DIRECTORY.] . CHURCH STRETTON. 57 CHURCH STRETTON is a parish, market and and supplied with butter, poultry, eggs and meat. Six union to-..n, 12~ miles south from , 15 north­ fairs are held annually, all fOT sale. of horses, cattle, west from Ludlow and 153 from London. The parish sheep and pigs, viz. Jan. 2nd! thurs.; March, 3rd thurs. ; comprises the townships of Church Stretton, All Stretton, May' 14th (and statute and hiring); July 3rd (and Little S1Jretton and Minton and manor of Stretton-en-Ie­ wool); Sept. 25th (great sheep and colt fair); and last Dale, in the Southern division of the county, upper thursday Nov. Aerated waters are produced to a large diviicm of the hundred of , petty sessional divi­ extent, the water here on account of its great purity si?D 2f Upper !Munslow, Shrewsbury county court dis­ being especially adapte<1 for this purpose. The Cwm tnct" rural de'llnery of Wenlock, fi'rchdeacomy of Ludlow Dale spring w.as' first utilized in 1883, since which it has and diocese of Hereford. The town is lighted with gas unde;rgone a great development at the hands of its from works at the World's End, Church Stretton, and present proprietors, and maY' be considered the staple belonging to Mr. D. Hyslop, and haS! a good supply .of trade of the town. The water from this spring forms water from a reservoir at Black Valley, Church StlI'etJtoill. the basis of the whole of the Stretton Hills Mineral The Shrewsbury and Hereford joint London and North Water Company's manufactures, and has long boon Western and! Great Western railway, opened in 1852, has noted fOT its purity and absvlute freedom from foreign a first-class station here. The town is! in a naTrOW but solutions. Here is a branch of the Old! Salop Bank. beautiful vale, on the direct line of road from Liverpool The Church Stl'etton hotel, built in 1865, at a cost of to Bristol. The place derived its name, "Stretton," or upwards of £6,000, is the· property' of a company: the "Street Town," from its proxiInity to the Roman road house is. very commodi'l1us, well ventilated, and the Watling Street, whi>eh le.ads from Wroxeter, anciently general arrangements Ilre unde.r the superintendence of called Uriconium (the principal city of the, Ovrnavii) to Mrs. Palmer, manageress'. A portion of the 2nd Battery Kinchester, in HerefordshiTe. Consideralble impr~ve.­ of the Shrops4ire and Staffordshire Artillery is stationed ments have 'been made in the town, especially in the in the town. The charitieSl, derived from numerous laying out of the Sandford avenue, which has be-€n small gifts, a,re of the yearly value about £50. The Hill planted with trees and: presented to the town by the Pony Society was formed in 1890 for the purpose, of im­ Rev. Holland Sandford! M.A. rector of Eaton-under­ proving the breed of the Str'etton hill pvnies, which ar& Hayw(),)d; it was opened December 24th, 1884. ChUTch bl'ed and run in a wild state on the hills. Near h~e Stretton town was made a special drainage district, is Caer Caradoc, 1,200 feet high, one of the last of the under the Public Health Act of 1875 and the town has s1Jrong~lOlds de~ended ?y Caractacus, and the ramparts been well drained, the whole scheme costing over and dItches stIll remam; the Longmynd range is 1,674 £1,15°; the district contains 35 acr·e·s. A reservoir has feet· above the level of the sea, and affords a prospect been built at Towns Br,Jok hoHow with a capacity of including Snowdon and Cader Idris, and t'he mountainous 150,000 galloll:s. The church of St. Lawr·ence is a cruci­ district of Wales, the Beacon of Brec'on and the Malvern fOlI'm building of stone, probably built in the latter part Hills. Ralph Beaumont Benson esq. of Lutwyche Hall, of the 12th century, principally in the Early English is' lord of the manor, and holds his courts at the Buck's style.. ~ith portions of Norman and Perpendicular date, Head: inn, in the town; the chief landowners are Ralph conslstmg of chancel, nave" trampets, south porch and Beaumont Benson esq. Captain Charles B. Childe Ed­ central tower, with pinnacles and a pyramidal roof and ward Gibbon esq. Mrs. Beddoes, Mrs. Wilson, Alfred containing 8 bells and a clock with chimes, pre,s.ented by Seymour, W. Bake the Rev. R. N. Pembe