180 GENT.LtE~HA W • STAFFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'8 tion o! that memorable conflict, and died in 1854, The area of this ecclesiastical district is 2,000 acres; aged 86: the park, of about I,ooo acres, is delightfully the population in I90I was 822. undulating, and has several springs t>f water, one of which Parish Clerk, John Matthews. is called "the Lion's Mouth." Upon the summit of Castle Hill, which is about 850 feet above the level of the Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & sea, and from which nine counties of England and two of A. & I. 0. John Godwin, sub-postmaster. Letters Wales can be seen, is the Castle Ring, a vast rampart, received through Rugeley arrive at 8.30 a.m. & 2.10 with fosses and other extensive entrenched works, In p.m. ; dispatched 9 a.m. & 6.50 p.m this parish there is a chalybeate well: the brick arch lead- Public Elementary School (mixed) for I8S children; ing to it is supposed to date from the time of Henry V'll. average attendance, 159; erected in IB78 & enlarged Chestall House is the residence of Herbert Thomas in I882 & 1886 at the expense of the Marquess of Parke esq. J.P. The Marquess of Anglesey is lord of the Anglesey, who is also its chief supporter; Alfred Bug- manor and principal landowner. The soil is various. den, master Anglesey The Marquess of D.L., J.P. Clewley Daniel, farmer Holmes Thomas, cowkeeper Beau-Desert; & Plas Newydd, Llan- Craddock Thos. btchr. Cannock wood Keeling Geo. cowkeeper, Cannock wd fair, Anglesey Cumberledge Martha (Mrs.), farmer Littler George, beer retailer Gillart Rev. James M.A. Vicarage Derry Alfred, cowkeeper Littler Jane (Mrs.), Wind Mill inn Parke Herbt. Thos. J.P. Chestall ho Derry Daniel, cowkpr. Cannock wood Meachem Isaac, grocer COMMERCIAL. Derry Eugene, cowkpr. Holyhead rd Moore Enoch, grocer Bayley Wm. cowkpr. Cannock wood Derry George, oowkeeper Startin James, farmer Booth Edward, earpenter Derry Thos. beer retlr. Cannock wood Sutton William, farmer Bradbury Chas. farmr. Cannock wood Derry Wilfred, eowkeeper Turner John, cowkeeper, Cannock wd Bradbury Geo. draper, Cannock wood Godwin John, letter receiver Winterton Joseph Richard, clerk to Bradbury Henry, farmer & beer retlr. Hackwood Josiah, shopkeeper & cow- Fairwell & Chorley & Burntwood Cannock wood keeper, Oannock wood school boards, Cannock wood Olewley Daniel, jun. farmer, Can- Harvey John, cowkeeper Winterton Wm. Parkgate inn & farmr nock wood Hickman James, cowkpr.Cannock wd GNOSALL is a parish and large village, with a station Charles John Morris esq. J.P. of Wood Eaton Manor (d. on the Stafford and Shrewsbury section of the London r8gg), and Lt.-Col. C. J. Cotes, of Pitchford Hall, Salop. and North Western railway, 7 miles west-by-south from 'l'he soil is varied; subsoil, clay and sand. The chiif Stafford, 25! from Birmingham and I39! from London, crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The parish is in the Western division of the county, hundred of West extensive, being from 8 to 9 miles in length, and con­ Cuttlestone, .Stafford petty sessional division, Newport taining 9,971 acres of land and 36 of water, including ~Shropshire) union and county court district, rural dean- the hamlets of Audmore half a mile north, Befcote 2 ery of Eccleshall, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and south-west, Coton I south-west, Oowley I south, Knight­ diocese of Lic~eld. The Shropshire Union canal pa~~es Iey 2 north, Plardiwick I west, extending to the borders of through the village. By Local Gove_rnment Board Order, Shropshire; rateable value, £I7,253, inclusive of More­ Allston and part of Apeton were m ~885 annexed to ton; and the population in rgoi was 2,047 in the civil and .Bradley, and a detached part of the pansh to Haughton. I,546 in the ecclesiastical parish. The c~urch of ~t. Lawre:r;tce, formerly a royal free c~apel, The hamlets of Bromstead, Ohatwell, Coley, Outwood -of wh1~h the Bishop of LIChfi~ld and Coven~ry was titular and Wilbrighton are in Moreton ecclesiastical parish. dean, 1s a large and fine edifice of stone m the Norman . and Perpendicular styles, some parts of which date from Pansh Glerk, Reuben Fowell. the beginning <>f the IIth century; it consists of a very Sexton, George Lowe. large chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western !Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells (two A. & I. 0. GnosalL-Alfred John Yates, sub-postmaster. of which are said to have been brought from Ranton Letters arrive from Stafford at 7.Io a.m. & 5-6 p.m.; Abbey): in the chancel is an altar-tomb, supporting the dispatched 10.40 a.m. & 8.40 p.m. week days recumbent alaba_ster effigy ~f a knight, with cam~il and Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. 0. Coton.-Charles plate ~rmour, his head restmg on a .helmet and h1s feet Cooper. Dispatched at IO.I5 a.m. & 8. 20 p.m. week ·On a lion: the. church was restored m 1888 at a cost of days only. Wall Letter Box, Cowley, cleared at Io. 10 .£2,ooo, and m I893 the so-.;tt~ porch was erected, a a.m. & 8.10 p.m. Knightley, cleared 5 p.m. week days ;reredos removed from Holy Trm1ty, Eccleshall, was added, only. Gnosall 2 miles distant is the nearest telegraph and a pulpit and lectern provided at a cost of £2oo: office ' ' there are 400 sittings. The register dates from the year I572. The living is a vicarage, with Knightley annexed, GNOSALL RURAL DISTRICT 'OOUNCIL. joint net yearly value £220 (wit·h £I20 added for the Meetings are held every alternate monday at the Board -curate of Knightley), and including 46 acres of glebe, N ) with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, and room, ewport (Salop • at 3 p.m . .held since 1901 by the Rev. John Warner. Christ Church, Clerk, H. G. U. Elliott, Newport Knightley, a chapel of ease, is a small building of white Treasurer, E. M. Webster, Lloyds Bank, Newport ibrick faced with stone, in the Early English style, con- Medical Officer of Health, Ross Stewart .Steele M. B., C.M sisting of chancel and nave and a belfry containing Sanitary Inspector, E. C. Gri:ffiths, Gnosall Qne bell: the chancel was added in r882, at a cost of £540, as a memorial to Major R. Hargreaves, of Knight- Public Elementary Schools. ley Grange, who died in I88o: there are IOO sittings. Gnosall (mixed & infants), erected in 1875, for 1 8o boys At Gnosall Heath is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected & girls & so infants; average attendance, 126 boys & in Igor, at a cost of £.6oo, and seating 150 persons, girls & 43 infants; there is an endowment. of £45 and there is one for Plymouth Brethren at Coton. The yearly; Henry Baugust, master; Mrs. Baugust, mis- poor of the parish have £25o distributed annually to tress ; Miss Florence De Gmnges, infants' mistress them in bread and money. Fairs are held for cattle on Knightley (mixed), built in 1974 & enlarged in 1a94, May 7th and September 23rd. Knightley Grange, the for I25 children ; average attendance, r2o; Edward L. seat of Robert Halstead Hargreaves esq. J .P. is a man- Stubbs, master sion in the Elizabethan style, commanding an extensive Railway Station, William E. Palmer, station master prospect. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are the Earl of Police, David Rose, sergeant & I constable Lichfield, the Ecclesiastial Commissioners, Sir Thomas Carriers to Stafford.-Albert Hall &; William Gri:ffiths, Fletcher Boughey hart. J.P. the trustees of the late thurs. & sat GNOSALL. Murray William, Fairview Ash Mercy & Mary (Misses), farmers, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Robert Alfred L. S'unnyside The Hollies Addison Samuel Rutherfurd Andrew M.B. Fownhope Ash Thos. Addison, farmer,Manor ho Amies Edwin, Sunnyside Steele Ross Stewart M.B Baddeley & Davies, auctioneers Belcher Henry Michael, Wharf Warner Rev. John (vicar), Vicarage Bancroft George H. baker & grocer Belcher Miss, Heathhouse Willder Miss Elizh. The Hawthorns Barker Edward, plumber Belcher Thomas, The Weirlands Wycherley Rev. Richard (Primitive Barrett Saml. farmer, Radmore lane Bt:.tler Mrs. Oak villa Methodist) Belcher Henry & Son, brick Ens or Harry, London villas COMMERCIAL. makers & coal & timber merchants, Griffiths Edward Chas. Church cot Addison Samuel, grocer, provision & saw mills Hall Frank R. White house dealer, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Bellingham & Price, maltsters & ale Ind Rev. Charles E., M.A. (curate) Limited, wine & spirit merchants & porter merchants Miles Joseph, Ivy cottage Arkinstall Elizabeth (Miss), dress ma Bellingham Mary (Miss), farmer .