38 BETLEY. STAFFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S poses; the school charity, consisting of a field here of 1Ravenlfual1 is a hamlet, half a mile south; Bowsey I a. 3r. Iop. let for £3 yearly; .Abnet's charity, a rent- Wood is a hamlet, I mib south-east. charge of 4s. 6d. on a. field at .Audlley and vwrious small Wrinehill, a scattered village, about I mile south-west sums invested in Consols, which bring in £4 I2S. 8d. from Betley and near the Tailway, is partly in this parish, yearly, are distributed. A weekly market was formerly but mostly in that of Wybunbury, in Oheshire, and was held here, which is now obsolete. Malting was formerly anciently the seat of the Egerton family. carried on here. Near the village is a lake, called "Bet- Parish Clerk, Charles Warham. ley Mere," belonging to the Earl of Wilton. The prin- Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D. & P. P. 0., S. B. cipal seats are Betley Court, the mansion of Mrs. Twem- & .A. & I. 0.-Chas. Marson, sub-postmaster. Letters low, and Betley Hall, the seat of Col. John .Andrew Mac- arrive from Crewe at 8.5 a.m. & 6 p.m.; box cleared donald C.B. Charles Wigley Wicksted esq. of Shaken- at ro a.m. & 7.30 pm.; 10 a.m. sunday. Letters burst, Cleobury Mortimer, Salop, who is lord of the from Bowsey Wood must be addressed Madeley, manor, the Earl of Wilton and Sir Thomas Fletcher NPwcastle .:Boughey bart. J.P. of .A.qualate Hall, Forton, are the Public Elementary School, built in I854• for 95 boys, 100 ·principal landowners. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, girls & 76 infants; average attendance, 70 hop, 70 ·marl. The chief crops are wheat and grass. The area girls & 54 infants; Henry Hopkins, master; ~Ii-;s is I,425 acres of land and 38 of water; rateable value, Guest, mistress ; Miss Mary Cross, infants' mistress _.£2,426; the population in I90I was 837· Railway Station, William Bowles, station master (Marked thus * should be addressed Betley Volunteer Fire Brigade (F. W. Johnson Elizabeth (Mrs.), draper &c. Leycett, Newcastle.) Place, sec) Wrinehill .(Marked thus t should be addressed Blades Richard, farmer, Ravenshall Jobnson Samuel, ratent medicine pro- ~I1adeley, Newcastle.) Brassington James, carpenter prietor, Wrinehill PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brownsford John, blacksmith Marson Charles, grocer & draper, & 'Beech :MI"S Carter Henry, farmer po.st
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