272 STOW E. . rKELLY's- STOWE. Pugh John, farmer r Marked thus * letters should be Timmings W illiam, gamekeeper to LURKE:NHOPE. addressed Knighton. C. C. Rogers esq. J .P *Bache John Richard J .P. farmer, *Bromfield Major Harry Hickman *Weale Wm. builder, Kinsley road Stud farm D.S.O. The Lee *Wild George Jordan, gardener to' *Bodenhaml Lewis, farmer, Little Pegiar Rev. Jn. James M . .A. Vicarage Major H. H. Bromfield D.S.O. The Lurkenhope BaJdwin Chas. smallhldr. Stowe mill Lee cottage *Ellis Herbt. frmr. Up. Lurkenhope Bird John (Mrs.), market gardener *Williams Maurice farmer, Lurken­ *Morris. George, smallholder, Wood- WEST ON. hope farm ~ille grove Roberts Thomas & J ames, farmers LITTLE STRETTON, see . SUTTON is a village and parish about 1! miles south­ is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is east from station, in the Western division light loam ; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops of the county, division of Condover hundred, are wheat, oats, barley &c. The area is 500 acres of .A tcham union, Shrewsbury county court district, petty land nnd 7 of water; rateable value, £1,620; population • sessional division of Condover, rural deanery of Pontes­ m I9II, 43· bury, archdeaconry of and diocese o~ Hereford. Letters through Shrewsbury, via , arrive The church of St. John, now disused and almost ruinous, at 8 a.m. The latter is the nearest money order office is a very small edifice -of stone and brick, in the & telegraph office, one mile distant Early English style, consisting of nave only ; the in'habi­ 'l'he children of this place attend the school at Meole tants usually attend Meole Brace church. Lord Berwick Brace COJ\IMERC1AL. Hart J ames, farmer Roberts Robert, farmer Davies Henry, farmer IRandles J ames, farmer IWilliams Thomas Robert, farmer SUTTON MADDOCK is a village and parish half a who is lord of the manor of Sutt-on Maddock township, mile east from the , on the and and William Henry Foster esq. of .Apley Park, are the road, I! miles south-east from Coalpo.rt principal landowners of the parish. The soil is a stations on the London and North Western and Great n1ixture of clay, loam and gravel; subsoil, various. Western railways, 4 south from Shifnal, 6 north from The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. Ilridgnorth and 3 south from Madeley, in the Northern 'I he area is 2,724 acres of land and 15 of water; rate­ division of the county, Shifnal division of Brimstree al~le value, [3,782; the population in 19II was 347· hundred, Shifnal union and petty sessional division, Sexton Thomas Wynne. 1\lade:ey county court district, rural deanery of Shifnal, : , . . archdeaconry of S.alop and diocese of Lichfield. The ' ~ROCKTON hamlet _Is on the road from _Shlfnal to church of St. Mary is an edifice of red stone, consisting [ Bndgnor~h, about rl miles north from the pansh ~hurch of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western and 2 m~les south-east from Madeley Market station on 1 tower containing 5 bells: the east window was presented 1 the Wellmgton a~d Ooalport bran_oh of the London and in 1go8 by Mr. C. C. Bru:ff, and there are memorial North Western railway, and contams a few good housel!. windows to the Broughall family: the body of the I Letters per foot post from Shifnal, arrive at 8 ·a.m.

church was entirely rebuilt in r888, at a cost of £2,528. 1 Norton, about r mile distant, is the nearest money The register dates from the year I559· The living is a I order & telegraph office vicarage, annexed to the rectory of , joint WaH Letter Box cleared at g.25 a.m. & 6.5 p.m.; on net yearly value £310, with 6o acres of glebe and resi- sundays at 9·55 a.m dence, in the gift of J. B. Paynter esq. and held since Wall Letter Box at Brockton cleared at g.4o a.m. & 1893 by the Rev. William George Richard Blaby, who 6.20 p.m.; on sundays at ro.1o a.m resides at Kemberton: the Rev. Thomas Stanley Shep- Public Elementary School (mixed), with house for mis· herd B.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, has tress attached, built in 1845, for 50 children; average been curate in charge since 1912. W. J. Ilrooke esq. attendance, 36; Miss L. C. Harrison, mistress SUTTON MADDOCK. Harrington Pumping Station of the Wilson Thos. Adams, farmer, New ho Garrett Maj. Arthur Newson Bru:ff Madeley & Water Works J.P. The Cottage (letters through (Joseph Richard Shepherd, engineer BROCKTON. Coalport, , Salop) in charge). Harrington Shepherd Rev. Thomas Stanley B A , Heighway Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Farmer-Jones Thos. Ilrockton court (curate in charge) · · Sutton Wharf (letters through Coal- Dyas Chas. frmr. Brockton Park frm port, Ironbridge, Salop) 1 Farmer Jsph. architect, Brockton cot Landt>r Arthur E. farmr. Sutton hill Marson Gervase, frmr. The Grange COMMERCIAL. Lay Edgar, builder Pritchard William, farmer Bowers Edwin, farmer, Sutton wood Nock Edward, farmer,Harrington hall Shropshire Thos. farmer, Brockton ho Chick Thos. Wm. farmer, Sutton hall Nock Frank, farmer Smith William. farmer, Brockton hall SYCHTYN, or Soughton, is a township of the parish Bull esq. of . The soil is clay; subsoil, clay of Llansilin, Denbighshire, in a bleak and mountainous and limestoneo. The chief crops are wheat and barley; district, 3! miles south-west-by-west from Oswestry, in two-thiTds of parish is pasture. The township con­ the Western division of the county of Salop, Oswestry tains 1,459 acres; rateable value, £1,362; population petty sessional division, incorporation and county court in 19II, 145, mostly Welsh. district and upper division of Oswestry hundred: the Letters are received through Oswestry (via Trefonen), scenery from the vicinity of Pentre Cefn is most beau­ arrive at about Io a.m. Llansilin is the nearest tiful, including the luxuriant vale of Llansilin, the Shrop­ money order & telegraph office, about 2 miles distant shire plains and Montgomeryshire hills. Here are Con­ gregational and Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapels. Wall Letter Box, at Croesauba.ch, cleared week dayl! The Earl of Powis is lord of the manor. The principal xo.3o a.m Wall Letter Box, at Wern-ddu, cleared week days 10.30 landowners are Sir Herbert Llovd• Watkin Williams- Wynn C.Il. of Wynnstay, John Dumville Lees esq. of a.m Trefiach, Major-Gen. Sir John Gatacre K.O.B. of 33 The children of this place attend the schools at Trefonen, Bury street, St. James's, London SW, and Charles H. N antmawr & I.Jansilin COMMERCIAL. !Davies Richard, farmer, Pentre-Ucha Evans Wm. cowkeeper, Bryn-Pentre (Marked thus * receive their letters Davies Wynn, farmer, Graigwenfach Jones Evan, farmer through Oswestry.) *Edwards Henry Chas. frmr. Panthi:- Jones William, farmer, Pentre-Cefn *Davies Edward, frmr. Rhandir-ucha *Edwards John, farmer, Rhandir Lloyd William, farmer, Wern-ddu Davies Eleanor(Mrs.),frmr.Pentre Issa *Edwards Thos. Danl.frmr. Mill farm Morris Robert, farmer, Tycoch *Davies John Charles,farmer & assist- Ellis Edward, farmer, Alltyrhiw Roberts William, farmer, Ty-nant ant overseer, Pentre-cefn Evans Maurice, farmer, Graigwenfawr *Thomas Rd. Thos. frmr.Pentre~Oefn TASLEY is a township and parish on the road from lofty hill, and rebuilt in 1840, is a modern building of Bridgnorth to , 1/r miles north-west from brick, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel Bridgnorth station on the Great Western railway, in and nave and a western tower containing 2 bells: there the Southern division of the county, Chelmarsh division is a fine oak screen, pulpit and reading desk formerly of Stottesdon hundred, Ilridgnorth union, petty sessional belonging to the old timber-framed church. The regis­ division and county court district, rural deanery of ter dates from the year 1563,. The living is a rectory, Bridgnorth, archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Here- net yearly value £,120, including- 8 acres of glebe, in ford. The church of SS. Peter and Paul, standing on a the gift of Capt. E. W. F. Acton, and held since 1882