112 KNOWBURY. SHROPSHIRE. [KELLY'S since 1882 by the Rev. Prebendary (and Prrelector in three in the district. Lord Windsor is lord of ~he mano! Hereford Cathedl'lal) Fredenck Mackenzie Williams and principal landowner. The soil is strong clay; sub. M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. A mission room in soil, Dhu stone and clay. The land is chiefly in pasture. oonnection with St. Baul's church was built in 1881, in The popualtion in 1891 was 93'S. the upper. portion of the parish, near to the stone Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Oflica, Clee quarries, at Q cost of £1,200, chiefly defrayed by Lord Hill.-Edw.ard Wesley Askey, sub-postmaster. Letters Windsor. There are also Wesleyan and Primitive Metho- arrive from Ludlow by foot post at 9 a.m.; dispatched dist chapels. The Salvation Army have a barracks at at 4.30 p.m. Ludlow is the nearest telegraph officd Clee Hill. Know1bury is situated on the Clee Hills, Post Office, Knowbury.-B. Genner, sub-postmaster. which e.re frQIID. 900 to 1,250 feet above sea level, and are Le,tters arrive from, Ludlow at 8,45 a.m.; dispatched celebrated for the hard rock or dark basalt, called" Dhu at 5 p.m. Clee Hill is the nearest money order office. stone," which they afford; a vast quantity of this mineral & Ludlow the nearest' telegraph office is brought down by a branch line of railway to Ludlow Wall Letter Box cleared at 5 p.m and transported thence by rail to London, Manchester, The Church of England School (mixed), built in 1839. Liverpool, Stockport, Birmingham and Stafford; it lis for 180 children; average attendance, 143; the school used extensively for paving and repairiIllg of the mac- is the property of & supported by Lord Windsor; adamized roads and streets. There are brick and tile Herbert Chatterley, master; Mrs. Oatherine Chatter- works in this parish, also coal mines. The population is ley, mistress almost entirely employed. in the stone quarries; a felW Wesleyan, built in 1878, for 200 children; average attend. still find occupation in the neighbouring coal mines, and ance, 120; Henry Norman Leaworthy, master a few also in the brick and tile works, of which there are Carrier to Ludlow.-Mrs. Emma Wilkinson, mono & sats Abbott Rev. David Wigley (curate) managing director), Clee hill; offices, Martin Benjamin, Royal Oak P.H Watson Harry Oswald, Knowbury ho OQrve street, Ludlow Morris William, cowkeeper Wi1liams Rev. Prebendary Frederick Clent Thos. Jas. frmr. Heath farm Potts Edmund, cowkeeper Mackenzie M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Collings Samuel, cowkeeper Reynolds John, lime burner & farmer Abel Harry, shopkeeper Cook William, insurance agent Reynolds Thomas, cowkeeper Askey Edward Wesley, wholesale & Crowther William, cowkeeper Roberts Daniel, cowkeeper fumily grocer, tea & coffee dealer, Didlicke John, cowkeeper Roberts Geo. shopkpr, Brunswick ho p~ovision merchant & patent medi- Dillow Thomas, coal haulier, Bitterley Roberts Richard, grocer, Clee Hill cme vendor, general & fancy draper, Edwards Thomas, farmer Scott James>, grocer clothier & outfitter, The Stores Field & Mackay, quarry owners, Tit- Selley John, cowkeeper Olee hill terstone quarries Small Caleb, family butcher & farmer. Bate Samuel (Mrs.), farmer Genner Arthur, grocer Clee Hill Bate Thomas, draper Genner Benj. Dhu Stone inn, Clee HI Southward Enoch, cowkeeper Berrington John, farmer, Shop farm Genner Benjamin, cowkeeper Taylor John, cowkeeper Bird Joshua, farmer, Chapel Ho. farm Genner Francis, cowkeeper Taylor Robert, registrar of births &; Bodley Joseph, grazier Gould Thomas, cowkeeper deaths for Caynham sub-district of Bowen John, The Crown P.R Green Edward Blakeway, farmer Ludlow union Chapel Farm Dhu Stone Quarry Hammond Benj.farmer, Dhu Stone fm Watson Harry Oswald L.R.C.P.Edin. (Joshua Bird, proprietor) Hayes Thomas, cowkeeper surgeon, certifying factory surgeon, Olee Hill Fire Brick Works (E. W. Jones Joseph, farmer medical officer & public vaccinator. Askey, proprietor) Key -, Golden Cross P.H Clee Hill dis-trict, Ludlow union, Clee Hill Dhu Stone Co. (Alfred Knovers Lime Works, (Benjamin H. Knowbury house Silver Townsend, manager); offices, Giles, proprietQr) Wheelwright John, grocer & farmer Railway station, Ludlow Knowbnry Brick & Tile Works (Edwd. Whitaker George Hy. (Mrs.), cowkpr Olee Hill Granite Co. (Thos. Roberts, W. Askey, proprietor) Wilkinson Eriima (Mrs.), carrier LAWLEY is a. scattered township, and with the minerals are ironstone and coal. There are two small hamlets of Lawley Bank, New Works, Horsehay Common collieries worked here. The township belongs principally and Newdale, was formed Feb. 5, 1867, into a parish to the Coalbrookdale Company, and to Lord Forester from the parishes of Wellington and Little Wenlock: who is lord of the manor. The soil is friable; the sub­ Lawley is on tile road from Wellington to Coalbrook- soil is various. The chief crops are wheat., barley, oats, dale, 2 miles south-east from Wellington and 13 east turnips and mangolds. The area of the parish is 907 from Shrewsbury, in the Mid division of the county, acres; the population of the ecclesiastical parish in 189L South Bradford hundred, Wellington union, county was 912. court district and petty sessional division, rural deanery Sexton, J ames Rickhuss, New Works. of Wrockwardine, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Letter Box cleared at 9.40 a.m. & 9.35 p.m. Letters, Lichfield. The church of St. John the Evangelist is a through Horsehay R.S.O. except for Lawley Bank, building of brick with stone dressings, in a modern which are received through Dawley R.S.O. The Gothic style, consisting of chancel, eastern transept, nearest money order office is at Horsehay & telegraph nave, south porch and a turret at the east end con- office at Dawley taming one bell: in the chancel are three small stained Lawley Bank is a hamlet It miles east. The Wes- windows, erected in 1882, in memory of Rev. Thomas leyan New Connexion have a chapel here. Here is alS() Ragg, first vicar of this parish, who died Dec. 1881: a railway station on the Great Western line (Severn there are 302 sittings. The register dates from the junction); Henry Rickard, station master ye'ar 1865. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge Newdale is a hamlet haH a mile north-east. £140, average £129, net yearly value £230, with resi- Board School (mixed), with residence for master, erected dence, in the gift. of the Bishop of Lichfield, and held in 1876, for 274 children; average attendance, 190; since 1882 by the Rev. George Henry White. The Samuel Thomas Jones, master LAWLEY. Yates Bartholomew, farmer Jones Thos. farmer, Lawley Bank fnn White Rev. George Henry, Vicarage Lane James, boor retailer Ferriday James, colliery proprietor LAWLEY BANK. Jones John Henry, farmer Jones Thomas 1\"EW WORKS. Mellar Joseph, farmer Lester Rev. Arthur (Baptist) Garbebt George, farmer Millman Richard, blacksmith Allman George, Bull's Head P.H Jones Reuben, charter master Owen John O. colliery proprietor; & Bailey Matthew Henry Morris Richard, scrap iron dealer at Steeraway, Wellington Jones James, grocer & farmer,Wrekin Peake William, shopkeeper Roden Benjamin, farmer, Newdale jam factory Rickhuss James, tea dealer LEATON is an ecclesiastical parish, including the 1859 at the expense of the late J. A. Lloyd esq. and adjunct of Bomere Heath, formed in 1860 from the family, is a building of stone in a modern Gothic style, parishes of Fitz, Preston Gubbals or Gobalds and St. consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, Mary, Shrewsbury; for civil purposes it is a township vestry, south porch and an embattled tower at the' in the parish of St. Alkmond's, Shrewsbury, with a north-west angle with pinnacles and an octagonal station on the Shrewsbury and Chester branch of the crocketed spire, containing a clock and 5 bells: thlt Great Western railway, 4 miles north from Shrewsbury tower was added in 1872 by C. S. Lloyd esq.; the and 159 from London, in the Northern division of the original western turret containing one bell also r~ county, Albrighton division of Pimhill hundred, petty mains: in the chancel is a stained window to John sessional division of Albrighton, Atcham union, Shrews- Arthur Lloyd esq. d. 1864. The register dates from bury county court district, rural deanery of Shrewsbury, the year 1859. The living is a. vicarage, net yearly arGhdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The value £147. including 3; acres of glebe, with residence, church of the Holy Trinity, erected and endowed in in the gift of A. H. O. LloJod esq. and held since 18gI.