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and held since 1:892 by the Rev. Herbert Wilkinson. Mrs. 1 Posr 0FFtCE.-.Job Walkel", receiver. Letters through Lye left the Pent of a house to be distributed in bread between arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 5,20 p. m. the poor of St. Lawrence's parish, and . No deli,·ery on sundays. The nearest money order The principal landowners are Francis Dermot Holland esq. office is· at , & telegraph offiee at Fladbnry · l.P. of Cropthorne Court, who is lord of the manor ; Dr. railway station Leonard Rudd, uf Church street, Upper Norwood; the Vicar; Mr. Nehemiah Cole, of ; Mr. John National School (mixed), erected about :r865 by public Smith Meakins and Mr. William Edward .Ayliffe, of .Ashton­ subscription, & enlarged & a new class-room added in under-Hill. The soil is light and sandy in some places, in 1874; the school is supported in part by the interest on others stiff clay; suhsoil, also various, sand, gravel, clay and £I7o left by Mrs. Mary Holland. The school will hold blue limestone. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley. 150 children; average attendance, 8o; William Pomeroy, The area is 1,448 acres; rateable value, £3,172 19s. 6d.; the· master~ Mrs. Emily Eliza Pomeroy, mistress population of the in l8gi was 367. Sexton, Charles Price. · CARRIER.-Charles Davis, to Evesham, on monday Brookes Mrs Cole William Henry, farmer • Read Thomas, market gardener Holland Frnncis Dermot J.P. Crop­ Davis Charles, market gardener Savery John, eabinet maker thorne court Day Henry, market gardener Smith George, miller (water) Mottram Mrs, Manor house DingleyGeo.market gardnr.& wheelwrt Step hens Geo:rge, farmer Wilkinson Rev. Herbert, Vicarage Dingley Herbert, wheelwright Tandy JameH, farme!" & market gardenr COMMEIWIAL. Harris George, market gardener i 'l'uffrey Philip, farmer, Smoky farm Baldwin Caroline (Miss), shopkeeper . Hyde George, market gatdener Walker Job, blacksmith, Post office Bourton William, blacksmith Meakins JohnSmith,farmer & landownr Whiley George, New inn Brookes Sydney, Bell P.H Price Charles, sexton CROWLE is a small viilage and parish, 5 miles east from Harrison left the interest of £5o and Robert Smith esq. the Worcester, its nearest railway station, and 6 south-east from interest of £go to the poor: Elizabeth .Attwood left the Droitwich, in the Western division of the county, middle interest of £2o to old maids and widows: land left by division of Oswaldslow hundred, W'orcester petty sessional another benefactor produces about £4o yearly, which is now division, Droitwich union and county court district, rural applied for the repair of the roads and of the fabric of the deanery of East Worcester and archdeaconry and diocese of church and for the relief of the poor. Some traces of the Worcester. The Crow le brook passes at the east of the ancient manor house of the Priors of Worcester, its rnoat.fish parish. The church of St. John the Baptist, formerly ponds and gardens, may still be seen. The Ecclesiastical dedicated to St. Peter, is a small cruciform building of Commissioners are lords of the manor. The trustees of the stone, chiefly in the Early English style, and consisting of late Col. Clowes, the Rev. J. Stephenson M.A. vicar, the chancel, na,·e, transepts, north porch and an embattled trustees of the late J. W. Wilson esq. W. H. Dutt<>n esq. western tower in the Perpendicular style containing 5 bells: Mrs. Clarke and the Rev. J. Bearcroft B.A. rector of Hadsor, the most interesting feature in the church is the very The soil is stiff ; the subsoil, clay and marl. The chief curiously carved and unique Early English marble lectern, crops are wheat and beans. The area is r,639 acre.!l; rate­ restored previous to 186o by the late Mr. Eginton: there is able value, £2,779 ; the population in 1881 was 529. also a holy water stoup, and in the north transept are some PosT OFFICE.-Williaru Rea, receiver. Letters through fragments of stained glass and a piscina: the stained east Worcester arrive at 8. 20 a.m.; dispatched at 5.10 p.m. window is a memorial to Mr. George and Hannah Farley: the The nearest money order office is at Worcester; the tele- mosaic reredos and carved oak pulpit are memorials to Mrs. graph office is at Spetchley goods station. WALL LETTElt Lea: in the church are tablets to the families of Harrison, Box, cleared at p.m. week days; sundays 10. a.m Smith and Farley: the edifice was rebuilt in r882,under the 5 50 dirEl(.!tion. of Mr. Preedy, architect, of London, and conse- National School (mixed), built in 1863, from designs by Mr. crated. 28th August, 18~2 : there are sittmgs for 300 per- W. J. Hopkins, architect, of Worcester, for 100 children; sons. The register dates -from the year I539· The living average attendance, roo: the school occupies a site in is a vicarage, gross yearly value £3oo, includingor8g acres the centre of the village, given by a late parishioner. & is of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since r882 by ·constructed of brick, with Bath stone dressings; it in- the Rev. Joseph Stephenson M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, eludes a school-room, 42 by 18 feet, class-room & master'$ who is also vicar of . The Rev. Richard' residence; Edward Griffin, master Chambers Thomas Cowton Charles, farmer Rea 'V'illiam, shopkeeper, Post office Hill Thomas William, Froxmer court Crocker Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Smith Ann (Mrs.), farmer Martin Paul, Kimmerton villa. Foster Joseph, farmer, The Mordaunts Spencer Joseph, tailor Smith Mrs Gibbs William, farmer Till George, blacksmith Stephenson Rev. Joseph M.A. Vicarage Gittns Thomas Valentine, beer retailer Wall John Vernon, farmer COMMERCIAL. Hadley Alex. baker,shopkpr. & beer ret Wasley Edwin, shopkeeper Bear William, Fox P.H. Sale green Hammond John, wheelwright 'Vilkes Joseph, baker & grocer BullockWm.highway surveyor & farmr HansonThos. threshing machine propr Wilkes Samuel, shopkeeper & farmer Chambers Thomas, farmer Mitchell Samuel, farmer, Crowle court Winnall John (Mrs.), farmer Cooper Alfred, stone mason Pick William Henry, Old Chequers P. H 'Vythes Jsph. farmer, Commandery fru Cooper George, blacksmith & farrier CRUTCH is a small parish, 2 miles north from Droitwich, and became extra-parochial, but it is now a parish. John consisting of one farm, in the Mid division of the county, Corbett esq. M.P., D.L., J.P. of Impney, Droitwich, is sole Droitwich union and petty sessional division and county landowner. The soil is strong clay marl ; subsoil, the same. court district and hundred of Upper Halfshire: it belonged The 11rea is 290 acres ; rateable value, £190; the population anciently to the nunnery of Westwood, and on the termina- in r88r was 6. tion of the dispute between that house and the monks of Letters through Droitwich, which is the nearest money order Worcester in 1313, it was discharged from payment of tithes & telegraph office Cottrill Nathaniel, farmer CUTSDEAN is a village and chapelry of the parish of annexed to , gross yearly value £r,6oo, in the gift of Bredon in this county, and although locally situate in the the Duke of Portland P.C. and held since r881 by the Rev. county of Gloucester, is by the Acts 2 and 3 William IV. Henry George Cavendish Browne B.A. of Trinity College, cap. 64. and 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 6r, still attached to Wor­ Dublin, who resides at Bredon : the Rev. Albert Grant Lane~ cestersh.ire: it is 5~ miles east from Winchcomb, n from of St. Bees, vicar of Temple Guiting, has been ehaplain since Evesham and 9 east from Beckford station on the Evesham r&85. Here is a Baptist chapel, formerly a private house, and Ashchurch branch of the Midland railway, in the but opened as a chapel in r837. Mrs. Price is lady of the Southern division of the county, Blockley petty sessional manor, and James T. Dugdale esq. of Sezincote House, division, Oswaldslow hundred, Winchcomb union and county :Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Lord Elcho, Messrs. Sidebottom and court district, rural deanery of Blockley, archdeaconry and Co. of Manchester, Mr. James Burlingham, of Evesham, diocese of Worcester. The church, rebuilt, with the excep- · and the rector are the principal landowners. The soil is tion of the tower, in r863, is an edifice of stone in the Early loam and clay, and the subsoil is clay and freestone. The English style, consisting of chancel, nave and an embattled chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. .Acreage, western tower with pinnacles, containing 2 bells : there are 1,300; rateable value, £8ro; the population in r8gx three stained windows : the church affords 84 sittings. The was 122. - register dates from the year .1642. The living is a chapelry, Parish Clerk, Edward Clapton, who resides at Ford. WORCS. 4.*