DffiECTORY.] . RUSHBURY. 181 and 425 in the ecclesiastical parish. The area is 1,599 Post Office.-Mrs. Jane Eliza Steadman,sub-postmistress. acres of land and 29 of water; it includes the townships 01 Letters arrive through Shr~wsbury; delivered at 8 Rodington, Sugden and part of Somerwood. Rateable a.m.; box closes at 5.25 p.m.; dispatched at 5.30 value, £3,867, p.m. Postal orders are i~sued here, but not paid. Th~ Somerwood is 2 miles west, and 2 north from Upton n~r~st money order office is at & telegraph Magna station and Sugden I! miles east. There is a office at Uppington small Primitive Methodist chapel at Somerwood, erected National School (mixed), built in 1849, with teacher's in 1859. residence, & enlarged in 1894, for 142 children; average Parish Clerk, William Morris. attendance, 97; Ben. Briscoe, master Smith Rev. John Alexander (rector), Cemetery (Isaa{l Knowles, clerk to the J ones Mary (Mrs.), farmer Rectory burial board) Morris William, wheelwright Wadlow Edmund, The Grove Cleeton Charles, butcher Pickering John, farmer, Somerwood Delves Wm.Tayleur Arms P.H.& frmr Powell Caleb, farmer, Somerwood COMMERCIAL. Davies George, grocer Reed George, photogtrapher Alien Mary (:\Irs.), Bull's Head P.H. Davies Leonard, farmer, Sugden Roderick William, beer retailer coal dealer & market gardener Everall Daniel, iarmer Steadman J ane Eliza (Mrs.), shop- Brisbourne Edward, farmer Grindley John, farmer keeper, Post office Bullock John, blacksmith Hall James, farmer, Somerwood Wytcherley William, farmer Capsey William, farmer & butcher Hampton Goo. frmr. Rodenhurst frm ROWTON is a township and ancient chapelry in the curacy, endowed by the last Duke of Cleveland K.G. as­ parish of High Ercall, from which placCi it is 2 miles sisted by a grant from Queen Anne's BOllnty, net yearly north-east, 6 north-west from Wellington, 9 west from value. about £87, in the gift of Lord Barnard, and held Newport, IQ north-east from and 2! north- since 1890 by the Rev. Lyttleton Vernon Yonge RA. of west fro-m Crudgington station on the Wellington and Trinity College, Cambridge, who resides at Waters Upton, branch of the Great Western railway, in This was the birthplace, 12th November, 1615, of the cele­ the Northern division of the county, South Bradford brated Nonconformist divin~ Richard Baxter. The princi­ hundred, Wellington union and county court district, pal landowners are Lord Barnard, who is lord of the petty sessional division of Wellington, rural deanery of manor, and Mr. George Ore Hopkins. The soil is of a Wrockwardine, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lich. mixed nature and good; subsoil, sand and clay. The field. Cold Hatton and Ellerdine are attached to Rowton chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is for ecclesiastical purposes. The chapel, rebuilt in 1835, aJbout 804 acres; the population is included in High is a plain edifice of stone, in the Early English style, con- Ercall. sisting of chancel, nave and a western turret containing Letters through \Vellington. The nearest money order & one bell; it was thoroughly restored in 1882, at a cost of telegraph office is at High Ercall about £450, defrayed by public subscription. The re· Board School, Ellerdine, erected in 1883, for 60 children; gister dates from the year 1840. The living is a perpetual average attendance, 52; William Josiah Mills, master BlOWTON. deaths for ErcalI Magna sub-dii- Bourne John, farmer Hopkins George Ore tJrict, Wellington union Butter! Charl.otte (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ad~ey Richard, farmer COLD HATrON. Co\tell"lll Edwill (exors. of), farmers, BaIley Frances (Ml'is.), farmer Ball John, tailor . N~w house .. Buttery John, blacksmith & deputy Clay Richard, butcher F~rrI~gton W.~lI.Iam, farmer registrar of births. &. deaths. for Colley Margaret (Mrs.), farmer HIggmson ~I.ham, farmer Ercall Magna sub-dIstrIct, WelImg- Icke Ann (Mrs.), farmer Hop,,:ood }~~. Royal Oak P.H. Heath ton union Lloyd Thomas, farmer MorrIS WIlham, farmer Butt~ry Thomas, farmer Pitchford John, farmer, Potford P~rd.oe Thomas, farm~r Edwards Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ridgway George blacksmith Pwkm J ahn, well smker & pump Hop~ins.Geo. Ore, farmer & landownr Webb John,Sev~n Stars P.H.& farmer fixer &c .. Le:WIs RIchard, carpenter Wright GeorO'e, farmer Shak~shaft WIllIam Robert, farmer & PrIce Edward, rate collector b aSSIstant overseer, Th~ Grange Shakeshaft Jaseph. farmer EL'LEtRi>INE. Taylor Hugh, farmer, Windy oak Vaughan John, registrar of births & Beard John, insurance agent Taylor John, farmer, Oakhouse BUDGE is a small township in this county, forming Andrew Wight-Boycott esq. who is sole landowner. The part of the parish of Pattingham, the. major portiO'll of soil is clay and sandstone; subsoil, sandstone rock. The which is in Staffordshire.; it is 7 miles east-north-east chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and rye. The area is from , and 7 west from Wolverhampton, in the 1,542 acres; the population in 1891 was 123. Southern division of the county, union of Seisdon,Wolver- Letters through WolveThampton & Bridgnorth; Patting- hampton county court district and Chelmarsh division of ham is the nearest money order office & Compton the the hundred of Stottesdon. The inhabitants attend the nearest telegraph office church at Pattingham. Rudge Hall is the residence of The children of this place aUend the school at Pattingham Wight-Boycott Andrew, Rudge hall Lockley Richard, farmer, Nunfields Platt Rt. Edward, frmr.The Oaklands Bowen John, blacIDsmith & wheelwt Postings Samuel,farm bailiff toAndrew Smith James, Talbot New inn CorbishJey Geo. farmer,Rudge Warren Wight-Boycott esq York Albert, farmer Edmunds John, fa:rnner, Lower Rudge BUSHBURY is a village and large parish on the small reading room, containing a library of 250 volumes. and road, and on the There are charities of £21 yearly value, derived from Strad brook, with a station on the Wenlock and Craven land, and known as the Lutwyche, Tipton and Miss Arms branch of the Great Western railway, 4~ miles east Baker's charities, and principally given to the poor in from Church Stretton, 17 south by road from Shrewsbury bread and coal. There was formerly a Roman station and 174 from London, in the Southern division of the here; and it is supposed that "Bravinium," betweern county, upper division of Munslow hundred, Church " Magna" (Kenchester) and "Uriconium" (Wroxeter) Stretton union, Shrewsbury county court district, petty must have been situated here, and not at Leintwardine as sessional division of Upper Munslow, first division of the is generally accepted, the recorded distan{le being almost rural deanery of Wenlock, archd€'llJOOnry of and conclusive evidence of thil! fact. Arthur Sparrow esq. diocese of Hereford. The church of St. Peter is an D.L., J.P. of Preen Manor, Church Preen, who is lord ancient building of stone in the Early English style. con­ of the manor, Ralph Beaumont Benson esq. J.P. of Lut­ sisting of chancel, nave, oak south porch, vestry and an wyche Hall, Easthope, and F. W. Woob esq. of Stanway embattled western tower containing 5 bells; the choir Manor, are the principal landowners. The soil generally seats al'l' of old oak, finely carved; there is a tablet with is of a clayey nature; subsoil, clay and rock. The chief arms to Catherine, wife of the Rev. Edward Phillips, a crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 3,606 former rector, ob. 1717; the church was extensively le­ acres; the ratea.ble value, £5,298; the population in 189i paired in 1855; in 1889 a memorial window was erected was 550. by the widow and children of the Rev. Frederick Harry Stone Acton township is I! miles north. Hotham M.A. 35 years rector of the pe.rish, d. II April, Wall-under-Haywood tt1wDship is I mile north-east. 1887. The register dates from the year 1538. The living Stanaway township, including Wilderthorpe, is 2 miles is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £3l3, net y~rly east. value £29l, including 70 acres of glebe and residence, in East Wall township, in this parish, is I~ miles north­ the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1892 by east; for ecclesiastical purposes it is partly in the parish the Rev. Hobert Fletcher M.A. of Jesus College, Cam­ of Eaton. There is a small Primitive Methodist cha.pel bridge. Here is a small Wesleyan chapel. Here is a here.