SHROPSHIRE. [KELLY's Sexton and Parish Clerk, Waiter Corbett

l!J8 PRIOR'S LEE. SHROPSHIRE. [KELLY'S Sexton and Parish Clerk, Waiter Corbett. Public Elementary Schools (mixed), erected by the 2nd Post Office.-Mrsl Annie T. Teece, sub-postmistress. Earl Granville K.G. in 1871, & enlarged in 1878. An Letters arrive from Shifnal at 7 a.m. & 4.10 p.m. ; infants' school was erected in 1889; the whole is avail dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 7.25 p.m. ; no delivery on able for 450 children; average attendance, 300; sunday. St. George's, 1 mile distant, is the nearest George Francis Upton, master ; Miss Alice Box, money order office & telegraph office infants' mistress (Marked thus t postal address Lilleshall Co. Ltd.colliery proprietors Wellington.) COMMERCIAL. & iron & steel manufacturers (Wm. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Birchall Charles, farmer, Redhill Perrott, managing director) Aldridge Harry, Ivy grove tBladen William, china & glass Molineux Wm. farmer, Wuodhouse Beech Noel T. Prior's Lee house dealer. Snedshill ){organ James, butcher Coxon Rev. Arthur McCreery M.A. Chatter Amos, carter Prior's Lee District Association for (curate in charge) tCorfield Wm. Rd. shopkpr. Snedshill the Prosecution of Felons (Everard Greene John, The Hollies Dakin John Charles, farm bailiff to Edkins, sec) Bridgnorth, and a parish on the road from Bannister, of Kidderminster. The soil is sandy; the Bridgnorth to Kidderminster and on the river Severn, 2 subsoil is red sandstone. The chief crops are barley and miles south-east from Bridgnorth station on the Great turnips. The area is 503 acres of land and 14 of water; Western railway, in the Southern division of the county, rateable value, £gog; the population in 19II was 165 in Stot.tesdon hundred, Bl'idgnorth union, petty sessional the civil parish (which is the part in Bridgnorth Muni division and county court district, and partly in th.- cipal horough) and 495 in the ecclesiastical parish municipal borough, in the rural deanery of BridgnortL, Knowle Sands is half a mile north. archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The Clerk and SPxton, Thomas Turley. . church of St. Mary Magdalene, once collegiate, is an Post Office, Quatford.-Miss Louis& Cla.re, sulb-post~ ancient building of red sandstone and travertine, con- mistress. Letters are received through Bridgnorth; sisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, porch, arrive at 7·5 a.m. & 5·55 pm.; dispatched at 9.25 and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, con- a.m. & 5·55 p.m.; no delivery on sundays. Bl'idg- ~aining 3 bells and a clock with chimes, given in 1goo north is the nearest money order & telegraph office JY Miss Mayo: the chancel arch and font are Norman, EARDINGTON is a township, separated from Quatford and there are some curious old monumental slabs : by the river Seve.rn, over which there is a ferry; it an organ was presented to the church in I897: there bP longs ooclesiastically to Quatford parish, and was are memorial windows to Mrs. Griffiths, 1891 and given to the church of Quatford in the time of William to Mrs. Owen, 19°4: the church was repewed and the Conqueror: it is in the same union and is situated the south aisle added in 1857: new choir stalls were on the highway from Bridgnorth to Chelmarsh, 2 mile!! given in 19II by Bernard Wardle esq. in memory of south from the former, and has a station on the Severn his father, Sir Thomas Wardle (d. 1gog), and in the Valley branch of the Great Weste)'n I"'Lilway, 1471 miles same year a brass lectern was presented by Henry from London. A ferry boat connects this place with Owen esq.: a new oak pulplt was erected in 1 913· Quatford, and affords the inhabitants of Eardington The church has 20 acres of land in the parish which, access to the parish church. The principal landowners together with money invested, produce about £3t 4s are Miss Oldbury, the Rev. John Butler Burne M.A. yearly, part of which is applied to the repairs and other necessary expenses of the church, and toward1< rector of Wasing, Berkshire, and Benjamin Butcher esq. the expense of the ferry to Eardington. The living of The Hay. The area is 1,276 acres of land and 3I is a vicara~e, net yearly value £r77• in the gift of of water; rateable value, £2,171; population in rgn, the Ven. Henry Edward James Bevan M.A. rector of 33o. St. Luke's, Chelsea, London S W, and archdeacon of Post Office, Eardington.-M:rs. Hannah Lloyd, sub-post- Middlesex, and held since 1901 by the Rev. Samuel mistTess. Letters arrive 7·I5 a.m. from Bridgnorth; Pountney-Smith. · The vicarage house was built in dispatched 7· 10 a.m. & 5·45 p.m. week days only; no I886 upon a site given by the late Mrs. Gri:ffiths. The sunday delivery of letters. Bridgnorth, z miles dis- register dates from the year 1577. William Nicholls, tant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office of Bridgnorth, left by will, dated 1846, to the vicar Public Elementary Schools. of Quatford the sum of £150, which is invested in Quatford (girls & infants), built, with mistress's res.i- the Funds, and produces £4 yearly, which sum is dence, in 1846, at a cost of £213, for 38 children; distributed annually in various sums of money to average attendance, 32; in 1852 it received a legacy the aged poor. Here was anciently a college, founded of £zoo from the late Mr. Sma.lman, of Quatford, in- in the reign of William II. and united to thP vested (after deducting £20 legacy duty), and abo college of St. Mary, at Bridgnorth, in IIOI. On a a legacy of £roo from the late Mrs. Griffith; Miss pictnrf'~que rock overhanging the river Severn is an Helens Melson, mistress. This school -mlS renovated earthwork, in which a party of Danes are Mid to have during 1894 passed the winter. Quatford Castle, the property and Eardington (mixed), built in 1847, at a total cost, in- residPnce of the V en. H. E. J. Bevan M. A. is a corn- eluding a class room & master's house, of £6o8, on land pa.ratively modern castellated building, beautifully given by Lord Sudel~y & enlarged in 1854, & again seated on an eminence commanding extensive and varied enlarged in r8q_r:;, for n2 children ; average attend- views of the surrounding country. There are no ance, 6J; .A.rchihald C. L. J. Addenbrooke, master; tnanorial rights. The Ven. H. E. J. Bevan M.A. the Mrs. Addenbrooke, mistretls trustees of Careswell's charity and Lieut.-Col. Francis Railway St-ation, Eardington, George W. Cooke, station A. Wolryche-Whitmore, of Dudmaston Hall, Quatt, are master

QU ..\TFORD. Poole William George, The Danery inn 1 Fryer Henry, blacksmith Beach William Henry, Fir grove Tnrley Thomas, ferryman & sexton 1 Hancock Charles, builder Bevan Ven. Henrv Edwd. Jas. M.A. EARDINGTON. , Hand William, farmer • (archdeacon of Middlsx.),TheCastle Beaeall By. Murtimer, Eardington ho .Jarratt James, farmer Moor Mrs. The Chantry Butcher Benjamin The Hay Lawley William, maltster & hop Nowill Mrs. Rocabrun Edwards John, K~owle sands dealer & income tax collector Owen Henry, Quatford house Lomas Frederick Ernest, Manor Lloyd Hannah (Mrs.), gro. Post office Pountney-Smith Rev. Samuel (vicar), Northcott Mrs. Highdowns Lomas Fdk. Ernest, frmr.Manor frm Vicarage Taylor Thomas, The Knowle Moseley George Wm. Robt. farmer Ridley Alfred, Severn View house Westhrop .Arthur Wm. Camden lodge Preece Charles, farmer, Mon-Moor COMMERCIAL. Wilson James, Severn house Rowswell Chas.beer ret. Knowle sands Caesby Thos. mechancl.engnr. Fox ho COMMEROIAL. Rudd Thomas, butcher lJlare Louisa (Miss), grocer,& pm;t off Bishop Mary (Mrs.), Crown P.H Stubbs Joseph, farmer Duppa Charles Alfred Osborne, Brown James, Halfway House P.H Thomason Alfred, miller (water), farmer, The Wyches Butcher Benj. farmer, The Hay farm Daniel's mill Duppa George, frmr. Hill House frm Caesby Thomas Henry, thrashing Walker Johr., baker Green John, farmer machine owner Whitworth Charles, farmer