KELLY'S DIRECTORY SHROPSHIRE 1917 KELLY'S DIRECTORIES LTD. 182, 183 & 184, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, w.e.I. BRANCH OFFICES: lHRMINGHA~: 118, COLMOR. Row. I LIVERPOOL: lOA, SOUTU O'&'STLlI STIlIrT. GLASGOW: 21. WATERLOOSTRUT. ,\LANCllESTER: I, ST. J41UII'8 8Qu.&.aa. LBBD8: 12, IbsT PARADE. SHBFFIBLD: I, B')WA.RD STRUT. :SEW YORK: (KaLLY POBLISHING CO.), 70, FIrTH Al'aNUE. PA.RIS: (A.GKliCY), ~3. RUE DE VAUGfRARU. PRIOE TWELVE SHILLINGS. DIRECTORY. ] SHHOPSHIRE. DAWLEY MAGNA. 77 Public Elementary Schools. Vernolds Common (infants) was built in 1874, & is the property of the trustees of the late H. J. Allcroft Cn!OlingLon (mixed), with residence for the master, I esq.: Miss Selina Lane, mistress built. in 1857, enlarged in 1879 &, again in 1894, for I Car riers to Ludlow.-WiIliam Pheysey, of Munslow, on rIO children; John Robert Carruthers, master I mono &; sat. ; Deakin, of Aston, man. wed. &; sat CULMINGTON. IOverton. Charles ~' t!lx collector for Oy-erton Benjamin, assistant overseer Marked thus" receive letters through: •• Cuh:nm~n. &; district, The Cottage 'I'ipton Wllham, shopkeeper Craven Arms, Salop; the remainder' Bheriff Wllham, head gardener to B!.CHE. L dl T. W. Shaw esq th roug h u OW. ILetters through Craven Arms, Salop'. ' G- L 1 SElFTON Co11mg s eorge, ang ey . ••.. 1 Evans Job, farmer Lawley Thomas, Oakdene . Marked thus receive letter~ through i Matthew8 Thomas farmer *Shaw Thos.Wood,Culmington manor. Craven Arms, Salop; the remainder! • Worrall Henry, Culmington house through Ludlow. ! NORTON. ; ·Edwards Charles E. Mount Seifton iLetters through Craven Arms, Salop. COMMERCIAL. : Holland. Rev. David Erskine ?LA. .Duvenporf Shadrach.head ~amekeeper Cammell Samuel, wheelwright I (rector), Rectory i to Mrs. Rotton Holt John William, Royal Oak inn :McCartney H. Stanley, Pool cottage ILewis Thomas George, fa:rmer Howard Thomas, farmer, Medley prk i *Alderson Price, farmer, New house Lockhart John, farmer Jcnes In. Hy. shoeing &; genl. smith ;Griffiths Emily & Mary(Misses),lndry Knox James A. head gardener to H.: Jones Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer I DURLEY. Worrall esq I Marsden 'I'homaa, farmer Letters through Craven ATms, Salop. Lockhart Joseph WiJliam, farmer I *Morris Sarah (Mrs.), stationer, Post! Pryce Thomas, wheelwright Morris Artbur William, farmer i office IBoberts Charles Bar low, farmer CYNYNION is a hamlet in the civil pariah of 08- Lloyd Watkin Williams-Wynn barb. C.B. is the principal westry, and with Pentre-gaer, and a portion of the, landowner. The soil varies from gravel to clayey loam; parishes of Llansilin (Denbigbshire), Llan-y-blodwel, subsoil, partly on the lime rock and gravel and shale. Oswestry Rural, Selattyn and Sychtyn, was formed in l Ths chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. 1844 into an ecclesiastical parish, under the name of I The area of the ecclesiastical parish i8 2,105 acres, and Rhyd-y-Oroesau : it lies in a jnountainous district, on i the population in 1891 was 401, chiefly Welsh. The area the verge of the county, ad'joining Denbigbshire, 3~ i of the hamlet is 785 acres; the population of Bhyd-y- miles west from Oswestry, in the Western division of I Croesan ecclesiastical parish in 191I was 33, which the county, hundred, petty sessional division, conD~YI extends into Denbighshire. court district and incorporation of Oswestry, rural deanery of Oswestrr, archdeaconry of Montgomery and PE..'fl'RE·GAER is a hamlet 3i miles west from Os- diocese of St. AMph. Christ ChUTCh,at Bhyd-y-Oroesau, Iwe8try. The scenery is va.ried and romantic, and the erected and consecrated in 1886 in place of a previous whole district mountainons·. The soil is strong, mostly church built in 1838, is a small building of stone in & upon limestone. The area. is 1,045 acres. debased Gothic style, consisting of chanoel and nave Deputy Parish Clerk John Wilke8. and an embattled w~ltern tower containing 2 bells: I • divine service is conducted in the Welsh and English I Post OffiCII,Rhyd.y.Oroelau.-Thomas. Evans, sub-post- languages. The regrater dates from the year 1838. The ~aster. Let~~s ~hrough Oswestry ; no sunda.y de- living is a recto~y, net. yearly .value £~40' includi~g 91 hvery. Llansilin 18 the nearest money order a; tele- acres of glebe, WIth residence, ID the gift of the BIshop graph office of St. Asaph, and held since 1908 by the Rev. Williarn 1 Public Elementary School, Bhyd-y-Croesau (mixed), Arthur Morris B.A.. of St. David's College, Lampeter. j built in 1850, for 70 children; Mis~ Isabella Mary The Earl of Powis is lord of the manor, Sir Herbert Brotherton, mistresa CYNYNION. )Enns Thomas, shopkeeper, Post off ! PENTBE-GAER. Morris Rev. William Arthur B.A. Guillam Thos. farmer,Pandy Newydd Edll'ards Edward, farmer . (rector of Bhyd-y-Croesau) I Hngbes Lloyd, farmer Edwards WaIt. frmr. Tan-cralgy-rbrw 1Jones David, farmer, Brongoll IEnDS Edwd. farmer, Nant-y-gollan CQlonmCIAL ! Lloyd John. farmer, Oefn-y-maea I Griffitha Thomas, farmer Davies John, farmer ,.Morria Hugh, farmer ,Jones Thomas, farmer. Hemblas Edwards David &; John, Iarmers Weston Richard Henry, Orols Foxes I' Morris JohD, farmer, Pen-y-bryn Edwards Richd. farmer, Oefn-y-maes P.R. Lawnt Roberk Edward, farmer, Taa-j-coed Edwards Catherine (Mrs.), farmer I WillilUIlI John, farmer DAWLEY MAGNA. is 11 tOll'D and pari"h on tht I tetan Me~hodist. United Methodist and Primitive road from Wellington to Bridgnorth, with a station at Methodil!t chapels. The Town Hall, a commodious Horsehay in this parish on the Wellington and Severn, building, the property of the Urban District Council, Junction branch of the Great Western railway, 4 mile. i is available for public meetings. The Market Hall, south-east from Wellington, abou,t 2! north-west from i erected in 1867 and also the property of the Urban lfadeley and 5 south-west, from Shifn&l: it is in the! Council, ill an oblong structure of red brick, with an lfid division of the county, in Wellington division of , ornamental frontage and vaults underneath, and is sur- South Bradford hundred, Madeley union and county i mounted by a turret containing one bell and a clock, court district, petty sessional division of Wellington, I presented in 1867 by the late Lieut.-Col. William rural deanery of Shifnal, archdeaconry of Salop and '1 Kenyon-Slaney. A piece of ground of about 2 acres in diocese of Lichfield. The town is lighted with gas ! extent was given by the late Rt. Hon. Col. William from works in Ohapel .trect, buil~ i!l 1857, and belong- Slaney Kenyon-Slaney M.P. and H. O. Sim:pson esq. to lng to the Da.•.•ley Gas Co. Limited. In 1909 an be used as a public park, and was opened In 1901. In arrangement 11'118 made nth the Mlldeley and Broseley the High street is a monument, erected in 1910, in Watu Co. of Harrington, for the supply of water at memory of Capt. Webb, born in this parish in the year !I cost of about £15,000; the pumping station is at 1848. and who lost his life in an attempt to swim the Little Dawley; the engines are of the Producer type ! Niagara. rapids in t883. The market day is on Satur- and force the water to the two reservoirs at Lawley I day, for the sale of meat, vegetables and provisions, Bank for distribution to the district. The parish was I and is well attended. A charity of £7, derived from formed into a Local Government District in r876, but I land, was left in 1684 by Richard Hodden, gentleman. ll~d\lr the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 of Lndlow, and a third of this is distributed to the VIcL. c. 73), an Urban District Council has been estab- poor of this parish on St. Thomas' Day. Lewis' charity h~hed. The church of the Holy Trinity. erected in lof [200 was left in 1887, and the interest is given to I 84.~, is a building of freestone in the Gothic style, ; the poor annually in blankets: Greenhalgh'a charity of con~isf.inA'nf chancel, nave, baptistel'Y and lionpmhntt,lpo i £1 yearly, left in 1892, is also for the poor. The soil western tower containing 6 bells: there is a font of I is various. The minerals are ironstone and coal. '1'he Norman date, The register dates from the vear r666. chief crops are .••.heat, oats and barley. The area is The li"ing was declared a vicarage Dec. Il,' 1866, net: 2.745 acres of land and 35 of water; rateable value, }'ea.rly value £290, including' 3 acres of glebe, with: [17,856; the population in 19!I was 7,701 in the civil r~sldencp., in the gift of I,he Bishop of Lichfield, and held I parish and Urban District and 2,613 in t.he ecclesiastical. ·~lJ]ce18813 by the Rev. Thomas Richard Joseph Fawkes. Parish Clerk, John Birch. There is a Mission church in Hinkshay ; a Baptist I: Post, M. 0., T. &; Telephonic Express Deliverv Office, chaps}, erected in r846, seating 550 persons; also Well- Dawlay, Salop. John Thomason, postmaster' 78 DAWLEY MAGNA. SHROPSHIRE. [KELLY'S Post k M. <? Office, Dawley B~nk.-Mrs. Annie ~ones, i Relieving Officer, No. I Dawley District, Madeley Union. sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Dawley, Salopv ] James Clement Mole, Dawley bank Dawley, 1 mile distant, is the nearest telegraph office . Wall Letter Boxes.-Dawley Green; Finger road &. PLACES OF WORSmp with times oC Services. Hinkshay Holy Trinity; II a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m. ; Holy Communion. rst sunday in the month, Q~ mIdday.; end, URBAN DISTRWr COUNCIL.