S4 . J>OPDERHILL. WORCES'fE~SHIIill. (KELLY~S Dodder.hill. Holmes Thomas; farmer, Brook house, *Wilso~ Matt. frmr. Causeway meadow {Names marked .thus. • receive .letters via Hooton :John, farmer, lmpner ; Wilson Thos. Matt. farm~r,, Overstreet , Bromsgrove.] Jackson Thomas, farmer, Park farm Wilson William, farmer, Obden farm Biddle George, Rashwood Massie Henry,.flj.l'mer, Rashwood CraggAnthony Richard,Dodderhl court Nosworthy James,_ ·.school attendance Wychbold. *Fryer Geo. Sagebury <rot. Shaw lane ofli,cer, Hill end • . Amphlett Richard HoJmden Q.c., .r.P. Harriss John, Dodderhill villa Palmer William, farmer, Astwood . (recorder of Worcester),Wychbld.hall Hollyer Joseph Henry, Rashwoodhouse Parker liichard, gardener. to John Cor­ Pugard Miss Hunter Miss, Walkmills · hett esq. M. P. Impney Hooper Henry S. Elm court Jauz~({ey Mrs. Ridgeway house *Petfor<J Thomas, farmer, Hill fields Male Rev. Robert M.A, [vicar] LeWJs Rev. George M.A. The Vicarage *Reeves William, butcher & beer ret. & Marriott Frederick A. Low edge Mantort John, Rashwood cottage assist. overseer~ Stoke Prior, Shaw la .Barker Peter, shopkeeper Radnall Henry, The Laburnums *Roe Martin, farmer, Astwood Cox Thomas, farm bailiff to Miss Hunter Ricketts Misses, Hill Court house Rose Hannh.(Mrs.),frmr.Ridgeway frm Duffill Henry, boot & shoe maker COMMERCIAL. Simmons Jane (Mrs.), boarding house, Dugard Prances (Mrs.), farmer Barber James, dairyman, Rashwood Westford house Ellery George, wheelwright Blick John Lawton, farmer, Ridgway Steele Abel Wm. farmr. Dodderhill corn Harbour William, shopkpr. & dairyman Carter Cbas. Robin Hood P.H. Rashwd Steele "\V m. farmer, Dodderhill common Jackson Thomas Bate, farmer & miller *Cockbill James, grocer, Shaw lane Tandy Charles, farmer, Little Gains (water), Wychbold m1Il *Cope Elijah, Bowling Green P.H. & Wall George Han-ey, farmer, Rashwood Jones John, bricklayer & stone mason; · plumber, Shaw lane Wall Mary Mrs. farmer, Rashwood estimates given for all kinds of work -<Jresswell George, farmer, The Poplars Wall Thomas, farmer, The Ford Lewis George, Crown inn Hammond William, farmer, Brine pitts *Weaver Thomas, carpenter, .Astwood Stevens Charles, shopkeeper *Hancock George, fanner, Sagebury *Wilson John, farmer & landowner, Tubey John, coal dealer, Post office Harbach Harry, blacksmith, Wychbold Astwood .DORMSTON is a parish 6! miles south-east from Droit- 1 joint net yearly Vl:\lue £rso, in the gift of Mrs. :Baker-Carr, wich station, 7-! west from .Alcester and ro! east from I and held since r886 by the Rev. William James Holden M.A. Worcester, in the Southern division of the county, upper f of Oxford University, who resides at Kington. Mrs. -division of Pershore hundred, Pershore union, petty ses- Milner is lady of the manor. The chief landowners are sional division and county court district, rural deanery of Mrs. Milner and Mrs. Baker-Carr. The soil is a _stiff clay; Feckenham and archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. the subsoil is1:lay and stone. The chief crops are wheat, The church of St. Nicholas is a building of stone in the beans and oats. The area is 830 acres ; rateable value, Gothic style of the 13th century, consisting of chancel, nave, £510 12s. 6d. ; the population in 1891 was 83, south porch and a western half-timbered, saddle-backed , Parish Clerk, John Summerton. tower, containing 3 bells, one of which bears the inscription, This place is included in the Abberton United School Board "SANCTA MARIA ORA PRO NOBIS:" there are 90 sittings. district, formed in 1874; the children attend the Board The early registers are missing; baptisms date from 1720; school at Flyford Flavel and marriages from 1761; burials are contained in the Letters. received through Redditch arrive at ro a.m. The register of Inkberrow. The living is a vicarage annexed to · nearest telegraph office is at Feckenham & money order the rectory o£ Kington, joint average tithe rent-charge £75, office at Inkberrow · ·Collins James, farmer Gower Edward, farmer & assistant, Pugh Edward, farmer, The Moat ·Collins John, farmer," Quarry Pitts frm overseer, Pool House farm ISherwood William, farmr. Dormston hl --Green Thomas, farmer, Bagend Loxley John, farmer White William, farmer, Cockshoot frm DOVERDALE (anciently Lunurdale) is a small parish, rent-charge £2oo, net yearly value £240, including 40 acres 4 miles north-west from Droitwich station on the Great of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. C. P. Mottram, Western railway, 5 south-by-east from Stourport, 8 north and held since r871 by the Rev. Charles Piercy Mottram from Worcester and 122 from London, in the Mid division l'ti.A. of Magdalen College, Oxford. The rectory house, a good of the county, upper division of Halfshire hundred; Droit- specimea of the Queen Anne style, contains a handsome oak wich union, petty sessional division, county court district staircase, and is pleasantly situated, commanding extensive and rural deanery, and in the archdeaconry. and diocese of views. Lord Hampton is lord of the manor and principal Worcester. Doverdale brook runs through the parish. The landowner. The soil is clay and sandy loam; subsoil, clay .church of St. Mary is a buildjng of stone, in the Early Eng- and sandstone rock. The chief crops are wheat, beans and lish style, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry and a western barley. The area is 738 acres; rateable value, £8os; the bellcote, with small spire, containing 3 bells: there is a Nor- population in r881 was 57· man arch in good preservation: the stained east window Parish Clerk, William Davis. was given by Mrs. Curtler in memory of the Rev. Thomas Letters received through Droitwich arrive at 8 a.m. Om· ·Oldham, a former rector : the church was restored in r858, bersley & Droitwich are the nearest money order & tele· and has 118 sittings, half of whieh are free. The register graph offices dates from the year 1704. The living is a rectory, tithe The children of this pla.ce attend the school at Cutnall Green Mottram Rev. Chas. Piercy M.A. Rectory IMoss Edwin, farmer, Southall I Moss Wm.frmr. & r~d survyr. Stone ho Morgan Thos. frmr.& oversr. Hill frm DROITWICH is an ancient municipal borough, market and a charter was granted by James I. under which two mem· union town, head of a petty sessional division and .county bers were returned to Parliament; this was superseded by court district, near the centre of the shire, on the river Sal­ the Reform Act of 1832, and the borough, which was subse· warpe and the Droitwich canal, with a station on the West quently enlarged for Parliamentary purposes, returned Midland section of the Great Western railway, which is con­ one member until the passing of the " Redistribution of nected by the loop line with the Midland, joining it at Stoke Seats Act, 1885," by which the representation was merged Works, and over which the Midland Company have running into that of the county. The town was well peopled in the powers : it lies 72 miles north from Bristol, rg south from time of Willi!i.m the Norman, and in King John's time was Birmingham, 62! south-west from Derby, ro6 from Man­ most important and wealthy, as may be inferred from the chester, 28 south-west from Warwick, n8 from London by fact of the burgesses paying a yearly fee-farm rent of £roo road, 112 by rail, 6~ north-north-east from Worcester, in for the grant of certain privileges. In 1643 King Charles the Mid division of the county, hundred of Upper Halfshire, fixed his head-quarters here while his army was engaged rural deanery of Droitwich and archdeaconry and diocese of with the Parliamentary forces collected in Hawkesley House; Worcester. The country for some distance round is orna­ and the King afterwards sent a letter thanking the towns· mented with parks and pleasure-grounds thickly studded folk for their help. with timber and fruit trees, and every neighbouring hill The Worcester and Birmingham canal (a junction with affords beautiful and luxuriant landscapes. · · which was effected in r853) is of considerable advantage to Droitwich was one of the king's demesne burghs c<Jm· the commerce of the town ; hut the Droitwich canal, cut mitted to a bailiff, and King John was the firs~ who farmed under the direction of .Brindley, the celebrated engineer, ill the town to its own burgesses instead of a bailiff. In 1259 :r769, at a cost of £25,000, is of the greatest importance: it . it returned members to the first Parliament, but the privi.,. is nearly 6 miles long, has six locks, and admits vessels of go lege ceased until the second year of Queen Mary, 1554. tons burthen from the river Se\·ern into ·the town. The Privileges and immnni,ties were granted to this place by situation of Droitwieh is low, but it fol'merly contained King John. and added to by.aeveral.oi bi&811Coessor.s; an<J .&everi\1. good streets~ during the last 39·YeiU's (lS.SJ·9~} li .