88 DAWLEY PARVA. SHROPSHIRE. [ KELLY'S . Everett A.Ifd. Rd. White ho. Doseley HORSEHAY. Horsehay Co. (The) Ltd. engineers Simpsou Herbert, Greenhurst,Doseley PRIVATE RESIDENTS. & iron founders, bridge builders & Smith Rev. Francis Archie (vicar), Bayley Harry Richard Griffiths, My- gas plant manufacturers; sole The Vi~arage, Doseley ford house makers of Wilson's producer plant. Clayton John, Station road T A "Bridge, Horsehay; " T N 15 COMMERCIAL. Lowe .Albert J. The Hollies Wellington Barnett George, beer retlr. Doseley Simpson Hy. Chas. J.P. The Cottage Hughes Jeremiah, beer retailer Bright & Jones, grocers, Post office Simpson Joseph, Woodlands Innes David, beer retailer Fox Jas. Crown P.H. Little Dawley 1 Soame Sir Charles Buckworth-Herne- Ironbridge & Coalbrookdale Co-opera­ Gough Jane (Mrs.),girls' schl.Doseley hart. Ivy house tive Society Limited, Old row Greaves Samuel Mansell, shoe maker, COMMERCIAL. J onesJn. Leonard, traction engine ownr Little Dawley Ball Joseph, shopkeeper, Poolside Machin CecilHarry,Foresters.ArmsP .H Powell Matthew, farmer, Lit. Dawley Chilton Thos. Herbt. frmr. Woodland~ Miles George, greengrocer, Bridge rd Price John, farmer, Little Dawley Coalmoor (The) Sanitary Pipe Co Passey George, butcher Reynolds John, shopkpr. Lit. Dr.wley Days' Limited, drain pipe makers Pitchford John, farmer Sheward Jn. blacksmith, Lit. Dawley Hawkins William J•ohn, customs, Poole Jsph. Herbt. grocer, Station rd Watts Charles Harry, Red Lion P.H excise & old age pension officer, 3 Theobald William J. beer retailer Wilde Richard, Unicorn P.H Myford cottages Williams William, grocer DEUXHILL is a very small parish on t.he road from similar. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. Bridgnorth to Bewdley and Cleobury Mortimer, 4! The area is 481 acres; rateable value, £,366; the popu­ miles south-by-west from Bridgnorth station, Severn lation in 1911 was 40. Valley section of the Great Western railway, in the Letters received through Bridgnorth at 8 a.m. ; letter Southern division of the county, liberty of the borough carrier passes through at 4.50 p.m. ; Bridgnorth is of Wenlock, Chelmarsh division of Stottesdon hundred, the nearest money order office, d· miles distant; Bridgnorth union, petty sessional division and county Billingsley is the nearest telegraph office, x! miles court district, rural deanery of Bridgnorth, archdeaconry distant of Ludlow and diocese of Hereford. The church, a small The children of the parishes of Billingsley, Deuxhill, but ancient building of rubble stone, has been pulled Glazeley, Middleton Scriven & Sidbury attend this down ; the living is annexed with Glazeley to the rectory school of Chetton and the inhabitants attend the church at County School (mixed), built in 1879, & enlarged in Glazeley. The trustees of the late William Bunney esq. 1908, for roo children; aver-age attendance, 96 ; Wm. of Meolbrace, Shrewsbury, are lords of the manor and Armstrong, master; Mrs. Fanny .Armstrong, mistress, principal landowners. The soil is clayey; the subsoil is who have a house attached Harrison Isaac, farmer, Hall farm I Jones Herbert, farmer DIDDLEBURY is a parish intersected by f,he river Atherden esq. J.P. of 27 Broad street, Ludlow, and Corve, 6 miles north-east from Craven Arms station on Percy Giles Holder esq. of Corfton Hall. The soil on the Great Western and London and North Western joint the west side of the Corve is good turni'P land, on the railway, and 8 miles north from Ludlow, comprising the east bank a stiff clay; subsoil, sandstone and clay. 12 hamlets of Diddlebury, Westhop?, Great and Little The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. Sutton, Lawton, Peaton, Broncroft, Middlehope, Corfton, The area of the entire parish is 8,690 acres; assessable Sparchford, and Earnstrey Park (annexed to the parish value, £6,ou; the population in xgn was 6go in the of Abdon in 1881) and Bouldon (transferred from Hol­ civil and 649 in the ecclesiastical parish. gate in 1881 and added to this parish for civil purposes), Corfton hamlet is 1 mile south-west. P. G. Holder in the Southern division of the county, lower division esq is lord of the manor. of Munslow hundred, Ludlow union, petty sessional divi­ Lawton hamlet is ~~ miles south-east. sion and county court district, rural deanery and arch­ BRONCROFT is a hamlet comprising Upper and Lower deaconry of Ludlow, and diocese of Hereford. In 1882, Parks, about 3 miles north-east and about 5 south-by­ by the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Cul­ east from Rushbury station. Broncroft Castle, a remark­ mington was added to Diddlebury, and a detached part ably picturesque structure of the 14th century, has of Diddlebury transferred to Munslow. The church of been restored and converted into a handsome residence, St. Peter is an edifice in mixed styles, the north side and is now the seat of Henry Ernest Whitaker esq. of the nave and part of the tower being of pre-Norman date ; it consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, north BOULDON is a hamlet transferred from Holdgate to chapel, south porch and a western tower containing a this parish in r881 for civil purposes only. P. ·G. clock and 4 bells : there are five stained windows, a Holder esq. is lord of the manor ; here is a small iron carved oak eagle lectern, and several marble tablets and church, served from Holdgate. monuments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Carrier to Ludlow.-Bouldon, 'Star,' mon. & sat and in the chancel are alabaster inscriptions with arms Wall Letter Box is cleared at 4·35 p.m to Thomas Bawdewin, 1623, and Margaret, his wife, and a monument to Charles Baldwyn, 1674: there is MIDDLEHOPE hamlet is 3 miles north-by-west and also a cas~ iron slab in the :floor of the chancel to ~ east from Harton Road station. P. G. Holder esq. is lord of the manor. Mary, wif~ of John Baldwyn, ob. 1659: the tower was restored in 189g-xgoo, with a sum of £,x,3oo, com­ PE.ATON hamlet is r! miles e-ast, on the Pye brook. prising £.8oo left for this purpose by Thomas Lloyd T. H. Atherden esq. of Ludlow, is lord of the manor and Roberts esq. and the accumulated interest thereon: a sole landowner. In this hamlet are the remains of the lych gate was erected in xgo8, at a cost of £,25: the old castle of Corfham, surrounded by a double moat ; in chureh affords sittings for 400 persons. The register making excavations in 188o, a quantity of old tiles and dates from the year 1583. The living is an endowed pottery were found, and built into the coach house is a vicarage, net yearly value about £250, with residence, stone bearing the figure of a dog and a Stafford knot. in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, to A. detailed and complete history of the Castle from the whom the rectorial tithe belongs, and held since 1907 by r xth to the 17th century is in the possession of the the Rev. Reginald Cotton Bolton M . .A. of Selwyn Col­ representatives of the late J. Groome esq. Here is a lege, Cambridge. In the hamlet of WESTHOPE, about small Primitive Methodist chapel. 4! miles west from the church and 3 south from Harton Sparchford hamlet is 2i miles south-by-west and 5 Road station, is a private chapel, dating from the year north from Bromfield station. 1140, and belonging to Leonard Swinnerton-Dyer esq. lord of the manor of Westhope, and containing several Great and Little Sutt{)D are hamlets, 2! miles south­ stained windows, some old carved oak and a Saxon east and 5 north from Bromfield station. f{)nt. The charities comprise the interest of £x,ooo left WESTHOPE hamlet is nearly 4 miles west and 3 by Mrs. Mary Valentine, and given every Sunday in south from Harton Road station. Leonard Swinnerton­ bread to persons not receiving parochial relief ; the Dyer esq. is lord of the manor. interest of £xoo at Christmas to widows, left by Mrs. Letter Box, Westhope, cleared at 5 p.m Radnor; and a fund of about £3 yearly for educati{)nal Parish Clerk, Thomas Edwards. purposes, and the interest of £2oo, left for distribution Post Office, Diddlebury.-Charles Edwards, sub-post~ amongst the poor {)f Corfton estate. Del bury (or master. Letters arrive from Craven .Arms, Salop, Diddlebury) Hall is close to the church, and is the at 7.25 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.40 p.m Munslow is property of Capt. H. V. Wingfield-Stratford. Corfton the nearest money order & telegraph office Hall is a red brick mansion, now occupied by Percy Wall Letter Box, Corfton, cleared at 6 p.m Giles Holder esq. The principal landowners are Thomas For the oomlets of Sparchford, Great Sutton, Little Powell esq. Henry Ernest Whitaker esq. Leonard Sutton, Sutton Court & Lawton, letters arrive from ~winnerton-Dyer esq. of Westhope Manor, Thomas Henry Ludlow at 9 a.m .