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Ocusols, to be distributed annually in blankets and Letters are received by foot post from Cleobury Mer­ flannel. The principal landowners are Robert Stopford timer, Sal()p; arrive at 7.15 a.m. Cle()bury Mortimer Woodward esq. of Hopton Court, Mrs. Childe, of Kinlet is the nearest money order & telegraph offlce, 2~ miles HaU, Michael Tomkinson esq. of Franche Hall, Kidder­ distant minster, and Michael Granville Lloyd-Baker esq. of Wall Letter Boxes.-Near the school, cleared at 5.40 Hardwiclie Court, Gloucester, who is also lord of the p.m.; Chilton, cleared at 5·45 p.m.; Stonehouse, manor. The soil is schist, or cornstone, and the sub­ clea.red at 5·45 p.m. ; Vicarage, 6 p.m. week days only soil <:lay. The chief crops are w.h~at, barley, oats, beans Public Elementary School (mixed), with residence for and turnips. The area is 3,787 acres of land and 21 of teaoher, built in 1876, for 70 children; average attend­ water; rateable value, £5,431; population in 19II, 3.85. ance, 52 ; the schools are partly endowed by the Baveney Wood, 2 miles north-east, and Overwood, 1 ~ Edwards & Hinckesman families with land producing north, are hamlets of this parish. £4o yearly; Mrs. Jessie Freeman, head mistress; Sexton, .A.rthur Mallard. Miss E. Baxter, assistant mistress l\Ieredith Rev. William Henry Fitz­ Gri:ffiths John, farmer, Overwood frm Link John, farmer, Upper Elcott gerald .B.A. Vicarage Griffiths Wm. cottage frmr.Overwood Link Reuben, farmer, Lower Baveney COVVElWTA L. 1. Harris William, mason I Link Thomas, sen. frmr. Stepple hall Amies Thomas, farm bailiff to :Michae1 Haywood John E. farmer 1 Pope Frederick Hayton (Mrs.), Tomkinson esq Haywood Mary .A. E. (Miss), farmer, farmer, Clanley Seat farm Barker Samuel, farmer, Lodge farm Neen farm Scott Fras. Wm. frmr. Walltown frm Berry Joseph G. cowkee.per Heynes Fanny (Mrs.), frmr.Wyre frm Southall Ri~hard (Mr~.). farmer, BoraBton Waiter, farmer, Nash farm Hicks William, farmer, Rose cottage Upper Baveney Cadwallader Moses,farmer,Detton hall Horton William, farmer, Stone house Wall Richard, miller (water), Detton Corbett Albert, farmer, Reaside Lane Edmund, carpenter mill Corbett Mary .Ann (Miss), farmer, Lawley Thomas, farmer, Shunesley Whabmore Arthur, farmer Nethereott Lee Joseph, farmer, Bank top Whatmore George, farmer Draper Samuel, mason Leighton John, farmer, Musbach I Wyer John, landownPr & farmer, Griffiths Benj. farmer, Lower Elcott Link Alfred, farmer, Shutley farm Little Stepple NEEN SOL-LARS, or Solars, or Lower Neen, is a town· repair, and also £7oo for the erection of a reredos and ship, parish and village, intersected by the river Rea and east window; in addition to these an organ was erected the Tenbury and Bewdley branch of the Great Western and the chancel decorated out of the same amount; • railway, which has a station close to the village, 145 the interest of £217 stock is distributed yea-rly amongst miles from London, and is 12 east-by-south from , the poor at Christmas; Thomas Pennell Cook in 1885 12~ south-west from , 9! south-west from left £soo, the dividends srising from whidh ar0 dis­ Bewdley, 3 south-by-east from , in the tributed in clothing, blankets, money or coal amongst Southern division of the county, Overs hundred, Cleobury the deserving poor. The trustees of the late Charles Mortimer petty sessional division, union and county court Wigley Wicksted esq. of Shakenhurst, Cleobury Morti­ district, rural deanery of Burford, archdeaconry of Lud- mer, and the representatives of the Blount family are low and diocese of . The church of All Saints the chief landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, is an ancient cruciform building of stone, consisting of gravel and rock. The chief crops are wheat, beans, chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an octagonal turnips and a hop plantation, and also fruit orchards. wood shingled tower with spire, containing 3 bells: in The area is 1,778 acres of land and 19 of water; rate/ the cbuToh is a handsome monument to Humpobrey able value, £1,923; population in 19II, 205 in the civil Conyngsby esq. a great traveller and formerly lord of and 326 in the ecclesiastical parish (which includes l he manor, who was born in 1567: the church was re- Milson). stored and re-seated in 1859 and later years. The re- Sexton, William Palmer. gister of burials dates from the year 1678; baptisms, Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Fanny Hodgkiss, sub- 1707; marriages, 1754· The living is a rectory, with postmistress. Letters are received by foot post from chapelry of Milson annexed, joint net yearly value £309· Cleobury Mortimer, Salop, at 8 a.m.; dispatched at including 93 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of _30 p.m. week days only Worcester College, Oxford, and held since 1900 by the 4 Rev. Ebenezer Josiah Newell M . .A.. of that college. Public Elementary School (mixed), for the parishes of There are charities, left in 1aa 2 , by Miss Elizabeth Ann Neen & Milson, for 52 children; average attendance, O()ok, consisting .of £547• invested by the Charity Com- 42; Miss A. M. Mays, mistress mission, fc>r keeping tlhe church and churchyard in Railway Station, Edward Lane, station master PRIVATE RESID:gNTS. Berkshire Henry, beer retailer Lane Annie (Miss), dress maker 'Browne Mrs. Neen Sollars house Blunt Waiter, farmer, Neens hill Moore Frederick John, farmer & land- 'Cook John, Birch hill Cook John, farmer, Wharf farm owner, The Court Gurney Hugh J.P. Haughton Cooke James, farmer, The Sturt IOakes Alfred, farmer, Marlbrook Xewell Rev. Ebenezer Josiah M.A Evans Thomas Eli, farmer, Hill top Wood James, farmer, Little Reaside Rectory Han-cox James, farmer Wyer Bennett, farmer COMMERCIAL. Harris George, Railway ta,·ern; 1 Wyer Richard, farmer, Tetstill mill .!Hen John, farmer, The 'Wood accommodation for visitors l NEENTON is a township and parish, consisting chiefly £10 and the latter £2o: both sums have been invested of scattered farms and dwellings, on the river Rea, and is in the Savings Bank and produce 16s. 6d. a intersected by the Ludlow and Bridgnorth road, 6l miles year: tlhe.re is als·o a sum O'f 2s. being a rent charge south-west from Bridgnorth station on the Great ·western on the Ridges farm ~n this pa.rish; these doles are railway, in the Southern division of the count.y, Chelmarsh given at Easter in various sums of money to tlhe most division of Stottesdon hundred, Bridgnorth union and necessitous and deserving poor of the parish. Lt.-Col. county court district, petty sessional division of Brims- Noel Armar Lowry-Corry D.S.O. is lord of the manor and tre~ south, rural deanery of Stottesdon. archdeaconry of chief landvwne.r. '!Th.e soil is loam; the subsoil is lime·· Lndlow ~nd . The church of All stone, with iron and coal underneath. The chief crops Saints, rebuilt in 1871 on the old foundation, through the are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,168 acres of liberality of Lady Charlotte Barbara Lyster and others, land and 4 of water; rateable value, £790; population is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, from in 19II, 91. designs by the late Sir A. Blomfield A.R.A., F.S.A. and Parish Clerk, John Blount. eonsists of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western Post Office.-Mrs. Sarah A. Price, sub-postmistress. turret containing one bell: there is also a very curious Letters through Bridgnorth arrive at 8.5 a.m. Box Xormau font. The register dates from the year 1553. cleared 4.50 p.m. week days only. Burwarton, 2! The living is a rectory, net yearly value £130, including miles distant, is the nearest money o.rder &; telegraph 30 acres of glebe land and residence, in the gift of office Lt.-Col. N. A. Lowry-Corry D.S.O. and held since 1910 Public Elementary School (mixed), 1luilt, with master's by the Rev. .Albert James Warren M . .A. of Christ house, in 1870, for 32 children; average attendance, Church, Oxford. Charities: in 1865 the Rev. Mr. Cheese 25 ; Miss Emma Smith, mistress and Mr. Minton left a sum of £30, the former leaving County Police, William Gillespie, constable Warren Rev. Albert lames .M. A. Bradley Cecil E. farmer, Hall farm 1Price Sarah Ann (Mrs.), sub-post- {re-ctcr ), Rectory Bray Geo. Hy. frmr. New House farm mistress • · OOMMEBCIAL. Corser Hannah (Mrs.),frmr.Ridges fm Turner Thomas, farmer, Bank farm .Amies Alfred Ernest, carpenter & Evans Edward, farmer, Heath farm Wall Thomas, farmer, Hay farm ioinel' &; assistant overseer George Saml. farmer, Churchyard fm Williams Thomas & William, farmers, mount John, pari11h clerk Pinfold Emma (Mrs.), New inn Park farm

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