DIRECTORY,] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. WEST DEAN, 145 Green William Edward, Stacknage lo Batt Henry Powell, butcher Marfell Aaron, plumber & painter Roberts Aaron, shopkeeper Batt John, butcher Marfell J ames, haulier Strong Samuel, builder Berrow Charles, shopkeeper Moore Thomas, stone & lime works Bleo.rs John Thomas, baker Morgan William J oseph, beer retailer DRYBROOK. Brain Alfred T. New inn Morman Eli, butcher Brain James, grocer &; draper :Morman John, shopkeeper (Letters through Mitcheldean.) Campbell David Reid B.A., M.D.Irel. Morman Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ca.mpbe!l David Reid B.A., M.D. physician, School house Reed Arthur J. A. farmer School house Cann Albert, boot & shoe dealer Roberts Moses, shopkeeper Hier Rev. William Roach (Cong) Cinderford Co-operative Society Lim. Ro berts Richard, shopkeeper Lawton Rev. .r ames (vicar of Holy (branch) (Wi!liam Charles lvins, Shapcott Thomas, tailor T1·inity), The Vicarage, Harry Hill sec.), The Morse Sleeman Frank .John Parsons, auc- Smeeth Rev. William John (United Clifford William, farmer, The Morse tione-er, The Morse Methodist) Cowmeadow ComP!ius Mnrfell, statnr. Teague George, farmer Smith Emmanuel J. P & post office Trigg Thon1as, shopkeeper CDwtn-eadow Howard, cycle repairer Williams Henry, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Downton Hy.wheelwright & blacksmth Williarns Thomas, monumental masn Batt Frank, cycle agent Eastmans Ltd. butchers, The Morse Yemm Percy, boot repairer Batt George Hy. e-rocer, The Morse Heaven William, Royal Oak P.H Yemm Robert, beer retlr. The Morse LITTLE DEAN is a parish and large village, on the 6.5 & 8.40 p.m.; no delivery on sunday. The nearest borders of the Forest of Dean, and on the road fr<~m telegraph office is at Cinderford, 2 miles distant. Newnham to Ross, 2 miles north-west from Newnbam Wall Letter Box, Pleasant .Stile, is cleared at 9·55 station on the South Wales section of the Great Western a. m. & 6. rs p.m. week days only railway, and 2 miles east from Cinderford station on the Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge railwa.v, and r2 south­ JuSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE NEWNHAJ\I we•t from Gloucester, in the Forest of Dean division PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. of the county, Saint Briavels hundred, Newnbam petty sessional division and county court district, Westbury­ Baldwin Ivo Wm. esq. Oakleigb, Ruardean, Mitcheldean on-Severn union, rural deanery of South Forest and arcb­ Brain Francis William Thomas esq. Trafalgar house, deaoonry and diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. Drybrook, Mitcheldean Ethelbert is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the Colchester-Wemyss Capt. Maynard Francis Willoughby, Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four Broughtons, Newnham bays, north aisle, south porch ancl an embattled western Colchester-Wemyss Maynard Willoughby esq. D.L. Bell tower, containing a clock and 6 bells: the spire was house, Westbury-on-Severn, N ewnham destroJ·ed by a heavy gale in November, 1894: the Dykins Alfred Enoch esq. Victoria house, Cinderford chancel arch is Norman: there are tablets to the Pyrke Hale Josepb esq. Bilson house, Cinderford Jones William Obarles Nigel esq. Underdean, Newnham. family : the church has sittings for 360 persons. The Kerr Russell James esq. The Haie, Newnham register dates from the year 1684. The living is a rec­ Lloyd Francis Montagu esq. The Grange, .Newnham tory, net yearly value £r7o, with glebe (£5) and resi­ :Maclver Colin esq. Blaisdon hall, Longbope dence, in the gift of the Church Patronage Trustees, Morgan Art bur John esq. Rock house, Cinderford and held since 1903 by the Rev. Robert Bruce D.D. Penberthy John esq. Dean hall, Newnbam of Trinity College, Dublin, hon. D.D.Oxon. and hon. Probyn John Webb esq. A,bbenball lo. nr. Mitcbeldeun­ canon of Durham. Here is a Congregational chapel, Rowlinson George Henry esq. Prospect ho. Cinderford founded in 1796. A cemetery of one-third of an acre Shelley Spencer esq. The Beeches, Newnbam was formed in r88r, at a cost of £ro6, and has since Smith Emmanl. esq. Drybrook, Staley Owen, Mitcbeldn been enlarged ; it is under the control of the Parish The chairmen, for the time being, of the Awre, Newn- Council. The charities are of about {,25 yearly value, bam & Westbury-on-Severn Urban & East Dean Rural derived from land, houses and investments, and distri­ District Councils, are ex-officio justices buted to the poor iu bread and cloth. On a hill near the church, called Camp Hill, is a Roman encampment, Clerk to the Justices, John Wright Guise and there are remains of several Roman roads in the Petty Sessions aro held at the Petty Sessional Court, neighbourhood. Dean Hall, the seat of John Penberthy Little Dean, every friday at II a.m. The following esq. J.P. is a mansion in the Domestic Gothic style, places are included in the petty sessional division :­ mostly built in r6oo, but the older part of the house Abenball, Awre, Blaisdon, Blakeney, East Dean (part is of much earlier date ; it stands in a park of 28 acres, of), Flaxley, Little Dean, Longoope, M!tcheldean, in v;hich there are remains of a Roman camp. John Newnbam, part of Ruardean & Westbury-on-Sevem Penberthy esq. J.P. is chief landowner, and Maynard Wi!loughby Colchester-Wemyss esq. of Westbury-on­ County Police Station, House of Remand for Prisoners &. Severn, is lord of the manor. The soil is chiefly loam; House of Detention under " Children's Act ; " George the subsoil is sand and dunstone. The lan·a is in tVakefield, sergeant, & 1 constable pasture. The area is 718 acres; rateable value, {,2,134; ' Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1848, for the population in 19II was 823. J 220 children, enlarged iu 1896 & again considerably Portions from Flaxley, ~ewnbam and Westbury-on­ in 1912, for 260 ; average attendance, t6o boys k Severn were added to this parish by Local Government ! girls & 50 infants; William R. T. Cul!is, master; Board Orders 14,584 and 14,629, M,.,-ch 25, rB83. Miss Dorcas Eurgam, infants' mistress Sexton, Hubert Embling. Post & M. 0. Office.-Mi>S ~land Brain, sub-post­ CARRIER TO GLOUCESTER. mistress. Letters received through 2l;ewnham, Glos. Daniel Walkley passes through from Cinderford, mon. at 7·50 a.m. & s.rs p.m.; dispatched at 9.40 a.m. & wed. & sat PRIVATE ltESIDENTS. Brain Esau. carpenter \!iles Martin Frederick, shopkeeper Brain Mrs. Broad street Cernetrry (Hubert Embling, sexton) :M organ Sydney, shopkeeper Bruce Rev. Canon Robert D.D. (rec- Cinderford Co-operative Society Ltd. Mountjoy Thomas, George inn tor), Rectory stores Parry John Henry, market gardener Hubbard Artbur John M.D. Hill bo Dent on Fanny (Mrs.), coal dealer Read Sam Coleman, farmer Malcolm Miss, Frog-more cottage Dyson Edwd. poultry frmr. Springfld Robins Sarah & Edith (Misses), frmrs Penberthy John J.P. Dean hall Haile E. & Sons, builders Shirley Sarah Ell en (Mrs.), shopkpr Wavlen Alfred William Hallam Charles Henry, boarding house Smith Albert, farmer, The Temple - Hampton Miles, coal dealer Smith George, farmer COMllliRCJAL, Hancocks Hubert Charles, Bell P.H Smith William J. farmer, Court farm Adams Edwin, King's Head P.H Hunt Martha (Mrs.), dress maker Stubbs Richard, farmer Ake George, farmer, Grove farm Hunt Wil!iam, boot & shoe maker Stubbs William. fal'Iner. Dean cottage Bathe Frank, grocer Leadbeater George, farmer, Greenway Watts Alfred, farmer, Camp farm Bluett Edwin, fishmonger Mallett William, ~tardener to John Wynn .Tohn, chimney sweep Bonghton Francis Edmund, farmer Penbertby esq. J.P WEST DEAN is an extensive township, formed under division, rural deanery of South Forest and archdea.conry the Act 5 and 6 Vie. cap. 48, relating to Crown lands in and diocese of Gloucester. The soil is for the most part the Forest of Dean, and is in the Forest of Dean divi- of a stiff clayey nature, and is peculiarly adapted to the sion of the county, hund1·ed of St. Briavels, Monmouth growth of oak, of which there are large plantations or union and county court district, Coleford petty sessfonal inclosures made and planted under the authority of tho GLOC. 10 .