350 SWYNNERTON. STAFFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S Bolton James, farmer, Shelton-under- Beech. Elton Frederick Henry, fanner Harley [letters through Newcastle] [Letters through Newcastle-under-Lyme.] Farrall Henry, farmer Bostock Joseph, farmer, Clifford's wood Bailey Fras.Aian,frmr.BeechHouse frm Glover George, cowkeeper Cheadle George, blacksmith Harper John, cowkeeper HalesWm.Labour-in-Vain P.H.& farmer l:'inney Benjamin J oseph,farmer,Sandy- Hocknel James, shoe maker Hart Alfred, farmer ford Martin Henry,farmer & assistant oversr Harvey Richard, cowkeeper Fynney Jn. farmer,Swynnerton grange ·white Charles, farmer Holmes Robert, grcr. beer retlr. & frmr :Fnxley Geo. farmer, High Lowes farm Morris William, farmer Hactley Edward, farmer, Harleythorn Hatton. Peak Frederick, cowkeeper 11J.lipenny William, cowkeeper [Letters received through Ecclesa!L] Randles George, cowkeeper Kent John, cow keeper Bostock Arthur, farmer Rathbone Thomas, cowkeeper Lunt John, farmer, Shelton-under-Har- Hammond Thomas, cowkeeper Shuffiebotham Samuel, farmer ley [letters through Newcastle] Malkin Arthur, miller (water) & farmer Simpson John Moss, farmer 1\'Iorrisroe Sus an (Mrs.), shopkeeper Yarnfield. Thorneycroft Charles, farmer Hatdiff Mary (Miss), dress maker [Letters through Stone.] Williams Thomas, cowkeepr. Post office Robinson Agnes (Mrs.), Fitzherbert Elton Henry Arms P.H COMMERCIAL. The Row. Robinson Samuel, farmer, Home farrn Ashton Frederick, farmer [Letters through Newcastle via Whitmore.] Steele J oseph, farmer, Blakelow farm Bond Thomas, farmer Dodds Ann (Mrs.), cowkeeper Turner James,gardener to BasilThomas Brough William, cowkeeper Low Thomas, cowkeeper Fitzherbert esq. D.L., J.P Cheadle J ames, blacksmith Lunt Frederick, butcher & farme:r Wilcox Ambrose, gamekeeper & forester Durham James, cowkeeper & boot ma Lunt William, farmer to Basil Thos. Fitzherbert esq.D.L.,J.P Elsmore Thos. frmr. Norton Moss farm Turner William, farmer TALKE, or, as it is commonly called, TALK-o'-TH'-HrLL, is i the same year 39 cwt.. of gunpowder, while being conveyed a township and an ecclesiastical parish, formed 27 Septem- through the village in a wagon, exploded ; the damage by ber, 1859, from the civil parish of Audley, containing the these two calamities amounted to £2,387 15s. 3d. and a vilhges of TALKE and BuTT LANE, and is on the borders of brief was issued by order of His Majesty George Ill. com­ Cheshire, I mile south-east from Harecastle station on the 1 manding collections to be made throughout England and Stoke and Harecastle line of the North Staffordshire railway, Wales for the relief of the sufferers. On the 13th December, 5 north-hy-west from Newcastle-under-Lyme and 152~ 1866, a fearful explosion of coal gas occurred at the North from London, in the North Western division of the county, I Staffordshire coal pit~, by which 91 persons were killed; up­ North Pirehill hundred and petty sessional division, New- I wards of £x6,ooo was raised by public subscription for the castle union and county court district, rural deanery of relief of the widows and children of the sufferers: since this Newcastle, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of a permanent relief society has been instituted for the benefit Lichfield. The village stands upon a lofty eminence, corn- of the coal and ironstone workers of North Staffordshire, in manding an extensive view of the surrounding country as aid of which the committee of the Talke Relief Fund contri­ far as the Welsh mountains, and appears to have derived its buted a sum of £3,ooo. In April, r875, another terrible name from the Cymric-Celtic " tal," signifying "high explosion occurred iu the Bunker's Hill coal pits, when 42 place," and has borne this name, as evidenced by records men and boys were killed; and in this case a fund amount­ still existing, from so early a date as A. D. 1253. The Trent ing to about £3,ooowas raised for the support of the widows and Mersey canal passes through Harding's Wood in this and fatherless children. Linley Wood, the seat of the parish. The church of St. Martin is an ancient edifice of Misses Marsh-Caldwell, is pleasantly situated a short brick, with stone facings, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, distance from the village. Sir Thomas Fletcher Boughey south transept, north porch and a small turret containing bart. J.P. of Aqualate Hall, l<'orton, and Captain Justinian one bell: the church plate includes a flagon presented by Heathcote Edwards-Heathcote, of 34 Ennismore gardens, Mrs. and Misses Marsh-Caldwell, of Linley Wood, in r863, a London s w, are the lords of the manor. The principal chalice given by Mrs. John Bourne, of Newcastle, in 1728; landowners are Captain J. H. Edwards-Heathcote, the and a pre-Reformation paten, much worn: a stained east trustees of George Edmund Wickstead esq. J.P. of Betley window was inserted in 1888 by public subscription : there Hall, Sir Smith Child bart. J. P. of Stallington Hall, Robert are 300 sittings. Heath esq. D.L., J.P. of Biddulph, and the Misses Marsh- The church of St. Saviour, erected at a cost of £4,200, Caldwell. The soil is clay ; subsoil clay. The chief crops from designs by Mr. Hunt, architect, of London, and con- are wheat. The population in 1891 was 4•999· secrated 14 Sept. 1879, is a building of framed timber, filled Sexton, John Allinson. in with c~mcrete and plaster, and affords 6oo sittings. :rhe PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., s. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & loc~l registe_r d~tes only !rom the year r83o, the prevwus Insurance Office.-Joseph Jackson, sub-postmaster. registers rbe1I_Ig mcluded m tho~e of Audle!, but there are Letters received through Stoke-on-Trent, via Kidsgrove, records relatmg t~ ~he ch~rch m the Pubhc Record Office, at 6 a.m. & 4 p.m. ; dispatched at 8. 15 p.m. WALL from 1.553, compr1smg an mvent?ry of church good~, made LETTER Box, Talke Pits, cleared at 6. 30 p.m. Talke Box: by the churchwa~d~ns 14th May 1~ _tha~ year, for delivery to at 6. 0 p.m. & Butt Lane 7.20 p.m the Royal Commissioners. The hvmg IS a rectory, average 4 tithe rent-charge £74, gross yearly value £290, net £250, ScHOOLS :- including 79 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the National (girls), Talke, built for 190 girls ; average atten- vicar of Audley, and held since r8s9 by the Rev. Mark Wilks dance, 150; Miss Alice Nixon, mistress MacHutchin, of St. Bees. The mission church at Talke National (mixed & infants), Talke, built in 1895, foT 355 Pits, was erected in r887, and will seat 200 persons: Rev. children; average attendance, r6o boys, 40 girls & 120 Charles Ed ward Thomas H.A. of the University of Oxford, infants ; Herbert Mitchell, master; Miss Annie Palin, has been curnte in charge since 1893 ; and there are also head mistress Wesleyan, Free Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels. St. Martin's, Talke Pits (infants),for r62 children; average Charities to the amount of £4 6s. arising from various rent- attendance, 135; Mrs. Sarah Ann Smith, mistress charges, are annually distributed. In the centre of the Primitive Methodist (mixed), Butt Lane, built in x86g, for village is a portion of an ancient stone cross, dated 1253, 370 children; average attendance, 232 boys & girla; around which a weekly market was formerly held ; the cross Thomas Nicklin, master; Miss A. Taylor, mistress was restored by public subscription in x887 at a cost of £8. Wesleyan, New road (mixed), built in r846, for 200 chil- In the month of July, 1782, a fire broke out in the village, dren; average attendance, 120 boys & girls; W. Nicklin, which destroyed a large amount of property ; in August in master; Miss Olive Nield, infants' mistress Cooper John Allinson John, sexton Bossons Alfred & George, chip potato Gater Enoch, Oak Tree cottage Ankers Chas. haberdasher, Chapel st dealers, New road Henshaw Albert Mayon, The Harbour, Baddeley Samuel, wheelwright & shop- Boulton Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Lower Talke pits keeper, New road Ash farm McGowan John, Ash house, New road Bailey Richard, shoe maker, Chapel st Boulton Mary (Mrs.), shopkpr. New rd MacHutchin Rev. Mark Wilks, Rectory Barlow Paul, grocer, Church street Boulton Samuel, butcher, Butt lane Marsh-Caldwell The Misses, Linley wd Bedson Thomas, hair dresser, Talke pits Broadhurst & Budd, plumbers, Butt la Price John, Congleton road Beech James, shopkeeper, Chapel street Brooks James, shopkeeper, Church st Sutton George, Butt lane Bentley Solomon, Millstone P.H. Butt la Brooks Thomas, shopkeeper, Church st Trustram Rev. Arthur [curate of St. Beresford John, butcher BurgessHannah(Mrs.),shpkpr. Chrch.st Saviour's], The Hollies Beresford Thomas, farmer, Talke pits llurne Hugh, farmer, Hollins Thomas Rev. Charles Edward B.A. Beresford Fredk. frmr. Harecastle farm Butt Lane Industrial Co-operative So- [ curate], Talke pits Billington Thomas, tailor, Chapel st ciety (Harry Davenport, manager), COMMERCIAL. Bossons Fredk. John, draper, Chapel st Butt lane & Talke pit.B Alcock Thomas, shopkeeper Bossons J ane (Mrs.), shopkpr. Chapel st Cartlidge Alien, grocer, High street, Allchurch John, Swan P.H Bossons John, shopkeeper, New road Talke pits .