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Leighton George, farmer, Newbury Leighton John, jun. farmer, West­ Orgee .A.Hred, farmer, Horsnett Leighton John, sen. farmer, Gren­ ington court (postal address, Leo­ l'omkins John,carpenter & parish clrk don house minster) Watkins .Mary Ann (Mrs.), blacksmth , see Lugwardine. HAMPTON BISHOP is a parish and scattered village living is a rectory, net yearly value £135, including near the junction of the rivers Frome and Lugg with the 3· acre;; of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop Wye, on the and Worcester road t urough Mordi­ of , and held since ·1912 by the Rev. Sidney ford, 3~ miles east-south-east from Hereford station, on Scarlett Smith 1-LA. of (Jlare College, Cambridge. the Great Western, London and North Western and Mid­ Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in r887. land railways, in the Southern division of the county, Tho parochial charities ammmt to £6 Ss. rod. yearly Grimsworth hundred, Hereford union, county court dis­ value. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of trict and petty sessional division, and in the rural deanery, the manor and principal landowners. The soil is rich archdeaconry and . The church of St. loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat and Andrew is an ancient edifice of stone in the Norman style, barley, and fruit is also grown here. The area is 2,017 consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, acres {lf land and 55 of water; rateable value, £4,687; south porch and a tower on the north side containing population in 19n was 365 in the civil and 308 in the a clock and 6 bel1ls, including a new and additional bell, ecclesiastical parish. hung in 1904: in the chancel are a stone reredos and Pari~h Clerk, George Griffith. a muru.l monument to Col. Thomas W eare K.H. aide­ Post Office.-Edward Newton, sub-postmaster. Letters de-camp to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, died 27 by mail cart from Hereford arrive at 6.45 a.m. &; 1.25 March, 185o; Frances, his daughter, d. 5 August, 1828, p.m. ; dispatched at 6. ro p.m. No delivery on sunday. and Ann, his widow, d 4 June, r861: an oak reredos Bartestree is the nearest money order & Mordiford was erected in 1912 : there are memorial windows t·o the nearest telegraph office the Rev. Henry James William Stillingfleet M.A. rector 1868-87, and to the Rev. Thomas W. Weare M.A. Wall Letter Box, in Church wall, cleared at 6 p.m. week rector of Isfield, Sussex, who died 24 Feb. 1871 : the days only tower and vestry were restored in r878, at a cost of The children attend the schools at Mordiford & Tupsley £r,ooo, and the south porch rebuilt in 1889, at a cost Carriers from Fownhope, Checkley & Mordiford pass of £roo. The register dates from the year r67o. The through to Hereford, wed. &; sat. returning same days

1 Paske Mrs. The Elms Gittings John, farmer. Whitehall PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Smith Rev. Sidney Scarlett M.A. Griffith George, assistant overseer &; Bailey Thomas Henry, Lower house (rector), Rectory basket maker Bustin Claude William, Ivy cottage COMMERCIAL. Mailes F. R. &; Co. cider makers Dent Matthew Stephen, The Lawns Bailey Thomas Henry, farmer, Lower Newton Edward, painter &· postmas· Dyke Alexander, The Field house & Church farm ter, Post office Groome Leonard, The Field lodge Bowler J ames, wheelwright Paske Allan J. farmer, Court farm Grove Hubert John, Eightlands Burgoyne Thomas, cottage farmer Taysom Robert, coal merchant Mercer Oharles John, Hampton ho Davis James, cottage farmer Wheatstone Mary Ann (Mrs.), Buno1t Morris Ernest Edwin. Stanley mount Dyke Alexander, farmer, The Field of Carrots P .H HAMPTON CHARLES is a hamlet of the parish ol manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey; Bockelwn, Worcestershire, 3 miles north of the Leomin- subsoil, stony. The chief crops are corn, hops sod ster and road, 8 east from , 7 from apples. The area is 481 acres; rateable value, £530; Tenbury station on the Worcester and Hereford section, population in rgn, 82. 7 north-west from Bromyard station and 1 mile from Letters received t-hrough Tenbury arrive at 10.30 &.m. Fencote station, on a branch of the Great Western rail- The nearest money order office is at Bredenbury, way, in the Northern division of the county, Broxash about miles distant. The nearest post & telegraph hundred, Dromyard union, county court district and office is3 at Hatfield petty sessional division. There is no church here; the Pillar Letter Box, The Birches, cleared at . 5 p.m. inhabit,ants attend the parish church at Bockelton, which week days only 3 4 is three-quart-ers of a mile dil!tant. Francis Edward Prescott esq. J.P. of Bockelton Court, is lord of the The children of this place attend the school at Bockelton Decie Miss, The Birches •Caple George, jun. stone mason, Saer Maria (Mrs.), farmer,Manor fm Holloway common Symonds Edward, frmr, The Birches COli:MERCIAL. Hughes Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Wilson John, farmer, The Heath Ab bott David, brick maker Parker George, farmer Wood Edwin, grocer , Pratt Mary Ann(Mrs.),frmr.White ho HARDWICKE was, with Broad Meadow, Middlewood, vacant. The Rev. Slade R. Baker-Stallard-Penoyre Westbrook and Urchingfield, formed into an ecclesiastical M.A. of Stockton-on-Teme, Worcester, is the principal parish in r853 from the paris-h of Olifford. Hardwicke landowner. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, clay is z; miles north-east from Hay, with a station at West­ and sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, brook on the Golden Valley railway, I~ miles east of the oats, swedes and fruit. The population in I9II was 3II. church, in the Northern division of the county, Hay Parish Clerk, William Lewis. union and county court district, Bredwardine petty l!!es­ sional division, rural deanery of Abbey Dore, and arch­ Letters per foot post through Hay and Peterchurch, deaconry and diocese of Hereford. Holy Trinity church, arrive at Io a.m. Letters are collected by the letter ereoted in r851 by the late Rev. W. Penoyre, Mrs. carrier. Hay is the nearest money order & tele­ Penoyre and Mrs. Napleton-Penoyre, is a building of graph office, 2! miles distant stone in t.he Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, Wall Letrter Boxes.-Hardwicke, cleared at 4.1o p.m.; south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells : all Westbrook, cleared at 3.25 p.m the windows 9re stained. The register dates from the year 1851. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Railway Station, Westbrook, Charles Knowles, station [187, with house, in the gift of the Rev. Slade R. master Baker-Stallard-Penoyre M.A. and is at present (1913) The children of this place attend the school at Pennypark HARDWICKE. Bowen Samuel, farmer, Hawkswood '*Williams Enoch Watkin, farmer, (Marked thus * letters received *Davies John, farmer, Tump Bage New house through Peterchurch.) *Griffiths James, farmer, Pen-y-lan Williams James, farmer Jones John, farmer, Maerdy Williams Miriam (Mrs.), farmer. Rarpur James, Hardwicke cottage *Lane Thos. farmr. Westbrook court Lower Broadmeadow *Vaughan William Henry, Westbrook *Leighton George, farmer, Slate ho Williams Richard, farmer (letters COMMERCIAL. Lloyd Price, farmer, Bwlch through Oli:fford) Balling-er William, beer retailer, *Pearce J ames, farmer Royal Oak; good accommodation Pug-h Jn. farmr. Upper ho.Broadmdw MIDDLEWOOD. for travellers Smith John, farmer, White house, (Letters received through Peter­ Boore John, farmer, Pen-y-lan Urchingfield church.) Boucher George, farmPr, Windle park Wilde Dav1d, farmer, Hardwicke grn. BeaV'an Elizli. (Miss), farmer,Sydcwm (letters through Clifford) (letters through Cli:fford) HEREFORDSHIRE 5•