404 TRENTHAM. STAFFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'B Hem Heath, 1 mile east, is a hamlet in which is the Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & .A. Trentham railway station. Ash Green, quarter-mile eaat, & I. 0.-James Calvert, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive is another hamlet. from Stoke-upon-Trent at 6 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. ; dis­ patched at 10.30 a.m. & 8.45 p.m. Letters from Olay­ C..'LAYTON-GRIFFTI'H is now merged into the pariah ton-Griffi'th through Newcastle of Clayton. Post Office, Hanchurch.-Mrs. Mary .A.nn Randles, sub­ HANOHURCH is a township, x! miles north-west from postmistres!l. Letters arrive from Newcastle-under­ Trentham, and is seated on an eminence overlooking Trent­ Lym(' at 8.10 a. m.; dispatched at 5.40 p.m. week days ham Park. A church appears to have formerly stood here, only. Trentham is the nearest money order & telegraph within a toft or inclosure, now completely surrounded by office, 2 miles distant yew trees : divine service is performed every 'Sunday after­ Police Station, J osiah R. Mason, resident sergeant & I noon in a licensed room by the Rev. Edmund Vincent constable Pigott M . .A. vicar of Trentham. The Hanchurch Holi­ PUBLIO ELEMENTARY. day home, built by the Duke of Sutherland in 1898, con­ Endowed (mixed) School; average attendance 160; tain-t 16 beds and is supported by subscriptions from the Frederick Henry Masters, head master; Mtss Emily Potteries. Smith, assistant mistress ; Miss Wise, assistant mis­ The chapelry of Blurton and the townships of Butterton tress, infants' department and Hanford will be found under separate headings. Railway Station, Hem Heath, .Arthur Carr PenningtoR, Parish Clerk, Richard Tansley. 11tation master TRENTHAM. Barnett Ha.nnah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Oaks Henry, house carpenter to the Ash green Duke of Sutherland PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bassett J oseph, farmer, ·Strongford Ormerod George, shoe maker & shop­ Sutherland Duke of K.G. Trentham Bridge farm keeper, Ash green hall; Stafford house, St. James' Bell Harriet (Mrs.), shopkpr. Knowl Percival George, stud groom to the SW; Brooks's, Marlborough & wall (letters through Newcastle) Duke of Sutherland Travellers' clubs SW & Turf club Bervon Lilian & Isabel (Misses), Pickering Robt. commercial traveller, W, London boarding & day school for young Hem Heath ..Adeock Frederick, Lynton ladies, Summer Hayes school Plant George, cowkeeper Baker Charles A.. Hem heath Bickerton Geo.Wm.shpkpr.Hem Heath Reid John (Duke of Sutherland's land Benham George, Merwood Blair Peter, head gardener to the Duke improvement department),TheMills "Boxall William, Hem Heath of Sutherland Salt Charles, cowkeeper Challinor J..rthur, New park Saxton Ernest L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. Cooke Samuel, The Oaks, Hem Heath Bond W. George, head gamekeeper to Corn A.lfred, Hem Heath the Duke of Sutherland Edin. physician & surgeon Cornforth Ernest E. Norwood Bonom John, stud groom Shelley Jn. (Mrs.), cowkpr. Hem Hth _Downham James, Coburgh villa Brassington Wm. farmr.New Inn mill Sim John, house steward to the Duke Fielding Abraham, Hem Heath Brough Charlotte (Mrs.), householder, of Sutherland Hem heath Stokes Edward E. V. mining engineer, Goodfellow Charles, No-rthwood (let. Calvert James, poultryman to the Beaconsfiefd ters through Newcastle) Duke of Sutherland, Post office Thorley William, cowkeeper, Hem Hth Henstock Albert J. Ash green Croxton Herbert Gough, farm bailiff Titley John, cowkeeper, Northwood Jones Alfred B. Meadowside to the Duke of Sutherland Trentham Golf Club (Edward Sholto Lancaste1 Frederick, Lyndhurst Dixon Arthur S. sec. Trentham Insti­ Challinor, sec) Lewis J::>hn, Benthal tute & refreshment rooms Trentham Institute & Refreshment Litchfield Henrv, Hem Heath • Fidler Mary .Ann (Mrs.), householder, Rooms (A. S. Dixon, sec.; Fredk. Mayer John, Claremont Hem Heath Yirell, steward) Mear Mrs. Westcliff Hardy William, electrician to the Walklate Hannah (Mrs.), wheelwright Mitcheson George .A.rthur, Hem Heath Duke of Sutherland & smith, Hem Heath Mould William, Hem Heath Harvey John, wood ranger to the Wood George, househldr. Hem Heath Munro Alexander John Stewart Duke of Sutherland Wood James A. househldr. HemHeath Pigott Rev. Edmund Vincent M.A. Hitchen Thos. cowkeeper, Northwood HANCHUROH. (vicar), Vicarage (letters through Newcastle) Pooley HE>nry Islip John, Trentham hotel, commer- (Letters through Newcastle.) S&xton Ernest L.R.C.P cial & family, Hem Heath Menzies George, Hanchurch Manor ho Stewart William, 'fhe Ley house J amieson Sarah (Miss) ,schoolmistress, COM~ll:RCIAL. Stokes Edward E. V. Beaconsfield Hem Heath Ainsworth .Arthur, cowkeeper Storey Thomas E. Bridge house Lakin Joseph, farmer, Northwood farm Corbishley William, farmer, Toft farm Swinnerton William F. The Beeches (letters through Newcastle) Culverwell ErnestW.clerk ai Trentham Taylor John, Hem Heath Lockett Ernest, coal mer. Station yard Estate office Templeman Joseph Robt. Hem Heath Lord Jemima (Miss), schoolmistress, Hughes Thomas, joiner & cowkeeper 'l'udor Miss, The Nook Hem Heath Key Charles, cowkeeper, Park lodge Tunnicli:ffe Frederick, Westholme Mackrory Thomas, clerk of works to ~amb Joseph Q. farmer, Model farm Va.rcoe Charles Stewart, Armadale the Duke of Sutherland Leighton Edmund Jas. farmer, Han- V,trcoe Richard J. Glendair Menzies George, agent to the Duke of church Village farm Webb Waiter Lindop, Dr-agor Sutherland Middleton George, fa:r..,mmer Whittam William, Holmwood Mountford Jsph. farmr . .Ash Green frm Morga.n Thomas, cowkeeper COMMERCIAL. Munro Alexander John Stewart,cashier Penson Ann (Mrs.), cowkeeper Bailey James, farmer, Knowl Wall frm. to the Duke of Sutherland Walker William, cowkeeper (letters through Newcastle) Norman George,househldr.HemHeath Webb John (Mrs.), cowkeeper TRYSULL and SEISDON. TRYSULL is an extensive village and civil parish, on the ' 1561, but the early pages are imperfect. The living is borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, near the Staf­ a vicarage, formerly annexed to that of W ombourne, but fordshire and W orce11tershire canal, a stream called the separated in x888, net yearly value £230, with 3 acres of $mestow also running through the parish, which is 6 glebe and residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since miles south-west from Wolverhampton station, 8 north 1888 by the Rev. John Wilson Andrews M.A. of Clare from Stourbridge and 7! north-west from Dudley, in the College, Cambridge. The impropriate tithes amount to Kingswinford. division of the county, South Seisdon hun­ £456 yearly. There are charities of £75 yearly. The dred, Seisdon union, Wolverhampton petty sessional divi­ principal landowners are Lord Wrottesley, who is lord of sion and county court district, rural deanery of Trysull, the manor, William Banton esq. the Misses Smythe, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of Lichfield. The John Perry esq. and Mr. William Walling. The soil is church of All Saints, enlarged in 1844• is a building of a sandy loam; subsoil, generally sandstone rock, with stone, principally in the Norman style, and consists of occasional beds of clay. The chief crops are wheat, bar· chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a low embattled ley, oats and roots. The area of the civil parish is 3· 150 western tower containing a clock and 6 bells : there are acres, inclusive of 6 of water; rateable value, £4,699; several stained windows, dating from 1841 to 1875• and the population in 1901 was 568, including 7 office-rs and tablets to Thomas Pudsey, of Seisdon (1715), Joseph 40 inmates of Seisdon Union workhouse ; the population Tongue (1821), Elizabeth, his wife (x8o3), and others: and of the ecclesiastical parish, All Saints, was 553· also an ancient stone font: in 1889 the church was restored and re-seated and an organ erected at a cost of £6oo, and SEISDON is about 6! miles south-west from Wolver­ further improved in 1897 nt a cost of £Boo, in memory of . hnmpton: it waR formerly a place of importRnce, giving­ the late John Baker, of Seisdon, and now affords 387 its name to the hundred, and is the head of a poor-la'IV sittings, 168 being free. The register dates from the year union, for -particulars of which, see next page. .