1 42 CH.ASELEY. WORCE8TERSHIRE. [KELLY S

Huxbam Mrs. Corse lawn Chamberlain .Alfred, farmer 1 Lord John, farmer &landowner, Hill end March-Phillipps Wilfred F. Chaseley ldg Clark Charles, farmer, Sandpits Scrivens Joseph, farmer Proby Rev. Martyn Carysfort M.A. The Emms William, baker South Wm.shopkpr.&farmcr,Post offic:~ Vicarage Hopkins John, farmer, Newball Spiers Joseph, farmer, The ·worth Shew Mrs. Hill End villa Jackson John, farmer, Hawkers farm Spiers William, farmer, Grain house COMMERCB.L. Lane George, farmer, Chaseley hole Yeates George, farmer Ball Oliver, Yew Tree P,H CHURCH (or STEEPLE HoNEY- consideration of the late vicar's exertions in recovering the I!OURNE) is a small village and parish on Buckle Street, vicarial tithes at great expense, and otherwise improving the nearly surrounded by Gloucestershire, with a station (called benefice, which theretofore had produced but £30 a year, the Honeybourne Junction station) half a mile from the parish rent of the glebe land. There is a charity, the gift of the church, on the Great Western railway, and is 4 miles north late Miss Combs, value £6 yearly, which is distributed by from Campden, Gloucestershire, and 5 cast from Evcsham, the vicar. The manorial rights are vested in the Ecclesias­ in the Southern division of the county, upper division of tic:al Commissioners, who, with the Messrs. T. and W. Side­ B!ackenhurst hundred, petty sessional division, bottom, cotton spinners, of Hadtield, Glossop, Derbyshire, union and county court district, rural deanery of Evesbam and Manchester, are the principal landowners. The soil is and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. From this place stiff; the subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, is a branch line on the Great Western railway to Stratford- beans and barley and pasture. The area is r,263 acres; rate­ on-Avon. The church of St. Ecgwin is an ancient building able value, £r,67o; the population in 1881 was u6 and in of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, r891 was 95· nave, south porch and a western tower with a light and Parisil Clerk, Edwin White. graceful octagonal spire of later date, containing 6 bells :the Letters received through Broadway, which is the nearest church was reseated and thoroughly repaired at the sole ex- money order & telegraph office, arrive at 10 a. m. Tele- pense of Mrs. Jane Williams, widow of a former rector: there grams via Evesham are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1673. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Cow Honeybourne, WALL LETTER BoxEs (near Church), cleared 3·35 p.m.week- , annexed in 1885 ; tithe rent-charge £ 91 , days only; at Railway Station, cleared at 3.25 p.m. & on joint net yearly value £285, including 20 acres of glebe, sundays 10.45 a.m with residence, in the gift of and held ~ince 1873 by the Rev. The children of this place attend the school at Cow Honey- Thomas Smyth n.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who is also bourne vicar of Cow Honeybourne. The living "·as augmented by Hailway Station (Honeybourne Junction) (refreshmen1 Mrs. J. Williams, at her death, with a bequest of £3,500, in rooms), Richard Bunn, station master & goods agent Smyth Rev. Thomas Il.A. Vicarage Halford George, colliery agent & coal Keen George, farmer, Poden Dyke Artbur, farmer factor, bay, ~traw & corn merchant, Tomlinson Thomas, brick & tile n1anu· Hirons William, farmer carting agent, Rail way station facturer & assistant overseer , in Dome!'day," Lenz," is a parish M, A. formerly fellow and tutor of Merton College, Oxford, and one cf a group of villages bearing the general name of and hon. canon of Worcester and rural dean of Feckenham. "Lench," 5 miles north from Evesham, 3 north-west from The charities for the poor amount to .£2 yearly. The Rev. Wm. statwn, on 1ihe Evesham and Aschurch branch Kyle Westwood Chafy-Chafy M.A. rector of Rous Lench, is of the Midland railway, 4 north from station on lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is the Evesham and Worcester section of the Great Western clay and sand ; subsoil, gravel and blue has. The chief railway, 7 north-east from Per~hore and 13 south-east-by- crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 2,512 acres; east from Worcester, in the Southern division of the county, rateable value, /,"2,229; the population in 1891 was 405. partly in Upper Halfshire hundred and partly in Lower Atch Lench is a hamlet, 1 mile south-east. Here is Blackenhurst hundred, Evesham petty sessional division, a Baptist chapel. union and county court district, rural deanery of Feckenham and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The church of Sheriff's Lench is a hamlet, 1 ~ miles south-west. .All Saints is a building of stone, chiefly lll the Perpendicular Ab bot's Lench is a hamlet of Church Lench, formerly style, consisting of chancel, nave, south ai!lle, south porch a chapelry to Fladbury, in the hundred of Middle Oswalds­ and an embattled western tower, with crocketed pinnacles low, r mile west. The area is 870 acres; rateable value, at the angles, containing a clock (placed in r888) and 6 bells: £497: the population in r8gr was rg. LENCHWICK is 2~ the reredos is of carved oak, and the chancel walls are deco- rniles south, and will be found under NoRTON. rated in colour: all the windows are stained : there are re- Parish Clerk, Major Allchurch. mains of the stairs leading to the ancient rood loft and an PosT 0FFICE.-George Ellison, receiver. Letters received elaborately carved font, surmounted by a lofty oak cover: through Evesham arrive at 8. 30 a.m. Box cleared at 4.45 the chancel was entirely re-built in 1852, and the whole p.m. No collection on sundays. Harvington is the church was completely restored in 1888, at a cost of .£·I,roo, nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are a new north vestry and organ chamber erected, the chancel issued here, but not paid floor re-laid, and oiher improvements effected : the church now affords 243 sittings: the churchyard is entered by a WALL LETTER Box at :Mr. G. F. Bomford's, .Atch Lench, Iych gate, and on the left side of the pathway is a mound, cleared at 4·35 p.m. week days only on which stands a stone cross. The register dates from the Church School (mixed), erected with residence for mistress, year r696. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £ 221 , in 1864, for 90 children; average attendance, 75; Miss gross yearly value £410, net £340, inc:luding So ac:res of H. Green, mistress glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, CAIUUERs.-Charles E. Ballard & A. Ballard, to Evesham, and held since 1886 by the Rev. John Richard Turner Eaton on mon. & fri. & Worcester on sat Church Lench. Co-operative Stores (Hy.Greening,sec.; Bomford l!:mily & Lucy l\1, (Misses), E aton R ev. J o h n R IC. hd . T urnerM.A.,J.P. Edmnnd Mobbs, manager) ladies' school [rector, hon. canon of Worcester & Ellison George, bricklayer, Post office BomfordJn.Hemming& Geo.Fdk.frmrs rural dean of Feckenham], Rectory Greening Henry, shoe maker Grove Edwin, market gardener Tovey Thomas Hughes William, farmer Valender George, haulier Mobbs Edmund, manager of the Co- Valender Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper COMMEilCIAL. operative stores Sheriff's Lench. Allchnrch Major, parish clerk Nunn William, market gardener Smithin Benjamin, farmer As ton Enoch J ames, baker Pace Harry, farmer Baldwin Martin & James, threshing Wakefield Chas. Wm. farmer, Bank ho Abbots-Lench. machine owners Baldwin William, farmer Ballard Alfred, carrier Atch Lench. Halford Fredcrick, farmer Ballard Charles Edward, carrier Bomford George Frederick Hathaway Thomas, farmer CHURCHILL, near Kiddcrminster, is a parish with a parish, is a modern building of stone, in the Early English station on the Oxford, Worcester and Dudley section of the and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south Great Western railway, three-quarters of a mile south from porch and a north-eastern tower containing 2 bells: thf' the village, 3! miles south-west from Stourbridge, 3~ north- church was erected by subscription, the principal contributor east from Kidderminster, 14 south-west from Birmingham, being the 4th Lord Lyttelton, to whose memory a stained 18 north from Worcester, and r3o! from , in the east window was erected in 1878 at a cost of £150: in r8gO Mid division of the county, lower division of Halfshire bun- another stained window was added, and a reredos erected to dred, Stourbr1dge petty sessional division, Kidderminster the memory of the late Rev. Reginald Pyndar Turner M.A. nnion and county court district, rural deanery of Kidder- I for 47 years rector of the parish ( r841-88): in the church i.f minster and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The I a rude wooden chest, hewn out of a solid block of oak: thll church of St. James, situated. in the eastern part of the font is a plain octagon : there are 250 sittings. The register