DIRECTORY.) . . 377 Brockley Jas. farmr. The Lea sows frm Kingston George, frmr. Street way frm Simmonds Thomas, farmer Brotherton Thomas, blacksmith Lindop Alfd. Isaiah, farmr.Rowley hill Smith Joseph, farmer & carrier Bryan William, Crown P.R Melior George, tarmer Stockbridge Wm. farmer, Wood farm Garner Annie (Mrs.), shpkpr. Post off Pedley Edward, farmer Watkins Frank, farmer Jameson James, farm bailiff to Fras. Ray Frank, butcher & farmer Whitehon~e William Henry,. brick & Monckton esq. D.L., J.P Rogers Thomas, farmer pipe maker STRETTON (near Burton) (or Stretton-cum-Wetmoor) .At Clay Mills, about half a mile north of the village are is a village and township near the Roman Icknield Street iron works now carried on by Mr. William J oseph Smith. and about 2 miles north from Burton, in the The Marquess of Anglesey, who is lord of the manor, and of Burton-on-Trent, and was formed into an ecclesiastical Hugh Spencer Charrington esq. J.P. are the principal parish, November 25, 1873; it is in the Burton division landowners. Tlie soil is light and gravelly; subsoil, of the county, North Offiow hundred, county court dis- various. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley; trict, petty sessional division and union of Bu:rton, and but the greatest portion is pasture land. The area is. in the rural deanery of 'futbury, archdeaconry of Staf- 1,247 acres, inclusive of 27 of water; rateable value, ford and diocese of ; it is bounded on the north £9,967; the population of the civil parish in 1901 was 8S7• by the river Dove and on the east by the Trent, and has and of the ecclesiastical parish of Stretton-cum-Wetmoor, a station on the Burton and Tutbury branch of the St. Mary the Virgin, was 1,46r. North Staffordshire railway. Near Dove Cliff the Trent Parish (Jerk, William Upton. and Mersey canal is conveyed over the river and valley on Station master, Michael Salt an aqueduct of 23 arches. The church of St. Mary, re- Post & M. 0. 0., S. B., .A. & I. 0.-Miss Emma MitcheH, built in 1897, at the expense of J. Gretton esq. from sub-pmo;tmistress. Letters through Burton-on-Trent designs by Messrs. J. T. Micklethwaite and Somers arrive at 6.so a.m. & 3.10 p.m. & dispatched at g.so Clarke, architects, of Westminster, at a cost of nearly a. m. & 6. IS p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at £4o,ooo, is an edifice of stone, with a massive central Horninglow, 2 miles distant tower, and will seat soo persons. The register dates Wall Letter Box, Claymills, cleared 5·45 p.m. week days from the year 1839. The living is a vicarage, with Wet- The Public Elementary School was erected in r874-5, at moor annexed, net yearly value £272, with residence, in a cost of £r,4o5, for 100 children & enlarged in 1876, the gift of John Gretton esq. M.P. of Stapleford Park, for 2IS children; average attendance, II2 boys & giris Leicestershire, and Frederick Gretton esq. of Sudbury & so infants; William Shrewsbury, master; Miss Kate Hall, Derby, and held since 1890 by the Rev. John Watson, assistant mistress; Miss .Annie Chilton, infants• Edwards, of St . .Aidan's. Here is a Free Methodist chapel. mistress Charrington Hugh Spencer J.P. Dove Cotton William Henry, farmer Murlin Edward, shopkeeper cliff Eyre Jn. builder, carpntr.& wheelwght Reeve Arthur J ackson, farmer Edwards Rev. John (vicar), Vicarage Goodman John, refreshment rooms Ri~by Daniel, Anglesey Arms P .H. ; Gretton Mrs Greatorex J oseph, farmer good accommodation for cyclists & Taylor John, Forge Gretton John, farmer & dealer in agri- travellers Walker Francis Hodson, Meadow vil cultural implements Shrewsbnrv• "William, master of school Haywood John William, farmer S'Ifiith W illiam J oseph, sheet iron COMMERCIAL. Jordan John Henry, baker manufacturers, Claymill iron works Ashforth Frederick, joiner Machin Samuel, boot maker Taylor Jn. mgr. to Wm. Josh. Smith Broughton Richard, blacksmith Malin J oseph Henry, shopkeeper 'l'oogood Arthur, farmer Bullock J oseph, tailor Mitchell Emma (Miss), shopkeeper, Turner Robert Henry, beer retailer Carnell Wm. beer retlr. & shopkeeper Post office Walker Samuel, farmer Cotton William Frederick, farmer, Monk Ebenezer, horse breaker, Clay­ White John Wm.fanner, Stretton mnr Branscombe mills SWINDON is a civil parish, formed under the pro- value £220, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of visions of the "Local Government Act, 1894," from that Wombonrne, and held since 1903 by the Rev. Ch,arltoll of , 5 miles north-east from Stourbridge sta- Chinner B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a tion on the Great Western railway, 7 south-west from Congregational chapel in connection with Queen Street Wolverhampton and 6 west from Dudley, in the Kings- chapel, Wolverhampton. The Earl of Dudley is lord of winford division of the county, North Seisdon hundred, the manor and landowner. The soil is of a sandy nature; Seisdon union, Wolverhampton petty sessional division subsoil, sand and gravel. The area is 1,783 acres, inclUJ­ and county court district, rural deanery of Trysull, arch- sive of 24 of water; rateable value, £z,86o; the popula­ deaconry of and diocese of Lichfield. The river tion in 190I was 44S· Smestow and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal Sexton, He ry Haynes. pass through the village. Tbe ecclesiastical parish was 11 constituted January I, 1867. The church of St. John the Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. 0.-Miss Catherin~ Evangelist, consecrated July 11, x854, as a chapel of ease Davis, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Dudley to Wombourne, is a building of stone, in the Gothic style, at 8 a.m. & 5· 25 p.m.; sundays, 8 a.m. ; dispatched at consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a 8 a. m. & 5·4S p.m.-& at 9 a. m. on sundays. The nearest turret containing one bell: the organ was presented by telegraph office is at , z miles distant Col. Thomas B. Shaw-Hellier in 1872, and there are six The Public Elementary School (endowed) (mixed), built stained windows and 300 sittings. The 'register dates in 1864 & enlarged in 1893, for 180 children; averag~ from the year I8S4· The living is a vicarage, net yearly attendance, 95; Frederick 1V. Hart, master Chinner Rev. Charlton B . .A. (vicar) Baldwin's Limited, iron works (W. Plimley Wm.blacksmith& OldBush inn Chinner William, Smestow house Ludlow, manager) Rogers James, farm bailiff to the Earl Giles John Robinson Hampton Eliza Jane (Mrs.), farmer, of Dudley, Whitehouse farm Hickman Mrs Swindon farm Thompson Joseph Hy. Greyhound P.H Reynolds John Hawthorne John, shopkeeper Watkins Thomas, beer ret. & shopkpr Thompson Samuel, Green's for~e Low .Alex. farmer, Chasepool lodge Williams Elizh. (Miss), miller (water) Bratt Saml. beer retlr. & shopkeeper Mundy Charles, farmer & farmer, Hinksford SWYNNERTON is a pleasant village and parish, oaken rood-screen and the belfry stage of the tower are­ about x! miles miles east from Standen Bridge station Late Perpendicular: the church, with the exception of on the and North Western railway, nearly 4 the tower and the north aisle, has been restored at various miles west-by-north from Stone and 144 from London. times during the period r865-Bo: the east window is The parish extends nearly 8 miles from south to north, stained : on the north side is a memorial window to Thos. and is .t!Carcely more than 1 mile in breadth; it is in the Dimmock esq. of Hanley: in the chapel stands a colossal North Western division of the county, North Pirehill stone figure of Our Lord, dug up many years since undel' hundred, Eccleshall petty sessional division, Stone union 1 the adjoining pavement : there are sittings for 250 per~ and county court district, rural deanery of Trentham, sons. The register dates from the year 1558. The livin~ archdeacoury of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. is a rectory, net yearly value £733, including 65 acres of The church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the glebe and residence, in the gift of and held since 1891 Norman, Early English and later styles, consisting of by the Rev. William Robert Frith M.A. of Corpus Christil chancel with chapel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch college, Cambridge. The Catholic church of Our Lady and a western tower containing a clock and 6 bells: the of the .Assumption, built in 187r, is an edifice of stone ill' oldest Pxisting portion of the structure is the lower stage the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel. nave, of the tower, which, with its circular-headed doorway, is western aisle, eastern porch and a belfry containing one­ Norman: th~ nave, chancel and south aisles are of the bell: it has a finely-carved altar and reredos and' twtt middle of the 13th century, the north aisle somewhat stained windows: there are 200 sitting-s. The poor of later, and the Lady chapel of the Decorated period: the the parish have twelve penny loaves distributed weekly