containing a clock and one bell: the stained east end have extensive works in this parish. There are also coal window represents "the Crucifixion : " the church was mines owned by the Clee Hill Granite Company. Lord thoroughly renovated in 1885, at a cost of £3,200, and a Windsor is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The new chancel erected at the expense of Lord Windsor: there soil is strong clay; subsoil, Dhu stone and clay. The land are sittings for 26o persons. The register dates from the is chiefly in pasture. The population in 1881 was 1,007. year 1839. The living is a vicarage, gross annual value PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Clee £180, including 3 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift Hill.-Edward Wesley Askey, receiver. Letters arrive of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1882 by the Rev. from Ludlow by foot post at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4.30 Frederick Mackenzie Williams M. A. of Trinity College, Cam- p.m. Ludlow is the nearest telegraph office bridge. A mission room in connection with St. Paul's WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5 p.m church was built in 1881, at a cost of £1,200, chiefly The Church of School (mixed), built in 1839, for defrayed by Lord Windsor. There are also Wesleyan and 180 children; average attendance, :no; the school is the Primitive Methodist chapels. Knowbury is situated on the property of & supported by Lord Windsor; Frederick Clee Hills, celebrated for the hard rock or dark basalt, William Hart, master called "Dhu stone," which they afford: a vast quantity of Wesleyan, built in 1878, for 200 children; average attend- this mineral is brought down by a branch line of railway to ance, 120; Henry Norman Le 'Worthy, master Green Edwin Blakeway, Knowbury ho Clee Hill Dhu Stone Co. (Alfred Silver Knowbury Brick & Tile Works (Edward Watson Harry Oswald, The Firs Townsend, manager); offices, Rail- W. Askey, proprietor) Williams Rev. :Frederick Mackenzie way station, Ludlow Reynolds John, lime burner M.A. [vicar], Vicarage Clee Hill Granite Co. (James Yat~. Roberts George, shopkeeper Worthing Rev. Alfred Osmond [curate] manager); offices, Craven pi. Clee hill Roberts William Joseph, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Clent Thomas, Golden Cross inn Small Caleb, shopkeeper AskeyEdwd.Wesley,grcr.&;drpr.Post off Clent Thos. Jas. farmer, Heath farm Taylor Robert, registrar of births & Bate Samuel, farmer Dillow Thomas, coal haulier deaths for Cayham sub-district of Berrington John, farmer, Shop farm Field&Mackay(JamesThorpe,manager), Ludlow union Bodley Joseph, grazier quarry owners, Titterstone quarries. Watkins John, butcher Bowen John, The Crown P.H See advertisement Watson Harry Oswald'"''L.R.C.P.Edin. Chapel Farm Dhu Stone Quarry (Wm. Green Edwin Blakeway, farmer, Know- surgeon. certifying factory sur2eon, Bird, proprietor) bury house medical officer & public vaccinator, Clee Hill Fire Brick Works (E. W. Hammond Jane (Mrs.), Royal Oak P.H Clee Hilldist. Ludlow nnion,TheFirs Askey, proprietor). See advert Key Waiter, haulier & farmer Wheelwright John, grocer & farmer J.A WLEY is a scattered township and with the hamlets principally to the Coalbrookdale Company and to Lord of LAwLEY BANK, NEw WoRKs, HoRSEHAY COMMON and Forester who is lord of the manor, The soil is friable; the NswnALE, was formed Feb. 5, 1867, into a parish from the subsoil is various. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, parishes of Wellington and Little Wenlock: Lawley is on the turnips and mangolds. The area of the township is 798A. road from Wellington to Coalbrookdale, 2 miles south-east oR. IP.; of the parish, 907 acres; the population of the from Wellington and 13 east from Shrewsbury, in the Mid latter in 1881 was 1,230. division of the county, South Bradford hundred, Wellington Sexton, James Rickhuss, New Works. union,dcounty cfoWurt dkistrirdct. and pehtdty sessionaflSdivisiond, LE'ITER Box cleared at 9.40 a.m. & 9.35 p.m. Letters r';lra1 eanery- 0 roe; wa me, arc eaconry 0 a 1op 8 ';1 through Horsehay (Railway Sub-Office), except fol' Law- ~Iocese ?f ~tehfield .. fhe !lhurch of St. J?hn t~e Evangehst ley Bank, which are received through Dawley (Railway ~~ a ~mldmg of ~~ck With stone dressmgs, m a modern Rub-Office). The nearest money order office is at Horse• Gothic style, conststmg of chancel, eastern trans~p~ nave, hay & tele~aph office at Dawley south porch and a turret at the east end contammg one "' . . bell: in the chancel are three small stained windows, erected LAWLEY BANK ~s a hamlet rl miles east, T.he Wes· in r882, in memory of Rev. Thomas Ragg, firstvicar of this le~an New ~onnex10n h,ave a chapel ~ere. Here. IS a~so a parish, who died Dec. 1 sa 1 : there are 302 sittings. The railway s.tatiOn on t~e Great Western hne (Severn JunctiOn); register dates from the year r865. The living is a vicarage, Henry RICkard, station master. tithe rent-charge £r40, average £129, net yearly value NBWDALB is a hamlet half a mile north-east. 1.·230, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, Board School (mixed), with residence for master, erected in and held since 1882 by the Rev. George Henry White. The r876, for 1a74 children; average attendance, :r6o; George minerals are ironstone and coal, 'fhe township belongs Webb, master .. -