1002 KINGTON. WORCESTERSHIRE. [POST OFFICE , KINGTON is a parish amI villal{e, 9~ miles east from by tIle Rev. Charles Robert Evors, of St. Aidans, who is Worcester, B north-east from Pershore, and B~ west-south non-resident. William Laslett, esq., is lord of the manor west from Alcester, in the Eastern division of the county, and principal landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, clay hundred of Upper Halfsllire, Pershore union and county and sand. The chief crops are wIJeat, oats, bpans, and roots. court district, rural deanery of Pershore, and archdeaconry The area. is 1,000 acres; rateable value, £965; and the and diocese of Worcester. The church of St. J ames i~ a population in 1B71 was 18!. plain Gothic stone building-, con~isting- of chancel and nave, Parish Clerk, Isaac Harris. in need of restoration, with belfry and 3 bells. The reg-ister dates from about the year 1559. The living is a rectory, Letters receiyed through Worcester. The nearest money yearly value £100, in the gift of W. Laslett, esq., and held order offices are at Feckenham & Pershore Burford Charles, farmer Handy Richard, farmer Watson William, farmer Burford John, Red Hart, &farmer Laig-ht George, farmer White Charles, grazier Day WiIliam, farmer Phillips Edmund, farmer White WiIliam, farmer Halford John, miller & farmer Sherwood Thomas, farmer Wilkinson Thomas, thatcher
XNIGHTON-ON-TEME is an ecclesiastical parish are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Jolm formed in 1843 from the civil parish of Lilldridge, and Dodgson CharJesworth Charlesworth, esq., of Chapelthorpe includes the hamlets of NEWNHAM, BrCKLEY, ASTON Hall, Yorkshire, Edward Vincent Wheeler, esq., and Samuel BANK, and THE GREEN, 3 miles north-east from Tenbury, C. Good, esq. The soil is marl and clay; subsoil, g-ravel .') south-west from Cleobury Mortimer, and I mile north and stone. The chief crops are wheat and barley, with east from Newnham Bridge station, in the Western division fruit and hops. The area, including the townships of of the county, hundred of Lower Oswaldslow, Tenbury Upper and Lower Aston and· Netherton, is 2,488 acres, union and county court district, rural deanery ot' Burt'ord, rateable value, £4,266 ; the population, including Newnham, archdeaconryof Ludlow, and diocese of Hereford, near the in 1871 wag 578. At NEWNHAM BRIDGE is a station on river Teme. The church of St. Michael is a small stone the BelVdley and Tenbury branch of the Great We"tern building, having a chancel, nave, and wooden bell towerwith railway. 3 bells. The reg-ister dates from the year [ ]. The living is Parish Clerk, Richard Williams. a vicarage, with residence, yearly value £100, in the g-ift of the vicar ofLindridge, and held by the Rev. Edward Barker Letters received through Tenbury, which is the nearest Wroth, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge. National money order office schools, with master's house attached, were built in 1875, at School, John Brown, mast!'r a cost of about £1,000. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners Railway Station, OliveI' Parsons, station master Barber Jolm, .LP. The Jewkes Corfield Georg-e, farmer Morris Elizbth. (Mrs.), miller,Newnhm Davis Mrs. Maythorn Dillow William, farmer, Corn bank Morris William, farmer & fruit dealer Good Samuel Clark, Aston court Eaton Benjamin, fruit dealer & farmer Perret Alfred, farmer, Bickley Wheeler Edward Vincent, Newnbam Good Ann (Mrs.), farmer Preece Frederick, bailiff to Vincent court Good Charles, wheelwright Eckley, esq., BickJey Wroth Rev. Edward Barker, M.A. Good Samuel Clark,farmer,Aston court Price Benjamin, farmer, Aston [vicar], Vicarage GreavesJames John,farmer, Newnham Reynolds Samuel, farmer Griffin William, blacksmith, Newnham Reynolds Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. Griffiths Thomas, tailor Rowe John, shoe maker, Aston .Austin James, farmer Grosvenor John, farmer Smallman Georg'e, Talbot, Newnham Beckley Samuel, shopkeeper,Newnham Hurds Henry, carpenter Stokes Thomas OliveI', farmer, Bickley Booton J ames, beer retailer & shopkpr Mapp Ann (Mril.), farmer WilIiams Richard, wheelwright BrittenEdwd. rate collector,Bicldey cot Mor.ris George, farmer, Deepcroft Wood WilIiam, Neu' inn
KNIGHTWICK is a village and parish, and station on burial services. The register dates from about the ~'ear tBe Bromyard branch of the Great Western railway, 9 miles 1538. The living is a rectory, with Doddenham annexed, west from Worcester, 5 east from Bromyard, 4 south-west joint yearly value £300, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter from Martley, and 122 from London, in the Western division of Worcester, and held by the Rev. Octavills Fox, M.A., of of the county, hundred of Lower Oswaldslow, union of Lincoln College, Oxford. The charities amount to about Martley, Worcester county courtdistrict, and rural deanery, £10 a year. Francis Edward Williams, eS
KYRE PARVA (or LITTLE KYRE) is a hamlet, 5 Stoke Bliss, the remainder ofwIJich is in Herefordshire. miles south-east from Tenbury, 6 north-by-west from The soil is clayey; subsoil, sandstone. The chief crops are Bromyard, in Upper Doddingtree hundred, and on the hops, fruit, and cereals. Area, 930 acres; rateable value, extreme border of the Western dh-ision of the county, in the £1,066; the population in 1871 wBs137.--Letters through Tenbury union and county conrt district, in the parish of Tenbury, the nearest money order & telegraph office. Davis Reece, farmer ILynass Lawrence, Worcestershire Robinson J oseph, carpenter Dorrell Thomas, farmer, The Hall Arms Thomas John, farmer Finney Charles, farmer, Great hill IPooton Joseph, farmer, The CoUins Town WilIiam, farmer, Orley Hyde William, farmer, The Grove Pugh Joseph, farmer, Little Bannels· Wood Richard, shopkeeper
KYRE WYARD (KYRE MAGNA, or GREAT KYRE) and held by the Rev. Henry Kemp, M.A., ofTrinity College, is a parish, 4 miles south-east from Tenbury, and 7 north- Dublin. Here are nlmshouses for ei~ht widows for this and by-west from Bromyard, in the Western division of the seven adjoining parishes or townships. National schools, county, Upper Doddingtree hundred, Tenbury union amI with master's residence attached, were erected in the parish county court district, rural deanery of Bnrford, archdea- of Stoke Bliss by subscription in 1873, at a cost of about conryofLudlow, and diocese of Hereford. Thechurch(name £1,200, for the parishes of Stoke Bliss, Kyre Wyard, unknown) is a stone structure in the Early English style, Hanley Child, and part of Collington : the schools are sup and consists of chancel, with side chapel and nave. The ported by voluntary subscriptions. William L. Childe, esq., register dates from the year 1694. The living is a rectory, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is yearly value ,£200, in the gift of William L. Childe, esq., clayey j subsoil, sandstone. The chief' crops are cornl grass,