DIRECTORY.) STAFFORDSHIRE. HORTON. 213 are issued & paid here. Stafford is the nearest money J The children of this vlace attend the t~chool at Salt order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant Police Station, Hopton, Joseph Brown, constable HOPTON. Deavall Thomas, post office Sampson Stephen, fanner Dodd Lawrence Percy,frmr.Heath brn Warrilow Mrs. cowkeeper Scott Willia.m H. Willmoor hill Eddowes Richard, cowkeeper COMMERCIAL. Evans William, cowkeeper OOTON .Alldis Thomas, wheelwright Holmes Charles, cowkeeper & waiter · Allsopp William, farmer & butcher, Jones George Joseph, cowkeeper Boydell G~orge Henry,farmer,Brick ho Heathyards Knobbs Matthew,cowkeeper,Kent's brn Onlton Thos. cowkeeper, T:ixall road Andrews William Robert, cowkeeper Madders Charles, farmer Shelley Henry, fartner, Beacon Bagnall Eli, farmer, Kew buildings Moore William, cowkeeper & assistant Stafford Rural District Council Infec- (postal address, Marston, Stafford) overseer for Ranton parish tious Diseases Hospital (Samuel Ballance John, farmer Pearce Harry, farmer & dairyman, Butler L.F.P. & S.Glas. medical Booth James, cowkeeper Mousley officer; James Kilfoile, caretaker), Byrd Charles, farmer, Marl Pit house Podmore William, cowkeeper Kingston hill Clay Benjamin, farmer Richardson Mrs. farmer Stubbs William, fartn bailiff to the Deavall J oseph, cowkeeper Robinson G. (Mrs.), cowkeeper Earl of Shrewsbury, St. Thomas HORNINGLOW, see Burton-on-Trent. HORTON is a parish and village, on an eminence I~ 1728; and three annuities of 5os. each, paid out of the miles west from Rudyard station on the Churnet V alley Blackwood Hill estate to the poor ()f •Endon, Leek and section of the North Staffordshire railway, 3! west-by­ Horbon ; the poor of Horton have in addition £4 14B. 8d. north fr()IIJ. Leek, 7 south-east from Congleton, 13 from yearly from other bequests, and the late Miss Bostock's Macclesfield and 154 from London, in the Leek division will provides that £,3 every year be laid out in flannel. of the county, hundred of North Totmonslow, Leek union, Thomas Crompton, of Manchester and Dunwood House, petty sessional division and county court district, rural gent. by will, 6th October, I86o, left £roo for a stained deanery of Leek, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and dio­ window in the church. Cliff Park Hall, built by John cese of Lichfield. The church of St. Michael, pic­ Haw01rth esq. is a castellated mansion, exquisitely situated turesquely situated on an eminence, is an edifice of stone on the western bank of the Rudyard lake, but is now of Late Perpendicular date, consisting of chancel, nave, ( 1903) unoccupied. Horton Hall, a large gabled house aisles and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, with projecting wings, is inscribed "R E. 1647 " and containing 6 bells, re-cast by Rudhall, I753: the church "T E. r668," indicating members of the Edge family, was restored in r863, when a south aisle and porch were who possessed the estate as early at 1500 ; it is now the added : there is a memorial window in the chancel to residence of Arthur Fowler Watt esq. Lieut.-Col. John the late T. Crompton esq. of Manchester and Dunwood, Coutts Antrobus J.P. of Eaton Hall, Congleton, Cbeshire, and another given by the Misses Crompton : there are is lord of the manor, which includes the whole parish, also monnments to the Fowler and Crompton families, besides Rushton Ja.mes, Bagnall, Endou, Longsdon ancl and a brass with effigies and arms to John Wedgwood Stanley ; a court leet is held on the Thursday before­ esq. of Haracles (r589) and Mary, his wife (I582), with the wake, which is on the nearest Sunday to Old Michael­ marriage records of his three sons and five daughters : mas day. The principal landowners are the lord of the­ there is also a mer;norial brass to the late A. ·C. Watt esq. manor, the trustees of the late Arthur Chorley Watt esq. of Horton Hall : the chancel screen and a .stained window Barnett Young esq. of Alton, Cheadle, the representatives­ at the east end of the north aisle were erected in rgoo as of the late John Munro esq. a.nd Mrs. Challinor.. The memorials to the late W. ,M. Tellwright esq. of Horton soil varies from marl to loam and clay; subsoil, stiff· Lodge. The lych gate, dated rgo2, is a memorial to the clay, marl and sand. The chief crops are oats and wheat, late Mr. John Munro J.P. of Vair View: the church but the land is principally in pasture. The area of the affords 350 sittings : in the churchyard is a stone in­ parish is 4,883 acres of land and 92 of water; the popula­ .scribed to Mary, wife of George Brooks, d. 5th January, tion in 190I was I,295· 1787, aged II9, and a large cross, erected by public sub­ Horton and Horton Hay form a townSihip. scripti<m, to the late George Heath, " the moorland Blackwood a.nd Crowborough form another township· poet": near the entrance to the church are two re­ from I to 2 miles west from Horton. markably fine old yew trees. An addition of about an Parish Clerk, George Melior. acre of land was made to the churchyard on the east side about 1a99. The register dates from the year I653. Post Office, Horton. Mrs. Ellen Hine, sub-postmistress. The living is a. vicarage, net yearly value £n)o, including Letters from Leek arrive at 7· r5 a.m. ; dispatched at; sr acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Lieut.- 6 p.m. Postal Orders are issued here & paid. Leek, 4- Col. John Coutts Antrobus J.P. and held since r879 by miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph the Rev. Bennett Blakeway, of St. Bees. There are office for delivery, but Rudyard railway station is th& Wesleyan chapels at Gratton and Harper's Gate and Bid- nearest f01r collection of telegrams. Wall Letter Box, dulph Moor, and at Lask Edge a Primitive Methodist Harper's Gate, cleared at 5-40 p.m. week days only. chapel. The parish of Horton has the following bene- Letters for Blackwood and Gratton from Stoke-on-Trent; factions: Three annuities out of Horton Hall estate, via Endon, & for Biddulph Moor via Congleton arrive bequeathed by Timothy Edge in the 34 Charles IJ. at 7·30 a.m (1682-3), namely, £I4 3s. 4d. increased to £2o yearly, Public Elementary School, built in 1848 & enlarged in for the curate, £5 for apprentice fees and £5 ros. for 1894, for 120 children; average attendance, 95 ; John a weekly distribution of bread; also the interest of £zoo, Ashton, master; Miss E. M. Hine, infants' mistress; left by Thomas Joddrell, of Endon, gent. 28th August, Miss E. Bailey, assistant mistress PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Bailey Nathan, farmer, Horton hay Critchlow Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, .Aloock Empson, Blackwood Bailey Paul, miller (water), Harracles Blackwood hill Ashton John J. Horton villa Barlow Lavinia (Mrs.), frmr.Crowbro' Eardley Enoch, farmer, Porters farm Austin Mrs. Rock cottage Barlow Samuel, farmer, Crowborough Edge Joseph, farmer, Crowborough Bagley Henry John, The Cottage Bradbury Daniel, carpenter, Gratton Farrell Peter, farmer, Tall ash :Blakeway Rev. Bennett (vicar of St. Brassington Noah (Mrs.), farmer, Gibson Edward, farmer, Small lane Miehael) The Hollins Goodwin Thomas Waiter, Crown inn Bostock Miss, Cliff lodge Brookfield Wm. farmr. Blake Meadws Harrison Hnnh.(Mrs.), frmr.Crowbro, Brough Ernest, East view Brown John, farmer Harrison Richard, farmer Cartlidge George, Daisy bank ~ Brown John, farmer, Blackwood Harrison Wm. farmr. White chimneys Cox Percy, The Villa Cartlidge George, artist, Harper's gte Harvey William, farmer, Blackwood Fisher Miss, Horton hall Clewes Henry, draper & general dealer HPath Abel, farmer, Blakehouse Grea>es Mrs. Harper's gate Olewes Herbert, farmer & assistant Heath Henry, farmer, Tomfield Heath John, Fields overseer & collctr. of taxes,Boot hall Heath James, farmer, Birch trees llsley Frank, The Woodlands Clewes John, cowkeeper, Blackwood Heath Jo·hn, farmer, Blackwood Sleigh Herbert, The Hollies Clewes William, farmer, Blackwood Heath John, farmer, Gratton Watt Arthur Fowler, Horton hall Copeland Eli, farmer, Horton hay Heath Ralph, farmr. Ashes,Blackwood COMMERCIA-L. Corbishley Hy. farmr. Cockshutt haye Heath Richard, fanner, Barn.slee Ainsworth Thomas Isaac, farmer, Corbishley John, farmer, New house Holdcroft Aaron, sen. farmer, Lask Burnfields Cotterill Arthur William, market gar- edge, Blackwood . Austin Prudence (Mr!. ), farmer, dener, Gratton Hold croft Aaron, jun. farmer Church side · Cotterill Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Holdcroft Jas. farmer, Orowborongh :Bailey James, farmer, Crowborough Lask edge Holdcroft William, farmer, Hen hole :Bailey Job, farmer, Moor top Oritchlow Wm. farmr. Blackwood hall, Hulme Jn. frmr. Close gt. Blackwood .