424 TAMWOI:f"H. STAFFORDHHIRE. (KELLl'S Wood Albert James, collector of income & assessed Woodcock Thomas Wilkinson, see. Fazeley Gas Co. & col... taxes (for Tamworth borough) & poor rates & assist­ lector & assistant overseer for Fazelev, 6 Lady bank ant overseer, 98 Lichfield street Wootton Arthur Leonard, draper, 23 & 3~ Market stree\ Wood Frederick Charles, grocer, 58 Church street Wright John, 'l.'weedale Arms P.H. Victoria road Wood James, complete house furnisher & clothier, Wyldes Edward, shopkeeper, 21 Gungate Kettle brook Yarrow Jamea, hatter, hosier, glover & general out­ Wood James, hosier & hardware warehouse, II Silver st fitter; goods made to order ; sole agent for tha Wood John Thomas, boot maker, 49 Bolebridge street "Aertex" cellular clothing (esta.b. I8S8), 21 George -n Woodcock & Sons, printers & stationers, 85 Bolebridge Young Women's Christian Association & The Travellers!' street ; works, Heath street Aid Society (Mrs. Fausset, hon. sec.), 9 Colehill Woodcock Agnes (Miss), apartments, 17 Victoria road 1Young Charles, news agent, 4 Victoria road Woodcock Bertha (Miss), apartments, 7 Vietoria road TATENHILL is a village and pari:::h, pleasantly and is celebrated for the great quantities of gypsum i{ seated in a secluded vale, 3 miles south-west fi·om Burton· contains. The area af the civil parish is 3,160 acres,.. upon-Trent and north-west from Barton stations and 121i inclusive of 12 of water; rateable value, [6.358; the from London, and in the Burton division of the county, population in 1901 was 648, and of the ecclesiastical hundred of North Offlow, Burton-upon-Trent union, petty parish, St. Michael and All .Angels, 239. sessional division and county court district, rural deanery By an Order of the Derbyshire and Staffordshire County of Tutburv, archdeaconrv of Stafford and diocese of Lich- • • Councils, dated May 22, 1890, the part of Foston am:t field. Within a mile of the village is the Trent and Mersey Scropton township in Staffordshire was amalgamated witb canal. The church of St. l\J ichael and All Angels is a Tatenhill, and by an Order of the Staffordshire County building of stone in the Perpendicular 11tyle, consisting of Council, dated 18th May, 1895, part of Rolleston was chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western added to Tatenhill for civil purposes and by the same­ tower, containing 3 bells : there is a mural monument, Order the district of Highlands Park was added t() with kneeling female figure. to Sir Henry Griffiths, ob. Tatenhill. 1641, and a curious fioor slab to William Amis, ob. 1585: the church was thoroughly restored in 1872, at a cost of Callingwood hamlet is half a mile to one mile north­ about £2,ooo, and further restored in 1890, under the west of Tatf>nhill. Barton-under-Needwood, Dunstall.,. direction of Mt·. G. F. Fodley .A.R ..A. by the late Lord Wichnor and Rangemore will be found under separate. :Burton, at a cost of £2,ooo, including new chancel floor, headings. choir stalls, marble reredos and oak pulpit: a new organ Tatenhill, Parish Clerk, William Carter. has also been erected : the church affords 2o8 sittings. The register dates from the year 1sfi3. The living is a Post Office.-Thomas Shipley, sub-postmaster. Lette!'W' rectory, net yearly value [520, includin~ u 2 acres of through Burton-on-Trent arrive at 5.20 a.m.; dis- glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lich- patched at 6 p.m. Rangemore, 2 miles distant, !is field, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Edward Brown the nearest money order & telegraph office Charlton M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. Wall Letter Box, Tatenhill Common, cleared at te.~-; The charities of the whole parish are of the annual value a.m. & 7.25 p.m.; sundays, 12.30 p.m of £go, the greater portion of which belongs to Barton- Public Elementary School, erected in 1878, by voluntary under-Needwood. The rector is lord of the church subscription, on a site given by Gen. Sir John Alexander manor. The principal landowners are the Dowager Lady Ewart K.C.B., J.P. for go children; average attend- Burton and Sir Reginald Hardy hart. of Dunstall Hall. ance, 46; Miss Elizabeth Wilkins, mistress.; Miss; The soil is red marl and loam, principally grass land, Louisa Whitehouse, assistant mistress COMMERCIAL. Lowe John, farmer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .Adams Joseph, farmer, Common Moore Eveline (Mrs.), farmer, Sher- Charlton Rev. Edward Brown M.A. Bailey Joseph, farmer,. Callingwood bolt lodge (rector) Carter William, carpenter, assistant Robotham Jonathan, farmer Evans Robert, Thatched cottage overseer & clerk to the Parish Salt Jane (Mrs.). farmer, CtJmmon Lee Mrs. Ann~ The Yews Council Shipley Thos. blacksmith, &; post offic& Newbould JohnJoseph Dakin John, farmer, Highlands park Towle Henry, miller Oldham Waiter, The Cedars Ford Robert (Mrs.), farmer, Common Upton Nigel Nevil, farmer, Manor h~> Robinson Mrs. Millicent Margaret GreatorPx Charles, farmer, Callingwd Walker Charles, refreshment rooms. Sackville Alexander W. Stopford, Harvey William, Horseshoe P.H Wheeler William, farmer Callingwood hall Kidd Frederick, farmer, Fir cottage Yeomans Charles, farmer, Common. I Lawrence .Tames, farmer LOWER TEAN, see Cheockley. UPPER TEAN or TEAN is a large village and three closes, comprising to acres, is let for £22 Ss. 9Uttoxeter, 2 miles north-east from Cress­ let for £u 1os.; and a sum of £1o ss. being the interest well station on the Uttoxeter and Crewe section of the on [341 16s. 2d. New Three per Cents; the aggregat~ North Staffordshire railway, and 1 mile north-east from amount derived from the abovP. sources is distributed Totmonslow station on a braneh railway from Cresswell at Mid Lent by the rector o.f Cht:'ckley and chnrcll­ to Cheadle, 7 north-west from Uttoxeter, 11 from New­ wardPns among tha poor of the parish. In 18ro Joha­ castle-under-Lyme and 146 from London, in the Leek Philips esq. of Heath House, gave to his nephews. &Iln division of the county, North Totmonslow hundred, executors a sum suffi!'iPnt to purchase £3,000 Consols, Cheadle union and county court district, petty sessional in trust, to apply the dividends towards " the relief and" • division of Chaa.dle, rural deanery of Uttoxeter, arch­ support of such poor and distressed weavers as had beeir deaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of Lirhfield. or should be employed in the tape manufactories at Teau Christ Church, a plain building of stone in the Early and Cheadle, then carried on by John and Nathaniel Philips­ Eng-lish style, was erected in 1B4I, at a cost of £r,:;75· aml Co. and Thomas Philips and Co. or as 1lhould be­ and consists of chancel, nave, porch and a western carried on by his brother Thomas Philips, or his nephews, turret containing one ibell: there are 425 sittings, 252 or any of them"; but in case of an entire dissolution of being free. The register dates from the year I 843· the said partnership8, he directed the dividends to be The living is a vicarage, net yearly value [195, with applied to the relief of such poor persons of the parish of' residence, in the gift of the rector of Checkley, and Checkley as his •trustees should deem meet and proper: held since 1907 by the Rev. Herbert Robert Alexander the same donor also left [300, an(\ directed that t.he in­ M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. There is a small terest should be divided annually among the poor of Ov~r Cntholic school chapel in the Back lane, which has been Tean: his widow, Catherine Philips, of Tean Hall, left' Pnlarged and is served from Creswell once a month, a £ r ,ooo for the benefit of the poor of Over Tean ; tbiso Congregational chapel erected in 1822, and a Weslt>yan legacy was vested in the purchase of £904 6s. 3d. New­ chapel P.rected in 1843· Here are the extensive mills of Four per Cents, and the dividends are distributed aboutr Messrs. J. and N. Philips and Co. for the manufacture Christmas in money : in I648 Francis Philips bequeathed" of tape and smallwares. Tean Wake is held on the to the poor of Over and Nether Tean a yearly sum of first Sunday after September I9th, and a floral fete is I5S. charged on Tean Leys and Minwich Fields: the held yParly in August at Heybridge. Charities: The poor of Nether Tean have 249. yearly a1 the rent of poor's land, boug-ht in 1706 with £ws, bequeathed by .Ann Spencer's Croft, bequeathed to them by a Mr. Spencer. • and Mary Barber and other persons, and conRisting of many years ago ; and those of Upper Tea• :baTe 6s. an-