DIRECTORY.) . KINNERSLEY. 337 Edwa.rds is lord of the manor. Mrs. Davies, H. R. Giles PosT OFFICB.-John Williams, receiver. Letters arrive from esq. (Ellesmere) and David Clarke esq. are principal land­ about 9 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest owners. m~ney order & telegraph office is at Lla.nymynech Low:eR , or Maesbrook Issa, is a township 2 LLWYN-Y-GO, Four Ashes and The Wood are places here. miles west from and 7 south from Oswestry : it consists chiefly of rich meadow lands, on the banks of the DYFFRYD is a small place I mile south, the property of J. H. Redman esq. Vyrnwy1 on the sonth side of the parish. The Earl of Brad­ ford P.c. who is lord of the manor, H. Ferrers Ferrers, OsBASTON is a small township 2 miles north-west-by­ Edward Ward and Frederick A. Payne esqrs. are the prin­ west, and 5 south from Oswestry, and is bounded on the cipal landowners. The area is 831 acres; rateable value, west by the river Morda. The landowners are the Earl of £1,329 IOS. Bradford P.c. who is lord of the manor, Mrs. Dymock and UPPER MAESBROOK, or Maesbrook Ucha, is a village and Mr. Samuel Ward. The area is 547 acres; rateable value, township, with a station on the Shropshire railway from £814· (on completion of the work), 2i miles west, and PoST OFFICE, Kinnerley.-Edward Goff, receiver. Letters 6 south from Oswestry : it lies on the western verge of the arrive from Oswestry at 7-45 a.m.; dispatched at 5.15 county, being separated from Montgomeryshire by the river p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Vyrnwy. St. John's church, erected in 1878, at a cost of , also for the following townships-Argoed, [2,000, is a building of stone in the Early English style, Dovaston, Edgerley, Kynaston, Osbaston & 'fyr-y-coed from designs by the late Mr. Hancock, architect, of Shrews­ for Maesbrook Issa at . Letters for Osbas· bury, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a western ton through Oswestry. Postal orders are issued here,Jtut turret containing one bell. There are also Baptist and Primi­ not paid tive Methodist chapels here. Pentre Ucha Hall, the seat of Frederick Alexander Payne esq. is a handsome mansion, in ScHOOLS:- ornamental grounds, commanding good views. The Earl of National (mixed), built in 1857, with teacher's residence, Bradford, who is lord of the manor, H. Ferrers lt'errers, for 140 children; average attendance, 99; John Edward F. A. Payne, E. Ward and Samuel Ward esqrs. are the Wright, master principal landowners. The soil is light and gravelly. The National (mixed), Maesbrook Ucha, built in 1876, for 6o township contains 1,o64acres; rateable value, [1,743 ss. children; average attendance, 36; Miss Lilla Evans, mist Xinnerley. Richards George, beer retailer Thomas MaryAun(Mrs.),farmer,Grove Meredith Rev. John Blunt B.A.Vicarage Edgerley. Ward Edward, farmer & landowner, Cottle Isabel (Miss), ladies' school COMMERCIAL. Pentre Perva Goff Edward, grocer&draper,Post office Bevan Albert, tax collector, Rookery Williams William, cowkeeper Hanmer Martha (Mrs.), miller (water) Bevan Edward, farmer Maesbrook Ucha, or Upper. & farmer Bowdler John, cowkeeper Howell Samuel, pump maker Davies William, boot & shoe maker Lyon Frederic Edwd. Maesbrook house Jones Thomas, boot & shoe maker Evans John, beer retailer Payne Fredk. Alex. Pentre Ucha hall Owen Charles, blacksmith Evans Robert, stone mason Ward Samuel, The Wood Reeves Wm. monumental mason & bldr GreenMartha(Mrs. ),shopkpr.Post office COMMERCIAL. Smith Alfred, baker, confec.:tioner & Jones John, farmer, Duck land Blayney Herbert, farmer grocer, The Stores Jones John, Royal Hill P.H. & wheei- Bebb Richard, farmer, Dyffryd Thomas William, Cross Keys P.H wright & joiner EdwardsWilliam,BlackHorse P,H. ;good Wellings William, butcher ' Jones Sarah Maria (Mrs.), farmer, accommodation for anglers Williams David, harness maker Brook house Ethelston Robert William, farmer & Axgoed Lewis John, fa..,rmmer, Dock land threshing machine proprietor • Lloyd Edward, farmer Evans Richard, farmer, Dyffryd Fardoe John~ cowkeeper Lloyd Joseph, farmer Evans Thomas, farmer Heaney Dav1d, farmer Lloyd Richard, farmer Lloyd John, farmer, !<'our Ashes Rogers Henry, farmer, The Poplars Pearce John cattle dealer Brookside Pryce William Price, blacksmith Rogers William,farmer Thomas Ed;ard, farmer, Cae-howell Tudor George, farmer Dovaston. Thomas John, farmer, The Hall Ward Sl.farmer & landowner, The Wood Walker John, farmer Ward Harry, farmer Price John, Springfield cottage Wilde Isaac, cowkeeper Morgan George John, Dovaston house Xynaston. Williams Jn. shopkpr.&coal dlr.Post off Bevan Thomas, farmer Beddoe Ann (Mrs.), cowkeeper Edwards John, farmer • Cambidge Henry, farmer Osbaston. Edwards Thomas, cowkeeper Payne John, cowkeeper Wallace Mrs Hanmer Thomas, farmer Roherts Richard, cowkeeper Candlin Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Houlston John, boot & shoe maker Rodgers Edward, farmer & landowner Davies Thomas Green, farmer, TbeRolly Jones Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wildblood Mary Ja.ne (Miss), farmer Griffiths Edward, cowkeeper Lewis John, carpenter Ward Samuel, farmer Lloyd William, wheelwright Maesbrook Issa. Wilde Edward, farmer Morgan George John L.K.Q.C.P.r. sur- Bennett Richard, cowkeeper geon, & medical officer & public vac- Jackson Thos. frmr. Pentre Heylin hall Tyr-y-Coed. cinator, No. 5 district, Oswestry Mansell Frederick, farmer Lewis Elizabeth (Mrs.) & John,farmers union, Dovaston house Morris John, farmer Parkes Thomas, farmer Morris John, farmer Owen Richard, farmer, Pentre Heylin Price Edward, farmer KINNERSLEY is a parish and village on the Weald Burn B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. About half a Moors, between Wellington and Newport, 4 miles north- mile from the village is a large earthen rampart, which east-by-east from Wellington, about 13~ north-by-east from encloses upwards uf 20 acres of land and surrounds the Shrewsbury and 3 south-east from Crudgington station lmildings of the Wall Farm; the encampment is supposed on the Wellington and Market Drayton branch of the Great by some to be British. The Duke of ~utherland K.G. is lord Western railway, in the Northern division of the county, of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is light sand, Newport division of South Bradford hundred, Wellington favourable for the growth of ba.rley and turnips; the sub­ union and county court district, petty sessional division soil is chiefly red sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, of Newport, rural deanery of Edgmond, archdeaconry of barley, turnips and clover. The- area is 1,822 acres, of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St. Chad which 104 "· 3B. 141'. are wood~ and plantations; rateable is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, value, [2,773 ; the population in 1881 was 214. consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western Parish Clerk, Richard Davies. tower containing 3 bells: in 1884 a south porch was added PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Margaret Williams, sub-postmistress. and the church thoroughly restored internally, the cost Letters arrive from Letton (Railway Snb·Office) at 8 a.m.; being about £6oo, and in 1891 a new organ was intro- dispatched at 4·45 p.m. The nearest money order & duced, at a further cost of £. 120, the whole being defrayed telegraph office is at Eardisley. Postal orders are issued by public subscriptions : there are 112 sittings. The here, but not pai~ register dates from the year t691. The living is a rectory, Parochial School, built in 1872, for 100 children; average tithe rent-charge £265, gross yearly value [384. including attendance, 43; supported in part by the Duke of Suther- 88 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of land & the rector; there is a mMter's house; George Sutherland K.G. and held since 1875 by the Rev. Andrew Henry James Slayton, master Burn Rev. Andrew B.A.Rectory Felton Mary (Mrs.), farmer Taylor Richard, farmer Ballard Alfred, fatmer Machin George, blacksmith Williams Margaret (Mrs.), Crown P.H. Cotton Benjamin, farmer Mason Harry, farmer, Manor house & farmer, Post office navies Richard, wheelwright&farmer