254 SOWE. \VARWICKSHIRE. [KELLY'B Lenton's Lane (junim mixed), erected in 1861, for So children ; average attendance, 323 ; William Best,. children; average attendance, 73 ; Miss Emily Burge, master ; Miss S. Goode, mistress mistress Railway Station, Hawkesbury Lane, W. H. Borne, Wyken Colliery (mixed &; infants), erected, with resi­ station master dences for the master & mistress, in 187I, for 400 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. IBurgess Robert, farmer 1 Nelson Jacob, Boat P.H Gilfillan Robert Cemetery (Thomas Birch, clerk to" Nicholls Thos. farmer, Lenton's Lane Taylor Rev. Frank A.K.C.L. (vicar), the Parish Council) Orton William H. butcher Vicarage Clarke Jane Ellen (Mrs.), Red Horse Petrie James, farmer Verrall Miss, Walsgrave P.H 1 Pugh Joseph, Craven Arms P.H Wakefield William, The Hall Colledge Frank, farmer Richardson David, draper Eborall William, carpenter Smith Alice (Mrs.), shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Grant Samuel, beer retailer, PO'st Smith Arthur, market gardener Atkins Jas. Shoulder of Mutton P.H office, Hawk~sbury Lane Smith Harriett (Mrs.), beer retailer Aviss & Roy, builders Hill William, Spotted Dog P.H Smith Harry, butcher Bates Oaroline (Mrs.), Mount Plea- Horton Fdk. shoe ma. Tusses' bridge Smith Jas. farmer, Hawkesbury Lane sant P.H. & farmer Ismay George, farmer Thomas Franklin William, baker Bennett William, Horse & Jockey inn Ismay Margaret (Mrs.), farmer, The Topp Samuel Randle, ·shopkeeper, Bicknell John, shopkeeper Elms farm Hawkesbury Lane Birch 'I!homas, assistant overseer & Jackson Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Warwick Samuel, Old Crown inn registrar of births & deaths for Lamont James, farmer White Emma (Mrs.), farmer,Hawkes- Sowe sub-district, Foleshill union Liggins Abel, shopkpr. Sowe common bury Lane & clerk to the Pari·sh Council, Marston George, Jolly Collier P.H. Whiteman Charles, blacksmith Lenton's Lane Sowe waste Wyken Colliery Co. colliery proprie- Boff Joseph, shopkeeper Neal James, farmer tors (G. B. Brown, manager) SPERN ALL, in Domesday "Spernore," is a parish The register dates from March 25th, 1562. The living 3! miles north from Alcester and 2 north-east from is a rectory, net yearly value £137, with :residence, in (Joughton station Qn the Redditch .and Evesham branch the gift of the Lord OhancellQr, and held since 1897 by of the Midland railway, pleasantly seated on the banks the Rev. Samuel Peshall M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Ox­ of the river Arrow, in the South-Western division of ford, who is also rector of Oldberrow. The Rev. John the county, Alcester division of :Barlichway hundred, Chambers left by will, dated May 3rd, 1832, £so, to petty sessional division, union and county court district be applied to the education of poor children; John of Alcester, Alcester rural deanery, Warwick archdea- Saunders, in 1709, left £w, the interest to be given conry and Worcester diocese. The village consists only yoarly to the poor; the Rev. Thomas Allen, formerly of a few straggling houses. The church of St. Leonard, rector here, left by will, in 1727, a yearly rent charge originally a chapel to Ooughton, and partly rebuilt in of 1os. on his real estate at Great Alne; .Ann :Batt, in 1844, is a small building of stone, consisting of chancel, 18o6, left £2o, the interest yearly to be given to the re-erected in a modern form of the Norman style, nave, poor of the parish. Sir Nicholas William George south porch used as a vestry, and a western turret of Thrc,ekmorton bart. of Coughton Court, is lord of the Decorated character containing one bell: one of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is marl; windows on the north side contains a few fragments of subsoil, marl. The chief crops are wheat, beans and ancient stained glass : at the north-east angle of the turnips. The area is 1,106 acres of land and 4 of water; nave is a small stone pulpit, and a lectern of oak: the rateable value, £971; the pop.:dation in 1901 was 74· font consists of a cup-like basin Qn a shaft: the chancel Upper Spernall is r mile east. is small, being only 13 feet by ro feet 4 inches: in the Letters through Studley, Warwickshire, arrive at 7 a.m. east wall is a circular wheel window in six compart- Studley, about ~~ miles distant, is the nearest money ments : there are several monuments in the chancel to order & telegraph office members of the Ohambers family of Studley, patrons of The children of this place attend the schools at Studley the living (1802-47): the church affords 116 sittings. &; Coughton Peshall Rev. Samuel M.A. (rector), Head William, game~eeper to Sir N.) Stevens John, farmer, Upper Spernall Rectory W. G. Throckmorton bart Williams William James, farmer. Elvins John, Middle Spernall farm Skinner William Henry, farmer Lower Spernall farm STIVICHALL, or Styvechale (at an earlier period per90ns. ':Dhe registter dates from t'he year 1648. The variously written " Stivinghale " and " Stichall," but l·iving is a vicarage, net yearly value £75, in~luding 35' more generally spelt and pronounced Stivichall) is acres of glebe, in the gift of the Hon. Alexander F. a small village and parish, near the direct road from Gregory, and held since 1899 by the Rev. Llewellyn Coventry to Leamington, from which it is 9 miles north­ Wood M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, canon of St. east, 4 north-east from Kenilworth and 1 mile south Michael's Collegiate Church, Coventry, rural dean of from. Coventry, in the North-Eastern division of the Baginton, and vicar of St. Mark's, Coventry, where he county, Kirby division of Knightlow hundred, Coventry resides. In 1552 Elizabeth Swillington, of Stichall, gave petty sessional division and county court district, £4o to purchase lands, the rent of which should be Warwick union, rural deanery of :Baginton, archdeaconry applied to the repair of the highway leading from of Coventry and diocese of Worcester. The London and Stichall to Coventry. Styvechale Hall, a handsome stone North Wesltern railway from Coventry to Leamington mansion, built about 1750, stands in the middle of a p!llsses the village. The churoh of St. James, originally park, and is the seat of the Hon. Alexander FredericB: a member of St. Michael in Coventtry, and appropriated Gregory J.P. who is lord of the manor and sole land· to .the monks of t'hat pTiory in 1260, was pulled down o-wner. The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, marl and red in the year 1810, and a new church erected at the ~ole sandstone. The land is chiefly in pasture. The area is expense of the late Francis Gregory esq. of Styvechale 815 acres of land and 3 of water; rateablevalue,£I,959i Hall, the Tebuilding being accomplished by James the population in rgoi was 84. Green, a 8tone mason from Coventry, assisted by one Pari.slh Clerk, Edward Goode. la.bnurer only; this dhuroh, o.pened for public worship in 1~17, i3 an edifice of stone, .consi!!ting of chancel, Letters .received tlhrough Coventry, which is the nearest nave, and a wes'te'l'n tow&r containing one bell: the money orde.t & telegraph office. Pillar Box cleared at Norman font, formerly in 'tJhe old church, has been 8 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; sunday, 8.25 a.m re-eTected lin the new, and there a-re sittings for 70 The child-ren of this place attend :the s~hool at Ea-rlsdon Greg-ory Hon. Alexander Frederick Fielding George Willia.m, police sergt Spann Hugh, estate foTeman to Hon. J.P. Styveohale hall Hodg-es Wm. farmer,Howe's Lane fm Alexander Frederick Gregory J.P Ashwell Edward, head gardener to Rollick Reginald Richard, farmer, Sparrow William Albert, blacksmith Hon. Alexander Frederick Gregory Manor House farm J.P. Styvechale hall STOCKINGFORD, see Nuneaton. STOCKTON is a village and parish very pleasantly 1 cour_t district, rural deanery of Southam, archdeacomy situated, 2 miles north-east from Southam station and of Coventry and diocese of Worcester. The Warwick r mile south from Napton and Stockton station on the and Napton canal passes on the north of the parish. Leamington and Daventry branch of the London and The church of St. Michael, belonging originally to the North Western railway, in the South-Eastern division of priory of Hertford, is an edifice of stone in the Deco­ the county, Southam division of Knightlo-w hundred, rated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north Southam petty sessional division, union and county porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, .