• DIRECTORY.] . MORETON. 277 .and archdeaconry of and diocese of Lichfield. Coton Hayes, 1! miles north-east, and Dayhills, I mile The church of .All Saints, rebuilt, with the exception of north-west, are hamlets. the tower, in 1792, is a structure of brick, consisting of Garshall Green is a smaJl hamlet in this parish, I mile aisles and an ancient embattled westem tower of stone, north from . Here is a W esleyan chapel, erected in the Early English style, containing 3 bells, one of in 1835, . which was east in 1409: there are sittings for 210 per­ Post Office.-William Brown, sub-postmaster. Letters .osons. The register dates from the year I573· The living through Stone arrive at 8.15 a.m. & 6 p.m.; departure, is a vicarage, net yearly value £tq, with tl acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late 5-30 & 7·5 p.m. ; on sunday arrive at 9 a.m. & depart & 'Henry A. Dive esq. and held since 1903 by the Rev. 9·50 a.m. Postal Orders are issued paid here. San­ Thomas Tibbitts Whittaker, of St. Aidan's. The bene­ don is the nearest money order office & telegraph office at , 3 miles distant 'factions amount to about £37• derived partly from land -and partly from money investments. The principal land- Wall Box, Coton, near the 'Wheatsheaf,' cleared at 5.2o -owners are the Earl of Macclesfield, the Earl of Harrowby, p.m.; no sunday collection the trustees of the late S. and J. Knight and Mrs. Wall Box, Cotonhayes, cleared at 5-I5 p.m.; no sunday .Br0ughton. The soil is clayey; ,subsoil, marly. The collection 1:hief crops are wheat, oats, barley and grass. The area Public Elementary School (mixed), built in r833, for 8o is 3,042 acres of fertile land; rateable value, £4•979; children ; average attendance, 42; Miss Florence Bar­ the population in 1901 was 436. rett, mistress MILWICH. Meddings William, farmer, 'Ihe Price William. farmer .Allport Miss, Church house Cedars, Milwich heath SnelMn Geo. Wheatsheaf P.H.& farmr rOoupe George, Milwich hall Moorcroft Thomas, landowner & far- Snelson Geo. jun. farmer, Coton ho 'lVhittaker Rev. Thomas T. Vicarage mer, Milwich heath Snelson Henry, farmer, Coton :\fill fm Nickolls Henry, butcher, Milwich hth Stanley Mary T. (Mrs.), shopkeeper ' COMMERCIAL. Sargent Richard, farmer Titterton Wm. farmer, Calloway fMrmon .!.stbury Martha (Mrs.), farmer, Oul- Shaw Thomas, farmer Walker John, farmer, Coton haycs ton house Sbemilt David, farmer, Milwich Walker Samuel, farmer 'Basnett James Wm. farmer,Pagefieldi Hall farm Walkerdene Sampson, farrnr. Coton hl 'llennett Williarn, farmer & painter, Shemilt William Thomas, farmer White Samuel, farmer, The Green Burley pool Slater Mary(Mrs.),farmer,Milwich hth Whitehurst Richd. frmr. Coton cottge 'IIennett William, jun. blacfsmith Smit_h Joseph, fa;rner, Milwich heat~ G.A.RSHAI 1 'Bradbury John, farmer, Manor farm Stamer James, JUn. farmer & nail u GREEfN. Brown William, farmer, Dayhills maker, Milwich heath Williams Misses :Srown William, farmer, Post office Thorley Sarah (Mrs.), farmer,Dayh1lis Buckley Thomas, farmer, Dayhills Turner Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. tChaloner Robert, farmer, Milwich hth Bartlett Thomas, farmer 'Corden David, farmer, Dayhills OOTON. De Ville Edward A. farmer •Ootton Joseph, farmer COMMERCIAL. Evans William, cowkeeper ,.Di.cks Charles T. farmer, Grimble brk Bowers Daniel, butcher & farmer Goodwin John, farmer,Whiteley brook Durose William, farmer, Withy,sich fm Bowers Henry, cowkeeper Halden John, farmer

~MODDERSHALL is a township and small village manor, and Sir Hill Child bart. of Stallington Hall, are close to the road from Cheadle to Stone, in the Kibble- the principal landowners. The ·soil is gravelly; sub­ ,stone quarter of Stone parish, and with Oulton was soil, sandstone. The chief crops are grain, roots and formed into an ecclesiastical parish, October 31, 1879; pasture. The area, rateable value and population are in 4 it is about 2; miles north-east from Stone station on the eluded in the of Stone Rural. Colwich and Stone section of the North Staffordshire •Cotwalton, I! miles south-by-east, and Knenhall, ri •f'ailway, in the Westem division of the county, hundred north, are small clusters of farm houses. Qf South Pirehill and Stone union, petty sessional divi- Post Office. Samuel Latham, sub-postmaster. Letters sion and county court district. Divine service, conducted through Stone arrive at 7.15 a.m.; dispatched at 6.15