358 HAZF.L GROVE-CCM-BRAMHALL. CHESHIRE. [KELLY'S Police Constables, James Robinson, Bramhall lane & manor ; the principal landowners are John Henry Brad­ William Lloyd, Moss lane shaw-Isherwood esq. J.P. of Marple Hall, and Mra. Bramhall Grammar School, Bramhall lane, erectea in Sarah Morton. The soil is mostly clay, with a portion -of sand; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats zgo6, for zoo boys; Henry William Haylett B . .A. pr~nc and potatoes. Public Elementary School, Bramhall lane, ereeted in 1876 & enlarged in 1896; average attendance (mixed), Letter Boxes.-Offerton lane, cleared at 8 & 11.45 a.m. 141; John H. Leech, head master & 4.15 & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 8 a.m.; Wright's Arms. cleared at 9 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, 9 a.m Ba;ilway Station (L. & N. W. R.), Bramhall, Alfred Const:lbulary, Offerton lane, Harry Whittaker, constable Starkie, station master in charge NORBURY, one of the five parishes now forming the Church School, built in 1877, for 117 children; a-rerage new parish of Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall, constituted attendance, 53; Miss .Annie Tootal, mistress in 1900, is an ecclesiastical parish on the road from Macclesfield to Stockport, formed Jan. ro, 1843, from TORKINGTON is a hamlet forming part of the parish the ecclesiastical parishes of Cheadle and St. Mary, of Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall, and is in the union and Stockport, in the rural deanery of Stockport, archdea­ county court district of Stockport, from which it is 3 conry of Macclesfield and diocese of Chester, and is 3 miles south-east, and half a mile south from Hazel miles south-east from Stockport, 9 north-east from Grove railway station on the London and North Western Macclesfield and half a mile from Hazel Grove station railway; the hamlet is ecclesiastically connected with on the Midland railway. High Lane station, on the St. Thomas's, High Lane, and St. Thomas's, Noxbury. Great Central and North Stafford Railway (Macclesfield Robert Shepley Shepley esq. J.P. who is lord of the to Rose Hill), is in this parish. The ecclesiastical parish manor, John Henry Bradshaw-Isherwood esq. J.P. of of Norbury includes the village of Hazel Grove. The Marple Hall, and ,Sir John Emmott Barlow hart. J.P., church of St. Thomas, built in 1834, is a plain edifice M.P. are the principal landowners. The soil is sand and of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of sanctuary, gravel; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, naTe, aisles. and an embattled western tower with potatoes and turnips. pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells, rehung in Wall Letter Box, Torkington road, cleared at 11.30 a.m. 1899: the east window is stained: the interior of the & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, 8.30 a.m church was renovated in 1912 ; the work includes new oak seats, a new floor of oak blocks in the aisle and a HAZEL GROVE & BR.AMH.ALL URBAN DISTRICT new pulpit and prayer desk : the church affords Boo COUl\CIL. aittings, of which 400 in the galleries are free. The The registers date from about the year 183o. The living is Council meets at the Offices, 251 London road, on a Ticarage, net yearly value about £197, derived from the xst tuesday in each month, at 7·30 p.m. • pew rents, fees &c. with about 20 acres of glebe and Members. residence, in the gift of Lord Newton, and held since Chairman, John Alfred Ha.llam J.P. 1885 by the Rev. George Newman Wilmer M.A. of ' Balliol College, Oxford. Lord Newton, of Lyme Park, Vice-Chairman, William Garner. Disley, Stockport, is lord of the manor and sole land­ Retire April, 1915. owner. The soil is clayey and sandy; subsoil, gravel John Adshead Enoch Hadfield and clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and potatoes. John Bennett Frank Hewitt The population of the ecclesiastical parish in I9II was John Hamlet Cottam • 6,098. Retire April, 1916. Sexton, George Sellars. John Cheetham James H. Parker · Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Office, 285 London road, Nor­ William Garner Cyrus Webb Lury.-Miss ~ora Bradley, sub-postmistress. Letters Joseph Holland through Stockport, via Hazel Grove. Letter box Retire April, 1917. cleared at 8.3P & 11.45 a.m. & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, John Alfred Hallan'l Alfred Charles Wiseman II. 15 a. m Chades William Ireland Thomas Wood 1Vall Letter Box, Norbury moor, cleared at 11.30 a.m. & Jam es El wood Ramsda.le 7.15 p.m. & in Commercial road, cleared at 11.45 a.m. & 7 p.m. ; sundays, u.3o a.m Officials. Pn blic Elem!:lntary School (mixed & ' infants), built in Clerk, Frederick Pidgeon, Council offices, Hazel Grove · 1835, & since twice enlarged, for about 400 children; Treasurer, Joseph P. Hartley, Manchester & Liverpool average attendance, mixed 155, infants 67 ; Ernest District Banking Co. Ltd. Hazel Grove & Stockport Firth, bead master; Miss Sarah Fidler, infants' mist -'fpdical Officer of Health, Thomas Moore, jun. L.R.C.P. OFFERTON is a small village forming part of the & S.Edin. 24 Queen's road, Hazel Grove Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, G. Severn Doncaster, parish of Hazel Grove-cum-Bramhall, and is on the road 251 London road, Hazel Grove l:rom Stockport to Hayfield, Derbyshire, 1! miles west hom Rose Hill station, Marple, on the North Stafford­ Collector, James Bardsley, 251 London rd. Hazel Grove ahire railway and 2 miles south-east from Stockport. CHESHIRE LOCAL PEXSION COMMITTEE. There is a mission room here, built in 1877• and used also as a school, in connection with St. Mary's church, Hazel Grove & District Sub-Committee. Stockport. Here also is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, Clerk, Philip H. Lang, m, Warren street, Stockport built in 1887. The Stockport Industrial School is Pension Officers at Stockport, Hyde, Mossley, Staly­ located here. Mrs. Wright, of ::\iottram Hall, owns the bridge & Cheadle HAZEL GROVE. Olemmey Edward, 22 Queen's road Jenltins Rev. Gwilvm Moses B.A., PRIVATE RESIDENTS. J Orookes Frank, Lyndhurst, Wesley st I F.T.S. (Congregational), The M«nse, Adshead Charles, Fernlea, Wesley st Crookes Wm.May:field,Bosden Fold rd ~orbury ~ioor 1 Adshead John, Ingleside, Queen's rd 1 Daniel B;enry Edwin, Deuton villa, Kerr · George Vincent, Craigmillar~ .A.rnfield Benj. Roseneath, Queen's rd i Norhury Moor I Norbury Moor .A.rthur Jas. Corry h"nn,Davenport rd i Day Charles, Bramhall house, Bram- f Kettleborough Rev. George William l:Jagshawe Ernest J.P.Poise ho.Bosden 1 hall Moor lane 1 (Wesleyan Methodist), Fairholmep :Barber Percy RHazlewood,Queen's xd 1Dutton Arthur J. Commercial road I Queen's road Jlardesley James, 39 Davenport road ,1 Fairbrother Joseph, Wight house,: Logan Thomas Graham, Green lane :Bennett Frank, Glynn isa, Daven-1 Bosden Fold road Loro Samuel C. 33 Davenpoxt road port road I Fletcher Robert Jopling, 52 Daven-: McMichael Donald, Withernsea. Blakeway Richard, Daisybank,Bosden 1 port road ! Queen's road Fold road Gabbott Hem·~·, 20 Queen's road i Moore Thomas, 253 London road Bramhall George Thomas, Kia-ora,, Hallam John Alfred, The Dingle,Nor- 1 Moore Thomas, jun. 24 Queen's road Bosden Fold road . ! bury Moor . i Morton Mrs. 27 Davenport road Briceson Henry Jesson, Lyme new, i Hampson James l\II. Langdale, Nor- I Moseley Charles Oliver, Lawn vill~ Norburv Moor bury ).foor London road Brig-gs "\Valdo Emerson, 37 Daven- 1 Hardie Alex. Aberavon, Queen's road Murgatroyd Arthur J. Oak lea, Nor- port road ! Horler Frank,345 London rd.Norbury bury Moor Bxocklehurst Frederick, Low field, I Howe Ernest M.B., Ch.B. Daven- Osborne John, 8 Bosden Fold road High lane, X m· bury port road Pailin _hth. Rossmoyne, Douglas rd Brown Henry Howarth, Blairgowrie, Ireland Chas. William, Brook house, Pailin James, Glengarry, Queen'• rd Douglas xoad Bosden Fold road Parker James Henry, Anniefield, Nor- Clayton Ralph, A~thdene, ~orbury :Mr Jackson James, 3S Davenport road I bury :Moor .