392 THORPE C0~5T.ANTINE. STAFFORDSHIRE. [ KELL'¥'8-

crops are wheat, barley, beans and roots. The area is Letters through Tamworth; the neares~ money &td'er office-­ g6r acres; rateable value, £r,459; the population in xgor is at Newton & telegraph office at Seckingto:n was 84. The children of this place attend the school at Newton. Parish Clerk, Henry Scarrott. Regis & Olifton Inge Mrs. Mary Caroline, Thorpe hall estate manager to Mrs. M. C. Inge, Cripwell John, farmer, Lonkhill &.,. Owen Rev. Crawfurd H. Hunter W. 'l'horpe Hall farm Gorse farms The Rectory Bone Archibald, gamekeeper to Mrs. Fowell John, groom to Mrs. Inge Chesshire Arthur Barnabas, farm & Inge Poole William, butler to W.F. Inge esl}o,

'J'IPTON. "\VITH TIVIDALE

TIPTON is a .civil pari~h, forming the district of an erected at a cost of about £2,5oo, and consists of chancel,;. Urban Council and head of a petty sessional division, nave and aisles, south porch and a turret, containing on&• I mile north from Dudley, 2~ miles south-west from bell: jn 18go the chancel was restored, and a new organ. Wednesbury, 4 west from West Bromwich, 4! south-east chamber added, the cost being defrayed by subscription:_ from Wolverhampton, 9 north-west from Birmingham and there are sittings for 6oo persons. Th~ register dates­ I2I from London, in the Handsworth division of the from the year 1845. Tlie living is a vicarage, net yearly; county, South Offiow hundred, Dudley union and county value £220, with residence, in the gift of the Crown andl court district, rural deanery of Wednesbury, archdeaconry the Bishop of Lichfield alternately, and held since 1899 by of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. Three lines of rail­ the Rev. Charles William Pearson, The population aft way intersect this parish, viz.: the Stour Valley section the cPnsus of 1901 was 4,136. of the London and North Western, from Birmingham to St. Matthew's is an ecclesiastical district, formed Feb,_ Wolverhampton ; the South Staffordshire section of the n, 1881, from that of St. Paul: the church, in the Dudley. same line, which commences at Dudley, passes through road, was erected in r88o, at a cost of £5,903, and is aD'> Tipton, Walsall and Lichfield, and forms a junction with edifice of red brick, in the Early English style, consisting­ the Birmingham and Derby railways at Wichnor; and of chancel, nave, north porch and a. western tower with the Great Western, from Dudley to Wolverhampton, and pinnacles, containing one bell : the pulpit is of white· to Birmingham via Great Bridge. stone : there are sittings for 460 persons. The register The form of the parish is nearly that of a. circle, with a dates from the year 188r. The living is a perpetual' diameter of 2! miles : the parish is intersceted by about curacy, net yearly value £256, with residence, in the• • 20 miles of road, and the principal divisions are Bloom­ gift of Simeon's Trustees, and held since r88o by the­ field, Dudley Port, Horseley Heath, Great Bridge, Toll Rev. Robert Street Keitch, of St. Aidans: the parsonageo End and Ocker Hill. house was erected in r884, at a cost of about £I,8oo. The parish is governed by an Urban District Council of The population at the census of r<)OI was 4,rox. 24 members, first elected in x8g4, which succeeded the There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Baptist, Primitivet Local Board, formed here in 1855. A plentiful supply of Methodist and Methodist New Connexion chapels. water is furnished by the South Staffordshire Water A cemetery of 6 acres was formed in 1873, and has tw{)> Works Company, and the parish is lighted with gas from mortuary chapels. It is under the control of the Urbaw works in Workhome lane, opened July rst, r882, and the District Council. property of the Urban District Council. Tipton is in­ A Police Station was erected in r864, and there are also· cluded in the parliamentary borough of Wednesbury, three small police stations, two of which are occupied by:. formed by "The Representation of the People Act, rB67.'' sergeants and the other by a constable. The parish church of St. Martin, on Horseley Heath, This place is noted for its extensive trade in iron, parti­ three-quarters of a mile from the town, is a plain modern cularly heavy forgings and castings for home and foreiga structure of brick, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, two markets, as well as for the quantity of ironstone and coal. western porches, and a circular dome, surmounted by a which abound in the locality. The furnaces here are­ small gilt ball and cross : the church was removed by numerous, and on a very extensive scale: heavy ironworK.. Act of Parliament in 1797, from its original site (where for railways, steam boilers, iron fenders, :fireirons, charcoal: the district church of St. John's now stands) to its present box irons, sad irons, weights, hinges, large pit chains, and more central position, and in 1876 was restored at a cables, anchors and automatic weighing machines are cost of £Boo: there are Boo sittings. The register dates manufactured here ; steam machinery being used to­ from the year 1513, and is deficient from 1519 to I579· great advantage in rolling iron and converting it int()f A new organ was erected in r8g7, at a cost of [750. almost every size and shape; galvanising is also largely: The living is a vicarage, net yearly value, £4rB, including carried on, and there are cement works, fire and blue· xor acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the brick works and maltings. The trade is much facilitated: trustees of the late Miss Hyndman, and held since 1B95 by the Birmingham canal, several of its branches inter-­ by the Rev. Wilson Thomas de Vine M.A. of Jesus Col­ secting the parish, and affording a means of communica-· lege, Cambridge, Rural Dean of Wednesbury and surro­ tion with almost all the pTincipal towns in the kingdom .. gate. The population at the census of rgor was ro,986. In 1897• 34 acres of land on the west side of the towni St. John's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed April 125, were purchased, at a cost of £r,5oo, raised by public. 1B54: the church, on Summer Hill, is a stru.cture of subscription, and presented to the Urban District Council,. brick, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, to be laid out as a public park, in commemoration of the• nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, con­ Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria:-­ taining one bell, and, with the exception of the tower, the work has been carried out at a cost of £5,ooo, andJ has been rebnilt: there are 465 sittings. The register the park was opened in 1902 by the Earl of Dartmouth,~ dates from the year r845. The living is a vicarage, net Lord Lieutenant of the county. yearly value, [225, in the gift of the vicar of Tipton, and Woodall's charity, producing £42 r2s. yearly, is applieu held since 1863 by the Rev. Samuel Thomas Tozer, of Si. to educational purposes; Shelden's charity, producing­ Bees. The population at the census of rgoi was 3,38r. £58 14s. yearly, is distributed under a scheme of the­ St. Paul's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Dec. 22, Court of Chancery, in bread, in the parishes of St. Mar• 1843 : the church, standing in Owen street, near the tin, St. Paul, St. John and St. Mark, in specified amount~ centre of the town, is an edifice of red brick, in the Early to each F..nglish style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an The trustees of the late Wyrley Birch esq. are lords of' embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing one the manor. The principal landowners are Messrs. Dixon... hell. In 1899 the interior of the church was renovated, at Amphlett and Bedford, and the Earl of Dudley. a cost of £350 and affords r,350 sittings ; a new vicarage The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The area of the­ has been erected in Canal street, at a cost of [2,000, parish and district of the Urban Council is 2,171 acres,.. and a parish rcom, built at a cost of 7oo. The register .£ inclusive of 103 of water; rateable value, £95,654; the­ date!! from the year 1834. The living is a vicarage, net population in xgox of the civil parish and Urban Districiic yearly value, [250, in the gift of 1.he vicar of Tipton, was 30,543. The Urban District is divided into the and held since 1B73 by the Rev. George Edward Lythgoe, following 6 wards, viz. : Dudley Port, population, 2,gg6 ~ Trinity College, Dublin, and of St. Aidan's. The popu­ Horseley Heath, 7,879; Ocker Hill, 2,572; Tibbingtou~. lation at the cen!ius of rgoi was 5,303. 3,104; Tipton, 8,886; Toll End, 5,ro6. St. Mark's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Sept. 3, l845: the church, at Ocker Hill, opened in Nov. r85o, Prince's End transferred to Coseley, names for "W:hiclil is a structure of blue brick, in the Early English style, please aee.