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HEREFORDSHIRE. BRAMPTON Brl DIRECTORY.] HEREFORDSHIRE. BRAMPTON BRl".AN. 29 Job Jn. Knight, schoolmaster, teacher· Manning Mary (Miss), laundry Reynolds Edward, beer ret. TheBrook of music, organist & assistant over- Parker Waiter, butcher Shew Edmund George, farmer & hop seer, The Firs Parmee Alfd. G. Ye Olde Crowne htl grower,Cold green & LowerCold gn J ones George, bailiff to S. Willcox Payne Thomas, farmer & hop grower, Smith Jn. Rd. farmer, Great Catley esq. Grange Merrings farm Spencer Edward, farmer, Woodlow Jones John, carrier, Stanley Hill Pember William, farmer & hop grower, Thompson Edward Ballard, farmer & Karslake Wm. Reginald,frmr.Riddngs I Hill house & North farm hop & fruit .grower, Temple court Lane Edward Thomas, farmer & hop Philpotts Henry, shopkeeper Turner John, farmer .& boot maker, grower, Old court Preece Richard, farmer, Pow Green Briercroft Lane Sivel, farmer, Staplow 1 Price John, farmer, Catley court Turner Robert, farmer,Holly mount Lane William Sivel, farmer & hop & lPullen Jas. shopkeeper, Stanley Hill Warner Henry, beer retailer cider grower, The Farm Pullen Wait. farmer, Little Noverings BRAMPTON ABBOTTS is a parish and scattered Hereford Bird M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. village r~ miles north from Ross station on the Gloucester Charities of about £ro yearly are distributed to the and Hereford section of the Great Western railway and r6 poor. Waiter Dew. esq. of Netherton, and Edward south-east from Hereford, in the Southern division of Morris esq. of Abergavenny, Mon. are the principal land­ the county, Greytree hundred, Ross union, petty sessional owners. 'The soil is principally a sandy loam, with division and county court district, rural deanery of Ross some parts, near the river, gravel; subsoil, clay and and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford; the village is rock. The chief crops are oats and barley. The area about one mile east of the river Wye, which forms the is r,491 acres of land and 29 of water; rateable value, western boundary of the parish. The church of St. £2,448; the population in 19II was 203 in the civil and :VIichael is a building of stone in the Norman style, con- 194 in the ecclesiastical parish. sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western Overton, half a mile north-east, Netherton, a quarter belfry containing 3 bells: the church was restored in uf a mile south, and Gatsford, one mile east, are places r857 at a cost of £6oo, and again restored in 1908 at a cost of about £r,ooo: there is a brass with effigy and here. Overton and Gatsford were occupied by the Romans. inscription to John Rudhale esq. and Jean, his wife, Sexton, Thomas Oakley. ob. 24 Feb. 15o6, and memorial brasses to the Rev. Thomas Sier M.A., D.C.L. of Weston, d. rs92, the late Post Office. John Turner, sub-postmaster. Letters re- Rev. William Hulme M.A. rector here I855-8g, and to ceived through Ross at 6.35 a.m. & 12.5 p.m.; dis- the late Rev. Harry St. Helier Evans, rector here from patched at 6.35 a.m. & 12.5 & 5·-45 p.m.; no sunday r8go, who in saving life was accidentally drowned, 5th delivery. Ross, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money August, 1904 : several of the windows are stained. order & telegraph office The register dates from the year r56r. The living is Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1857, with a rectory, net yearly value £186, including 6 acres of house for master, & ehlarged in 1896, for 67 chil- glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of dren; average attendance, 50; John William Wood- Hereford, · and held since 1905 by the Rev. Reginald thorpe, master (.Marked thus * letters addressed Haslam John Theodore Kingdon, The Dew Waiter, farmer, Netherton Ross only.) Cedars Fish pool William Henry, wheelwright PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ley Mrs. The Lodge *Gammoud Owen J. farmer, Rud- Ritchie George William,The Bellamys hall farm Bird Rev. Reginald Hereford M.A. COMMERCIAL. Matthews Charles Henry, farmer, (rector), Rectory Baxter Ernest Edward, gardener to Townsend farm *Child Herbert Henry B.A. Rudhall I Rev. R. H. Bird M.A I Sainsbury Jn. Horatio, farmer, Overton *Hardwick Nathaniel Jas. Grove ho Blackburn Reuben, assistant overseer BRAMPTON BRYAN, or Brian, is a pleasant village of Coxal! Knoll, is a Homan camp. Brampton Bryan and parish on the road from Ludlow to Knighton, on the Hall, the property and residence of R. G. G. Barley river Teme and on the Shropshire border, one mile and esq. J.P. is a mansion of brick with stone facings, in a half from Buclmell station on the Central Wales line a park of 492 acroo. R. G. G. Barley esq. J.P. is lord of the London and North Western railway, rr~ miles west of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is a rich from Ludlow, 5~ north-east from Knighton, 14 north-west loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, from Leominster and 24 north-west from Hereford, in barley and turnips. The area is 3,oo8 acres of land the Northern division of the county, Wigmore hundred, (inclusive of Pedwardine and Boresford) and 9 of water; Knighton union and county court district, Wigmore petty rateable value, £3,947; the population in 19rr was sessional division, rural deanery of Clun, archdeaconry zs6 in the civil and 421 in the ecclesiastical parish, in­ of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The church of St. cluding the Radnorshire portion. Barnabas, rebuilt after the destruction of Brampton Upper and Lower Pedwardine, I mile south, and Bores­ Bryan castle and town in the time of the civil wars, is a ford 4 south-west, are places in this parish. Robert plain edifice of stone, consisting of nave, south porch G. G. Barley esq. J.P. is lord of the manor. and a small turret with one bell : there are four stained Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Brampton Bryan, Hereford­ windows, including the east window presented in 1888 shire.-Arthur Henry Ed wards, sub-postmaster. Let­ by the lateR. W. D. Harley esq. and the Hon. Patience, ters arrive at 7 a.m. & 4.15 & 4.30 p.m. July, Aug. & his wife : in 1907 a vestry was added at a cost of £8o, Sept. ; sundays, 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5·55 a.m. for and a new organ erected at a cost of £2.50: the church local delivery only & 7.50 p.m.; sundays, 6.so p.m seats 250 persons. The register dates from the year 1598. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £250, ST.ANAGE, a lordship in Radnorshire, is in Bramp­ including 18 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of ton Bryan parish. Stanage Park is the seat of Charles R. G. G. Harley esq. and held since rgrz by the Rev. Coltman Rogers esq. D.L., J.P. who is lord of the Hugh Francis Hastings M.A. of Queens' College, Cam- manor; it is distant 3 miles west from the parish bridge. A fair is held yearly for sheap, cattle and pigs church. The area is 2 , 82 acres ; the population in an the zrst June, and for horses on the zznd June. rgii was r6S. 3 John Edwards esq. in r857 left £1oo invested in Consols, the interest of which is distributed in small Parish Clerk and Sexton, Edward Griffiths. amounts among the poor persons residing in the parish. Public Elementary School (mixed), built with master's The ruins of Brampton Bryan Castle,. probably built house in 186o, for 71 children; average attendance, by Sir Bryan de Barley, are situated close to the 68; Herbert !Bradshaw, master; Mrs. Julia .A.. Brad- church; and immediately across the river, on the top shaw. infants' mistress Barley Robert George Geoffrey J.P. Brown Thomas, joiner Hancox Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer The Hall Buckingham Arthur, gardener to C. Howells George, farmer Hastings Rev. Hugh Francis M.A. C. Rogers esq. M.A., D.L., J.P Jones Edwin, carpenter, Oil mill (rector), Rectory Bywater Richard & John, farmers, Jones William, shoe maker Rogers Charles Coltman M.A., D.L., Lower Pedwardine Messer Waiter V. park keeper to R. J.P. Stanage park Crockett Waiter, head gardener to G. G. Harley esq. J.P R. G. G. Barley esq. J.P Moore Lawton Llewellyn J.P. farmer COMMERCIAL. Edwards .A.rthur Henry, shoe maker, & Morris Joseph, farmer, Hill house .Adams Samuel Jn. steward & clerk post office Preece John, farmer, Wordells of works to R. G. G. Barley esq. Edwards Evelyn (Miss), shopkeeper Pugh John, farmer, Boresford (letters J.P. & agent for Royal Exchange & Goodwin Thomas Bevan, farmer, should be addr~ssed Presteign, Imperial Live Stock Assurance Cos Lower Stanage Radnorshire) .
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