266 -wEETHLEY. WARWICKSHIRE. [KELLY's The register of baptisms dates from the year 1613 ; and subsoil are clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats. burials 1572; and marriages from 1760. The living is a beans and barley. The area is 550 acres; rateable valne. chapelry, net yearly value £75, in the gift of the Marquess £444; the population in 1891 was 37, consisting tnoetly of Hertford, and held since 1B77 by the Rev. Alfred H-enry of farm labourers. Williams M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge, and chaplain Parish Clerk & Sexton, Edward Hopkins. in ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, who :is also rector Letters received through Alcester R.S.O. at 8.35 a.m. of and resides at Alcester. The Marquess of Hertford which is the nearest money order & telgrapli office is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil The nearest school is at Arrow Stranger Charles & Edward:, farmerS! WELFORD is a parish chiefly in the county of GliJuces- living is a rectory, averoge tithe rent-charge. {,207, net ter, about 5 mileS' south-west from Stratford-on-Avon, I income £252, with 107 acres· of glebe, and held since ·1865 mile from Binton statian on the East and West Juf!ction by the Rev. James Davenport M.A. of St. John's College, line and tl miles from Millcote station on the Hatton, Oxford, who is also vicar of Weston-on-Avon, Glouces­ Stratford and Honeybourne. section of the Great Western tershire. The landowne.rs are Mr:.. Cheape, of Bentley railway. The portion of this parish not in Gloucester- Manor, Worcestershire, Thomas Stevens Shekell esq. of shire consists of -the. hamlets of Bickmarsh and Little Pebworth, Gloucestershire and the trustees of the late Dorsingtan, respectively 9 and 8 miles south-west from John Lane esq. of Dorsington Manor. The population Stratford-on-Avon, 3 miles oouth-west from Binton station, in 1881 was 99; rateable value of Welford, £3,124; and in the South-Western division of the county, Stratford of Little Dorsington, £765. division of the hundred of Ba;rlichway, Alcester petty Letters through Stratford-on-Avon, vill. Bidford, arriveat sessional divisian and county court district, and Stratford 9· 15 a. m. Bidford is the nearest money order & union. The inha-bitants of the Warwickshire portion telegraph office attend Bidford church, Welford church being in Glouces- The children of this parish attend the school at Bidford. tershire. The register of Welford dates from 1561. Th~ but pay school rates to Welford Blackwell Samuel Fowler, Bickmarsh hall . 1Fox Frederic, bailiff w Samuel Fowler Blackwell esq WELLESBOURNE HASTINGS and MOUNT­ In the reign Qf Edward I. a charter was granted for a FORD, in Domesday '' Waleborne," form a very ext-en­ weekly market to be held here, as well as a two days' srive parish, on the river Bourne, and on the road from yearly fair ; these have long since been discontinued, but. Warwick to Kineton, 3! miles north from Ettington the place still retains marks of antiquity. Sir Charles station and 4! north-west from Kineton station, both on Mordaunt bart. of Waiton Hall, who is lord of the manor, the East and West Junction railway, 5 miles· east from and Miss Lucy are the principal landowners. The soil is Stratford-upon-Avon and 6 south from Warwick, in the various, principally sandy loam; subsoil, gravel and clay. South-Western division of the county, Warwick division The chief crops are wheat, barley, beanS' and turnips. of the Kineton hundred, Stratford-upon-Avon union and The area, including Walton, iSJ 2,953 acres; rateable value. county court district; Warwick petty sessional division, [4,166; the population in 1891 was 672,including Walton, rural deanery of North Kineton and archdeaconry and which contains 222. diocese of W orces·ter ; it has evidently been a place of Wall Letter Box cleared, week days 9·55 a.m. & 7 p.m~; -some importance, the families of Hastings and Mountford sundays• 6 p.m · having been its feudal lords. The church of St. Peter, Walton, a hamlet of this· parish, but constituted an eccle­ built by Henry de Newburgh, the first Earl of Warwick siastical parish in 1il42, will be found under a separate of the Norman line, and formerly belonging to the priory heading' of Kenilworth, is a handsome edifice in the Early English and Perpendicular ~tyles, consisting of chancel, nave, 'VELLESBOURNE MOUNTFORD -is a considerable aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with hamlet and township, having separate rates and distinct pinnacles•, containing a clock and 6 bells, some of which township officers. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. 'l'he were brought from the convent of Trinitarian friars at Manor House is• the residence of CQl. Charles William Thelesford; the church was almost wholly rebuilt in the Paulet. The area is 1,653 acres; rateable value, [,3,827; year 1847, at a cost of £4,000; nearly all the windows are the population in 1891 was 673. By a Local Government · memorials, one· having been in the Exhibition of 1a51: ment Order which came into operation March 25, 1886, a there is a very perfect brass on the floor of the chancel to detached part of Wellesbourne Mountford was amalga~ the memory of Sir Thomas Le Strange, of the reign of mated with Charlecote. Henry IV. and a modern brass to the late Sir John Mar­ Sexton, Thomas Rose. daunt bart. who died in 1846 : a reredos, sedilia and Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office, Savings. Bank & credence table of marble, designed by Mr. Wyatt, were Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.-Thomas Mountford, post­ erected in 1873, at the expense of his widow, to the master. Letters arrive frQm Warwick at 5·35 a.m. & memory' of the Rev. Lord Charles Paulet, vicar of Welles­ 3.30 p.m. the delivery commencing at 7 a.m.; dis- bourne from 1830, and prebendary of Salisbury 1833, patched at 9.50 a.m. & 6.so p.m. except sundays. then · who died 23 July, 1870: in the south aisle is a memorial ' at 6.6 p.m window to Bernard Gtanville esq. of Wellesbourne Hall, d. 1868; the new organ was erected in 1885 at a cost of £4oo; in the north transept is a 'Norman arch, formerly Schools. at the entrance to the chancel, but removed in 1847; National (mixed), erected in 1863, with teachers' resi­ there are soo sittings, 250 being free. The register, in­ dence, for 16o children; average attendance,124; Alfred cluding Walton, dates from the year 1560. The living is Alexander Andow, master; Miss Mary Ann Ross, mist a discharged vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £273, Infants', erected about 1830, & enlarged in 1894, for 100 net yearly value [,320, including 6o acres of glebe, with children ; average attendance, 70 ; :Miss Goodrick,mist Tesidence, in the gift of the Lord Ohancellor, and held Carriers.-Joseph Berry, to Leamington & Warwick,mon. since 1893 by the Rev. Charles' John Eliot M.A. Qf Corpus wed. & sat. & ta Stratford, tues. & fri. ; William Franks Christi college, Cambridge. Here is a Primitive Metho­ passes through daily from Warwick to Stratford-on­ dist chapel. A !]:llS and coke company was established Avon; William Gardner arrives daily from Leamington here in 1864, capital [,2,ooo, in I,ooo shares of {,2 each, & Warwick WELLESBOUR~E HASTINGS. machines, reapers, mowers, drills & Hopkins Edward, family butcher Charles Miss cider mills let on hire, sole agents King John, tailor Eliot Rev. CharlesJohn M. A. TheVicrge for '8. Warwickshire for Oliver's Lowe William, higgler & farmer Knightley Mrs patent ploughs & Dutton's knife Moor William, farmer, Staple hill Mander Edrward Henry grinder. See advertisement Overbury Edwin, linen&woollen draper Moor William, Staple hill Bettridge Joseph Henry (late Joseph Palmer Thomas, boot maker Owen Misses Bettridge), coach & carriage builder. Peake Thomas, relieving officer & re- Suttoru Misses See advertisement gistrar of births, deaths & mar- Clarke Arthr. boot ma. & beer retailer riages for Wellesbourne & Kinet.on COMMERCIAL. Davidson Jane (Miss),King's Head P.H district Anderton Henry &; Sons, farmers & Franklin Benjamin, Talbot inn Prentice William, shoeing & general millers (water) Freeman John, blacksmith smith & agricultural implement Ans.Jow John, grocer Freeman Joseph Thomas, smith maker & repairer Bettridge J.ohn ·& Son (established Gilks Ann (Miss), boot & shoe dealer Rickards John, grocer 184o). agricultural engineers, imple­ Harbage John, farmer & coal merchant Rose Thomas Waters, butcher ment manufacturers & general ma­ Kibler & Co. builders & contractors & Shellswell Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeeper chinists, & agents- for all the leading coal merchants, brick makers, drain Smith Joseph, paper hanger implement manufacturers, threshing pipes &c Timms Henry, carpenter .