STAFFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's Court District, Rural Deanery of Uttoxeter, Archdeaconry of NORTHWOOD Lies to the East
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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 e<q. M.P. and held since 1875 mountain called Weever. Wootton Hall, a mansion of stone, by the Rev. Edward Hornby Birley M.A. of Christ Church, picturesquely seated in an extensive park, is the residence Oxford. There is a Wesleyan Chapel built in 1839; and a of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes hart. J.P.; here Rousseau Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1837· The poor have occasionally Jived and wrote some of his works. The area an annuity of £"3, bequeathed in 1693 by George Molineux, is 2,6oo acres; rateable value, .£" r,876 ; the population in out of land at Prestwood. The wake is ou the first Sunday r8g1 was 202. after St. John's day. William Bromley-Davenport esq. WALL LETTER Box, cleared daily (except sun day) at 4 p. m M.P. of Capesthorne, Chelford, Cheshire, who is lord of the manor, Mrs. Cathcart and Alfred Charles Duncombe esq. CALWICH and STANTON will be found under Bepara~ l.P. of Calwich Abbey, are the principal landowners. The headings. soil is sandy; subsoil, clay and rock. The land is chiefly Parish Clerk, William Udal!. pasturage for dairy produce. The area of the entire parish PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity&. (including the townships of Calwich, Prestwood, Ramsor, Insurance Office.-Samuel Salt, sub-postmaster. Letters Stanton and Wootton, which support their poor separately) arrive from Ashbome at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5.10 p.m is 7 1 377 acres of land and 41 of water ; of Ellastone town ship, 792 acres of land and 3 of water; rateable value, National School (mixed). built in x858, for rso children ~ average attendance, g8; Rupert Burrell, master .£" 11 717 ; the population in x8gx was, of the ecclesiastical parish g86, and of the township 274. Divine service is held here on sunday afternoons Ellastone. Finney Hannah (Mrs.), Queen's Arms I Smith John, farmer, Ramsor Birley Ref".EdwardHornbyM.A. Vicarage P.H. & farmer Udale William & John, tailors. Cns- Covey William John M.R.c.s.Eng. & Finney Mary (Mrs.), farmer tomers can rely on good work & to L.R.C.P.lond Finney Samuel, farmer receiving every attention Knight Edward WalterHorwn,l3ede cot Goodall Frederick, farmer Udale William, shopkeeper Haynes Charles, ~hoe maker Udale Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. Haynes Hichard, cowkeeper ·ward Henry, bailiff to Sir Henry Hope Adams Thomas, shopkeeper & baker Hodkinson James, blacksmith & agri- Edwardes bart. J.P Ball Thomas, farmer. Prestwood cultural implement dealer \Varrington Thomas, farmer, Ramsor Bal'Ilett Thomas, farmer, Ramsor Jackson Reuben, shoe maker Wood John, farmer Barnett William, shopkeeper & tailor Kent Mary (Mrs.), cow keeper, Ramsor BrassingtonHugh,manager to Ellastone Lowndes Arthur, farmer, Prestwood Wootton. Dairy Association Lowndes Hall, farmer Edwardes Sir Henry Hope bart. J.P. Brown Rupert, farmer, Ramsor Lowndes WJ!liam, farmer, Ramsor Wootton hall Bull George, farmer, Ramsor Oakes David, blacksmith Finney J onathan, farmer Clark William, farmer & miller (water) Palmby Francis Danby, Bromley Arms Finney Thomas, farmer Collis George, farmer, Ramsor P.H. & farmer & surveyor of High Finney Thomas H. farmer Covey William John M.R.c.s.Eng. & ways. This P.H. is sJtuated in a Frearson Thomas, saddler L.R.C.P.Lond. physician & surgeon picturesque village ! mile from Nor Gallimore Thomas, blacksmith Cox Thomas, farmer bury station, where visitors will find Gallimore Thomas, farmer Cox William, farmer refreshments Harrison Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Davenport J ames, stone mason Prince Henry, farmer Salt Samuel, farmer & road surveyor Ellastone Dairy Association (Joseph Salt Samuel, farmer, Post office Salt Thomas, farmer, Cross Bagshaw, sec) Salt William, jomer & builder Tomson John William, farmer, Nook Finney George Frederick, farmer SmithEdwd. farm r .Banks farm, Rams or Walker George, carpenter & farmer ELLENHALL is a village and parish, 3 miles north- eluding 68 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the west from Great Bridgeford station and 4 south-west from Earl of Lichfield, and held since 1888 by the Rev. William Norton Bridge station, both on the London and North Henry Stamper. The Earl of Lichtield is lord of the manor Western railway, 5 north-west from Stafford and 2 south and principal landowner. The soil is light; subsoil, mar} from Eccleshall, 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 .