DIRECTORY.] •HEREFORDSHIRE. CRADL:EY. 41 and is in the Northern division of the county, Broxash very extensive farms. The area is 3,7°6 acres; rateable hundred, Brornyard union, county court district and petty value, £4,237; the population in 18g1 was 495 in the civil sessional division, rural deanery of Frome (northern division) and 524 in the ecclesiastical parish. and archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford. The church of Bridgend, 1 mile east of the church; Hope's Rough, 2 8t. Mary, prettily situated on a hill, is an ancient edifice of miles north-east; Pank's Bridge, I! miles north on the river stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, south Leadon, and CalIowmarsh are places here. aisle, north porch and an embattled western tower contain- Parish Clerk, Vincent Boulcott. ing 6 bells, cast in 1878 : in 1840 the church was struck by Assistant Overseer, T. G. Bufton, Ocle Pychard. lightning, the spire destroyed and the bells fused: in the church are three ancient monuments, one of which bears the Letters through Worcester via Bromyard, which is the near- effigy of a warrior of the time of the Crusades: the church est money order office. Burley Gate is the nearest tele- was restored in 1873 and 1878, at a cost of £1,850, under graph office; a Pillar Letter Box about a quarter of a mile the direction of Mr. Thomas Nicholson, of Hereford, diocesan from the church, cleared at 4·30 p.m. week days only architect. The register dates from the year 15S9. The Post & Telegraph Office, Burley Gate.-Miss mmma Derry, living is a vicarage, commuted tithe rent-charge £313, net postmistress. Letters arrive from Hereford via Withing- yearly value £253, including 7 acres of glebe and residence, ton at 9.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 4.30 p.m. Postal orders in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1861 are issued here, but not paid. The money order office is by the Rev. James John George Graham M.A. of Queen's at Sutton St. Nicholas College, Oxford. Cowarne Court is the residence of Lieut.- National Schools (mixed), for the parishes of Much Cowarne, Col. Robert Bourne D.L., J.P. lord of the manor and chief Ocle Pychard & Morton Jefferies, built with residence for landowner. The soil is clayey; subsoil, red marl; on the master in 1858, for 136 children; average attendance, 70; north side of the parish a bed of alluvial gravel is deposited. Edward Essex, master The land is productive and the crops are wheat, beans, hops County Police, John Morris, constable and apples. Cider is made here. The parish c0ntains some Carrier to Hereford.-James Jones, wed. & sat . (Marked thus * receive their letters *Dent Thomas William, farmer & hop Orgee Saml. farmer, Middle Moorend through Ledbury.) grower, Leighton court Orgee William, farmer, Lower Hopton Marked thus t through Hereford. tDerry Emma (Miss), shopkeeper, Post Panniers Edwin, farmer, Bridgend *Bourne Lieut.-Col. Robert D.L., J.P. office, Burley Gate Parker James, farmer, Lower Hopton Cowarne court Gurney James, farmer, Moor end Philpotts Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer *Dent Thomas William, Leighton court tGwilliam James, tailor, Burley Gate & shopkeeper, Callow marsh Graham Rev. James John George M.A. Gwilliam John, shopkeeper, Wins green Pitt George, shopkeeper, Hope's rough Vicarage Gwilliam Peter, farmer, The Elms Pitt In.LionP.H. & carrier,l<'iveBridges COM:\IERCHL. Harrington Sarah (Miss), farmer, Remnant Edward, farmer, The Elms Amos William, farmer Lower Moorend Savager Thomas, farmer, Cowarne ho Beaumont Aaron, frmr. Lower Hill end Jones JasJarmer&carrier, Panks bridge Sirrell Thomas, farmer, Richley BoulcottEdwin,blacksmith,Capon bridg Meredith Albert, farmer, Hill end Warrick George, farmer, Tan house Brewer Thomas, farmer, Hutt Morgan Henry, wheelwright Watkins Wm. H. farmer, RedWitchend CRADLEY is a township, village and parish, on the Post & M. O. 0" S, B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Stif Cradley Brook and on the Worcestershire border, and 4 ford's Bridge.-Mrs. Mary AnneBlight, sub-postmistress. miles north-west from Colwall station on the Hereford and Letters through MaI-vernarrive at 7.35 a.m.; dispatched at Worcester section of the Great Western railway, 8 miles 5.35 p.m.; OD sundays at 10.20 a.m. West Cradley is the north-north-east from Ledbury, 8 south-east from Brom- nearest telegraph office yard, in.th~ Northern division. of the ~~U?ty, union, county Post & Telegraph Office, Cradley-Edward Symonds Kings, court dIstrICt and petty seSSIOnal dIVISIOn of Bromyard, sub-postmaster. Letters through Malvern arrive at .30 hundred of Radlow, rural deanery of South Frome and (I) d' d 7 ' f H f d Th h h f St a.m. & 4.50 p.m. callers on y ; lspatche at 4·50 p.m. archd eaconry and dlOcese 0 ere or . e c urc 0 • P Id' d h b t t 'd "". d . b 'Id' ft' th lU dEl osta or el'S are Issue ere, u no pal. .uoneyor er J am~s IS a Ul lIW,O S one m e .l.,orm~n an ar y office at Stifford's Brid e alvern English styles, conslstmg of chancel, nave of SIX bays, north g 'p'~ aisle and an embattled western tower containing a clock Post Office, Ridgway Cross.-AlbertMorris, sub-postmaster. and 6 bells; the stained east window was placed in 1872, Letters through Malvern arrive at 8 a. m.; dispatched at as a memorial to Thomas Webb esq. of Fern Hill, who died 5.20 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. in 1871, by his surviving children, and in the same year Money order office at Stifford's Bridge; telegraph office, another memorial window was erected to Joseph Shapland, Cradley of Hill House, d. 1870, and Susannah (d. 1858) and Sarah Louisa (d. 1864), his wives, by his brother, John Shapland ; Schools. the church was repaired about 1854, and rebuilt, with the National (boys), an ancient building of wood & plaster; exception of the tower, in 1870 and opened in 1871, when erected in 1674, & enlarged in 1874 to hold no boys; the north aisle was added and the nave rebuilt: in 1887 a average attendance, 55; it has an endowment of £20 sun dial was erected in the churchyard in commemoration yearly, arising from a bequest in 1667 by James Turner of the Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen; in 1893 the esq. from the rent of Vines End farm; George Arthur parishioners and friends erected a south porch at a cost of Ledgard, master £,IIO to the memory of the late rector, the Rev. Edward Renn Hampden, who presented the organ at a cost of £350' National (girls & infants), erected in 1855 & since enlarged The register dates from the year 1560. The living is a on the Glebe land for 140 girls; average attendance 75 ; rectory, average tithe rent-charge £,829, net yearly value Mrs. Margaret Josephine Ledgard, mistress £'482, including 120 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Police Station, Charles Hooke. sergeant gift of the Bishop of Hereford, and held since 1892 by the Carriers.-To Worcester, James PanteIl, Martin Ely, Rev. Thomas Ayscough Ayscough M.A. ,of Trinity College, Gregory, Charles Went, &Gibbs on saturday Cambridge, prebendary of Hereford. At Westtield is a chapel of the Countess of Huntingdon's connection. The Storridge is an ecclesiastICal parish, formed Jan. 9, Loyal Hope of Cradley Lodge of United Britons and The 1857, from that of Cradley, and about a mile north-east Loyal Hope of Cradley Lodge of Oddfellows (M.U.) are from the village. The church of St. John the Evangelist held at the Seven Stars every alternate Monday. The was built in 1856 from a beqnest by the sisters of the juvenile branch of the Oddfellows lodge meets at same late Rev. Charles Scott Lu~more M.A. Dean of St. Asaph place the first Tuesday in the month. There are several and previous rector of Cradley, who died in 1854, as a ch3rities in connection with the church"amounting to £70 memorial to his only son, John Nichol Luxmore, killed at yearly arising from bequests. Birchwood House is the Cambridge by a fall from his horse in 1853: it is an edifice residence of Henry Brace Little esq. J.P. H. B. Little esq. of Cradley 2tone, in mixed styles, from designs by Mr. G. B. Little esq. Mrs. Little, Charles Webb esq. of Stour­ Preedy, architect of London, erected at a cost of nearly bridge, the representatives of the late W. E. Wall esq. of £4,000 and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a Powick, Worcester, Miss Jackson Shapland and Earl Beau­ western tower with octagonal spire, containing a clock and champ are chief landowners. The soil is principally heavy ; one bell; the east window is stained: the church is now subsoil, elay and mar!. The chief crops are wheat, beans, (1895) being thoroughly repaired and reseated at a cost roots and hops. The area is 5,966 acres; rateable value, of about £,200: there are 180 sittings. The register dates £8,502 10S.; the population in 1891 was 1,746 in the civil from the year 1856. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly and 886 in the ecclesiastical parish. value £190, including 6 acres of glebe, with residence, in Stone quarrying is carried on at Ridgway Cross to a large the gift of the rector of Cradley, and held since 1894 by the extent. Rev. Humfrey Davis. The prmcipal landowners are Earl Part of the ecclesiastical parish of Mathon or West Mal­ Heauchamp and Henry Brace Little esq.