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DIRECTORY.] SHROPSHIRE. MIDDLE OR MYDDLE. 141 ltEOLE BRACE (or Brace Meole), a village and parish, arising from legacies left in 1843 by John Evans, Shrews· a.bout I! miles south from Shrewsbury and, 154 from bury, Miss Flavel, of Pulley, in 1868, and other minor London, includes the following townships, viz. :-Pulley, charities known as Chessus's, Povey's and Penaud's gifts. Nobold with Hook-a-Gate, Newton and Edgebold (the two About I! miles from the village is Sharpstone Hill and latter fonning one township), and is in the Western divi- about 3 miles distant is Lyth Hill, both celebrated for sion of the county, CoBdover hundred, partly in the the beauty of their scenery. Edward W. Bather esq. of borough and in the county court district of Shrewsbury, Chelford, Cheshire, is lord of the manor and principal Atcham union, petty sessional division of Condover, rural landowner. The soil is a light loam; subsoil, gravel and deanery of Pontesbury, archdeaconry of Ludl<>w and sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The diocese of Hereford. A detached part of the parishes of area is 2,938 acres; rateable value, £II,361; the popula St. Julian and St. Chad, of Shrewsbury, was added! to tion in 1891 was 1,608 in the civil and 1,804 in the eccle this parish, for civil purposes only, in 1885, and at the S'iastical parish. same time the part of Meole Brace within Shrewsbury Parish Clerk, Th<>mas Evaus. borough was added, for civil purposes, to St. Julian. Town Sub-Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery &; The Meole brook, or Rover Rea, flows by the village. The Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Fanny Holder, sub. Great Western and London and North-Western joint rail- postmistress. Letters arrive from Shrewsbury at 4.45 way from Shrewsbury to Hereford, and to Welshpool and a.m. & delivered at 7 a.m. & are also delivered by foot the Potteries pass through the parish. The church of the messenger from Shrewsbury at 2.30 p.m. & dispatched Holy Trinity, erected in 1867, is a cruciform structure of at 8.45 p.m Red Hill stone, with freestone dressings, in the Early Wall Letter Boxes, cleared at ILIO a.m. & 4 2 5 k 8.10 Decorated style, consisting of a semi-octagonal. b . I apsidalth p.m. ; Nobold, cleared at 6.15 p.m.; by Cidemetery,c eare chance,I smaII t ransept s, nave 0 f SIX ays, aIS es, sou porch and a massive north-western embattled tower con- at 8 ~ IL5 a.m. & 4. 20 & 8·5 p.m b '1 taining a clock and 3 bells: the interior is fitted with open National School (mixed), with residence for master, Ul t oak seats, and there are five stained windows and a marble in 1861, & enlarged in 1893, for 215 children; average reredos. The register dates from the year 1681. The ~~:~~~:'wt~:~~:~r J. Jeff, master; Miss JanQ living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge commutation value £390, gross yearly value of living £428, including 7~ Hook-a-Gate, 2 mileS' south-west on the road frGm acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Edward W. Shrewsbury to Montgomery, is now united to Annscroff; Bather esq. and held since 1858 by the Ven. Henry Francis for ecclesiastical purposes. Bather M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, prebendary Newton and Edgebold township is 2! miles west. Mrs-. of Hereford and Archdeacon of Ludlow. The Shrewsbury Scott and Edward W. Bather esq. are the chief land General Cemetery is in this parish. The hospital here owners. Bricks and tiles are made here. wall founded and endowed in 1844 by Mr. Evans, of the Nobold township is one mile west. Mrs. Holmes, of parish of St. Chad, Shrewsbw:y, for nine widows or spin. Ryton and Major Berrington are the principal landowners. sters, each having a house and garden and an allowance Pulley township is one mile south. G. E. Kennersley of £2 quarterly; the yearly income of the hospital is about esq and Edwardl W. Bather esq. are the principal land [,102; the other .charities amount to about £18 yearly, owners. MEOLE BRAJOE. Tweed RO'bert P. The Gables Working Men's Club (Wm. William~ _ PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Watton John William, The Cottage sec) Atkinson-Mrs. Stanley house Wilcox George William, Oaklea The EDGEBOLD. Eather Mrs. A. H. The Hall Williams-Freeman Oapt. George, Bather Ven. Archdeacon Henry Fras. Ivy house Edgebold (The) Brick Works (William Broad, manager), brick makers M.A. Vicarage COMMERCIAL. J ones David, fanner Bather Miss, Broome cottage Perks James, fanner Bather Mrs. Edward, The Cottage Beale Alfred, furniture removr.Rea pI Beckwith Miss, Radbrooke house Bennett William, shopkeeper NEWTON. Binnall Rie-hard, Lea grove EvaIlS George, cowkeeper, R1ad'brook Blunt Mrs. Brookside Franklin Henry, fanner, Bank farm Nticke!s J<>hn Tetley, farmer, The' Day Bunney William, Fairleigh Hiles Thos. fanner &; miller (water) house Clarke Richard Edwd. The Rocks Holder Fanny (Mrs.), servants' regis- Perks J ames', farmer Evans William, Washford lane try office, & post office NOBOLD. Grey Col. Hy. Anthony J.P. Brent ha Howells Charles Fredk. blacksmith Guise Miss, Wheat>lea house Hughes & SOIl,millers,water & steam) Southern John Haovergal Rev. Ernest M.A. (curate) & corn merchants Southern William W Hewitt Charles Lewis Caroline & Emma (Misses), Burgess J a'hn, farmer Howard Miss, Roseleigh dress makers Cook J oseph, farmer Hughes Henry Artlhur, Burnside Morris Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Mason Ann (Mrs.), miller (water),. Hughes William, Brooklands Phillips Andrew, groeer Red Hill mill Hyde Robert, The Sycamores Roberts John, farmer, Hanley farm Southern wm. W. builder & surveyor- Kirkbride Mrs. Radlbrook Rowlands John, builder PULLEY. Lewis Misses, The Olives Shrewslbury General Parochial Ceme- Matthews Oharles, St. Mary's grange tery (Edmund Creswell Peele, clerk Blockley JOhn Mucklest-one Mrs. MelviI!le house to the board; Maurice Jones, supt) Jones Phillip Hy. farmer, Up. Pulley- Palin Wm. Dickenson, T1he Shrubbery Thomas William, cattle dealer, The Lems Robert, farmer & maltster Robinson Rev.Albert G., M.A.(curate) Shrubbery Meddins Edward, farmer, Up. Pulley- Sterrett Capt. Thomas, Norlolk villa Trott WaIter, Red Lion inn MunsloOw William, Hare & Hounds- Treasure HenryHurle,Kingsland grnge Weaver William Edward, house agent inn, Upper Pulley Trevitt Jahn & assistant overseer Riohar<1s Edwd.bricklayer, Up. Pulley MIDDLE or MYDDLE is a paris-h and village, on the tracery, the gallery was removed and the interior refitted road from Shrewsbury to Ellesmere, 3 miles north-east in aak, and the basement of the tower arranged as a from Baschurch station on the Great Western railway, 8 baptistery: in 1868 a memorial window was placed in the north-by-west from Shrewsbury and 5 south-by-west from church to John William Spencer, second Earl Brownlow, Wem, in the Northern division of the county, Pimhill who died at Mentone, 20th February, 1867: in 1877 the hundred, Ellesmere union, Shrewsbury county court dis- chancel was renovated, the north window filled with trict and petty sessional division, rural deanery of Wem, stained glass, an organ chamber constructed and a new archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. In the organ placed therein, all as a memorial of Mary, Lady year 1856 the chapelry of Hadnall, which had previously Marjoribanks, wife of the present rector, who died 16th formed part of the parish of Middle, was separated and July, 1876. The register dates from the year 1541. The formed into a district parish for ecclesiastical purposes. living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £858, net The church of St. Peter is a building of stone in the yearly value £583. including 20 acres of glebe, with Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, residence, in the gift of Earl Brownlow, and held since south aisle, n<>rth porch and an embattled western tower 1847 by the Rev. George Henry Egerton M.A. of Brase containing a clock and 3 bells: the stained east window nose College, Oxford, prebendary of Lichfield and rural is a memorial to the Rev. Thomas Egerton, late rector, dean of Wem. There are Primitive and Calvinistic who died in 1847: and within the communion rails is a Methodist chapels here. The charities, amounting to brass to Arthur Chambre, of Petton, and sometime patron about £72 YDS. yearly, are distributed to the poor of of this living, ob. 1564, his wife and two children: the Middle and Hadnall. In the parish are the remains of an church) was completely restored in 1857-8, when the roof old castle, built by John le Strange, Baron Strange of was entirely renewed, th~ windows filled with Decorated Knokyn K.B. in the reign of Edward I. Earl Brownlow.