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Holmes, Sarah Ann, cottage farmer, and Powell, Roger Prosser, Grafton court beer retailer, The Brick Kiln, agent for Southall, Charles, Angel Inn, agent for ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, . Price The City Brewery, Hereford. Price lists and particulars on application lists and particulars on application Horton, .John, cottage farmer, Ridge hill Vowells, E. H., farmer, Grafton villa. Landon, Edward Herbert, Church farm GRENDON BISHOP. GRENDON BISHOP is a parish situated on the south side of the main road between and , distant 4 miles W. of the latter town, 8 E.S.E. of Leominster, 9 S. of Tenbury, and 14 N .E. of Hereford ; is in Broxash hundred, Bred enbury and Brom­ yard polling district and electoral division of the county council, Bromyard union, county court district, and petty sessional division. The population in 1871 was 198; in 1881, 169; inhabited houses, 29 ; families or separate occupiers, 29 ; area of parish, 1,684 acres ; annual rateable value, £1,316 I ss. Mrs. Pateshall, who is lady of the manor, W. Henry Barneby, Esq., of court, Rev. R. M. Wood, G. H. Lee, Esq., and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, are the landowners. The soil is clay with a subsoil of rock ; chief crops, wheat, hops, beans, and fruit. Grendon Bishop is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome ; living, a vicarage; value, £140; patron, the of Bromyard; vicar, Rev. John Martin, B.A., of Hertford College, Oxford, who was instituted in I 889, and who is also curate of Bromyard, where he resides. There is no vicarage house in the parish. The church, dedicated to St. Yohn the BapNst, is a stone building consisting of nave, chancel, porch, tower containing two bells, font, and a few monuments. The earliest register is dated 1612. There is a board school at Bredenbury for the parishes of Grendon Bishop, Bredenbury, and Wacton. It has accommodation for 69 children ; average attendance, 49· . PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Worcester, via Bromyard, and arrive from the latter place by messenger. Post town, Worcester. Wacton is the nearest post, money order, and telegraph office, and savings bank. Letters for W estington court are received through Leominster. Part"sh Church (St. Yohn the Baptt"st). Rev. John Martin, B.A., Vicar; Mr. Edward Edwards, Churchwarden; John Tomkins, Parish Clerk. Grendon Bishop, Bredenbury, and Wacton Un-ited School Board.­ William Henry Barneby, Esq. (Chaz"rman) j Mr. Edward Timings (Vz"ce-Chaz"rman) ,; Mr. ]. B. ·weeks (Clerk),; Miss Lawrence (Mistress). Assistant Overseer. Mr. John }ones, Batchley.

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