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22 BODR..1'{HAM. HEREFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S Cubberley Thomas, first whip, North *Trood John, farmer, Upper Holbach Vaughan Arthur, farmer Herefordshire hunt Went Jane (Mrs.), blacksmith &farmr. Weaver John, tailor Davis James; farmer, Richland Bank house Whittingslow Thomas (Mrs.), farmer Davis James, head gardener to W. E. BOWLEY. Williams AIlan, shoe maker King-King esq. D.L., J.P. Bunhill vil Williams Joseph, butcher & assistant Eckley John, farmer, Dewdales hope Taylor Thomas, Bowler lane overseer Everall George, wheelwright, Bowley la Davis William John, frmr. Bowley lane • Hall Ben M.B. Lond. surgeon, &medical James John, farmer & hop grower & MAUND BRYAN. officer & public Taccinator, 3 district, horse dealer, Bowley court Britten Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Leominster union, Red house Saw Joseph, farmer, Butford Edwards Jonathan, frmr. Pigeon house Hams John, farmer, Calderwell Taylor Waiter, farmer &; builder, & Griffiths Alfred, farmer Haynes Will, huntsman, North Here Lower Broadfield Griffiths Emma (Mrs.), frmr. Poole hd fordshire hunt Wall Arthur, farm bailiff to J. H. Ark Griffiths William, blaeksmith Hyde John, miller (water), Riffins mill wright esq. M.A., D.L., J.P. Bowley Poiner Emma (Mrs.), farmer Medlicott :Mrs. farmer & hop grower, lane Prosser John (Mrs.),carrier, Poole head Court farm THE MOOR. Simmons George, farmer, Common Morgan William, Railway"inn, Din- Beaman Thomas, mason Stedman James, sawyer & farmer, more station Bowen James, tailor Shortland cottages Morris Philip, shopkeeper Bray John, farmer, Gravel farm Stedman William, wheelwright Nott John Samuel, farmer, ·Woodhouse CottereIl WilIiam Henry, grocer Wilkins John, farmer & hop grower, Old Radoor Coal & Lime Co. (William Duncan Robert, shopkeeper Maund court Daw, agent), Railway station Evans Leonard, grocer & bu.tcher Perks John, carpenter Gough Frederick Elliott, farmer & hop WHITECHURCH MAUND. Pitt Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Great pit grower & breeder of Hereford cattle Edwardes George Hy. frmr. Newhouse Powell Geo. frmr. &hop groWl". Howton & Ryeland sheep, hunters & harness Harper Albert, frmr. Upper Maund frm Price William, farmer & hop grower & horses, Upper Moor Hill WiIliam John, farmer & hop breeder of Hereford cattle, Yern ho Gravenor Thomas, carrier grower, Rowbury farm Purchase William Ernest, England's Pritchard Richard, cider retailer Mayo• William, water bailiff Gate P.H. & farmer & fly proprietor Smith Sarah (Mrs.), threshing machine Prosser Waiter, beer & cider retailer & Smalley William Hy. sub-postmaster proprietor shopkeeper, The Crosens BOSBURY is a village and parish on the river Leadon, a palace of the bi!hops of Hereford ; the refectory is used as 3! miles north from Ledbury railway station on the Here a cider cellar, and the doorway and wicket are still perfect. 'ord and Worcester section of the Great Western railway Temple Court, the residence of John Pitt Harford esq. was Ind 14 east from Hereford, in the Southern division of the formerly occupied by the Knights Templars. In the Crown ~ounty, Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, county court Inn, formerly the mansion of the Harford family, there is district and petty sessional division, rural deanery of Frome an ancient panelled room, with the date 1571 and the arms (south division) and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. of different members of the Harford family: over the fire The church of the Ht>ly Trinity is an anCIent building of place are four shields with the arms of John Skipp, bishop of stone in the Transition Norman style, consisting of chancel, Hereford 1539-53; of William Paulet, first Marquess of nave of six bays, with clerestory, aisles, south porch of open Winchester K. G. who died 1572, with the garter and coronet; timberwork, and a massive detached embattled tower of the Wrottesleyof Wrottesley; Scrope, of Castle Combe, Wilts, 13th century situated about 60 feet south of the church, and Fox of Bromfield; the room is now used as a lodge and containing 6 bells; a clock was presented by the Rev. room of the Bishop Swinfield Lodge of Oddfellows (M.U.), John Edmund Cheese, late vicar, in 1878: the chancel is The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor of separated from the nave by a fine oak screen; the restora the whole parish. Willoughby B. Mynors esq. John tion of the chancel and repewing of the nave was com Harford Pitt esq. and Charles Henry Crane esq. of Tetten pleted in 1871, at a cost of £3,000, under the superintend hall, Wolverhampton, are the principal landowners. The ence of Mr. Ewan Christian, architect, of London: at the soil is heavy; subsoil, clay. This is a cider and hop dis east end of the south aisle is the chantry chapel of Sir trict. The chief crops are wheat. beans, hops and barley. Rowland Morton, a beautiful specimen of Late Pointed The area is 4,734 acres; rateable value, £6,928; the popu architecture: there are monuments, with recumbent figures, lation in 1891 was 916. on each side of the chancel, one being to John Harford, ob. Catley half a mile north-west and Upleadon, I mile west· 1573, and the other to his son, Richard Harford and his by-south, are places in the parish. • wife, dated 1578 : the stained east window is a joint memorial Parish Clerk, Charles Bettington to Lieut. Arthur Clinton Baskerville Mynors, who died at Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B. Express Delivery &Annuity &In Natal in 1879, and Charles Baskerville Mynors, d. 1863, and surance Office.-~Irs. Sarah Kendrick, sub-postmistress. there are other stained windows: the font is a work of the Letters are received through Ledbury at 7.20 a.m. ; dis 12th century, and thereis a still older one, probably of Saxon patched thereto at 5.30 p.m. origin, of which now only the bowl remains: the pulpit is of Wall Letter Box, Stanley Hill, cleared at 5 p.m. daily finely carved oak : a handsome brass eagle lectern was sub except sundays scribed for by the parishioners and presented to the church Police Station, William W. Jones, officer in charge in 1894: in the porch are the remains of a holy-water stoup: there are sittings for 450 persons: the churchyard contains Schools. a well-preserved village cross. The register dates from Free Grammar, built & endowed by Sir Rowland Morton the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent In 1540 with lands now yielding yearly a rental of £103, charge £298, gross yearly value £320, including 6 acres of for 60 boys; average attendance, 53; John Knight Job, glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Hereford, master and held since 1879 by the Rev. Samuel Bentley M.A. of National (girls & infants), built in 1848 & enlarged in 1883, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, surrogate. There is a & again in 1894, for 120 girls; average attendance, 82 ; Wesieyan Chapel at Stanley Hill, erected in 1863, and a Miss Mary Ann Arrowsmith, mistress Primitive Methodist chapel at Swinmore, also a ~eeting Carriers to- house for Plymouth Brethren. Bosbury House, the seat of Ledbury-Jas. Pullen, Alfred Hall & Sarah C'artwright,tues WiIloughby Baskerville Mynors esq. D.L., J.P. is a structure Worcester-James Pullen, sat of red brick and stone in the Italian style, with balustrades Hereford-Thomas Payna, wed. & sat and a portico; it contains 8 fine collection of curiosities, Malvern-Sarah Cartwright, mono & fri ancient and modern. Old Court, now a farm, was formerlv Returning same days Barrett James, Staplow house Bosley Thomas Edwin, farmer & land- Da.is James, butcher Bentley Rev. Samuel l\I.A. [vicar & OWIIer, BentIeys Davies William, farmer, Sugarcl'oft surrogate], Vicarage Box VL farmr. & hop growr. Woodlow Edwards Joseph, farmer & landowner, Manning James Parker. Stanley house Brazier James Herbert, Crown inn Broadcroft, Fox hill Mynors Willoughby BaskerT'ille D.L., Buck (:\lrs.), convalescent home for Edwards WiIliam, farmer &landowner, J.P. Bosbury house nurses, Holly mount Woodlow Pitt John Harford, Temple court Bunn George, farmer & hop grower, Foxwell Francis, farmer & hop grower Pritchard Mrs. Swinmore Swinmore & landowner, Catlev Cross Willcox Samuel, The Grange Cale John, carpenter, Old country GardinerAnn(Mrs.), iarmr.Northbridge COMMERCIAL. Collett Jane (Mrs.), grocer & provision Gardiner Thomas, farmer &hop grower, Barrett James, farmer & landowner dealer, goods equal to store prices Townend Staplow house Cotton Allan, wheelwrIght & smith Gibbs Edwin, farmer, Stanley hill Bettington Caroline (:\1rs.), farmet, Cotton Rt. farmr. & hop growr. The Hill Green William, farmer & hop grower, The Brook Davies Edwin, black.:,mith, Stanley hill Lower house & Great Catley.