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DIRECTOKY J STAFFORDSHIRE. ROLLESTON. 341 Brassington Fdk. frmr. Vicarage frm James William W. farmer, Ranton ho Wheat Ann M. (Mrs. ),frmr. & beer re• Brassington John, poultry breeder Myatt Catherine (Mrs.), farmer Williams Sim E. farmer, W oodside Collier William, farmer Myatt Ernest, farmer, Uhurch gates Grimes J ames, fanner Myatt Samuel, farmer, The Wicket LONG OOMPTON. Hammond John, blacksmith Smith Thomas, farmer Clewlow Samuel, farmer Heatb John, fanner Wardle John Washington, farmer, Leese Herbert, farmer Ranton hall l\Iarsh John, farmer RIDWARE, see Hamstall Ridware, Mavesyn Ridware and Pipe Ridware. ROCESTER is a parish a.nd small town in Churnet joining t.he church. Woodseat, the pleasant ;residence Valley, and has a station with junction for Ashbome on of John Fitz.herbert Campbell esq. J.P. on an eminence 'be North Staffordshire railway, 2Ii miles from Stoke, above the con:fl.uence of the Dove and Churnet, is a 18 from Burton, 4l north from Uttoxeter, 7 south-east mile south-west of the village, and one mile north, on from Cheadle and 140 from London, in the Leek division an eminence facing the south and overlooking an ex of the county, hundred of South Totmonslow, Uttoxeter tensive landscape, is Barrow Hill, the mansion and union, petty sessional division and county court district, estate of Captain Arthnr Finch Dawson J.P. The prin rural deanery of Uttoxeter, archdeaconry of Stoke-upon- cipal landowners are Captain A. F. Dawson J.P. John Trent and diocese of Lichfield. The rivers Churnet and Fitzherbert Campbell esq. J.P. who is lord of the Dove join a mile below the village. The village is lighted manor, and Mr. Ernest Atkins. Th.e soil is loam; sub with gas. The church of St. Michael is a modem edifice soil, •gravel. The land is almost entirely devoted to of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, grazing and dairy produce. The area is 1,991 acres of 1outh aisle, north porch and an embattled western tower land, including 48 of water; rateable value, £7,708; with spire, containing a clock and 6 bells: the east win- the population in I9II was 1,263, and of the: ecclesias dow, painted by Mr. De Morgan, represents scenes from tical parish, St. MiQhael, 1,243. the life of Christ, and there are other stained windows: Combridge is one mile south-west, on the road from the church was restored in I873• at a cost of £3,8oo, and Uttoxeter to Ashbourne. has 444 sittings. In the churchyard are two coffin slabs By Local Government Board Order No. I895, part of much defaced, and a fine .shaft of a cross adorned Rocester civil parish was .added to Denstone and the with interlaced work. The register dates from the vear latter to the former parish. 1564. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £I70, Parish Clerk, Ernest Corden. including 30 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Martha Taylor, sub- John Fitzherbert Campbell esq. and held since 1897 by postmistress. Letters arrive from Stafford at 5.15 ~he Rev. William Charles Wright M.A. of Caius College, a.m. & 3.30 p.m. ; dispatched to Stafford at 8 p.m. ; Cambridge. The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected Stoke, Io.55 a.m. Letters to callers :tletween 8.30 to in 1888 in place of the old one on the opposite side of the xo on sunday. Letters for Cambridge are received street, at a cost of (including site) about .[1,400, and will through Uttoxeter seat ISO persons. There i1 also a small Wesleyan chapel. Wall Letter Boxes. Station, cleared at 8.40 a.m. & The poor of this parish have .[13 yearly from several 6.45 p.m. ; Crosden .Abbey, 5.30 p.m.; Field Head, small benefaction~. The wake is held on the Sundav 9.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. week days only, & that 1lt Cam- after Oct. nth. Here are a cotton mill, the stoneworks bridge at 8. 10 p.m; sunday, 8.10 p.m of Messrs. Stanton and Bettany, and the brick WQorlu; of Mr. Charles Hartley. Rocester was a Roman station, Public Elementary Schools. and in I795 remains of Roman works, probably baths, Mixed, erected in 183o, for Ioo children & enlarged & were discovered, together witlh some copper coins and a improved in I88o, for 142 ; average atte:lldance, ug; spear head of brass, skeletons and fragments of pottery. John James Hetherington, master In II46 Richard Bacon founded here an abbey of .Austin d Canons and dedicated it to St. Mary; the revenues, at its Infants', erected in I852, for 92 children; average atten -. dissolution, were estimated at .[n2 yearly. The foun- ance, 58; Mrs. Agnes Slater, mistreS'S dation$ {)f the abbey can still be traced in a field ad- Railway Station, Thomas Dewsberry, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. 1 Byron John, farmer, Dovercliffs 1 & public vaccinator, Rocester dis- Bettany Thomas, Springfield house IChatfield John, Cross Keys P.H trict, Uttoxeter union & certifying- Campbell Jn.Fitzberbert J.P.Woodseat Clark Geo.rge Herbert, grocer factory surgeon & eo-medical officer Dawson Capt. .Arthur Finch J. p ·I Cole Harr1et (Mrs.). butcher ' to Denstone College Barrow hill Dennis James Melancthon, grocer , Rocester Meat Company (John Gandy, Dwyer Thomas B Draycott Thos. farmer & wheelwright proprietor; Arthur Walker,mangr) Fearn John 1 Uwyer Thomas B. coal merchant Roe Joseph, clog & patten maker Hartley Charles, The Rookery IDwyer's Stores, grocers Sheldon Mary (Mrs.), joiner Hurt Theodore Octavius, Holly bank Forrester Amos, shoe maker Shipley Edward, s-hoe maker Keeling Samuel, Riversfield Forrester Joseph, draper Silcock Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, & Knight Edwd. Walt.Horton,Rocester lo 1 Forrester Trevor, plumber glazier Stubwood Mear Horace E. The Shrubbery, IGandy John, butcher Slaney George, hair dresser & jeweller Stubwood Gaunt Thomas, boot maker Smith W. H. & Son, booksellers, Orpe John, Oaklea, Stubwood Gilbert F. W. & Co. Ltd .. dairymen Railway station Robinson Bernard M.R.C S.Eng Godbehere _Alfred, Re~ :Uon P.H Smith Thomas, farmer, Cambridge Silcock Mrs 1 Hall & Robmson, p~ys1C1ans & surgm Stanton & Bettany,:fl.our & corn millers Wright Rev. William Charles M.A. Hartley Charles, bnck maker (steam & water) & stone merchants, (vicar) Vicarage HPathcl1tE' Thomas, farmer Rocester corn mills & Hollington ' Rill John, farmer, Cambridge white stone quarries & Beggars COMMERCIAL. Holland George, boot repairer Well red stone quarries. T .A Holland PPrC'ival, farmer, Stubwood "Bettany, Rocester" Earley closing day, Wednesday. Hollingworth Waiter, coal dealer Taylor Albert Edward, grocer · .Atkin Eernard, butcher Hollins Edward, stone mason Taylor Arthur, farmer Atkins Ernest, farmer & landowner. Jardine Rohert, Railway inn Thorn William, farmer Abbey fields Joy William John, farm bailiff tn Titley John, grocer, & clerk to the Bettany Thomas, corn & flour miller Capt. A. F. Dawson J.P.Barrow hill Par~sh Council &c. see Stanton & Bettany, Spring- Langton Edmund,cycle agent & dealr Tutbury Mill Co. Ltd. cotton doublers field hous:~ Langton Evelyn (Mrs.), g-rocer & manufacturers · Birch James, farmer Lovatt George Hy.QueE'n's .Arms P.H Wheeldon Charlotte (:~Ess), dress ma Birch James, farmer, DoT"e llatts Parker Gem·ge, farmer, Combridge j WhPPldon John, tailor Blood George, farmer Prince Henry, farml:'r Wood George, farmPr Bawd Thomas, pork butcher Redhill Bank Bricl;: Works, bricl;: Woodier James, cycle dlr. & repairer Brain William. hlaPksmith- manufrs. (Chas. Hartley, proprietr) Woulley George, jun. saddler & har- Budworth Frederick, shopkeeper R.obin!'on Bernara M.R.C.S.Eng., ne!ls mal>er Burton Josepb. insnrance agent L.R.C.P.Lond. (Hall & Robinson), Wodiscroft Wm. farmer, Combridge Burton William, corn & cake merchant physician & surgeon, medical officer ROLLESTON is an ancient village dnd parish, plea· Trent. 10 south-west from Derby, I! south-east from santly seated in a fertile valley on the south bank of the Tntbnry and I29i from London. The parish is in the river Dove, which here forma the boundary between this Bnrton division of the county, North Offiow hundred, county and Derbyshire; it has a station on the North Burton union. petty sessional division and county court Staffordshire railway, which line passes on the outskirt11