DIRECTORY.] . . 169 with stone, and will hold 300 persons ; concerts, enter­ building of stone in the Early English style, consisting tainments &c. are held here. The Court House, in High of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a low street, is a structure of brick faced with stone in the embattled central tower containing one bell: the stained Perpendicular style ; it comprises police court, magis­ east window was presented by Mrs. John Salt; there is trates' rooms and clerk's office. The Assembly Rooms another to the Founder, and a marble reredos, erected are in High street. The Market Hall, in High street, in 1902 by the Bev. Frederick J. Salt, as a memorial to was erected in I884 at a cost of £8oo: there is a his parents: in a niche on the exterior of the sanctuary reading room on the first floor, and a billiard room is a figure of St. Chad with a dedicatory inscription: was added in I895; the market is held on Friday. there are 143 sittings. .At Brocton there is a. Primitive Cattle sales are held here every alternate Monday, and Methodist chapel, erected in r867 and seating So. .A are well attended. Wakes are held here on the drinking fountain of stone was erected here in I884 by Monday and Tuesday after Trinity Sunday. A horti­ John Charles Salt esq. of London. cultural show is held an11ually in July. The Fire SUGN ALL is a hamlet of scattered houses, 2 miles Brigade Station, in High street, was erected in 1891; ncrth-west on the road from Eccleshall to W oore. Sug­ there are two manual engines. The benefactions to the nall House, standing in a well-wooded park, is the seat poor are the right of pasturage for 16 poor persons' cows of Charles Edwin Lowe esq. from Lady Day to Michaelmas on 32 acres of land left Badnall or Three Farms is a hamlet 2! miles north. in 1612 by Sir John Pershall, which has been commuted At Badnall wharf is a goods station on the London and to £48 yearly for poor inhabitants of Eccleshall; £1o North Western railway. yearly arising {)Ut of an estate at Norbury, for apprenticing one poor child out of Horsley division, left WALTON is a hamlet, r! miles south-east. Walton in 1708 by Sir Charles Skrymshire; [.2o yearly for Hall, a large mansion of stone, is now occupied by Sir apprenticing poor children of Croxton township, and Henry A.rthur Wiggin hart. D.L., J.P. Here is a Baptist £2o to the minister of Broughton chapel; £5 ss. for Mission hall, erected in I 877. the education of poor children in Charnes township ; and Wootton is a hamlet, 1! miles south. 2os. to be given to the poor in bread ; Mrs. Deakin left Parish Clerk, Charles Hardy. in 1891 the interest of £1oo to be given every third Post, M. 0. & T. 0. & Telephone Call Office, High year to the poor of Eccleshall. The poor of Chorlton street.-Miss Letitia K. Smith, postmistress. Letters chapelry have Ios. in bread t-nnually. Eccleshall Castle, received through Stafford. Letters from London & all for years the seat of many bishops of the diocese of parts are delivered at 7 a.m. & 3.30 p.m. ; sundays, , stands a short distance from the town, but 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 8.30 p.m.; sun­ the numerous alterations and additions it has under­ days, 8.30 p.m.; telegrams can be dispatched on sun­ gone have deprived it of its ancient castellated appear­ days from 8.30 to 10 a.m ance; one ivy-covered tower and bridge alone remain to Post Office, Sugnall. Joseph Ferriday, sub-postmaster. mark the position of the ancient fortress, which appears Letters arrive through Stafford at 6.40 a.m. & 4 p.m. ; to have been first embattled by Bishop Geoffrey de dispatched at 6.50 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. week days only. Muschamp (II98-I2q), who obtained a licence for this Eccleshall, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order purpose from King John in I2oo, the structure having & telegraph office previously been but a manor house. W alter de Langton, Post Office, Slindon.-Miss Mary Browti, sub-postmis­ Bishop of Coventry (1296-132I), rebuilt the castle, which, tress. Letters through Stafford are dispatched at 9 during the civil war, was held for the king, but was a.m. & 6.45 p.m. week days Qnly. Eccleshall, 2 miles taken and dismantled by the Parliamentary forces before distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office I646, and received so much injury that at the Restora­ Wall Letter Boxes, Elford Hill, cleared 7 p.m.; Garme­ tion it wa!! no longer available as a residence for the Iow, cleared 6.20 p.m.; Copmere End, cleared 6.20 bishops. Bishop Lloyd rebuilt the structure, and resided p.m. ; Stone road, cleared at 9 a.m. & 7.40 p.m. week here about 1698, but since then various additions and days; Stourbridge, cleared at 6.40 p.m.; Pershall, alt-erations have been made; it continued to be the cleared at 6.45 p.m.; Wootton, cleared 6.30 p.m. week episcopal residence until the death of Bishop Lonsdale days only in I867, when the castle ceased to be an episcopal palace, and the estate is now the property and residence COUNTY MAGISTRATES ECCLESHALL PETTY of George William Carter esq. M.A. who purchased it SESSIO~AL DIVISION. in I905; the greater part of the walls enclosing the Burne Sambrooke Thomas Higgins esq. Loynton hall, moat, and the two-arched bridge which crosses it are Newport, Salop, chairman still intact, and one of the four flanking towers still Fitzherbert Basil Thomas esq. D.L. Broadway, Worcester remains: Bishop Hough (17oo-17) is said to have planted FitzherbE'rt Lieut.-Col. Francis Edward D.S.O. Meretown the grove, and the grounds were laid out by Bishop house, Newport, Salop Cornwallis. Johnson Hall, about I mile from the town, Garde Richard Davis esq. Biana, Eccleshall, Stafford in a well-wooded park, is the residence of William Moat Harrison Fredc. James esq. Maer hall, Newcastle-under­ esq. J.P. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are Lyme lords of the manor, the Earl of Lichfield, Major Sir Hinchliffe Rev. Edmund Henry, Mucklestone rectory, Thomas A. Salt hart. J .P. of Stanton Hall, Stafford, Marke"t Drayton Mrs. Chambers, Mr. John Buckley Norris and George Moat William esq. Johnson hall, Eccleshall, Stafford William Carter esq. ~re the principal landowners. The Salt Major Sir Thomas Anderdon bart. Stanton hall, soil is varied ; subsoil, marl. The chief crops are oats, Stafford barley, wheat, potatoes and turnips; there is a large Turner W. Derington ~q. Weston Wood, Newport, Salop amount of pMturage. The parish is divided into four Viclrers Edward Valentine esq. Elford grove, Eccleshall, quarters viz. the Eccleshall quarter, Cotes, Horsley Stafford and Woodland quarters and twenty-one townships. Wiggin Sir Henry A.. hart. D.L. Walton hall, Eccleshall, This is the largest parish in the county, containing Stafford ~~.755 acres of land, including about 2,300 of woodland Yonge Rev. Vernon George B.A. Charnes hall, Eccles· and I46 of water; rateable value, £42,488 ; the popu­ hall, Stafford lation in I9II was 3,683 ; the population of the district The Chairmen of the & Stone Rural District attached to the mother chul'ch in I9II was 2,375. Councils are ex-officio magistrates Aspley is a hamlet, 3 miles north-east from Eccleshall Clerk to the Magistrates, J oseph Saml. Lea, Eccleshall and 3 miles south-west from Standon Bridge station on the London and North Western railway. Petty Sessions are held at the Court house, Eccleshall, the second & last Thursday in every month, except HORSLEY is a large hamlet, 2 miles south-west. from De-cember, at II a.m. Places in the Petty Sessional Eccleshall. Copmere is an extensive sheet of water Division: , Ashley, Forton, , Knight­ covering about 40 acres. Borsley Hall, a large mansion ley, Cold Norton, Eccleshall, Ellenhall, Norbury, High of red brick, erected in 1883, is the seat of Mrs. John R. Offiey, Standon, , Weston Jones Morris. GA.RMELOW, Copmere End and OfHey Hay are also PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. hamlets~ The school room at Offiey Hay is licensed for Assembly Room, High street, Mrs.Mary Ann Baker,propr divine service. County Police Station, High street, John Thomas Ci>oke, Pershall is a township, I mile north-west. sergeant & x constable SLINDON is a hamlet, 2 miles north from Eccleshall Eccleshall Parish Council Fire Brigade, High street, and 2! south from Standon Bridge station on the Martin Hart, captain & I I men London and North Western railway. The church of St. Market Hall, High street, Henry Garliek, hon. sec Chad, a chapel of eai!e to Holy Trinity, erected in 1894• Town Hall, High street, Charles William Attwood, propr from the designs of Mr. Basil Champneys, architect, at Weighing Machine, Stafford street, Herbert Turner, the sole cost ol John Charles Salt esq. of London, is a proprietor