DIRECTORY.] . STOKE ST. MILBOROI;'GH. 233 of St. James is a small building of brick and stone in and rolling mills are owned by the Haybridge Iron Com­ the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, north pany Limited, and the Stirchley Iron and Coal Co. transept, and a western tower containing a clock and 3 The Haybridge Co. Lord Barnard and Mr. Edmund bells: it was enlarged in 1838, by the late Thomas Fletcher are the principal landowners. The soit is a William and Beriah Botfield esqrs. and a gallery over stout loam; subsoil, clay, ironstone and coal. The chief the transept added for the use of their workmen; the crops are wheat, barley, beans, peas and roots. The chancel is divided from the nave by a Norman arch of area is 833 acres; rateable value, £2,380; the popula­ exquisite workmanship. The register dates from the tion in 1891 was 187. year 1658. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- Sexton, J ames Blocksidge. cllarge £148, net yearly value £152, including 41 acres Letter Box cleared at 5 p.m. week days only. Letters of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of are received through· . is the nearest tile late Rev. Edward W. Stubbs M.A. and held sinc!' money order &; telegraph office 1894 by the Rev. William Hunt Painter. There are A School Board of 5 members was formed 20 Feb. 1879; charities amounting to £2 4s. yearly, viz. :-17s. left C. B. H. Soame, Dawley, clerk to the board; Edwin by Mr. Richard Cook, gentleman, 1725, to be presented Gough, Dawley, attendance officer to the poor annually, and charged on the "Rose and Board School (mixed &; infants), built in 1880, at a cost Crown;" Thomas Clowes, in 1748, left the sum of 208. of £700, for 80 children; average attendance, 80; Miss payable out of the Stirchley Hall estate, to be given to Elizabeth Briscoe, mistress the poor on St. Thomas' day. The collieries and forge Railway Station, William Davies, station master Fletcher Edmund, Stirchley hall Clark George Edward, farmer Haybridge Iron Co. Limited (Clement Groom Charles, Stirchley grange F~etcher EdmdJ,frmr.Stircliey Hall fm Groom, managing director); &; at Painter Rev. William Hunt, Rectory Jones Thomas, farm bailiff to the Haybridge Will.iams Frederick, The Elms Haybridge Co Trigger Robt. M. frmr. Upper Brands COMMERCIAL. Roden Mary Elizabeth (Mrs.), Rose & WilkinsonGeorge, brick &; tile mnfr llooth George, farmer, Homer farm Crown P.H Wrekin Chemical Co. chemical mnfrs 'STOCKTON is a township, village and parish on the is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £450, net yearly road between Shifnal and , 3 miles south- value about [,75°, including 20 acres of glebe, with ellst from Coalport station on the Wellington and Craven residence, in the gift of William O. Foster esq. and held Arms branch of the Great Western railway, 2 north- since 1889 by the Rev. Henry James Wilkinson M.A. east from Linley station on the Bewdley and Shrews- of Brasenose College, Oxford, and proctor for the arch­ bury branch of the same line, si south from Shifnal deaconry. The Rectory, a large structure of brick, is and 3! south-east from Madeley, in the Northern pleasantly seated near the church. Apley Park, the seat division of the county, Shifnal division of Brimstree of William Grme Foster esq. D.L., J.P. who is lord of hundred, Shifnal union, Madeley county court district, the manor and sole landowner, is beautifully wooded petty sessional division and rural deanery of Shifnal, and extends over about 400 acres, through which the archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The 11ows: on the east side is a terrace of church of St. Chad is an ancient building of red sand- about 2 miles in extent, commanding lovely and ex­ :stone in the Decorated style, with some Early Norman tensive views towards the Wrekin and Clee hills, includ­ work, consisting of chancel, nave, short transepts and ing 33 churches; the mansion, which stands on a gentle .an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing eminence, is an elegant structure of freestone. :a clock and 6 bells: the church was restored in 1860, The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, sandstone and gravp.l. when the whole of the chancel was refaced with Bath The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. stone; on removing the plaster from the walls on the The area is 3,164 acres of land and 38 of water; rate­ north side, the pld Norman windows and a semi-circular able value, £40445; the population in 1891 was 489. recess of the same date were uncovered; on the south Higford is 2; miles east, on the river Worfe. side there is a small locker, a piscina, part of the I N orton is half-a-mile north. sedilia, and a leper's window: the communion table, Sexton, William Clarke. Jlfobably of the time of the Reformation, has been re- Post Office, Norton.-William Clarke, SUb-postmaster. tllined and the 11001' has been relaid: the east window Lett'8rs arrive from Shifnal at 7.45 a.m.; dispatched and those on the south side are stained: the pulpit is at 5.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not of old oak with carved panels: the nave and transepts paid. The nearest money order &; telegraph office is have been refaced with stone, and the Jacobean wood- at Madeley work repaired: the pews have either been converted Police Station, George Newnes, constable into open sittings or replaced by oak benches, and the National School (mixed), built in 1858, for 140 children; tower arch opened, disclosing the west window and door- average atendance, 70; k supported partially by way. The register dates from the ~·ear 1558. The living William Orme Foster esq.; Alexander Davies, master STOCKTON tCummins William, butler to William NORTON. . Orme Foster esq. Apley park Collum Rupert Frands, South lodge (For names marked thus t letters Instone Edward, fa,rmer, Astol farm Clarke Wm. boot &; shoe ma. Post off should be addressed Bridgnorth.) Lay Thomas, blacksmith Harding John., farmer, Norton house Burrows Mrs. The Grange ~'8pp Richard, farmer, Old park Hayward George, Hundred Court tFoster Wm. Orme D.L.,J.P. Apley pk ~evett William Barber, farmer, Cob3- Rouse inn tFoster Capt. James, Apley park brooke house, Higford Lay Thomas, wheelwright Wilkinson Rev. Henry James M.A. tParr Hy. head gardener to William Ridley Helen (Miss), school (preptry) (rector), Rectory Orme FO;;ltoer esq. Apley Thomas William, grocer &c ttYainwrig-ht Thos. frmr. Crowgreaves Thomas William, builder COYMERCIAL. tWatts Henry Gem-ge, gamekeeper to Wilcox Michael, estate bailiff &; wood tBedfordJ John, farm bailiff to Wm. Wm. Orme Foster esq. Apley ~anger to William Orme Foster esq. Orme Foster esq. Aplay Wilson Thos. Edwd. frmr. Leavenhalls &; clerk to p6rish council STOKE ST. MIL:BOROUGH is a township and chapel and two Primitive Methodist chapels, each having parish, 6~ miles north-east from , the nearest rail. sittings for about 50 persons. A sum of £400, invested way station, in the Southern division of the county, lower in Consols by a former vicar, and realising about £10 divi~on of hundred, LudloW" union, petty ses- annually, is applied to the purchase of bread, to be given .sional division and county court district, rural deanery and to the poor at the church fortnightly. Milborough Lodge, archdeaconry of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The occupied by Percival Bowen esq. and Moor Hall, now church of St. Milburgh, named from Milburgha, a daugh-! (1895) unoccupied: both belong to Viscount Boyne D.L., ter of Merewald, king of part of Mercia, who founded the J.P. who is lord of the manor. The chief landowners are abbey of Wenlock, in the 7th century, is an ancieni Viscount Boyne and Sir Charles Henry Rouse-Boughton building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, bart. D.L., J.P. of Downton Hall. The soil varies; some nave, sonth porch and a large embattled western tower clay, some sand; subsoil, stone and clay. The chief crops ~ontaining 4 bells, bearing inscriptions in Latin and dating are wheat, barley and oats; a considerable portion is laid from 1622 to 1637; on the wooden framework are the down in meadow and pasture. The area is 4,990 acres; initials" T. G. T. F." and the date 1698. The register rateable value, £3,930; the population in 1891 was 440. dates from the year 1654. The living is a vicarage, with Clee Downton township is about 2 miles sonth-by-east the chapelry of Heath annexed, and the rectorial tithes I from the church, on the road from Ludlow to Bridgnorth. oJ several farms in Stoke; average tithe rent-charge ('lee Stanton township is abont 2 miles south. £314> joint net yearly value £320, including 70 acres of Sexton and Clerk for Stoke, Herbert Massey. glebe, with residence, in t.he gift of R. Skilbeck esq. and Heath, formerly a township in this parish, t~ which it held since 1893 by the Rev. John Thomas Smith L.Th. of is still attached as a chapE'lry, is now for civil purposes a :Biihop Hatfield Hall, Durham. There is a 'Ye"leran parish, 9 miles north-west from Ludlow and 7 miles south-