148 ELLASTONE. STAFFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's court district, rural deanery of Uttoxeter, archdeaconry of NORTHWOOD lies to the east. Stoke-upon-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. The church of PR:t<.:STWOOD is a township, It miles south-west, consisting St. Peter, standing on a height near the village, is an of a few farms and houses. The area is 447 acres of land edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of and 3 of water; rateable value, £790; the population in chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled x8gx was 46. western tower with four pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: in the church is an altar torr..b, with recumbent RAMSOR (or Ramshorn) is a township on the road from effi2'ies, to Sir Richard Fleetwood, of Calwich, and his lady, Ellastone to Cotton, standing on a lofty eminence, immedi who died in the reign of Charles II. : there are also tablets ately under the Weever mountain, 3 miles west-north-west to Abel John Ram esq. of Wootton Hall and Mrs. Ram, to from Elhstone, and includes W ootton Lodge and Park, with. the Hev. W. B. Bromley, the Rev. Sir Christopher Robert the Waste "Farm, the property of Mrs. Cathcart, who is lady Lighton bart. M.A. late vicar, d. 12 April, 187 5, and to Lady of the manor. Wootton Lodge, a noble old mansion, altered Jane Ram: the church was thoroughly restored in 1883 by by lnigo Jone!', and very pleasantly situated in the vale of Weever, is now (1895) unoccupied. The area is 1,504 acres. subscription, at a cost of about :/:410oo, and has 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £r,618; the popula vicarage, with the curacy of Stanton annexed; average tithe tion in 1891 was 82. rent-charge £147 1 joint gross yearly value .£"163, net £r3o, W ootton is a township, r! miles north-west from Ella including 7 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of stone and 5 west from Ashborne, under the great limestone William Bromley-Davenport eEccleshall, in the North Western division of the county, and gravel. The chief crops are corn. The area is 1,788 South Pirehill hundred, Ecclesball petty sessional division, acres of land and 13 of water; rateable value, £3,416; the Stafford union and county court d1strict, rural deanery of population in 1891 was 244. Eccleshall, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of RANTON MoNASTERY, formerly extra-parochial, was an Licbfield. The church of St. Michaelis an ancient building, nexed to this parish for rateable purposes, March 25, 1 88 . partly of brick and stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of 4 chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower BROAD HEATH, half a mile south-east and LANE HEAD rt containing one bell : the church was thoroughly restored in miles south are hamlets. 1886, at a cost of [930, when a south porch was added and Parish Clerk, John Collett. the interior reseated in oak : the font is Norman : in the Letters through Eccleshall, which is the nearest money chancel is a monument to Jonathan Cope, dated 1673, and order & telegraph office. arrive at 8 a.m in the churchyard is an ancient cross, also restored in 1886: WALL LETTER Box cleared 6 p.m. week days only there are n8 sittings. The register dates from the year National School (mixed), built in r868, for 6o children ; 1539. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £135, in- average attendance, 35; Miss Harriet Franklin, mistress Stamper Rev. William Henry, Vicarage Collier Thomas, col\ keeper,Broad Heath . Ran ton Estate (Earl of Lichfield's ), coMMERCIAL. Dutton Thos. cowkeeper, Lawn Head timber yard & saw mills (George Addison SI. Thos. farmer & landowner Ellis Robt. Hill & ErnestEdwd.farmers Nevitt, agent), Lawn Head Allman Geo. carpenter & wheelwright Hart Abraham, farmer, Lawn Head Riley James, farmer, Seggersley Bamber Matthew,fanner,Ellenhall park Hibbs George, shopkeeper Riley Joseph, farmer, Broad Heath Bernard Thos. cowkeeper, Lawn Head Johnson Henry, farmer, Lawn Head Swanwick Emma (Mrs.), farmer,Lawn Blackband Alfred, gamekeeper to P. Kent Joseph, farmer. Hall farm Head Blessig eEq. Lawn Head Moore Peter, farmer, Ellenhall park Wardle Thcmas, farmer, Lawn Head Collett John, blacksmith & farmer Morris James,cowkeeper,Spurley brook Williams George,farmer, Ellenhall park
ENDON is a ~cattered but plea8ant village and town-~ with a station on the Leek and Stoke branch of the North ship on the road from Leek to Stoke, in the parish of Leek, Staffordshire railway, 5 miles south-west-by-west from