198 STAFFORDSHIRF. (KELLY'B Russell, and containing a white marble monument by sion with a lofty square tower and turret, in the Tudor Go­ Chantrey, to David Tike Watts esq, father flf Mrs. WatU!- thic sl.yle, erected by the late J. Watts-Ru11sell esq.: the Russell: in the church are several tombs of the Meverell beautiful RCenery of the grounds surrounding the Hall is said family of Thr~wley Hall, including a marble altar tomb to have suggested to Dr. Johnson his description in" Rasse­ owith effigies, to Robert Meverell,-ob. 1626, and Eiizabeth las," lOf the" ha'PPY valley:" in a grotto near the mansion 11 his "Wife, ob. 16281 daughter(){ Sir Thomas Fleming knt. Congreve wrote his Old Bachelor" (1~3). The Right Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (x6o7-13): there Hon. R. W. Hanbury P.c., M.P. who is lord of the manor, js also a monument. with the kneeling effigy of a female the Earl Cathcart and Lieut.-Col. Albert l''rederic Hurt D. L., and four smaller figures, to Elizabeth, daughter and sole J. P. of Alderwasley Hall, , are the principal landowners. heire8s of the above Robert and Elizabeth Meverell and The soil is light;- subsoil, limestone. The land is chiefly in wife of Thomas, fourth Lord Cromwell, Viscount Lecale pasture. The area of the parish is 3,571 acres of land and and Earl of Ardglass in the peerage of Ireland, and to her 31 of water; rateable value, [3,942 ; the population of Ilam, four children( but without date; he died in x653: in the with Throwley and Castern, in 1B9x was 246. south chancel aisle is Q. singular shrine of Early English THROWLEY is on the opposite bank of the river Manifold, date, assigned to St. Eertram, of : tbere are other xt miles north-west frem llam. Throwley Hall, the property memorials to the Ports, who form13rly held the manor z the of the Earl Cathcart, is a large and ancient mansion in the ~ont dates from about the 1 rth century: several of the Tudor style, formerly occupied by the Meverells, but is now windows are stained, and there are 200 sittings. The falling into ruins. -·­ register dates from the year 1656. The living is a vicarage, CASTERN, one mile north from Ilam, consists of a few average tithe rent-charge [304, net yearly value [250, with farmhouses; Castern Hall, the property of Lieut.-Col. A. F. resilience, in the gift of the Hight Hon. Robert William Han• ,Hurt ~ occupied as a farmhouse. bury p.c.• H.P., D.L., J.P. and held since 1875 by the Rev. Parish Clerk, William Twigge. (,i-ray Granville M.A. Christ Church, Oxford, and rural dean J>osT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Frances Hodgkinson, sub-postmistress. of Alstonfield. The scenery around is of the same magnifi- Letters arrive from Ashborne at- 8 a.m. ; dispatched at (,'Cnt and romantic character which distinguishes the Peak of 4· 55 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. , and abounds iiJ. lofty hills and banging woods r Tissington is the nearest money order office & l<'enny in the village is an exq~isitely-designed cross and drinking Bentley the nearest telegraph office fountain in the Decorated style, erected in 1840 by her School (mixed), built in x854, for about go children; average husband, in memory of t.be first Mrs. Watts-Russell, Ilam attendance, 49; & endowed by the late Mr. Watts-Russell; :aall, the seat of the Right Hon. Robert Wil!iam Hanbury the income is about £120, derived from 137 acres of land ; P.c., ¥.P •• D.L., J.J>. is a large and elegant embattled man- Henry Wyatt, master GranviHe Rev. Gray H. A. [vicar & rural Evans William, farm bailiff to the Rt. Maulton John, farmer, Throwley hall & dean], Vicarage Hon. R. W. Hanbury P.C., M.P. Cas- assistant overseer Hanbury Right Hon. Robert William tern hall Morris William, blacksmith P.C.,H.P., D.L., J.P. Ilamball; Sidney Hall John William, farmer, Slade bo Newbury Ernest, head gardener to the lodge, Wimbledoncommon&Carlton Han·is WiUia.m, farmer, Damgate Right Hon. R. W. HanburyP.c., M.P club, London s w Hodgkinson Frances (Mrs. ),shopkeeper, Plant Thomas, farmer, Ilam tops Post office Prince William, Izaak Walton hotel & COMMERCIAL. Howson Jas.Burnett,frmr. Tbrowley mr posting house, first class accommoda- Bradbury Walter, farmer, Damgate Howson Jesse, farmer, Tbrowley tion for visitors, Dove dale Enoch, farmer, Steeple house Loose Benjamin, farmer, Tbrowley Wood William, fanner, Throwley .Dent John, .farmer, Garden farm Massey Anthony, farmer, Miners cott INGEST RE is a parish, l! miles south from Ingest re value £.340, including 25 acres of glebe and residence, in the station on the Stafford and section of the Great gift of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, and held since Northern raHway and ~ west from Hixon station on the x884 by the Hev. James Bradsbaw M.A. of St. Catherine's North railway, over which the London and GJllege, Cambridge. lngestre Hall, the seat of the Earl of North Western railway has running powers, 4 east-nor'tb- Shrewsbury and Talbot, is a noble structure in the Eliza­ east from Stafford and 132i from London, in the Western betban style, with domed turrets and bay windows (the division of the county, South Pirehill hundred, St-afford garden front being a reproduction by Nash of the old work), union, petty sessional division and county court district, and is 'Situated on a declivity, in a well-wooded park of and in the rural deanery and arcbdeaconry of Stafford and about 300 acres, surrounded by abont Boo acres of grass land diocese of . The church of St. Mary, standing in and plantations, which extend into Hopton, in the parish of the park and adjoining Ingestre IIall, is a small but attrac- St. Mary, Stafford: this mansion, with the exception of the tive building in the Italian style, consisting of chancel, nave east wing, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on October and a balustraded tower, containing 6 bells : it was rebuilt 12th, x88:;i, but its restoration to its original character, with in 1676 by Waltet Cbetwynd e.sq. royalist and antiquary, the addition of various modern improvements in the interior who died in x6g2, and on the south wall of the chancel is a arrangements, was begun in r883 and completed in r885: tablet to his memory: in 1he nave is a monument to Lady the mansion is lighted with 1he electric light and connected Victoria Susan Talbot, eldest daughter of the x8th Earl of by telephone with the Stafford post office : the park is Shrewsbury and 3rd Earl Talbot, d. at Naples 8June, 1856: bounded on the east by the , over which is a in the chancel are various monuments to the Chetwynd bridge, connecting Ingestre with Weston parish: the gar­ family, including one to Charles Chetwynd Earl Talbot ][.G. dens cover about 7 acres of land. The whole of the land be­ d. to Jan. 1849, and on the north side a very handsome me- longs to the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, who is lorrl of moria! of white marble to Henry John Chetwynd Tal bot, 18th the manor. The soil is sandy; subsoil, mar! and sandstone. Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford and 3rd Earl Tal bot, d. The land is nearly all pasture. The area is 868 acres of land 4th June, r868: the stained east window was erected by the and rr of water; rateable value, £1,922; the population in present Earl of Shrewsbury in memory of his father, Charles 1891 was 192. John Chetwynd ~albot,_ 19th ~rl, d. uth May, 1877; .there PosT 0FFICE.-.William Ducie, sub-postmaster. Letters are two other stamed WI~~ows m the chancel an~ one m the received through Stafford, arrive at 6. 45 a. m.& 3.30 p.m.; nave, erecte? to Sa~ah Elizabeth (Beresford), Widow of Hy. dispatched at 7_45 p.m. Postal orders are issued hflre, J!Jhn, x8th Earl of ~brewsb~ry and 3r_d ~arl Tal bot, d. 13th but not paid. Great Haywood & Weston are the nearest ~et. x884 : the Tal bot f~mily vault lS m t~e c~mrcbyard: money order offices & lngestre railway station the nearest. m 1886 the church was lighted by the electric hgbt at the telegraph office sole cost of the Earl of Shrewsbury: there are 140 sittings. The register dates from the year 1676. The living is a rec- The children of this place attend the school at Great Hay- tory, tithe rent-charge £525, average £38;>, net yearly wood. Shrewsbury &. Talbot Earl of, lngestre Ducie William, woodman to the Earl Mynors Waiter Charles Towers, agent. hall; & 13 Upper Brook street w &. & shopkeeper, Post office &. steward to the Earl of Shrewsbury & Talbot Carlton club, London s w Estate Otfioe & Saw Mills i( W. C. T. Bradshaw Rev. James M.A. Rectory Mynors, agent) Mynors W. Towers, private secretary Bull James J.P. Birch hall Gilman Edward, head gardener & farm to the Earl Mynors Waiter Charles Towers, Little bailiff te the Earl Snelgrove Fdk. stud groom to the Earl Ingest re White Jn. bead gamekeeper to the Earl is a large village and parish on the declivity St. ·Leonard is a building of stone in the Gothic style, con­ of a lofty eminence, 2 miles north from Froghall station on sisting of nave, south porch and an embattled western Ule Churnet Valley seetion of the North Staffordshire rail­ tower, with four pinnacles, containing a clock and one bell: way, 5 north from Cheadle and 6 south-east-by-south from in the church is a large marble monument to John Sneyd Leek, in the Leek division of the county, hundred of North esq. D.L., J.P. of Helmont Hall, d. t8og, his three wives and Tutmonslow, Leek petty !lesllional division, union and county descendants, and there are several monumental urns to the conrt district of Cheadle, Leek rura.l deanery, Stoke-on­ same family: in 1877 the church wall renovated and a Trent ln'chdeaconry and Licbfield diocOBe. The chureh af 11tained -window added at a cost of _£r,2oo, under tha