xlvi "~ILMSLO"", [SLATER'S 1St Cadet Battalion, D Company; Capt. William Frederick 11. force of 150 horse power, but the wheel was taken out in McCann 1904 and replaced by turbines; this mill has been in continuous work for over a century under four genera~ CHESHIRE EDUCATIO~ COMMITTEE. tions of the same family. The soil is of a heavy clayey nature. The raumble value is £6,943 Ss. The population Knutsford &; Wilmslow Administrative Sub-Committee. in 1901 was 1,153. Area, 1,379 acres. Chairman-Eo G. Leycester J.P., C.c POST &; M. o. OFFICE.-Tom Taylor, Sub-Pold Master. Deputy Chairman-R. C. Longridge Letters delivered from Handforth arrive at 7a.m. & 4.15 p.m. &; dispatched at 9.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. The telegraph REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS. office is at Handforth T. Crewdson J.P., C.C Lt.-Col. Legh J.P., C.C Miss E. M. Greg J. P. Cex J.P PUBLIC ELE~IENTARYSCHOOLS. T. W. Hadfield Cap~. A. Greg J.P J. Whiteside Rev. W. H. Turner B.A (Under the control of the Knutsford & Wilmslow Education Edmund Rowell T. Fennel M.R.C.S Sub-Committee. ) Rev. W. Greswell British (mixed), for 150 children-; average attendance, Bracegirdle,~master; CO-OPTED MBMBERS. 80; Philip Miss E. Taylor, infants' mistress J. P. Pattinson Philip Swanwick British (mixed), Morley Green, built in 1868, for 120 A. L. Goodson J.P William W. Keyworth children; average attendance, 57; Miss Isab!llla Ashbrook, Miss Cicely Crewdson G. H. Smith M.B mistress Mrs. W. O. Pooley R. C. Longridge H. Knott J.P RAILWAY SrATIO:'i. I James Hanthorne, station master Clerk-George Leigh, barrister-at-law Union offices, Knutsford. ALDERLEY is an ecclesiastical pari~h, consisting of two townships, Nether Alderley & Great Warford, I! miles PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. from Alderley Edge station on the Manchester and Crewe (Under the control of the Committee.) section of the London and North Western railway, 9 miles Chancel lane National (mixed & infants), erected in 1868, from Congleton, 6 west-by-north-west from Macclesfield and near the pari~h church, at a cost of about £3,500, for :l30 7 from Knutsford; the station is 174~ miles from London, mixed children & 170 infants; average attendance, mixed, 8 from Stockport and 14~ from Manchester; it is in the o 145, infants, 51 ; Egerton Entwistle, master. Knutsford division of the county, Macclesfield hundred. llllion and county court district, petty sessional division of ~ursery lane National, opened 8th Dec. 1890, & managed Prestbury, rural deanery and archdeaconrr of Macclesfield by a committee of 4 persons, the rector being an ex-ofJiCtO and diocese of Chester. The parish church of St. Mary, at member, for 207 children; average attendance, 188; Nether Alderley, is a building of grey stone in the Decorated John A. R. Bancroft, master Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles Row of Trees, Lindow common (mixed), for 175; average and a tower containing 6 bells: arcades of four arche~ attendance, 146; Herbert A. Jones, master on octagonal columns divide the nave and aisles: the Council School, Wycliffe avenue, Wilmslow, opened Aug. ancient font, a work of the Decorated period and for many 2nd, 1910, at a cost of about £12,000, for 700 childr~n (3 years buried in tbe chancel, is now preserved in the church~ departments, senior, junior & infants, wiLh honsewIfery yard and there is algo a modern font: some masons' marks & handicraft centres for about 100 children) ; R. Tommis, are incised on th" tower: there is a. memorial window, in~ head master (seniors); F. E. R. Peers, head ma8ter serted by the parishioners in 1856, to Juhn Thomas, 1St (juniors) ; Mrs. J. E. Singleton, head mistre~s (infants) ; Baron Stanley of Alderley, d. 23 Oct. 1850, to whom Miss Hull (housewifery) ; Mr. Sanders (handicraft) there is also a monument of Caen stone, by Westmacott; there is another monument to Edward John, Baron Stanley CJuncil School (mixed), Dean row, erected in 1860 by the p.c: d. 16 June, 1869; a tablet to the Right Rev. late Samuel Robinson esq. of Wilmslow, with mistress's Edward Stanley D.D. rector of this parish 18°5-37, and residence attached, for 101 children; transferred to Bishop of Norwich 1837-49, d. 6 Sept. 1849, and to his Cheshire County Council 1908; average attendance, 57 ; son, the Very Rev. Arthui' Penrhyn Stanley D.D. late Dean Mrs. Sarah Alice Schofield, mistress of Westminster: the chancel was rebuilt in 1855 and in 1877-8 the church was thoroughly restored under the care of RAILWAY STATION. Messrs. Paleyand Austin, architects, of Lancaster, the total 1'hom3.s H. Potter, station master cost amounting to over £2,000: there are 250 sittings. The register datel! from tbe year 1629. The living is a rec­ CARRIERS. tory, net yearly value £420, with residence, in the gift of Lord Sheffield, and held since 1907 by the Rev. George To STOCKPOR1'-Amos Smith, wednesday & friday William Hudson Shaw M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. To MANCHESTER-Joseph Stafford, tues. thurs. & sat There are charities of about £u 129. yearly value foT' distribution in money. Alderley Park is the seat of Lord Sheffield; the park, covering an area of 300 /lcres, STYAL is a scattered township in the parish of Wilmslow, is noted for its remarkable beech wood, -and contain!:, a consisting principally of farmhouses, with ~ station on the sheet uf ornamental water; the mansion, of stone and red London and North Western railway, I! miles west from brIck covered with ivy, was originally erected about 1790 ; the station at Handforth on the London and North Western above the park is a high ridge of ground called" Alderlev railway: it was formed into a township in 1895. The chapel Edge," affording fine views of the country. Lord Sheffield, of ease here, in Hollin lane, W<lS erected in 1835-6 on a site who is lord of the manor, Lieut.-Col. George Dixon J.P. given by George Harry, Earl of Stamford and Wamn!Ston, of Astle Hall, Chelford, and Lt.-Col. William Bromley­ and is an p.difice of brick, consisting of nave. south porch and Davenport D.S.O., J.P. of Capesthorne Hall, Chelford, are a turret on the south side containing one bell: there are about the landowners. The soil is loamy and the subsoil is marI; 80 sittings. The Unitarian chapel, standing in grounds be­ the land i:, chiefly pasture. The area of the entire parish is longing to E. H. Gregesq. J.P. was originally erected in 1824 6,369 acres: population in 1891 was 1,323; area of Nether as a Haptist chapel, butre-opened by the late R. H. Greg esq. Alderley, 2,775 acres; rateable value, £7,428; popula.tion, M.P. (d.1875) as at present, and was vested in trustees in 522. March, 1879 : it has a small endowment, and the pastorate is held ~onjointly with that of the chapel at Dean Row. There Soss Moss, SA~DLE HHATH and MOXKSHEATH are places is also a Wesleyan chapel. Cottage Homes for 430 children here have been erected here by the Chorlton Board of Guardians. POST & T. OFFICE, Alderley, Chelford.-Miss Margaret Norcliffe Hall, the property of Ernest William Greg esq. J. P. Bainbridge. Sub-Po.,t Mistres5. Letters through Crewe jg 1\ mansion in the Elizabethan style, built about 1840 by the late Robert Hyde Greg esq. some time M.P. for Man­ arrive at 6 a.m. &, 2.10 p.m. & dispatched at ,10.55 a.m. chester: it is beautifully situated in exten~ive grounds, & 7. ID p. m.; on sunday arrive at 6.20 a.m. & dispatched surrounded by picturesque woods and ravines. Quarry at 7. ID p. m. The nearest money order office is at Chelford. Postal orders are issued here & paId. Letters forAlderley }{ank cotton mill, situated on the river Bollin, is one of the earliest mills of this kind in the country, having been &; Alderley Ovet should be addressed Alderley, Crewe. • started in 1784 by' the late Mr. S. Greg, and for half a WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5 p.m. ; sunday, 9 a.m century it was worked by water power only, the great iron -WPE161 being 30 feet in diameter, with float boards 26 Assistaid Ocer.!ll'fJr '.f Collector ofRates-Hugh Dale, Nether feet in length, and representing, with a full fall of water, Alderley.