494 WAL'~.ALI, WOOf'. STAFFORDSHIHE. (KELL1·'s Rowlinson Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer Teece Ernest, beer retailer Whitby Mrs. dress maker Sadler William, supt. Britannic As- 'rhomas James Henry. news agent Whitehead John Henry, chemist surance Co. Limited *Thompson Eleanor (Mrs.), midwife, Whittaker Thos. shopkpr. Shelfield tSault James, shopkeeper, Clayhangr High Heath Williams J ames, boot & shoe maker Sheldon Thomas, farmer Toms Herbert, farmer, Shelfield Wolverson Prederick M.B., C.M.GlaP. Shepperd Jas. secondhand clothes dlr Turner Charles, shopkeeper surgeon, medical officer & public Smith Job Joel, baker Turner William Henry, beer retailer vaccinator, Aldi:idge diet. Walsal) Snape & Woddhouse, carpenters Walsall & District Co-operative So- union, & police surgeon Snape Prederick J. news agent ciety Limited (H. Donaldson, secj Wood Isaiah, shopkeeper Snape Fredk. Jn. butcher, Shelfield Walsall Wood Colliery Co. Lim.colliery Woodhouse Arthur P. carpenter *Stevens Henry,shopkpr. High Heath proprietors & brick & tile manufac­ Woodhouse William, carpenter, see Stokes George Alfd. butcher, Shelfid turers (H. C. Peake, managing Snape & Woodhouse Stone George, shopkeeper director; F. G. Peake, sec.). T N Woollaston William, grocer tStraddock Jas. carpenter, Clayhangr 19; T A "Bradford, Walsall Wood" *Working Men's Club (John West­ Sutton John, hair dresser, Shelfield Wesley John, Travellers' Rest P.H wood, sec.), High Heath Swan Henry, shopkeeper W.eston George, shopkeeper Worrall Mrs. dress maker, Shelfield Tatton John, gr·ocer While William, picture framer Wright William, greengrocer WALTON, see Eccleshall. WALTON-ON-THE-HILL is a village and chapelry Inge M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. There is a room in the parish of Baswich, on the road to Rugeley, and Ii for meetings &c. jn the village. The charities amount miles west from Milford and Brocton station on the '!'rent to £3 13s. annually. Walton Bury, in grounds of about Valley section of the London and North Western railway, too acres, is the residence of Capt. the Hon. Herbert and 3 south-east from Stafford, in the Western divisiun Tongue Allsopp J.P. The Earl of Lichfield, who is lord of the county, East Cuttlestone hundred, Stafford union, of the manor, and Henry Twigg- esq. of Weeping Cross, petty sessional division and county court district, rural Baswich, are the principal landowners. The soil is deanery and archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese of gravel and sand; subsoil, rock and sandstone, The chief Lichfield. The church of St. Thomas is a cruciform crops are barley, oats and turnips; with l!{)me good structure of brick in the Early English style, consisting pasture land. of chancel, nave, transepts, north porch, and a centra! Sacristan, John Keeling. tower, with a broach spire containing a clock and Olll' bell : the east window is stained, and there is a reredos Post O:ffice.-:M:rs. Katherine Harriet Woods, sub-post­ of carved oak, erected by the Misses Levett, and memo. mistress. Letters through Stafford, arrive at 7·5 rial window, erected by Capt. William Swinnerton Byrd a.m. & 3 p.m.; sunday, 7·5 a,m.; dispatched 10 a.m. Levett J.P. of Milford Hall, to his father, the late Lieut.­ & 8 p.m.; sunday, u a.m. The nearest money order Col. Richard Byrd Levett: there are 350 sittings. The & telegraph office is at Milford, I mile distant register is included in that of Baswich, Berkswich, which Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), erected in dates from the year x6or. The living is a curacy, 1837-8 & enlarged in 1894, & again in 1907, for 196 annexed to Baswich, joint net yearly value £183, children; average attendance, 1.45; William Longson, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lich­ n1aster field. and held since 1884 by the Rev. Francis George PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Inge Rev. Francis Geo. M.A.Vicarage Fletrher Thomas, blacksmith · Allsopp Capt. Hon. Herbert Tongue Longson William Holland George, farmer J.P. Walton Bury; & Naval & Mili­ Morgan William, Walton lodge Keeling John, carrier tary club, London S W Robson Edmund Price Evan, shoe maker & cowkeeper Burton J oseph Smith Salt Lady Robson Edmund, land agent to Capt. Dick Thomas Gee, Walton Mead Stokes Mrs I W. S. B. Levett JP., D.L: & others D'ombrain Rev. Oyril Wilberforce (member of the Land Agents' So­ M . .A. (curate), The Oaks COMMERCIAL. I ciety) Ha1·vie Edward Burton Joseph Smith, farmer Woods Samuel, painter & plumber WARSLOW is a civil parish and village, forming a dence of Sir Vauncey Harpur-Crewe bart. D.L., J.P. joint township with Elkstone, 1 mile from Ecton station who is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. on the North Staffordshire line, 8 miles north-east from The soil is loam; subsoil, limestone. The land is chiefly Leek, and 4 south from Longnor, in the Leek division in pasture. The area of Warslow and Elkstone is 3,597 of the county, Leek union, petty sessional division and acres, inclusive of 7 of water; rateable value, £3,227; county court district, hundred of North Totmonslow, the population of the civil parish in 19II was 464 and Alstonfield rural deanery, Stoke-on-Trent archdeaconry of. the ecclesiastical parish, 540. · and Lichfield diocese. The rivers Manifold and Dove Post & Telegraph Office. Samuel Belfield, sub-post­ flow near it. The church of St. Lawrence, rebuilt in master. Letters arrive from Buxton at 9 a.m. ; dis­ 182o, at a cost of about £720, is a plain edifice of patGhed at 5 p.m.; there is no sunday delivery of stone, consisting of a nave, a chancel, built in 1908, letters. Hartington is the nearest money order office and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, con­ taining a clock and 3 bells: there are 2oo sittings. The Public Elementary School, built by Sir Henry Harpur, register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 7th hart. ; enlarged in 1836 by Sir George Harpur­ 1785, and of marriages from 1869. The living is a Orew~, 8th hart. & subsequently again enlarged by vicarage, with Elkstone annexed, joint net yearly value Sir John Harpur-Crewe, 9th hart. for 110 children; £ x95, in the gift of the vicar of .Alstonfield, and held average attendance, 86; the endowment of 9 ae:res of sinca 1908 by the Rev. William Alfred Rowland Hill land now produces £19 I os. yearly, which is 'Used w M.A. of Durham University, and rural dean of A.lston­ provide exhibitions & prizes; Tom G. Graham .A.C.P., field. There are W esleyan and Primitive Methodist F.R.H.S. master; Miss Jones & Miss Bonsall, mis­ chapels, both built in 1848. There is a charity, pro­ tresses ducing 2os. yearly, for poor widows. Warslow Hall, Carrier.-William Belfield, to Leek, wed. to Bu;xt<~n, sat a short distance from the village, is the occasional resi- • PRIVA'IE RESIDENTS. ICritchlow George, farmer Salt George, farmer, Heath house Crewe Sir Vauncey Harpur hart. D.L., Fowler Ellen (Mrs.), farmer Shenton Frank, farmer, Hayes gate J.P. Warslow hall 1 Go:nld Richard, faxmer, Steps Shenton Jeremiah, farmer Hill Rev. William Alfred Rowland Grmdon Rchd. Gould, frmr. Brown hll Sutton William, farmer' M.A. (vicar & rural dean), Vicarage Grindon Thos. Wm. (Mrs.), farmer Wain A.lbert (Mrs. , farmer Morley Rev Samuel Landcroft Hall Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeepe;r Wain Alfred (Mrs. , farmer, Brown- Orpe Joseph ' Hodgkinson James, cowkeeper low farm Hope Sa:rnpson, farmer Wain (George) & Sutton(John),frmn COMMERCIAL. Kidd Thomas, farmer Wain Robert, cowkeeper , Bagnall Samuel, farmer Massey Francis, Greyhound P.H Ward Thomas J. farmer " overseer,. Belfield Samuel, ahoe maker & grocer, Phillips Geo. Hope, Temperance hotel Moor side Post office j Phillips John, faxmer Went Ja.mes, mason, & clerk to the Belfield William, canier Reading Room (Wm. Birch, hon. aec) Warslow & Elkstone Council schls Birch J oseph, farmer IRiley Edwjn, blacksmitn Wood Samuel, wheelwright Birch Thomas, farmer Robinson Thomas, farmer t Yates Mary Ann (Miss), cowkeeper .