496 WlOGJNTON. .

.are 205 sittings, Ioo being free. The register dates from at a cost of £2,3II, is a small structure of red brick, with the year I85I. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value an organ chamber on the north side, and a south porch .£r2o, including 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in the ani gabled belfry containing one bell: there are 242 ,gilt of the vicar of Tamworth, and held since rgoo by the sittings. The Rev. Victor Egmont Sauerlaender M.A . .Rev. Ernest .Alexander Hutchison M . .A. of St. John's Col­ of Christ's College, Cambridge, has been curate-in-charge .lege, Oxford 'famworth Union Workhouse, in this town­ since 1900. Sir Robert Peel bart. is the principal land­ .ship, is a building of brick and stone, and will hold 195 owner. The pumping station of the Tamworth water inmates. The charities amount to £9 17s. 10d. yearly, works is here. 'Which sum is distributed in money. Wigginton Park, There is a police statbn here; P .0. William Beresford. the seat of Charles Henry Cope esq. J.P, is beautifully sit'.l!:lted on the southern slope overlooking the town of .ALDERS is a hamlet, I mile west, on the river Tame; Tamworth and Dosthill Hill; the gardem and shrub­ and Coton is a bamlet,2 miles north-west from Tamworth. 'beries are extensive and beautifully laid out. Howard OOMBERFORD is a hamlet, about I mile north-west Francis Paget esq. J.P. of , is lord of the manor. from Wigginton, on the river Tame. Comberford Ball is 'The principal landowners are Sir Robert Peel bart. the the residence of William Felton Peel esq. 'trustees of the late Charles Hayward Farmer esq. James Parish Clerk, Charles Lees. Drury esq. Mrs. Robert Glover, Miss Cheatle and Mrs. Cross. The soil is loamy ; subsoil, marl. The chief crops Hay was formerly extra-parochial, but under ·are wheat, barley, turnips and beans. The area of the the provisions of 20 Vict. Oh. rg, it was constituted a civil township is 3,667 acres, inclusive of 62 of water, includ- parish, and is in the union of Tamworth. The area is ing the hamlets of Hopwas, Comberford, Alders and 354 acre~; rateable value, £94; the population in Igor 'Coton; rateable value, f)g,66g; the pDpulation in rgoi, was 5· "including Coton and Comberford, was r,o88, including g8 Post Office, Wigginton. Mrs . .Ann Wilson, sub-postmis- (Jfficials and inmates of workhouse; the population of the tress. Lett-ers arrive from Tamworth at 6.35 a. m.; ecclesiastical parish, St. Leonard, was 571. dispatched at 6.35 p.m. Postal Orders are issued & Police Station, Charles Henry Hewitt, constable paid here. Tamworth is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant SYERSOOTE is a small and township, :2~ Sub-Post Office, Hopwas. John Henton, sub-postmaster. milel! north-north-east from Tamworth, and I! north-east Letters arrive from Tamworth 6.45 a. m.; dispatched 'from \Vigginton, in the parliamentarr borough of Tarn- at 6 p.m. Postal Orders issued & paid. Tamworth is worth. Lient.-C{)l. Egerton Stanley Pipe Wolferstan J.P. the nearest money order & telegraph office, 3 miles o()'f Statfold Hall, is the sole landowner. The area is 483 rlistant acres; rateable value, £526; the population in rgoi Wall Letter Boxes.-Comberford, cleared at 6 p.m.; sun- -was 36. day, I 1.30 a.ru HOPWAS is a pretty and compact little village and ham- Public Elementary Schools. det, about 2~ miles south-west from Wigginton, and 2 Endowed, Hopwas, founded by Thomas Barnes in I7I7 & west from Tamworth, on the opposite bank of the Tame, endowed with land, value now about £2I IOS. yearly; which is crossed by a bridge of 5 arches, erected early it will hold 100 children; average attendance, go; Mrs. ·in the present century. The old chapel-of-ease of St. Emma Saunders, mil'>tress .John (1840 ), now pulled down, stood in tlie old church- Wigginton, erected in 1848 & enlarged in I893, for 130 yard next to the present parsonage. St. Chad's church, children ; ave::-age attendance, 8o; Charles J. TanneJ, .Hopwas, built in r88r as a chapel of ease to Tamworth, master; Mrs. Clara Tanner, mistress WIGGINTON. Cresswell Berbert, farmer Barton Fdk. Jas. farmer, Hopwas frm PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Faux Edward, farmer, Manor farm Bell James, woodman & gamekeeper Genders John, farmer to Colonel , Hopwas Rays .Alldritt Frederick J.P. Landscape Gilman Joseph, farmer, Arkall Gamble Matthew, Red Lion inn & .Allkin 'l'homas Boulton, Hill-crest · b .A.rnold William, The Lees house James Elizabeth (Mrs.), Crown P.H JO master Kirkman Jsph. farmr. WiggintDn frm Griffin Frank, cowkeeper Jhiggs Mrs. The Spital house Lawrence Fredk. H.master of workhse Hemmings Joseph, market gardener 'Cope Ohas. Henry J.P. Wigginton pk Lawrence S. A. (Mrl!l.), matron of Hemmings Thomas, baker & gen. dlr Cutler William, Fair view WDrkhouse Henton John, sub-postmaster & "'Garlick John Henry, Ingleside •Gibson Mrs. Rose bank Lees Ernest, market gardener thrashing machine owner Nicholls Charles, carpenter J ohnson George, resident engineer w "Batton Spencer John, Suffield lodge Smith Jacob Hardy, dealer in hunters the Tamworth water works Hicklin Henry, Ash grove ·Hutchison Rev. Ernest .A.lexanderM . .A.. & harness horses Reeves Joseph, farmer & coal dealer Wigginton Stud Co. horsekeepers Williams Arth. grocer & mrkt. gardnr (vicar), Vicarage Button Mrs Wilson James, carpenter Wilson Francis, baker, grocer & farm.r Loverock Miss, The Myrtles Wilson John, farmer .ALDERS. Morton William, Fair view OOMBERFORD. "Parker Mrs. Ash grove Baker Mrs. Alders house Smedley Miss, Walford house Peel Wm. Felton, Comberford hall Clarson Henry John, Millfield house ·Smith Mrs Carbel Thomas, farmer Marsden James, The .Alders Caton Robert, shopkeeper & beer retlr "Stratton John, Wigginton house :Moselev• Frederick "Thorn J-ames, The Firs Lowe ThDmas, farmer, Windmill farm Shaw GeDrge R. The .Alders "Thompson Samuel, The Cedars Sherrall John, farmer Marsden Charles & Sons Limited, 'Thompson Thomas, Gwendley HOPWAS. paper manufacturers, .Alders mills Tibbits Miss, Woodlands Wales Martin Samuel, The Limes Ashwood Edwin Godderidge COT ON. ·wallis James, Wood view J ohnson Mrs. The Hollies Sauerlaender Rev. Victor Egmont Redfern Mrs. Wallis Richard Minors, Fair View Redfern J ames Clement, farmer & Woolley Charles William, Fair View M . .A.. (curate in charge of St. Chad'I!) market gardener COMMERCIAL. Shaw Richard, beer retailer ..Eall Thomas, beer retailer & market COMMERCIAL. Spencer JDhn, farmer gard~ner ; teas provided for cyclists .A.shwood .A. G. Chequer's hotel Udale Joseph, farmer, Coton hall ..& tourists Aspley James, cowkeeper Warrington Thos.Wm. farmr.&drymn

\VILLE~HAJ ... L.

WILLENHALL is a parish, and head of a petty sessional 1 Xorth Western and Midland railways have each a passen­ division, on the road from WolverhamptDn to W alsall, 126 ger and goods station here, and a branch of the Binning· miles by rail and rzo by road from London, 26 south-west ham canal runs near the town. from Burton-on-Trent, 14 south-west from , 18 The town was sometime governed by a Local Board, south from Staffqrd, 3! west from Walsall, 3 east from formed under 17 and r8 Vict. c. 53, vut under the pro­ Wolverhampton, and II north-west from Birmingham; in visions of the "Local Government .Act, 1894," an Urban the Eastern division of ·Wolverhampton parliamentary . Di~trict Council of r5 members has been established: it borough, parish, union and county court district of Wol- is well supplied with gas by a company, formed in r836, verhampton, Kingswinford division of the county, Offiow and to whom an Act of Parliament was granted in r857: hundred, rural deanery of Wolverhampton, ar:::hdeaconry" the wate1· works, established in I852, have been tram­ of Stafford and d!ocese of Lichfie!d. The London and ferrt>d to the \Yolv:-rh?.mpt n New Water Works Corn-