632 Uns-tone. ------Tomlinson Randall, colliery viewer ·Walker John, farmer; h Barlow Wightman D. soIl'. Unstone Grange 3 Townroe Roby, farmer Walker J oseph, shopkeeper Williamson Henry. colliery engineer Twigg Geo. grocer & beer retlr. Green Walker Thomas Peter, grocer Yardley Henry, secretary to Hundall U nstone Coal & Coke Co. (lim.), col- 3 Ward :Mrs Ann, farmer I Coal Co.; h Shire Green liery proprtrs.; Thos.E. Fenwick, sec ·Ward Herbel't, vict. Fleur-de-lis CARRIERS pass through to Ch.esterfield 2 Vickers 1111's Hannah, farmer 3 Ward Mr Robert Sykes and on Tues. and Sat Walker George. grocer and draper Ward Sykes, farmer RAILWAY (Midland)-Joseph Arrow­ Walker Jabez H. grocer and draper 1 Wheatley Wm. farmer, Ramshaw hs smith, station master

WADSLEY is a. village, from 3 to 4 miles N.W. of Sheffield, and its ecclesiastical district comprises Bllrr'ou:lee, HiU:;bro'. Bridge, . Middlewood, Birlc,1/ Carr, Edge, Hirst, and J.1falin Bridge. It is in parish and township, 'Vortley union, Sheffield county court district and petty sessional division, and Ecclesfield rural deanery. The ecclesiastical district, which was formed in 1841, had 4837 inhabitants in 1871, and comprises 3270 acres of land. The village is occupied chiefly by families engaged in the manufacture of the commoner kinds of pocket knives, and in the district are many pleasant villas, grinding wheels, tilts and forges, and quarrips of excellent stone. At is a station on the Manchl'ster, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway. The DISTRICT CHURCH was finished in 1834, at the cost of the late Misses Harrison, of Weston Park, Sheffield, who aho erected the vicarage house, at a cost of £1200. The vicarage, valued at £300, in the gift of the Church Patronage Society, is held by the Rev. lIIelville Holmes, B.A. An iron CHURCH has been recently erected at Wadsley Bridge, at a cost, including the fittings, of £400. The Rev. Joseph Mulkerns, B.D. is curate in charge, and has a btipend of £150 a year, provided Ly a grant from the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and by subscriptions. The WESLEYANS, :FREE METHODISTS, and the NEW CONNEXIO~ METHODISTS have chapels in the village, and the latter ha\'e one at Bidey Carr, which was rebuilt by subscriptions in 1878, at a cost of about £2500, and to which Mark Firth, Esq. has prespnted an hllrmonium. In connection with the church are large NATIONAL SCHOOLS, and a mission and a lecture room, which is also used as Ho reading room. Here is a SCHOOL, endowed with £21 a year for 14 free scholars, and ALMSHO-cSES for 6 poor widows, founded by the late Miss Rawson, of Wardsend, and endowed with 4s. a. week for each inmate. The SOUTH YORK­ SHIRE LUNATIC ASYLUM, in Wadsley Park, was commenced in Mfty 1869, and completed early in 1872, at a cost of about £80,000. It is an extensive building, standing in a park of 163 acres of land, and is capable of accommodating 800 inmates, for whose use a church has been erected at a further expense of about .£6000. Two new wings. affording accommodation for 600 more inmates, have been added to the building. At the end of December 1878 there were 863 inmates. Dr. Samuel Mitchell is the medical superintendent; Messrs. J. G. McDonald and W. S. Kay, assistant medical officers; Mr. E. Pigott, clerk; Miss M. Hudson, housekeeper; and Mrs. Williams, chief nurse. POST OFFICE at Mr. William Lawson's, Wadsley Bridge. Letters viA Sheffield arrive at 6.15 a.m. (Sundi1.ys, 7.35 a,m.), and are despatched at 5.50 p.m. (Sundays at 5.15 p.m.). . POST OFFICE at Mr. Gcorge Needham's, Wadsley. Letters are received at 7.40 a.m., and are despatched at 5.40 p.m. Marked * have their letters via Wadsley Bridge, and t via . Airstone J ph. shopkpr. Wadsley bdg Bradley John, vict. New Inn, Wadsley Earnshaw Nathl.file mangr.Birley Carr Allen Henry, manager bridge Ecroyd Alfred Russell, mert. Sheffield; * AlIison Mark, farm bailiff, Deerlands Bradshaw Thomas, butcher, Malin bdg h Limestone cottage, Wadsley bdg Armitage Israel, farmer, Lapwater Bridge Arthur, farmer, Shotnall Elliott Mrs Harriet, schoolmistress Ball J ames, sickle manfr. (Burgon & Burgon & Ball, mfrs. of sickles and Evinson Richard, hosier and clerk, B.); h Hillsbro' mount steel sheep shears, La. Plata Works, Wadsley bridge Barker 1111' J ames, Wisewood 1I1alin bridge Eyre Samuel, farmer, The IIagg Barkllr John, farmer, Wisewood Burgon Charles (E. & Ball); h Fern Fairest John & Co. grocers, &C'. Wads- Barnes John, grocer, quarry owner, bank, Wisewood ley bridge slater, &c. Burgon Charles, jun. manager, Ivy Fairest John, JUDo iron and steel mer- Barnes Thomas, slater and stonemason cottage, Wisewood chant. Wadsley bridge t Barrett George, farmer, Hawthorne Burkinshaw Henry, shopkeeper Fern John. boot and shoe maker, cottage, l\'!iddlewood Carlton ~William,farmer, Birleycottage Wadsley bridge Beal Miss 1I1ary Jane, dressmaker, * Chatterton Benjn. & Mrs H. Nat. :Firth Thos.& Sons, forgers and tilters, Wadsley bridge school teachers, Parson Cross Clay Wheel Works (Henry Allen, Beardshaw )1rs nIary, Hirst Clarke J oseph, farmer, Wadsley bdg manager), and Sheffield Beardshaw Vickers George, manfr. Clarke William, beerhouse Foster Richard, grocer, Wadsley bdgc ; h Normandale house Cocker John, manager, BirleyCarr Fowler Miss Annie Beallmont, Brown & Co. coal merts. ColleyWilloughby,vict.Horse&Jockey Foxton James, bootmaker, Malin bdge Wadsley bridge; and Sheffield Collins Robert, shopkpr. Wadsley bdg Gawley William, M. S. & L. station Beaumont Charles Henry, shopkeeper, '" Collinson Henry Pawson, clerk to master, Wadsley bridge Wadsley bridge Sheffield Burial Board ; h The Elm, Gibson Mr Charles, Wisewood Bedford J no. mfr. Sheffield; h Ridey h8 Soutbey Gillott Levi, quarryowner, Birley Carr Belcher l\Irs Mary, Birley Carr * Collinson Thomas, aast. overseer for Gillott Wm. quarry owner, Birley Carr Bennett Geo. iron scale & cutlery mfr B., Bierlow;.h '1'he Elm, Southey GillottWilliam, yiet. Rose & Crown * Bennett Henry, farmpr and file ma- Crapper Henry, joiner, builder and * Goodall William, victualler, Tra- nufacturer, Southey File Works contractor, veller's Inn, Southey Bevins \Vm. & Sons (Thos. & Albert), * Crofts Thos. farmer, Spring ·Wells Green 'WaIter, provision dealer and forgers and tilters, l\'Iarshall's forge Denton Edwin & Sons (Joseph, Harvey draper, "\Vadsley bridge (See Advertisement) & \Valter),forgers, tilters, and shear Haden Willi~m, miller, Old Park Blackwell Willilloill J ames, manager steelmfrs. Green Wheel Steel"\Vorks, Mills; h Dial house Bland Alfred, grocer and butcher \Visewood (See Advertisement) Hadfield Mr8 M. A. Crabtree }I01Ise Booth J oscph, general dlr. Malin bdg Denton John, tilter and forger, Loxley Hague Alfred, butcher, \Visewood j h Bower Henry, steel manfr. (lYL & J. Steel 'Vorks, Wisewood Dungw'orth Wing); h TalLot house, Wiscwood Dixon George, farmer Hague Mrs H. dressmkr. l\lalin bdge Bower l\Irs Sarah, Holme h8. Malin bdg Dyson Levi, mkt. gardener, Bidey Carr IIague J ohD, butcher