DIRECTORY.) . NE\\ TON. 165

wards Gwinnett) since deceased, and from the represen­ land, irrigated by the , affords excellent crops tatives of the late John Keysall esq. J.P. banker, of of grass and hay, and under the good system of London, formerly of l\'Ioreton Court, but the property husbandry pursued in the parish the yield of hops, (including lands in adjoining parishes) was sold by the wheat and other cereals, of turnips and other root Ecr:lesiastical Commissioners in 1 86-J to the late Thomas crops, and of clover is very great. The area is 893 Evans esq. who resided at Moreton Court, a mansion acres of lan'.l and 3 of water; rateable value, £2,126; in the Eliz::t bethan style, erected by him from designs population in 19II, 79· by Mr. J. H. Knigh·t, architect, of Cheltenham. The Letters by foot post from arrive at 7.30 a.m. poet Drayton terms the Lugg " more lovelie" than the Hereford is the nearest money order office; Burghill Wye, which reaches the Lugg at Mordiford, opposite is the nearest telegraph office t'l Holme Lacy mansion. Moreton Court is now the Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.15 p.m property and residence of Mrs. Hill, who is lady of the Railway Station, James Holland, station master manor. The soil is rich deep loam, and the orchards, The children of this place attend the schools at Pipe & which are of great luxuriance, produce fine fruit. The Lyde & Marden Hill Mrs. Moreton court Dawe Hy. Abraham, farmer, Lower ho Ralph, Preece, Davies & Co. (Coal Rosenstock Rudolph, Marsh house Hart Emily Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Merchants) Limited, coal, coke & Taylor Rev. Charles Hy. B.A. (rector} Church house lime & salt merch1mts; & at Here­ Bishop Henry, farmer &; surveyor of Pantall Thomas, farmer & hop grower, ford & roarls to the Hereford Rural Dis­ Upper house Stentiford Sidney, head gardener to trict Council, Brook farm Mrs. Hill, The Lodge, Moreton crt MUNSLEY is a parish 4 miles north-west from Led- ing is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Canon bury, three-quarters of a mile north-east from Ashperton Frome, joint net yearly value £22o, including 54 acres station on t'he section of the of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Hopton, and held since Great Western railway and 133 from London, in the 1908 by the Rev. Lewis Govaertz Hunt M.A. of St. Southern division of the county, Radlow hundred, Led- Catharine's College, Cambridge. Mrs. Hopton, of Canon bury petty sessional division, union and county court dis- Frome Court, is the principal landowner. The soil is trict, rural deanery of , and archdeaconry and mostly heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, . The church of St. Bartholomew beans, roots and hops. The area is 1,482 acres of land is an ancient and interesting edifice of stone in the and 3 of water; rateable value, £3,224; population in Early English style, consisting of chancel (Norman), r9II, 182. nave, south porch, and a westel'Il bell gable contain- Sexton, F. Baldwin. ing 2 bells: it was restored and re-seated with open benches in 1863, at a cost of £ 750, when, in taking Wall Letter Box at Upper Court, cleared at 7.50 a.m. & down the south walls, some very ancient grave-stones, 4 50 p.m. week days only bearing crosses, were discovered: in the church is a Letters through Ledbury arrive about 8.50 a.m. curious parish chest, carved out of a .single block of oak Trumpet is the nearest money order & telegraph timber and of great age: there are sittings for 100 per- office, about I mile distant SQns. The register dates from the year 1708. The liv- The children of this place attend Ashperton schools Fenwick-Fenwick Mr!>. The Verzons Clark Frederick, farmer & hop growr . .Tancey George, farmer, Lower court Hunt Rev. Lewis Govaertz M.A. Nupend Keysell Thomas, farmer & hop growr. (rector), Rectory Cotton George, farmer & hop grower, Moor end Pritchett Ed~ard, The Castle Paunct>ford court Pritchett Edward, farmer & hop Robinson Frank Stanley, Gazerdine Cowell Henry, fat·mer & hop grower, grower, The Castle COMMERCIAL. Callows hill Robinson William P. farmer & hop Barrett Richard Wm. farmer &:; hop Hickman .A.nne (Mrs.), farmer, Little grower, Upper court &; cider grower, White house Verzons Spencer Richard, Royal Dak P.H

NEWTON is a parish, formed Nov. 3, 1848, from George J()hn Tuck M.A. of University College, Durha-m. the parish of Glodock, on the east bank of the river The local charities comprise the Rowland and Joan Eskley, 3 miles west from Bacton station on the Jennings charities, derived from land valued at £5 Golden Va.Uey branch of the Great Western railway, yearly, which .sum is distributed in bread, and 5 miles north-west from Pontrilas station on the New- "George's" charity, derived from land valued at ss. port, Abergavenny and Hereford section of the Great vearly, which is distributed in money. Here is a Western railway and 15 south-west from Hereford, Primitive Methodist chapel. The Marquess of Aber­ in the Sou!Jhern division of the county, Ewyas gavenny K.G. is the principal landowner. The soil is Lacy hundred, Dore union and petty .sessional division, clay; subsoil, red sandstone. The crops are oats and Hereford county court district, rural deanery of ;;ome land in pasture. The area is 1,751 a.eres of land Abbey Dore, and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. and 3 of water; rateable value, £r,r69; the population The church of St. John the Baptist, erected in 1842, in 19II was 186. is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, west Parish Clerk, Joseph Higley. porch and an embattled western tower containing one Letters from Hereford, via . Longtown is the bell: the church was erected principally through the exer- nearest money order office & telegra.ph office, about 3 tiuns of the late John Powell, who gave the ground and a miles distant. Wall Letter Box, opposite chapel, cleared sum of money, and was restored in 1869 by the land- at 4 p.m owners: it affords no sittings. The register dates Public Elementary (mixed), with residence for master from the year 1849· The living is a perpetual curacy, attached, built in 1870, for 120 children; average net yearly value £8o, with residence, in the gift of attendance, 6o; children also attend this school from the vicar of Clodock, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Bactun, Dulas & St. Margaret's; Charles Lloyd, ma.stl'.r Tuck Rev. Geo~e John M.A. (per- Higley Joseph, tailor, shopkeeper & Pritchard James, mason & farmer, petual curate), Newton vicarage parish clerk Middle Gilvach J enkins Richard, farmer, Quarelly Sanders John, farmer, Castle farm COMMERCIAL. Lloyd Louisa (Mrs.), frmr. Shop-vach Sanders William, carpenter & farmer. Badham Jas. farmer, Three Yew trees Powell William, farmer, Upper Newton I 'latt farm Bowen Alfred, farmer, Greggs farm & Little Green 'Seaborne Charles, farmer, Maescoed Burfton Geo. farmer, Yew Tree cott Preece William, farmer & rate collec- Seaborne Geo. farmer, Burnt house Christopher James, farmer, Farhouse tor, Nantyr-Esk & Old house Sharp Arthur, poultry farmer, Court- Christopher Wm. farmer, Great ho Price John N. farmer, New house, a-Pella Farr William, farmer, Cwm Clead Old house&; Tumps farm Watkins David, farmer, Green farm Fisher Thomas, farmer,LowerNewton Pritchard Ernest, farmer &; shopkpr. Williams Aaron, farmer & shopkeepr. Gwillim Ebenezer, frmr. Wain Herbertl Upper Crossway Cottage Harris Henry, farmer, Gwrlodith Williams Jn. ,frmr.Woodlands NEWTON (near Leominster) is a township in the parish county, hundred of Wolphy, petty sessional division, union of Croft ; it is on the summit of some rising ground west­ and county court district of Leominster. There is no ward of the road between Leominster and Hereford, and church or chapel within the township ; the inhabitants about I mile south from the Ford Bridge station on the n•trnd at Ford and Hope churches, each about a mile and Hereford (Great Western and London C:istant from this township, which ioo under the ecclesias­ and North Western joint) railway, which runs through part •'cal jurisdiction of the vicar of Hope-under-Dinmore. of the township, 3~ south .from Leominster and 9 miles )1rs. Burrell, of Hampton Court, is lady of the manor north from Hereford, in the Northern division of the and chief landowner. The soil is of a light alluvial