lJJ f6Sidue. after certain distributions, ~ given chiefJy in <;loth­ PosT OFFICE, ,C()9lihill.r.James Woqd, .receiver. ~tt~lJ ing &c. on St. Thomas' day. · The yea.'rly· interest of the through. Redditch vii\ ~lcester. arrive ,at 8.55, a.m~1 following is also distributed on St. Thomas' day, vi1;. :­ dispatched at Ji•IO p.m. .Astwood Bank is the nearest £too, bequeathed by the late M.r. pamel George; £roo,the money.order. & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued gift of Mr. Robert ;Hunt sen. ; £so, the gift of Mr. Richard ' here, but no~ paid , .Adcock, sen. ; £so, the gift of Mr. Richard Adcock, jun. ; there is an annual distribution of six gowns, through a wALL LETTER lJOXES :- . bequest of Mr. Hobbins, of Great .Alne, besides Vaughan's, Edgiock, cleared 6.30 p.m. week days o.nly Mansell's and Phillips' doles of £teach. Morton Hall, the Holboro Green, cleared ~-15 p.m. week days only I I 1>1 • J. P. ~ residence of, William Henry Sneyd-Kynnersley esct. SCHOOLS :---. about 2 miles north-east from Inkberrow. The Marquess of A School Board of 7 members was formed March 9, 1874, Abergavenny K.G. who is lord of the mano1.1 ; Miss Phillips, for the united district of Inkberrow & Stock & Bradle,· ; of Ardencote, .Claverdon, Warwick; University College, George Timson, Astwood Bank, clerk to the board: WiJ .. Oxford, and the trustees of the late •r. P. Chattock esq. are liam Eardley, Bradley Green, attendance officer · the principal landowners. Here are stone quarries. The Board, Inkberrow, originally the National school & enlarg, d soil IS sand, clay and marl; subsoil, rock and bard marl. by the School Board in 1877, for. :r6o children; average The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The attendance, 85; William Cottam, master • area is 645 acres; rateable value, £8,254; the population Board, Cookhill, built in 1876,at a cost of £x,4oo, & en..: in 1891 was 1,628. larged in 1891, at a cost of about £r25, for r_s6 children; Parish Clerk, Thomas Careless. average attendance, u8; Alfred James Shergold, master PosT & M: 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ . John Preece, sub·postmaster. Letters are received CARRIERS :- ' ' I . through Redditch at 7.50 a.ni. ; dispatched at 6 p.m. Edwin Kennett, to Redditch, wed. &-sat . The nearest telegraph offices. are at Astwood Bank & William Marshall, to Worcester, wed. & sat.: to f;vesham, Feckenham · mon. ; to Alcester, tues , . "'; Inkberrow. Edkins Henry, .coal dealer, Ridge.way PhillipsJohn,NevilleArmsP.H.Ridg~way [All nal!lesmarked with • letters should 'be Ellison Richard, hurdle maker Phillips John, shopkeeper & farmer . 1 ,adch:essed Alcester.) *Ford George, farmer, Cladswell PreeceJohn, tailor,grocer,&co-operativ& Bra~brook William, The White house. Ford Henry, Old Bull inn stores, Post office Fisher Joseph, Little Bouts Fortnam John. farmer Preece John, jun. tailor Ganderton Thomas Henry, farmer, Reynolds Charles B. saddler & farmer Fowdrey George I Fowler Rev. Harcourt BA, [curate] Morton Underhill RichardsHenry,brick makr,Edge Oak~ Harvey Miss Gilbert Richard, farmer, Edge Oak lane Richards Joseph, farmer, Ganner far~ *Hunt Solomon, Ridgeway Green James, farmer, Thorn Richardson George, George P.H LeekeRev. ThomasNewton:r.r.A. Vicarage GreyMaria(Mrs.),BuU'sHeadP.H.&frmr *Roberts Robert A. farmer, Knighton NelmesRev. Thomas[ Baptist ),1 vy house HallLucy(Mrs.),shopkeeper,Stock wood Ross John, shoe maker Smith Samuel Peto, Brackenhurst Barris Edwin; farmer Rowney Alfred, farmer,Holborough grn Sneyd·Kynner!jley William Henry J.P. liarrisJane~lizh: (Mrs.), farmr,Noberry Savage AlbertEdward, baker,Stockwood­ ·• · Morton hall HaynesEmma(Miss),farmr.Perry fields Savage Thomas, beer retailer Haynes John George, farmer · Shillam William; farmer ' . COMMERCIAY.. Haynes Thomas, grocer &c. see Laight *Smith Benjamin J. farmerj Linsey Adcock II&rry, farmer, Thorn & Haynes . *Smith Charles, fa.rmer, Knowle field r Andertoq 4nn (Mrs. ),beer retailer,Hol,. Herbert George, tailor, New end SmithRobertWalton,frmr. Lit.Knightol\ borou~ll green · · ' Hill James, l;>aker, Ridgeway , Tipping Charles, farlJler, Dog-butts r BarleyRtchard,farmer,Little lnkberrow Howsen John~ farmer, Little Bouts .' Tipping Hy.Francis,frmr.Hookey's fr~ BennettJn.wheelwrght.Holborough grn *Hunt Enoch, dairy farmer,. Ridgeway Tipping John,farmer,Stone House farm Bradbrook William, surgeon, & medical Hunt James, (armer, Edge oak , Wright Ellen (Mrs.), farmer. officer& public vaccinator Inkberrow Hunt 'Bobert, farmer, Holborough green Cookhill district, Alcester union,The White ho Hunt William, miller (water) & farmer; · Broome John & Henry, thrashing Beanhall mill COMMERCIAL. machine owners, Edge oak James Edmund, farmer; Field house Beech Charles, cowkeeper BroomeRichard,farmer,Edge Oak court JamesThos.assistnt.overseer, TheMount j Brierley Joseph, farmer Burford John, baker Johnson :Mark, farmer -· Chamberlain Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper Burford John, farmer, Knighton Kennett Edwin, farmer & carrier, & coal dealer Careless Richard, farmer, Priory piece Knowle fields Chamberlain Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Careless Samuel, farmer, Bouts farm Key John, farm bailiff to William H. Greenhill George, farmer CarelessThos.bldr.whlwght.&blcksmth Sneyd-Kynnersley esq. J.P Hunt William, farmer Clarke W.illiam, farmer, Park house Laight & Haynes~ grocers &c . r KnightWilli$m,farmer,MaltHouse farm :Oavis Abel,, stone mason *Lawton James, farmer,.Knowle field Lowe Thomas, farmer, Cookhill priory Davis Frederick, blacksmith Loxley Charles, butcher & farmer Ricbardson Charles, beer retailer ~DavisThos.f.rmr.Dragonfrm.Edge oak *MerrellSarah(Mrs.),farmer,Knighton Richardson William, shoe maker Deaken Alfred, shoe maker MooreJoseph,farmer&lndwnr.Cladswell Shelton William, cowkeeper DeakenCharles,blacksmith,Stock wood Parker Maria Rebecca (Mrs.),dress m~ Waldron Joseph, market gardener Dolphin William,baker,Holborough grn PerksHerbertHenry,farmer,Bro~ clo111e Watts Charles, baker . ' KEMPSEY is a large parish ll.nd village, 3 miles north- yard is a lych gate of oak; presented by Lieut.-Gen, Cot­ west from Wadborough station on the Worcester and Glou- ville: in an arched niche in the chancel lies the recumbent. cester section of the Midland railway, and 2! miles south- armed effigy of Sir Edmund Wylde, of Kempsey, knight, west from Norton Junction station, on the Oxford and ob. 162o, with figures of his children, ~ quartered shield of Worcester line of the Great Western railway and 4 south arms, his sword and helmet, and inscriptions in Latin and; frorjl 'Worcester, in the Western diviSion of the county, English; from the top of this tomb issues a small horse­ hundred of -Lower Oswaldslow, Worcester petty sessional chestnut tree, which has been growing for some years, and division and county court district, Upton-on-Severn union, is still in a flourishing condition; its sil}.gular_po$ition inside­ eastern division of the rural deanery of Worcester and arch- the church makes it an object of much interest: there ar~ dea~onrya:nd diocese of Worcester. The village.isple~l\n.tly 637 sittings. · The register of baptisms and burials dates seated on the road from Worcester to Tewkesbury, and on. from the year 1688; marriages, 1690. The living is a. the east bank of the river Severn, overlooking a rich valley, vicarage, average tithe rent.charge £179, net yearly valueo surrom1ded by delightful I!Cenery. The church of St. £2201 including II acres of glebe, with residence, in the Mary, constituted by Bishop Giffard in September, 1288, a gift of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, and held since prebend in the college of Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucester- 1892 by the Rev. Frederic William Quilter D.D. of Lincoln. shire, is a plain cruciform building of stone in the Early College, Oxford. There is a mission church at Kerswell English style, built within the area of a Roman camp, and Green with 72 sittings and a Baptist chapel ht>re. The< consists of a deep chancel, nave, north and south transepts, charities for the benefit of the poor amount to £5o yearly. aisles, vestry, north porch and a large embattled western Near the church are traces of a Roman camp; urns, cups: tower with pinnacles and containing 6 bells: the chancel and coins have been found on the spot and a stone tablet in­ has a remarkably fine Early English east window, consisting scribed to Constantine the Great (A.D. so6-37). A monas­ of five tall unequal lancets under a single arch and has triple tery was founded here about 799, and flourished at that sedilla and a piscina and five stained windows, 11-nd there is time under an abbot named Balthune, but within less tha~ also a piscina in each transept: the church was repaired in so years it was united to the church of WQrcester, th& l799, and thoroughly restored in 1865, at a cost of £4,ooo, bishops of which see had a country .seat at Kempsey, where tmdel' the direction of Mr. Ewan Chri&tian, arJhitect to the Henry II. attended by the principal nobility and bishops of E~esi~tical CommissiQners ; at the entra~ce t:1 the ch,urch- the kingdo~, once held h~ court, and deliv,ered a charter ' .