232 STANTON LACY. . [ KELLY'S Jones Wm. shoe maker & parish clerk Morgan William, cowkpr.Hayton's bnt Rickards Edwin,cowkpr.&carrier, Hope Marston Thas. Hy. farmer,Up.Hayton ~orgrove Thoma·s, farmer, Hopton Sambrook Henry, farmer, & relieving MatthewiS John, farmer & shopkeeper, Palmer Edward, farmer, Downton officer for No. 2 district of Ludlow Lower Hayton Perks J oseph, butcher & farmer, union, Hayton's bent *Mellings ThomalS, farmer & way- Lower Hayton Sankey Shadrach,shoema.Hayton's bnt warden, The Pool & Stocking farms Potter Elizh. (Mrs.),faTllir.Up.Hayton Saunders Waiter, farmer,Aintree farm *)1:er~dith Wm. farmer, The Holt Powell James, cowkeeper Slater ThO's. farmer, Upper Hayton Millichamp William, farmer, Downton Reece Richard, farmer, Hopton's gate Whiteman Hy. farmer, Low. Hayton Morgan Jeremiah, cowkeeper, Yew *Rowe John, wheelwright & smith, Williams George, woodman, Hope Tree, fliayton's bent Hayton',s bent LONG STANTON (or STAUNTON) is a pari~h in bread and given to the poor, from funds now vested 6 miles south-east from Longville station on the Wen- in the Charity Commissioners. Larden Cottage, the lock and Craven Arms branch of the Great Western pretty residence of Robert Jasper More esq. M.P., M.A., 'failway, 7~ south-west from and 10 west D.L., J.P. is pleasantly seated in a valley on the road from Bridgnorth, in the Southern division of the county, from to Brocton. J. A. H. Thursby-Pelham lower division of hundred, Bridgnorth union esq. is lord of the manor, and Lord Barnard, Viscount and county court district, rural deanery of Wenlock. Borne, R. J. More esq. M.P. and Mrs. Corser, of Moor archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The house, Shipton, are chief landowners. The soil is of a flows throug-h the parish. By Local Govern- stiff nature; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are cereals. ment Board Order in 1884, and the Divided Parishes Act The area is 2,725 acres; rateable value, £2,612; the in 1882, detached parts of Holdgate were transferred to population in 1891 was 266. Long Stanton. The church of St. Michael is an ancient Brocton township, partly in this parish and partly in building of stone in the Early English style, consisting the parish of Shipton, on the road from Wenlock to of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western turret con- Ludlow, is 2~ miles north and 3 east from Longville iaining 3 bells: the belfry was restored and the bells station on the Craven Arms branch of the Great Western recast in 1893, at a cost of £61: on the south side of railway. Robert Jasper More esq. M.P. is lord of the the chancel is a memorial window to Evan Davies, d. manor; rateable value, £428 8s. 6d. 1849, and his wife Ann, d. 1847; the east window is a Patton township is 3 miles north and 2 south from memorial to Ann, wife of Evan Davies, d. 1862, and Ann Presthorpe station, on the' road from 1Venlock to Lud­ their only daughter, d. 1864: the chancel was restorpd low. Lord Barnard is lord of the manor; rateable in 1869 and the nave in 1870, at a cost of £400, from value, £589 16s. plans by Mr. S. Pountney Smith, architect, of Shrews- Parish Clerk, John Faulkner. bury, when the fine old oak roof was uncovered and Pos, t MOO.. ., SB&.. AnnUl'ty & Insurance Office.- traces of mural painting were found: a· vestry was built Charles Edwards, sub-postmaster. Letters received in the autumn of 1871 : the reredos was erected in through Much Wenlock (Railway Sub-Office) arrive 1890 in memory of Edward Cocks, d. 1873, and Sarah, at 8.20 a.m.; dispatched at 4.45 p.m. The nearest his wife, d. 1887: the church plate is of silver and telegraph office is at Much Wenlcok dates {rom 1571 to 1726. The register dates tram the year 1568. The living is a vicarage, average Wall Letter Box, near Feathers inn, cleared at 5. 1$ tithe rent-charge £95, net £2II, including 66a. 31'. 3p. p.m. week days only of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Parochial School, Brocton (mixed), built in 1845, for 80 Chapter ef Hereford, and held since 1891 by the Rev. children; average attendance, 66; there is a master's John Simpson B.A. Pembroke College, Cambridge. house; Harvey J oseph J ones, master; Mrs. Sarah There are charities of IIS. 8d. yearly value, expended Mary Jones, mistress LONG ST.ANTON. Davies William, jobbing gardener BROCTON. .:M:ore Robert Jasper t.LP., M.A., D.L., Dorrell John, farmer InstoM Edward, Broct()n house J.P. LardeIl cO'ttaget ; & Oxford & Evans William, farmer Blakeway John, farmer CaIDibridge & Brooks' clubs SW James Alfred, wheelwright Childs Richards, Feathers P.H London J ames Ca.therine (Mrs.), farmer Simpson Rev. John B.A. Vicarage Johnson William Barnbrow, farmer PATTON. 'Beddos Ernest, farmer Heighway John, farmer, Corfield Ainsworth Samuel, farmer Bishop Wm. farmer, Little Oxenbold Pea,ree Samuel, carpenter Wadlow .Ann Webster (Mrs.), farmer STAPLETON is a parish and village on the great hac vi~ the University of Cambridge, and held since Toad from Shrewsbury to Ludlow, I mile north from 1894 by the Rev. Hudleston Stokes M.A. of Caius Col­ Dorrington station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford legel Cambridge. Richard Llewellin Purcell-Llewellin section of the London and North Western and Great esqt. M.A. of Underhill Hall, Churton, is lord of the W.estern joint railway and 6 miles south from Shrews- manor and chief landowner. The soil is sand, clay and bury, in the Western division of the county, Condover gravelly; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, division of Condover hundred, Atcham union, Shrews- turnips, barley and clover. The area is 2,352 acres; bury county court district, petty sessional division of rateable value, £4,374; the population in 1891 was 245. Condover, rural deanery of Condover, archdeaconry of Parish Cl~rk, Thomas Ferrington. Salop an~ di.ocese of ~ichfiel~ ..The church of S~. John Netley is a township 2 miles south and three quarters the..Baptist IS an.anCIent build~n~ of stone of dIfferent of a mile sonth from Dorrington station. Netley Hall is perlOds, and conSIsts of two dIstinct churches, erect.ed the residence of the Rev. St. LegeI' F. Hope-Edwardes ~me ov~r the other, and now thrown together; the earlier B.A., J.P. who owns the township. IS consld~red to b~ of the IIth cen~ury, t~e later of the Shady Moor, I mile south, Lower Moat, I south-west. Early Pomted penod (II90-1245): It conSIsts of chanc~l Upper Moat, I! south-west, and Vinnels, I west-by-north and nave, and an embattled western tower erected m are hamlets the present century and containing 2 bells; the church' . was restored in 1867, and will seat 122 persons: in the Post Office.-T. Oakley, sub-postm~ster. Letters arrIve chnrchyard enlarO'ed during the restoration there is a from Shrewsbury at 9 a.m.; dIspatched at 4 p.m. large and'very ~urious tumulus of supposed Saxon rr:he nearest money order & telegraph office is at Dor- origin. The register dates from the year 1699. The rmgton living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £430, net Nathional School (mixed), built with residence for mis- yearly value £350, including 10 acres of glebe, with tress, in 1873, for 50 children; average attendance, residence, in the gift of the Earl of Denbigh, but pro 35; Miss H. M. Gill, mistress STAPLETON. Glover Harriet ()Irs.), blacksmith NETLEY. Stokes Rev. Hudleston M.A. (rector), Jones William, farmer, Olde f.arm Rectory Needs Arthur, farmer, Upper moat Hope-Edwardes Rev. St. LegeI' Fredk. Timmi& Richard, The Sycam()res Phillips HaIlIJlah (Mrs.),frmr.Shady mr B.A., J.iP. Netley hall Bowers James, joiner Pow~ll Benjamin, farmer, Shady mOOr Jones Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Davies Evan, farmer Roberts John R. farmer, Bridge farm Massey Jas. Hy. frmr. Lower Netley Evans Thomas, farmer, Oak villa Tomkiss Charles, wheelwright Roberts Robert, farmer Fox Thomas, farmer, Lower moat Tudor Richard, shoe maker Savage Herbert, farmer STIRCHLEY is a parish and village, with a station from Shrewsbury, in the Mid division of the county, half a mile distant from the village on the Wellington Wellington division of South Bradford hundred, petty and Coalport branch of the London and North Western sessional division of Wellington, Madeley union and railway, 3 miles west from Shifnal, 5~ south-east from county court district, ~ural deane;ry of Shifnal, arch­ Wellington, 2 north from Madeley and 17 wuth-east deaconry of Salop and dlOcese of Llchfield. The church