248 LICHFIELD. STAFFORDSHIRE. (KELLY's The acreage and rateable value of the several civil large and hand,some mansion of brick, with stone mul­ parishes are as follows viz. : lioned windows, in the Elizabethan style, and has been Acreage. R.V. extensively altered and restored since I876; the Hall is in a fine park of about 200 acres. The area is I,294 acres; fSt. (Jlu~Cl ..•••••.•..•..•...........• 1 0 102 ••••••••• £9,622 rateable value, £3,776; the population in 1901 was 170. St. Mary ....................... ss ••••••••• 9,620 There is a mission room at Elmhurst. St. Michael ...... ••t ••• • •• •••• • • 2,288 ••••••••• 1 7o490 By Local Government Board Order a detached part of The Close ........................ 16 ••••••••• 1,610 The Friary .......................• II I08 Curborough was transferred to Farewell and Chorley. ••••••••• Freeford is a manor and parish, partly in the county of Stafford and partly in the cotmty of the city of Lichfield, Total ............... 3,475 ••••••••• about 2 miles south-east. The population in 1901 was Parish Clerks :-St. :Michael's, J esse Arnold; Christ roo; area, 378 acres; rateable value, £795· Freef01;d Church, John Slater. Hall is the residence of Frederic Garnett Clarke esq. Sexton :-St. Chad, George Smith. Streethay is a township 2 miles north-east-by-east, in Borrow Cop Hill, about haU a mile from Lich.field, and St. Michael's parish. The area is 978 acres ; rateable a favourable resort for excursionists in the summer, value, £4,733; the population in r89I was 280. affords very extensive views of the eounties of Derby, By Local Government Board Order a detached part of Leicester, Salop, Stafford and Warwick. Farewell and Chorley, known as Stubbs, was in 1879 added Leamonsley is a suburb on the west. to Streethay, and some cottages at Durnford transferred Curborough, 2i miles north-east, with Elmhurst, 2 from Streethay to Fulfen. tniles north, forms a joint township, in the parish of St. Fulfen, about 2 miles east, I:Jrmerly extra-parochial, is ()had, and contains a scattered population. Elmhurst now a parish. The area is 250 acres; rateable value, Hall, the residence of Meredith Hamer esq. J.P. is a £I,254; the population in I90I was 28. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHME~TS. LOCAL INSTlTUTIONS &e. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. l\f. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & I in the Petty Sessional Division :-Alrewas, Alrewas Hay, I. 0. & Post Office Telephone Call Office, Bore street.­ Burntwood Edial & Woodhouses, Farewell & Chorley, William Howe, postmaster Fisherwick, Fradley, Freeford, Fulfen, Hammerwich, Hours of Attendance :-For sale of stamps, registration · N orton Canes (so much thereof as comprises the site & of letters &c. sale of & payment of postal orders, 7 a. m. curtilage of the Public Buildings at Brownhills), Ogley to 9·45 p.m. ; sundays, 8 a.m. to IO a.m. ; for money I Hay, Orgreave, Shenstone, Streethay, Swinfen & Pack­ order & savings, Government annuity & insurance busi- ington, Wall, Walsall Wood (that part I~ between ness & issue of licenses, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; savings bank 1 or as to a small portion on the eastern side of the Chester -withdrawals by telegraph, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ; sut. 9 1\md & the canal at Brownhills), Weeford & Whittington .a.m. to I p.m. ; telegraph & telephone business & ex­ press delivery service, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; sunday, 8 a.m. CORPORATION. to Io a.m 1903-I904. Letters are delivered at 7 & 11 a.m. & 5 p.m. un week days & 7 a.m. on sundays Mayor, Councillor George Haynes. Letters are dispatched at 5·45• 9·5• 9.20, ,JI-5 & 11.15 a.m. Deputy Mayor, Arthur Eyles. & 1.20, 3.10, 4.20, 4·50, 5, 6.25 8.ro & 9·45 p.m. on week days & 9·45 p.m. on sundays Recorder, Robert Arthur Germaine esq. K.C. I Temple "Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Beacon garde:1s, London E C. street.-)Iiss Fearn, sub-postmistress. Letters dis. Sheriff, Councillor J. T. Raby. patched at 8.45 & ro.r5 a.m. & 12.40, 4·I5 & 8.45 p.m.; sundays at 8.45 p.m .Aldermen. 'Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Church Retire Nov. I904. Retire Nov. I907. street.-!. Woolley, sub-postmaster. Letters dis­ S. Haynes J. Fowler patched at 8.45 & Io.s a.m. & I2.45, 4·I5 & 8.45 p.m.; T. H. Hunt H. M. Morgan sundays, 8.45 p.m A. C. Lomax I J. Trevor 'Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Walsall road.-Mrs. A. Bicli:ley, sub-postmistress. Letters dis­ Councillors. patched at 8.5 & I0.2o a. m. & 12.I5, 4-I5 & 8.45 p.m.; North Ward. sundays, 8.45 p.m H. ' Retire Nov. 1906. J. J ohnson <JOUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR LICRFIELD & BROWN- J. Bamford J. T. Raby HILLS PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. J. S. M. Oldham Retire Nov. J\:[anley Augustus East esq. D.L. Manley hall, Lichfielci, W. R. Colridge-Roberts A. Eyles chairman Retire Nov. 1904. C. Harradine 'Brawn George esq. D.L. Sandhills, Walsall J. S. Fraser I G. Haynes Burnaby-Atkins Thos. Fredk. esq. Orgreave hall,Lichfield Chetwynd Arthur esq. Whittington, Lichfield South Ward. Cooper Richard Powell esq. Shenstone court, Lichfield Retire Nov. 1906. H. Larkin Hamer Meredith esq. Elmhurst hall, Lich.field A. bury T. Pinson Harrison William Be_aley esq. D.L. .Aldershaw, Lichfield T. Walmesley I Retire Nov. I905. Harrison William Edwarcl esq. Aldershaw, Lichfield H. J. S. Winterton T. Andrews Holt Robert Alfred esq. Westfield lodge, Bath Retire Nov. 1904. W. Welchman Inge Charles Hy.esq.Broome Leasoe,Whittington, Lichfield D. Harrison W. A. Wood Jelf-Petit William Louis esq. Bodhyfryd, Llanwrst Quarterly meetings, Nov. 9 & the Mecond wednesday in LPvett Robert Thomas Kennedy esq. V.D., D.L. Packing- February, May & August. Monthly meetings second ton hall, Lichfield wednesday in the month Manley Col. Francis Capel, M:anley hall, near Lichfield Negus Thomas Addison esq. Shenstone lodge, Lichfield Officers of the Corporation. Neville Nigel Chas. Alfd. esq. B. A. Shenstone ho. Lichfield Seckham Major Bassett Thorne D.S.O Tvwn Clerk & Clerk of the Peace for the City, Herbert Swinfen-Broun Col. Michael Alexander Wilsone, Swinfen Russell, Market street hall, Lichfield under Sheriff, A. W. Barnes, St. John street Walker John Reid esq. Beau Desert, Rugeley City Treasurer, George Ashmall, 20 Bore street Webb Col. Waiter Geor~re C.B. Grosvenor ho. Leamington Medical Officer of Health, George William Roman Wise Henry Edward Disbrowe esq. Wall house, Lichfield L.R. C.P.Lond. Red court Worthington Albert Octavius esq. D.L. M:aple Hayes, City Surveyor, E. Brooke, Walsall road Lichfield High Constables, T. Curston and T. Puzey Worthington William Worthington esq. The Old hall, Inspector of Weights & Measures, Harold Van Tromp, 37 Nethersele, Ashby-de-la-Zouch St. John street, Wolverhampton The Mayor of Lichfield & the Chairman, for the time Sanitary Inspector, "\V. J. Vann, Queen street being-, of the BroWnhills Urban District Council, are Inspector of Common l.10dging Houses & under the Con­ ex-officio magistrates tagious Diseases (Animals) Act, Police-sergt. Pinchas, Cinerk to the Magistrates, Jas. Albt. Thomas, 7 Market st Wade street Petty Sessions are held at the Public buildings, Brown­ Cc•llector of Rates, Waiter Brocksom, Birmnigham road hills. on the 2nd wednesday in every month at Io a.m. Sergeants at M:ace, John Dakin & William Bee & at the Guildhall, Lichfield, on the 4th wednesday in Town Crier, A. Beecroft, Lombard street every month at I I a. m. The following places are included School Attendance C5fficer, W. Bassett Tamworth street .