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CLODOCK. CLODOCK. [See also CRASSWALL, LLANVEYN01 LONGTOWN1 and NEWTON.] CLODOCK is a very extensive parish, situated on the rivers Monnow and Olchan, at the foot of the Hatterall hills or Black mountains. It is subdivided jnto the townships of Crasswall, Llanfazno (or Llanveyno), Longtown, and Newton, each maintaining its own poor, and appointing its own officers. For ecclesiastical purposes they are connected together as Clodock parish (except Newton). It is distant 17 miles S.W. of Hereford, 5 from Pandy, and about 6 W. of Pontrilas station on the Hereford and Abergavenny branch of the Great Western railway ; is in Ewyas Lacy hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, and Longtown and Michaelchurch polling district and electoral division of the county council. Llanveyno and Longtown are in Abergavenny, Crasswall is in Hay, and Newton is in Hereford, county court districts. The population in 1871 was 1,709 ; in 1881, 1,458; inhabited houses, 341 ; families or separate occu iers, 358 ; area of parish, 17,833 acres; annual rateable value, 9,220. The Marquess of Abergavenny is lord of the manor of Ewyas Lacy. The soil is sandy and clayey ; subsoil, red sandstone ; chief produce, wheat, barley, and oats. Clodock is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of W eobley; living, a vicarage ; value, £222 1 with residence ; patron, Waiter de Winton, Esq. ; vicar, Rev. George V. Collison, B.A., of St. David's College, Lampeter, who was instituted in I 884. The parish church, dedicated to St. Cleodicus, is in a ruinous state. It is a large stone structure in the Early English style of architecture, with square tower containing five bells. It consists of nave, chancel, porch, font, and several monumental tablets. There are the foundations alone remaining of an apse or second chancel. At the entrance to the churchyard is a lych-gate (erected 1667). The earliest register is dated 1705. There are unused burial-grounds at the chapelries of Crasswall and Llanfaino; they are merely chapels of ease to the mother church. It is intended to consolidate the chapelries of Llanfaino and Crasswall into an ecclesiastical district. Newton was formed into an ecclesiastical district in 1848; it has a new church and burial-ground, and does not pay church rates to Clodock. The charities belonging to the poor and school are of £37 yearly value. Here is a circular moat, inside which once stood a castle, the keep of which still remains, with the portcullis. Some Roman remains have been found here. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Abergavenny. Longtown is the nearest money order office. Pontrilas and Llanvihangel are the nearest telegraph offices. Post town, Abergavenny. Parish ChU1'ch (St. Cleod£cus'). Rev. George V. Collison, B.A., V£car; Mr. ]. G. Harris, Churchwarden,; George Long, Par£sk Clerk. [..Fo1' D-irectory, see the Townships as above.]

CODDINGTON . • CODDINGTON. CODDINGTON (anciently Cotingtune) is a small parish on the borders of Worcestershire, distant 3! miles from Colwall station on the Hereford and Worcester branch of the Great Western railway, 4 N. of Ledbury, 5 S.W. of Malvern, and 15 E. by N. of Hereford; is in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Bosbury and Colwall polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 180; in r88r, r4r; inhabited houses, 33; families or separate occupiers, 34 ; area of parish, 987 acres ; annual rateable value, £1,212. The Lord Bishop of Hereford is lord of the manor, and Charles Archibald Hewitt, Esq., of Hope end, Henry Edward Vale, Esq., of Coddington house, and Mrs. Holland, of Old Colwall, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, and yields excellent hops and apples. The other chief crops are wheat, beans, and roots. Coddington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of South Frame ; living, a rectory; value, £186, with residence and 36 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; rector, Rev. George James Curtis, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, who was instituted in r861. The church is prettily situated, the view from the churchyard westward being very extensive. This twelfth-century church, dedicated to All Saznts, was restored in 1866, at a cost of about £2,200. It consists simply of nave and chancel without aisles, but having a new ornamental tower and spire at the west end, containing a peal of six bells. It was originally a Norman structure, as appears by the round-headed door beneath a modern porch, and, though restored, the Norman features have been preserved as much as possible. The early English windows remain; those in the chancel were filled with stained glass in 1873. The church is paved with encaustic tiles from the well-known manufactory of Mr. W. Godwin, of Lugwardine. The reredos is composed of round intersecting arcades supported on polished marble pillars, which is very effective. There is a piscina on the south side. There is an organ chamber, and a fine organ was erected in 1871 by Nicholson, of Worcester. The restoration of this interesting fabric was carried out from the designs and under the superintendence of F. R. Kempson, Esq., F.I.B.A., of Hereford. The parish registers begin with the year 1675. A new school, with residence for the mistress, Jas built in r868, near the church, at a cost of .£6so. There is accommodation for 5 I children; average attendance, 26. There are charities to the amount of ,£28 yearly, the principal of which is a farm, devised in the reign of Henry VIII. for the benefit of the poorer classes. Coddz'ngton House is the residence of Major Henry Edward Vale. PosTAL REGULATIONS. J ames Lewis, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Ledbury about 8.10 a.m. The letter-box is cleared at 4·45 p.m. This is a money order office ; Ledbury is the nearest telegraph office and post town. Par'ish Church (All Saz'nts'). Rev. George James Curtis, M.A., Rector~· Henry Edward Vale, Esq. and Mr. John Smith, Churchwardens; James Lewis, Parz'sh Sexton.

166 CODDINGTON COLLINGTON. Natz'onal School (bo;•s a11d girls). Miss Harriette Dallow, M-istress. Asszstant Overseer. Mr. William Miller, The Brook, Colwall. CARRIER TO MALVERN. Name Days Return at John Powell (Col wall) \Ved. & Sat. Stopping Place The Unicorn 3 0 CARRIER TO LEDBURY. John Powell (Colwall) Tues. Seven Stars I o PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Curtis, Rev. George J ames, M. A. (rector), The Rectory Vale, Henry Edward (major of the Worcestershire militia), Coddington court COMMERCIAL. Chamberlain, Henry, farmer, Pound farm Dallow, Miss Harriette, schoolmistress, School house Farmer, George, gardener Farmer, James, mason, beer retailer, and shopkeeper, The Plough Hill, John, farmer and hop grower, Church farm Hodges, Chas., wood man to Mrs. Holland J ames, Thomas, carpenter & wheelwright Kendrick, John, Kettle brook Lett, Alfred, Coddington farm Moss, Henry, tailor Powell, James, farmer, Moorcroft {and in Colwall parish) Purser, Charles, farmer, Bush farm Reynolds, William, gamekeeper to C. A. Hewitt, Esq., J.P., D.L. Roberts, John, Strangewood farm Rogers, Stephen, beer retailer, Golden Cross, and wheelwright Smith, John, farmer and hop grower, Woefields COLLINGTON. COLLINGTON is a parish pleasantly situated near the borders of Worcestershire, and on the Bromyard and Tenbury road, distant 4 miles N. of Bromyard, 7 S.E. of Tenbury, IT E. of Leominster, !8 N.E. of Hereford, and I6 w_ by N. of Worcester; is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district and petty sessional division, and Brimfield and High Lane polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 128; in I88I, 103; inhabited houses, 23; families or separate occupiers, 23; area of parish, 985 acres; annual rateable value, £947· By an order which came into operation on 25th March, r884, under the Divided Parishes Act, two detached parts of Edwin Loach were amalgamated with this parish. William Barneby, Esq., of Saltmarshe Castle, who is lord of the manor, Rev. E. G. Baldwyn-Childe, of Kyre Park, Tenbury, Thomas Philip Payne Wight, Esq., and the Governors of Christ's Hospital, London, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and loam. In the parish is a large gravel pit: a narrow seam of sand and gravel runs through the middle of it on a slight elevation from north to south ; the western soil has limestone, and to the south-west freestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, hops and apples. Collington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of North Frome; living, a rectory, consolidated with that of Edwin Ralph; joint value, £406, with residence and 66 acres of glebe; patron, Rev. E. G. Baldwyn-Childe; rector, Rev. E. L. Childe-Freeman, of Brasenose College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1882, and resides at Edwin Ralph rectory. The church, dedicated to St. Mary the Vi"rgi·n, is a

COLLINGTON COLWALL. small building in the Early English style of archittcture. It was erected in I 8 56 of freestone found in the parish j total cost, about £7oo. There is no school in the parish. The children attend the district schools at Thorn bury and Stoke Bliss. There is a small chapel for the Primitive Methodists. R·ipplewood is the residence of Thomas Philip Payne Wight, Esq. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Worcester vid Bromyard, and arrive by messenger from the latter place about 10.30 a.m. Bromyard is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Worcester. Parz'sh Church ( St.lJa1y the Vz"rgin ), Rev. E. L. Childe-Freeman, M.A., Rector; Mr. William Nott, Churchwarden; William Sirrell, Pm·t"sh Clerk.· CARRIERS TO BROMYARD. Name Mrs. Oliver (Stoke Bliss) John King John King Day Thurs. do. CARRIER TO Tues. PRIVATE RESIDENT. Wight, T. P. Payne, Ripplewood COMMERCIAL. Beamand, Henry, farmer & hop grower, Field house Beamand, Rd., frmr., Lower Field house Jones, Edw., cottage farmer, Combswood Stopping Place King's Arms The Falcon TENBURY. The Bell Return at 3 0 2 30 Hyde, John J efferies, farmer, Church house, res. High street, Bromyard Keysell, Thomas, farmer, Underhill King, John, carpenter Lane, Chas., cottage farmer, The Bank Nott, William, farmer and hop grower, Castle and Glebe land Seeley, James, cot. farmer, Bald grove Sirrell, 'Vm., blacksmith & parish clerk COLWALL. COLWALL is a large parish, village, and railway station on the Worcester and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway. It is situated on the western side of the 1\!Ialvern hills, about 4 miles N.E. of Ledbury, 3} S.W. of Malvern, and r8 E. of Hereford, and joins the parish of Mathon, in \Vorcestershire ; it is in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Bosbury and Colwall polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871, was 1,349; in 188 I, I ,438 ; inhabited houses, 289 ; families or separate occupiers, 324 ; area of parish, 3,580 acres ; annual rateable value, £9,902. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Benjamin Bright, Esq., are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Benjamin Bright, Esq., Lady Henry Somerset, Charles Archibald Hewitt, Esq., Nicholson Peyton, Esq., Stephen Ballard, Esq., C.E., Mrs. Holland, and R. W. Raper, Esq. The soil is various ; subsoil, clay; chief produce, hops, wheat, beans, fruit, &c. Colwall is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Frame ; living, a rectory ; value, £484, with residence and 54:! acres of glebe ; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; rector, Rev. George Musgrave Custance, M.A.,

168 COLWALL. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1867. The Rev. H. Bennett, is the curale. The church, dedicated to St. :fames the G1·eat, is an ancient edifice chiefly in the Norman and Early English styles of architecture. It consists of a nave with two aisles, chancel, and square castellated tower at the west end containing six bells. The chancel was entirely rebuilt in 186 5-66 at a cost of £1,8oo, defrayed by the late rector and his family. It contains four beautiful memorial windows of stained glass, and has been made very ornate with encaustic tiles on the floor and within the altar rails. The reredos is enriched with the cross and other sacred emblems. The organ was the gift of the late rector ; it occupies a chamber on the north side of the chancel, and was supplied by Mr. Nicholson, ofW orcester. A swell has been added by the present rector and others as a memorial to his sister, Miss P. Custance. There is a very efficient surpliced choir. The nave shows fourteenth-century decorated work, and is divided from its side aisle by four pointed arches resting on round pillars. It was entirely restored in 188I, when the south aisle was added, and memorial windows of stained glass, by Kempe, were inserted in memory of members of the Bright family. The tower is in a good state of preservation, and is connected with the nave in a curious way, as if originally it had been separate from the church, as some other Herefordshire towers are. In the south aisle is a mural slab in memory of a member of the Walwyn family ofRhudhale, date 1587, and under the tower is a flat stone of ancient date, with an incised cross. The font is Norman. Accommodation is provided for 350 worshippers, all the seats being free and unappropriated. There is daily service in the church, and weekly celebration of the holy communion. The parish registers begin with the year 1558. Close to the church stands a quaint building said to be the remains of the hunting palace of the bishop of Hereford. The school church of The Good Shejhe1·d at "The 'Vyche," is a neat modern building, situate at a distant part of the parish, nearly at the top of Malvern hill. Divine service is held here twice on Sundays, and the holy communion is celebrated fortnightly. An endowed grammar school for boys was founded here in 1649, by Humphrey Walwyn, Esq., of the Grocers' Company, London. This Company now supplies funds for the free education of every boy in Colwall; and the present school buildings erected in I 8 5 r, and enlarged in I 88 3, are used as a free elementary school. Liberal prizes for attendance are provided by the same company. There is accommodation for 121 boys; average attendance, 53· Mr. A. T. Waters, is the head master; Mr. J. A. Ludlow, assistant. The Rev. C. Black, M.A., Oxon., late assistant master in King Edward's School, Birmingham, is nominal headmaster, and acts as manager for the Grocers' Company. Mr. Black has a spacious private residence of his own, in which he has established a flourishing school for preparing boys for the public schools. There is a school for girls on Colwall Green, with acco~modation for I I 7 girls ; average attendance, 7 I ; and a school for boys and gir Is at " The W yche '' with accommodation for 1 I 3

COL WALL. children; average attendance, 61. A Sunday school is held in connection with both schools. The Wesleyans have chapels at "The Wyche" and Col wall Green; a Sunday school is held in connection with the latter. The Brethren have a chapel at Colwall Stone. Suitable apartments may be obtained in the village for visitors to the neighbourhood. The charities belonging to the parish are of £3o yearly value. This parish is famous as the scene of many of the writings of Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning one of the greatest female poets that England has produced. She was born in London, of wealthy parents, in I 809, and began her literary efforts almost contemporaneously with Tennyson. Her girlhood, nevertheless, was partly spent at Hope End in this parish ; and we find reminiscences of this district in her ''Aurora Leigh," and in some of the minor pieces, especially "The Lost Bower," such as :- "Green the land is where my daily Steps in jocund childhood played ; Dimpled close with hill and valley, Dappled very close with shade ; Summer snow of apple blossom Running up from glade to glade." This parish contains several handsome residences. Hope End, an elegant mansion, is the seat of Charles Archibald Hewitt, Esq., J.P., D.L. The park is well wooded, and comprises about 900 acres. Old Colwall is the residence of Mrs. Holland ; Barton Court is the seat of B. Bright, Esq., D.L. ; The Wz'nnings, Stephen Ballard, Esq., C. E. ; Brand Lodge, W. d'Egville, Esq. ; Hoe Court, The Misses Raper ; The Quarry, Mrs. Devas ; and The Lz1zdens, Mrs. Broadbent. Walm's well and Moorall's well are springs in this parish, which for a long series of years enjoyed a high repute for curative properties. The Royal Malvern well near the Wyche pass, is a very copious spring, and is now used for a soda water manufactory and a brewery. The vinegar works established a few years ago is also supplied from other noted springs. On the summit of one of the highest ridges of the Malvern hills, and on the borders of Worcestershire, are the immense works of the Herifordsh£re Beacon, formerly one of the strongest and most important hill-fortresses in this island. The vast labour employed in its construction, its amazing belts of ramparts and trenches, its great extent, its wellchosen situation, which commands what was anciently the only pass through the Malvern hills, its singular irregularity of form and evident dissimilitude to the modes of fortification observed by the Danes, Saxons, and Romans all combine to establish its origin, which must unquestionably be ascribed to the Britons. The same reasons also prove that it was not constructed for mere temporary purposes, but rather for permanent security, as a place wherein an entire district might seek refuge, with all their possessions, whether of flocks or herds, in case of invasion, or any other sudden emergency. It is almost impossible for words to convey a complete idea of this immense stronghold ; the works are too vast, the heights too unequal and the base of the eminence too extensive. Some antiquarians attribute the immense labour spent on these works more to the L

COLWALL. importance of the hill as a centre of Druidical worship, rather than to its value as a fortification. They point to the want of water within the lines as necessitating only temporary occupation. Near one of the springs at the base of the hill, a labourer found in t6 so an ancient ''tore" which must have belonged to a chief, and legend says that a great battle was fought round this spring. ''It was set with precious stones, of the size to be drawn over the arm and sleeve. It was sold to a Mr. Hill, a goldsmith in Gloucester, for £250, and the jeweller sold the stones, which were deeply inlaid, for £I,5oo.'' The general shape of the hill, at least of that portion occupied by the works, approaches to an ellipse ; and the disposition of the banks and ditches correspond with that figure. The area of the centre and highest part is an irregular parallelogram, measuring about 6o yards in its longest diameter, and nearly 40 yards in its shortest ; this is surrounded by a high and steep rampart of stones and earth, now covered with turf; and that again defended by a very deep ditch. Considerably below this, on the acclivity of the hill, ranging towards the south-west, or rather south-west by south, is a very extensive outwork or bastion, of an oval form, containing a sufficient area for the stowage and even pasturage of horses and cattle. This is connected by means of a narrow slip of land, running beneath the south-east side of the upper ditch, with a similar kind of bastion or outwork, ranging eastward, and manifestly intended for similar purposes. Both the works are surrounded by a high rampart and deep ditch; and the enclosed areas have evidently been levelled by art as far as the natural shape of the eminence would permit. Still lower on the acclivity on the N.W. sides are successive ranges of ramparts and ditches, very steep, deep, and high, encircling the sides of the mountain, and rendering it nearly, if not utterly, inaccessible. The views from the summit of this majestic work include a vast extent of country ; and Herefordshire from this height assumes a very distinct character to that of the contiguous districts of Worcester and Gloucester. It appears to be composed of an immense continuation of oblong, conical, and irregular hills, principally covered with fine timber, the deep shadows of whose luxuriant foliage project over beautiful vales, abounding with orchards, cornfields, and hopgrounds. The distance in the west is finely marked by the range of the Black mountains and the hills of Radnorshire. The prospects to the east and south-east are yet more extensive, including a very large proportion of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, which appears spread out before the sight, variegated by all the charms of nature and cultivation. The Herefordshire Beacon itself is conspicuous for many miles round, and forms an object of uncommon grandeur. PosTAL REGULATIONS Post office, Col wall green; Miss Charlotte Richards, Suh-Postm£stress. Letters arrive from Great Malvern at 8.10 a. m. and 4·35 p.m. ; despatched thereto at I 1.10 a. m. and 5.30 p.m. The wall letter box at the station is cleared at 5-40 p.m. ; and the letter box near the church is cleared at 10.30 a.m. and 5 p.m.; the letter box at Newcourt is cleared at 5.50 p.m. Colwall is a money order office and savings bank. Telegrams may be sent from Colwal~ railway station. Post town, Great Malvern.

COLWALL. Parish Church (St. :fames the Great). Rev. George Musgrave Custance, M.A., Rector ; Rev. H. Bennett, Curate ; Messrs. Henry Horton, and D. BirchJey, Churchwardens; Edward Beatley, Parish Clerk and Sexton. The Wyche School Chu1·ch of " The Good Shepherd" (licensed by the Lord Bishop for divine worship). The Rector or his Curate ojfici'ates. National School ( gz'ds ), Col wall Green. Miss A. Tibbits, Mistress. lVatzonal School (boys and gz1·ls), The Wyche. Miss Page, Mistress. Endowed Grammar School. Rev. Charles Black, M.A., Manager; Mr. A. T. Waters, Head Master,; Mr.]. A. Ludlow, Assistant Master. Wesleyan Chapel, Colwall green. Mznz"sters various. Wesleyan Chapel, The W yche. M£niste1"S varzous. Plymouth B1·ethren Chapel. Ministers various. Police Station, Colwall. Alfred Clee, Constable i'1t cha1·ge. Rm:Zway Station ( Wo1·cester and Hereford branch of the Great Western Razlway West Afidland Sect£on). ]. Leworthy, Station Master. Assz"stant Overseer. Mr. W. Miller, The Brook. CARRIER TO LEDBURY. Name John Powell Days Tues. Stopping Place Seven Stars Return at I 0 CARRIER TO MALVERN. John Powell Wed. & Sat. The Unicorn 3 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bal1ard, Stephen, M. Inst. C. E., The Winnings Bennett, Rev. H., curate, Colwall cottage :Birchley, The Misses, Colwall cottage Black, Rev. Charles, M.A. (head master of the Grammar School), School house, Colwall green Bright, Benjamin, D.L., Barton court Broadbent, Mrs., The Lindens Canning, J. S., \Vych crest Conder, E., New court Custance, Rev. George Musgrave, M.A. (rector), The Rectory d'Egville, W., Brand lodge Devas, Mrs., The Quarry de Winton, Mrs. J. P., Golden valley Fowler, E. Heymour, Barton court Goldschmidt, Otto, Wind's point Hewitt, Charles Archibald, .J.P., D.L., Hope end Holland, Mrs. Old Colwall Hookham, Frederic, The Court Mansel, Miss Rosabelle, Gazely Meats, Henry, Burley O'Connor, C. F., Upper Grove's end Pullen, Mrs., The Mount Raper, The Misses, Hoe court Shepherd, Frank, Lower Grove's end \Villcox, Samuel, Glenwood COMMERCIAL. Alien Herbert, farmer, The Knell Bailey, Herbert, farmer, Cowl barn :BALLARD, STEPHEN, Malt Vinegar :Brewer. Silver Medal Paris Exhibition, 1889. The only award for Pure Malt Vinegar. Ballard, Stephen, civil engineer and railway contractor, The Winnings Beatley, Edward J., parish clerk Birchley, Donald A. G., farmer and hop grower, Brockbury Bowers, Allan, farmer, New meadow Bunn, William, butcher, Colwall stone< Burston, Henry, bailiff to G. Wilesmith, Colwall park Cale, Robert, farmer,. Lugs mill farm Clarke, Adam, grocer, Evendine Clee, Alfred, police constable, Colwall stone Collis, Thomas, Royal Oak Inn, and rope manufacturer Connop, Jas., coal dealer, railway station Dallow, Richard, Wellington Inn, Chances pitch Dallow, Wm. John, gardener to Rev. C. Black, Frame cottage

COLWALL COMBE. Edden, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Brock hill Etheridge, Charles, farm bailiff for S. Ballard, Esq., C. E., New farm buildings Graves, Herbert, grocer and provision dealer Harford, J., wheelwright, Colwall green Hehir, Henry, baker and grocer Hodges, W alter, farmer, Malt house Hooper, George, wheelwright & carpenter, Evendine HORTON, HENRY, shopkeeper, and manufacturer of tents, marquees, flags, rick and cart covers, ropes, twines, halters, sacks, sheep netting, &c.; tents for hire conveyed to any part of the kingdom ; Colwall Horton, Mrs. Henry, grocer and provision dealer, Field's end INGRAM, Mrs. ANNIE, British Camp Hotel, "Herefordshire Beacon," Malvern. Wines & spirits, ales, stout & porter ; prime bottled cider & perry. Pic-nic parties, tourists, and others visiting the above renowned localities, supplied with refreshments, and every accommodation afforded upon the most most economical rates. Agent for ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, Hereford. Price lists and particulars on application. See Ad~·t. at end of Directory James, George, farmer, Colwall mill farm Johns, George, salesman for J. Meats & Sons, coal merchants, railway station King, Alexander, farmer, Mapleton house farm King, John A., carpenter, Edward'sclose Leworthy, J., station master, Railway station . Lloyd, John, blacksmith, Col wall green Ludlow, J., assistant master at Free school, Oakley house Matthews, John, farmer, Old castle Meats, John & Son, coal, salt, and building material merchants; agents for Griffin & Morri-s' celebrated manures, depots at Colwall, Ledbury, and Newent railway stations Miller, Wm., land surveyor, assistant overseer, and correspondent for the Worcester AdveTtiser, The Brook Moore, J ames, blacksmith, Col wall green Nash, Edmund, Horse and Groom Inn, shopkeeper and miller, Upper mill New, Arthur B., farmer, The Cummins Oatridge, Fredk., carpenter, The Wyche Oliver, Thomas, carpenter, The Stone Orgee, Hy., coal merchant, Colwallstone; dep&t at railway station Orgee, Thomas, Yew Tree Inn Page, Miss, schoolmistress, The Wyche Paton, George, beer retailer, The Crown Pedlingham, Albert, Laburnum villa Pedlingham, Charles, Laburnum villa Pedlingham, Charles, jun., carpenter and joiner, Ivy cottage PEDLINGHAM, JOHN, family grocer and provision merchant, ham & bacon curer, Supply Stores, Colwall green Pedlingham, Thomas, butcher, Stone farm Pitt, Richard, farmer, Lower house Plowman, William, grocer and baker, Colwall stone Powell, J ames, farmer, Moorcroft Powell, John, carrier, Provident villa, Colwall green Powell, Martin J ames, draper POWELL, Mrs. EMMA, close and open carriage proprietor; grocer & provision dealer, Tan house, Colwall green Pull en, John, baker and shopkeeper Rodway, Henry, mason, The Wyche Rogers, Allen, wheelwright, carpenter, and timber merchant Rogers, Edward, blacksmith and cottage farmer. Colwall stone Royal Malvern Spa Hall Art Gallery, &c., pleasure grounds, West Malvern Royal Malvern Wells Brewery Co., brewers, West Malvern, W. H. Tyler, proprietor Royal Well Mineral \Vater Co., West Malvern, Edward Salmon, proprietor Small, John, farmer, Nether path Smith, 'l'homas, cooper Spencer, Edward, farmer, Petty France Step hens, John, Ash field villa Temperance Hotel, at the stone, near Colwall railway station; proprietor, Stephen Ballard; manager, Wm. Wall Tibbitts, Miss, schoolmistress, Col wall gr. Waters, A. T., head master of Free school, Colwall green Watts, Mrs., grocer, Colwall green Wharton, Mrs., shopkeeper, The Wyche Whiting, William, carpenter, Broadfield cottage Wilcox, Wm., carpenter, Chance's pitch Wilesmith, George, farmer, Col wall park, res. Malvern Link Wilkins, Fredk., farmer, Hoe Court farm Wilkins, Thomas, farmer, Barton farm COMB E. COMBE is a township belonging to the parish of Presteigne (Radnorshire), but situated in the county of Hereford. It is distant about 2 miles E. of Presteigne railway station, 8 N.E. of Kington, 5 N.W. of Pembridge, 12 W. by N. of Leominster, and 22 N.W. of Hereford;

COMBE COWARNE (LITTLE). 173 is in Huntington hundred, Kington union, Presteigne county court district, Byton school board district, Lingen and Titley polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Kington petty sessional division. The population in 1871 was 95; in 188r, 78; inhabited houses, 22 ; families or separate occupiers, 24 ; area of township, 599 acres; annual rateable value, £963 ros. F. L. Evelyn, Esq., is lord of the manor, and with Mrs. Coates, and the Executors of the late Stanton Meyrick, Esq., are the principal landowners. The township lies in a very fertile valley, having excellent soil, abounding with corn, orchards, and rich pastures, and watered by the rivers Lugg and Hindwell, which afford some capital trout and grayling fishing. There is an ancient tumulus near the village in a field called " Ban nets." The south boundary of the township runs along the side of Wapley (or Warren) hill, on the summit of which are vestiges of an extensive camp. The slope of the eminence is finely covered with oak, and the hill is noted for the salubrity of its air, and for a never-failing supply of beautiful water. In the house called the '' Lower Heath," occupied by Mr. Turner, is an ancient panelled room where King Charles slept after the battle of Worcester, and not far distant is a lane called the "King's turning," where he is supposed to have turned from the high road to escape from his pursuers. Combe House is the residence of Mrs. Coates. PosTAL REGULATIONS. John Lucas, Sub-Postmaster. Letters are received by messenger through Presteigne, at 8.25 a.m. ; despatched at 5.30 p.m. Presteigne is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Letter.s should be addressed, Combe, Presteigne, R.S.O. Herefordshire. PRIVATE RESIDENT. Coa.tes, Mrs., Combe house • COMMERCIAL. Davies, J ames, farmer, Bridge house Davies, John, farmer, Broad heath COWARNE DAVIES, WILLIAM, agricultural implement maker & threshing machine proprietor Morgan, John, farmer Price, Wm., farmer, Combe farm Turner, T. A., farmer, Lower heath (LITTLE). LITTLE COW ARNE, otherwise COW ARNE P ARV A, is a parish and village situate about I~ miles W. of the main road between Bromyard and Hereford, 4 S.W. of Bromyard, ro N.E. of Hereford, 9 S.E. of Leominster, 13 N.W. of Ledbury, and 6 E. of Dinmore railway station; it is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Stoke Lacy polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 213; in r88r, 170 ; inhabited houses~ 44; families or separate occupiers, 45; area of parish, 688 acres ; annual rateable value £993· John Hungerford Arkwright, Esq., of Hampton court, Leominster, James Parker, of Holbatch, Rev.]. T. Lea, Bewdley, and Mr. Edward Abell, are the principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay and rock ; chief produce, wheat, beans, peas, hops, and fruit. Little

174 COWARNE (LITTLE) COWARNE (MUCH). Cowarne is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of North Frome; living, united to the rectory of Ullingswick; joint value, £335, with 52 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester : rector, Rev. John Middleton Ware, LL.B., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1855, and resides at Ullingswick rectory. The church is an old Norman edifice, with nave, chancel, tower, south porch, font, and two bells. It underwent restoration in 1869 at a cost of £5IO. There are three small windows of stained glass in the chancel. Divine service is held once on Sundays and Festivals. The earliest register is dated 1563. The children of this parish attend the national schools at Ullingswick, Pencombe, and Stoke Lacy. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Worcester, vza Bromyard, and arrive from the latter place by messenger at 9· I 5 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 5 p.m. Bromyard is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Bromyard. Parish Church. Rev. John Middleton Ware, LL.B., Rector .i Mr. John Howells, Churchwarden.; Edward Mitton, Parish Clerk. Assistant Overseer. Mr. John Gibbs, The Heath. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Return at J oseph Hyde. Wed. & Sat. Stopping Place White Lion 3 0 CARRIER TO BROMYARD. William Fletcher Thurs. Queen's Arms 3 0 • COMMERCIAL RESIDENTS. Abell, Edward, farmer and hop grower, White house Am yes, Mrs., farmer, Lower house Derry, William, farmer, Rams corner Edwards, Charles, miller and farmer, Cowarne mill Edwards, John, farmer & hop grower, New house Fawke, Joseph, shopkeeper and cottage farmer, The Cherry orchard Fletcher, \Vm., mason Gibbs, John, farmer & assistant overseer, The Heath COWARNE Hanson, William, farmer & hop grower, Meadow court Hemming, Fredk., farmer, Cowarne court Ho wells, John, farmer and hop grower, Upper house Hyde, J oseph, cottage farmer, & carrier, Pilliner hill • :Mitton, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Shortwood Morris, William, cottage farmer Robinson, William, farmer, The Steps Turbill, William, blacksmith, and beer and cider retailer Weaver, James, cottage farmer, Ferney corner (MUCH). l'riUCH COW ARNE, or COW ARNE l'riAGN A, is a village and extensive parish pleasantly situated on the river Leddon, or Leadon, between the main roads leading from Bromyard to Hereford and from Worcester to Hereford (over Frome hill). It is distant 9 miles N.E. of Hereford, Si S. by W. of Bromyard, 10 N.W. of Ledbury, 13 W. of Malvern, and 18 W.S.W. of Worcester; is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Stoke Lacy polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in I 8 7 I was 57 5 ; in I 88 I, 498 ; inhabited houses, I I I ; families or separate occupiers, I I 8 ;

COW ARNE (MUCH). 1 75 area of parish, 3,288 acres ; annual rateable value, £4,279. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Avenbury was united with parts of Much Cowarne, and the parts so united were amalgamated with Stoke Lacy. Colonel Bourne is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey ; subsoil, red marl; chief crops, wheat, beans, peas, hops, fruit and pasture. There are some large farms in the parish, and the soil generally is fertile. There is some good trout :fishing in the Leddon. Much Cowarne is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome ; living, a vicarage; value, £245, with residence and 7! acres of glebe ; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester ; vicar, Rev. James John George Graham, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1861. The church, dedicated to St. Mary the VZ:rgin, is an old stone building in the Early English style of architecture. The nave, south aisle, and chancel have been thoroughly restored with new roofs, floors, and pitch-pine seats, all of which are free. The porch, pulpit, and font (with cover) are also new. Three arches in the north wall have been opened and restored, displaying an ancient piscina in one column. Upwards of £I,8oo has been spent on the whole works. This large sum, excepting £200 expended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the chancel and £372 contributed by Church Building Societies, has been raised by the vicar chiefly from kind contributors unconnected with the parish. There are three ancient monuments in the church ; one is the effigy of Grimbaldus, cross-legged, and habited after the Norman manner. This Grim bald us distinguished himself in the expedition against Tunis, where he was taken prisoner. His captors demanded as ransom a joint of his wife, who cut off her left hand and forwarded it to her husband. The church is situated on an eminence which commands some picturesque views. The earliest register is dated I 559· There is a national school for boys and girls situate near the church. It is a handsome stone building, with residence for the master attached; accommodation is provided for 132 childen; average attendance, 52. Five Bridges is a small hamlet in this parish distant about 2t miles E. of the church ; Burley Gate, 1 mile W., joins Ode Pitchard. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Worcester vza Bromyard, and arrive from the latter place by messenger at I I a. m. The letter-box, near the vicarage, is cleared at 4.30 p.m. Bromyard is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town. Parish Church (St .. 1lfary the Virgin). Rev. James John George Graham, M.A., Vt"car ./ Messrs. J ames Thomas Baker and Thomas Sirrell, Churchwarde1zs.; Vincent Boulcott, Parish Clerk. National School (boys and girls). Mr. Edward Essex, Master. Assistant Overseer. Mr. T. G. Bufton, Ocle Pychard. Name James Jones CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Days Wed. & Sat. Stopping Plaee Coach and Horses Return at

COWARNE (MUCH) CRADLEY. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bourne, Col., J.P. county alderman (High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1890), Cowarne court Graham, Rev. James John George, M.A. (vicar), The Vicarage COMMERCIAL. A.dney, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Red Witchend · A.mos, William, farmer and hop grower, Black Witchend farm Beaumont, A.aron, farmer & hop grower, Lower Hill end Boulcott, Vincent & John, blacksmiths Boulcott, Vincent, parish clerk Bourne, Col. Robert, farmer and hop grower, Cowarne court and Mill farm Bowcott, Thomas, Burley Gate Inn and farmer, Claypit Bowler, William, mason, Burley gate Brewer, Thomas, farmer & hop grower, The Hut Bufton, Charles, jun., carpenter, Lower Bach Cale, William, senr., brick maker and farmer · Cale, William, junr., farmer, Brickyard Challen, John, Parsonage farm Dent, Thomas Wm., farmer and hop grower, Leighton court Essex, Edward, master of National school Gurney, James, farmer and hop grower, Middle Moorend Gwilliam, John, shopkeeper, Win's green Gwillim, Peter, farmer, The Elms Gwillim, William, tailor and farmer, Burley gate Harrington, Miss Sarah, farmer and hop grower, Lower Moorend Hemmings, Rd., carpenter, Lr. Bridgend J ones, .J ames, cottage farmer and carrier, Brank'F: bridge Martin, Bartholomew, farmer and hop grower, 'I'he Farm Mereclith, Albert, farmer & hop grower, Hill end Meredith. Mrs. Jane, frmr., Burley gate Morgan, Hy., wheelwright, Capon bridge Morris, 'Villiam, farmer, The Orles Orgee, Samuel, farmer and hop grower, Upper Moor~nd Orgee, William, farmer and hop grower, Lower Hopton Panniers, .Edwin, farmer, Bridgend Phillips, Edward, carpenter and wheelwright, Mitchell cottages Pbilpotts, Charles, Callow marsh Philpotts, Mrs., Fir Tree Inn, grocer, and farmer, Callow Marsh Pitt, Mrs. Francis, grocer, The Fiv~ Bridges Inn Remnant, Edward, farmer, Little Elms Savager, Thomas, Badymarsh farm Savager, Thomas, jun., farmer and hop grower, Oowarne house Sirrell, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Richley Warwick, George, farmer & hop grower, Tan house CRADLEY (EAST AND WEST), WITH SToRRIDGE, STIFFORD's BRIDGE, RmGWAY, CowLEIGH GATE, HALESEND, AND THE PORTION OF WEST MALVERN IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORD. CRADLEY, divided into east and west, is a romantic and beautiful parish on the eastern border of this county, being nearly surrounded by Worcestershire. It is distant about 4 miles N.W. of Great Malvern, 8 N.E. of Ledbury, the same distance S.E. of Bromyard, 17 E. by N. of Hereford, and 4 N. of Colwall station on the Worcester and Hereford railway; is in Radlow hundred, Bromyard union and petty sessional division (part Malvern for convenience), Malvern county court district, and Bishop Frome and Cradley polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was r,853; in 1881, I,746; inhabited houses, 409; families or separate occupiers, 445 ; area of parish, 5,868 acres ; annual rateable value, £9.862. The Executors of the late Richard Yapp, Esq., who are lords of the manor, Henry Brace Little, Esq., of Birchwood, Miss Emma Shapland, of Hill House, E. B. Luxmore, Esq., C. W. Webb, Esq., of Dennis Hall, Stourbridge, Right Hon. Earl Beauchamp, of Madresfield Court, Joseph Fetherstonhaugh, Esq., of Hopton Court, and W. E. Wall, Esg., are the principal landowners. The soil is chiefly heavy land, strong clay and marl ; hops

CRADLEY. 1 77 are cultivated, with wheat, beans, roots, and fruit. Limestone is found in great quantities and of good quality; the quarries at Whitman's hill are well known. The Worcestershire and Herefordshire Beacons are objects of interest. Cradley is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Frome; living, a rectory; value, £1,023, with residence and IIO acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford ; rector, Rev. Edward Renn Hampden, M.A., of Christ Church College, Oxford, who was instituted in I 8 54, and is also prebendary of Put son Minore in Hereford cathedral. The Rev.· W. George Cook, B.A., of St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, is the curate. The church, dedicated to St. Yames, is in the Norman and Early English styles of architecture, and has a square castellated tower containing six bells. It was rebuilt in I869-70, at a total cost of £37666, defrayed by subscription. The chancel cost upwards of £I ,2oo. The east window is of stained glass by Hardman, of Birmingham, erected in I872 as a memorial to the late Thomas Webb, Esq., of this parish, by his sons and daughters; cost, £300. The south window is also of stained glass, the gift of the late Joseph Shapland, Esq. A new organ, by Nicholson, of Worcester, was placed in the church in 1874; it cost £340, and was the gift of the rector. In the churchyard is a fine old yew tree of several hundred years' growth. The earliest register is dated I65o. There is a national school for boys, endowed in I667, with accommodation far I 22 children; average attendance, 54 ; a class-room has been provided at a cost of £350. There is also a national school for girls and infants ; average attendance, 63. There is a charity belonging to the parish, called Hill's Charity, with an income derived from property yielding £8o per annum, upwards of £6o of which is distributed in clothing to the poor each Michaelmas Day. There are some curious old timber-framed houses, and the Seed farm is surrounded by a deep moat. Storridge is an ecclesiastical district formed out of the parish of Cradley in I 8 s6. It comprises I ,960 acres ; and contained in I88I a population of 212. The church, dedicated to St. john the Evangelist, stands at the junction of the highway to W orcester with the Cowleigh Park road, and is a handsome building of stone, consisting of nave and chancel. It was erected at the sole expense of the Misses Luxmore, sisters of the late rector of Cradley and dean of St. Asaph. The living is a vicarage; value, £190 (made up as follows £Ioo from Queen Anne's Bounty, £so from rector of Cradley, and £4o from Ecclesiastical Commissioners), with residence and 5 acres of glebe; patron, the rector of Cradley; vicar, the Rev. Arthur Henry Alien, B.A., Univ. Coli., Durham, who was instituted in I 88o. There is a national school for boys and girls, erected by Earl Beauchamp, with accommodation for 93 children ; average attendance, 43· It has been conjectured that the memorable conference between Augustine, the missionary to the Saxons, and the British bishops, was held upon the hill called Storridge. It has been further supposed that on an eminence to the right of Storridge, called Bear's wood, was one of the old temples of the ancient Britons. Stifford's :Bridge is a small place situate on Cradley brook, and on the main road

CRADLE¥. between Worcester and Frome hill. Cowleigh Gate is distant about 2 miles N. W. of Great Malvern. Crumpan Hill lies to the N.E. West .Malvern is an ecclesiastical parish situate chiefly in the civil parish of Mathon (Worcestershire), but includes also portions of Cradley and Colwall, in Herefordshire. There is charming scenery here. The principal residences in Cradley parish are Birchwood House, the seat of Henry Brace Little, Esq.; Halesend House, General Maclean ; The Hztl House, Miss Emma Shapland; and The Rectory, Rev. Edward Renn Hampden, M.A., ].P. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Post Office, Cradley village; Edward S. Kings, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Malvern at 8 50 a.m.; despatched thereto at 5·5 p.m. This is a money order office, and letters may be registered. West Malvern is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Great Malvern. Post Office, Stifford's Bridge; Thomas Preece, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Malvern at 7.50 a.m.; despatched thereto at 6.o p.m. This is a money order office, and letters may be registered. Malvern is the nearest telegraph office and post town. The wall letterbox at Ridgway cross is cleared at 5.15 p.m. The wall letter-box at Storridge is cleared at 6. I 5 p.m. on week-days, and at 10 a.m. on Sundays. Cradley Parish Church (St. james'). Rev. Ed. Renn Hampden, M.A., Rector_; Rev. W. G. Cook, B.A., Curate_; Messrs. Charles Purser and Thomas Trinder, Churchwardens; Joseph Stone, Parish Cle1·k. Storrz"dge Church (St. john the Evangehst). Rev. Arthur Henry Allen, B.A., Vicar_; Mr. J ames Pressdee, Churchwarden. Cradley National School (boys), near the Parish church. Mr. John H. Brooks, Maste1'. Cradley National School (girls and z1ifants). Miss A. Screen, Mistress. Storrz'dge NaNonal School (boys and gz'rls). Miss Annie Bull, Mistress. Lady Huntzngdon's Chapel, Westfield. :fofi1usters various. Cradley Oddfollows' Club, held at the Red L£otz Inn, Stifford's Bridge. John P. Powell, Secretary. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Edward S. Kings. CARRIERS TO WORCESTER. Name Days Martin Ely Sat. Wm. Gibbs Jas. Pan tall Wed. & Sat. W. Wm. Firkins (Frome hill) Chas. Went (Bishop Frome) Thos. Gregory (Castle Frome) Henry Philpotts (Bosbury) 1 ames Pullen , Sat. do. do. do. do. do . . Stopping Place The Pheasant The Old Greyhound do. The Reindeer The Pheasant Old Peacock do. Swan with Two Necks CARRIER TO MALVERN. Return at 4 0 4 0 4 0 2 30 3 3° 4 0 3 0 6 30 W. W. Firkins {Frome hill) Wed. The Beauchamp 2 o

CRADLEY. 179 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. ' Alien, Rev. A. H. (vicar of St. John the Evangelist}, Storridge Vicarage Arnold, R. S., Mill bank Carter, R. H., Fern hill Cook, Rev. W. G. (curate of Cradley), Queen's Wood Deedes, John Gordon, Hawkhurst Gales, Ernest F., Churchfield · Hampden, Rev. Edwd. Renn, :1\'I.A., J.P. (rector of Cradley, and prebendary of Putson Minora in Hereford cathedral}, county councillor, Cradley Rectory Little, Henry Brace, Birchwood house Maclean, General, Halesend house Rutter, Mrs. & Haynes, Mrs. W estMalvn. Shapland, Miss Emma, Hill house Trinder, Thomas (chairman of guardians of Bromyard union), The Nupend Wall, Jas., Rock cottage, West Mah·ern W arskett, A., Rose villa, Stifford's bridge COMMERCIAL. Alien, Chas., Seven Stars Inn, Stifford's bridge Archer, T., fm. bailiff for Miss E. Shapland Archer, Thomas, jun., miller for Charles Purser, Bean house mill Baker, 0., Cowleigh Gate and Storridge farms Bannister, Alfred, boot and shoe maker, Storridge Bannister, Richard, farmer, The Mines Bates, Christopher, farmer, Pitlock farm, res. Rolling's hill, Mathon Betteridge, Richd., farmer, Cradley hall and Hill farm, res. The Hill Bill, John, farmer, Home house Bint, Job Henry, Church house Bourne, Thomas, farmer, Batch-comb Brewer, William, beer and cider retailer, TheRedan, Hill end, West Malvern Brooks, John H., schoolmaster, Cradley Brooks, Wm., farmer, Byefields Bull, Miss, schoolmistress, Storridge Bullock, J ames, carpenter Clews, Frederick, farmer, The Seed farm Dutton, William, Brook house Essex, James, farmer and landowner, Crumpan hill, re&. Leigh Sinton Freeman, Wm., cottagefa.rmer, Moswick Gibbs, Reuben, farmer, Co~ley farm Gibbs, William, carrier Gill, John, grocer and shopkeeper, Brook house, Bury end street Griffith~ J., horse dealer & beer retailer, T"M urown, Ridgway farm Hill, Charles, cottage farmer Hodges, Solomon, f~~;rmer, Hidelow Hopkinson, Mra., R1dgwa.y cross Hopkinson, William, quarry proprietor, Ridgway cross Borne, David, Wool mill farm Hyde, Allan, police sergeant Jones, George, farmer, Broom Jones, John, florist, Churchfield - J oyner, Reuben, baker, Fair View villa, West Malvern KINGS, EDW ARD S., grocer, provision dealer, sub-postmaster, watch and clock maker, assistant overseer, and newspaper correspondent, Post-office, Cradley Lane, Matthew, Sycamore house, West Malvern Langfield, J., May bank, Hill end, West Malvern Laurence, Robert, Hope end farm and White house, res. Hope end Lewis, Richard, cooper, Bearswood Lloyd, Mrs. M .• laundress, West Malvern Manifold, William, Lawn house Mercer, Robert, farmer, Tan house Mitchell, James, Lamb Inn, Hill end, West Malvern M organ, John, gardener to R. S. Arnolds, Mill bank Morris, Albert, grocer, &c., post office, Ridgway cross Morton, John & Wm., masons, Storridge Notley, Job, Winthill farm Pan tall, J ames, carrier to Worcester Patrick, T., farmer, Hill farm Perrigo, Jas., bailiff to C. Purser, Little Halesend Powell, Mrs., butcher, Stifford's bridge Preece, Thos., shopkeeper and sub-postmaster, Stifford's bridge PRESTON, ALFRED, carpenter, wheelwright, and threshing machine proprietor. All orders receive prompt and careful attention . Pulling, Andrew, cowman to T. Trinder, farmer and miller, Black house Purser, Charles, farmer and hop grower, The Bean house, Homend, Halesend, · and Upper house farms Roberts, Mrs., laundress, Cowleigh gate Screen, Miss, schoolmistress, Cradley Smith, Samuel, miller, Heath mill Smith, W., farmer & miller, Barrow mills South, John, farmer, dealer, and beer retailer, New Inn Starkey, Thomas, farmer, Green farm Stone, J oseph, shoemaker & parish clerk Summers, Wm., baker, Hill end, West Malvern Trinder, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, The N upend and Black house farms Walker, John Hemming-, far, Barrow fa..,rmrn Watkins, T., blacksmith., Stifford's bridge Weaver, Thomas A., farmer, Wold farm, res. Queen's wood White, William, farmer, coal merchant, &c., Cowleigh Park farm Wil1iams, .A,lfred, threshing machine proprietor W oud, Wm., blacksmith, Ridgway cross Woodbridge, James, The Lion Inn, and Brook house and Old Workhouse farms W oodhouse, Alex., farmer & shoemaker, l.Vew Inn, Cradley hall Woodyatt, Jas., Hill End cottage, West Malvern

180 CRASSWALL. • CRASSWALL. CRASSWALL, CRASWELL, or CROSSWOLD, is a chapelry, township, and small village in the parish of Clodock, situated near the source of the river Monnow, at the foot of the Black mountains, which here form the boundary between Herefordshire and Brecknockshire. It is distant 5 miles . from V owch urch station on the Golden Valley Railway, 7 S.E. of Hay, 16 N. of Abergavenny, and about 16 W. of Hereford; is in Ewyas Lacy hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Hay county court district, and Longtown and Michaelchurch polling district, and electoral division of the county council. The population of the township in 1871, was 345; in 1881, 306 ; inhabited houses, 69 ; families or separate occupiers, 69; area, of parish, 3,835 acres; annual rateable value, £1,875· The Marquess of Abergavenny, who is lord of the manor of Ewyas Lacy, Mrs. Williams, and Miss Rawson are the principal landed proprietors. The soil is sandy ; subsoil, sandstone; chief produce, wheat, oats, barley, and roots. Crass wall forms a part of the parish of Clodock for ecclesiastical purposes only ; for civil purposes it has its own officers, and maintains its own poor. It is in Hereford diocese and archdeaconry and Weobley rural deanery; living, a perpetual curacy; value, £65, including 25 acres of glebe; patron, the vicar of Clodock (Rev. G. V. Collison) ; perpetual curate, Rev. W. S. Sellon, of the Theological College, Chichester, who resides at Longtown. The register begins with the year 1703. The church is an ancient stone edifice, with nave, porch, and small belfry with one bell. It is in great need of restoration. The township is included in the Longtown united district school board. New school buildings to accommodate 78 children, and with'an average attendance of 47, have been erected. The Primitive Methodists have two chapels here. Among the Black mountains, near the rise of one of the branches of the Monnow, and between one and two miles from the borders of Brecknockshire, formerly stood a small priory dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and subordinate to the order of Grandmount, in Normandy. It contained a prior and ten monks, who were established here about the end of the reign of King John. At the suppression, its revenues amounted to 40s. yearly, which were granted by Edward VI. to Christ's College, Cambridge. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mrs. Emma Davies, Sub-Postmistress. Letters are received through Vowchurch by messenger, at 10.30 a.m.; despatched at 2.45 p.m. Longtown is the nearest money order office. Hay is the nearest telegraph office. · Letters should be addressed Crasswall, Vowchurch, (Herefordshire). Crasswall Church (Chapel of Ease to Clodock.)-Rev. W. S. Sellon, Perpetual Curate; Mr. William ]ones, Chu1·chwarden,; Thomas Jenkins, Part'sh Clerk. Lo1zgtown Unz'ted Distn'ct School Board. John Gilbert Harris, Esq. (Longtown), Chairma11 .i T. Llanwarne, Esq., Clerk to the Board.: Mr. James ]ones, Master. Pri1ni'tz've Methodi'st Chapels. Mi'nt'sters various. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Jonathan Howells, Michaelchurch.

CRASS\VALL CREDENHILL. 181 CARRIER TO ABERGAVENNY. Name John Williams Day Tues. COMMERCIAL RESIDENTS. Beavan, Joseph, farmer, White Oak fm. Crump, Charles, farmer, \-Vern-wen Davies, Abraham, miller, Cwm mills Davies, Charles, blacksmith Davies, Mrs. E., shopkeeper & post office Davies, R., farmer, Llanoly farm, res. Dorstone Gane, Mrs. Jane, farmer, Court farm Gane, Thomas, Bull's Head Inn Gane, William, farmer, College farm, res. Court farm Gane, William, Upper house Gilbert, David, farmer, White Haywood Howells, Elijah, Great Black hill Howells, J ames, farmer, Gouldwain Hughes, Mrs., farmer, Runisford Jenkins, Aaron, farmer, Bettys, Tan house Jenkins, John, farmer, Little Black hill J enkins, Moses, farmer, Forest mill J ones, J ames, schoolmaster Jones, Samuel, farmer, Upper house Jones, Samuel, farmer, The Road Jones, Williams, farmer, Pentwyn Jones, W., New Forest Lewis, William, farmer, The Birches Meredith, Robert, farmer, Duke's farm Stopping Place Return at London Coffee Tavern 4 o Morris, George, farmer, Chapel house fm Morris, Mrs., Three Yew Trees Mountford, Edward, farmer, The Town Mountford, John, farmer, Rocky fold Palmer, Thomas, mason, Crossway Phillips, David, farmer, Tybothg Price, Isaac, farmer, Treland Price, J ames, farmer, Abbey farm Prosser, James, farmer, The rfleds Powell, Edwin, farmer, Lower Black hill Smith, Year, farmer, Cwm steps W atkins, Arthur, farmer, The Coed Watkins, David, beer retailer, Three Horse Shoes 'Vatkins, David, Upper Cwm, res. Hay "\Vatkins, Henry, farmer, Old house Watkins, Henry, farmer, Llandraw W atkins, John, Yatt., res. Michaelchurch Watkins, William, farmer, Old mill Williams, Benjamin, The Rock Williams, George, farmer, Cwm Williams, John, farmer, Shawls Winson, John, farmer, Crasswall court, res. The Barn Winson, W ., farmer and landowner, The Barn Yeomans, William, farmer, Middle Black hill CREDENHILL. CREDENHILL is a parish and railway station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch of the Midland railway, about I mile N. of the river Wye. The village is intersected by the main road between Hereford and Kington, and is distant 4! miles N.W. of Hereford, 16:! E. of Hay, 33! from Brecon, 14! S.E. of Kington, and I2 S. by W. of Leominster ; is in Grimsworth hundred, Hereford union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Burghill and Stretton polling district, and electoral division of the county council. The population in 187 I was 225 ; in 188r, 244 ; inhabited houses, 49 ; families or separate occupiers, 53 ; area of parish, r,217 acres; annual rateable value, £2,677 Ios. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Burghill and Tillington was amalgamated with this parish. W. Farrer Ecroyd, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The parish is fertile and well wooded; soil, loam and gravel; subsoil, red marl ; chief produce, wheat, barley, clover, roots, fruit, &c. On the summit of Credenhill are the remains of a Roman encampment, the area of which comprehends between 30 and 40 acres, bounded by a double ditch and rampart, and surrounded by almost inaccessible works, and forming a very beautiful and conspicuous object. From the irregularity of its form, it is supposed to have been of British origin, but afterwards strengthened by the Romans as an exploratory camp for the defence of Kenchester (Magna Castra); the works are

CREDENHILL. broken in many places, and the ditches partly obscured. The view from the summit of this camp is one of the most extensive in Herefordshire, and equally beautiful. Roman coins and other antiquities are frequently found in the vicinity. Credenhill is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of West on ; living, a rectory; value, £362, with residence and 26! acres of glebe; patron, W. Farrer Ecroyd, Esq. ; rector, Rev. Charles Henry Bulmer, M.A., of Magdalen College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 186r. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an old Gothic structure of stone, with square ivy-mantled tower containing two bells. It was thoroughly restored in 1876, under the superintendence of Thomas Nicholson, Esq., F.I.B.A., of Hereford. The church consists of nave, chancel, south porch (most interesting and of unusual elevation), and several marble monuments to the Eckley family. In the chancel is a stained glass window to the memory of St. Thomas a Beket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, both of whom were canonized in the same year. There is a very handsome specimen of modern glass in the east window, manufactured by Messrs. Clayton & Bell. The window on the south side of the chancel is also filled with stained glass by Messrs. Gibbs, in memory of Elizabeth, the beloved wife of John Reynolds, 1875· The parish registers begin with the year 1671. The charities amount to £3 10s. yearly. The school has accommodation for 89 children ; average attendance, 28. Credenhill Court, the residence of W. Farrer Ecroyd, Esq., is a modern mansion, lately almost entirely rebuilt, eligibly situated amongst picturesque plantations, and commanding most extensive views and delightful scenery. The Rectory, the toesidence of the Rev. C. H. Bulmer, M.A., is situate in a very beautiful spot a little below the camp. PosTAL REGULATIONS. John J ones, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive from Hereford by mail-cart at 8 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 6 p.m. Letters can be registered. Hereford is the nearest telegraph office, and post town. The pillar letter-box is cleared at 5.30 p.m. Par£sh Church (St. M ary' s ). Rev. Charles Henry Bulm~r, M.A., Rector; Mr. Richard M. Whiting, Churchwarden ; George Handcock, Par-ish Clerk. Nat£onal School (boys and girls). Mrs. Adcock, Mzstress. Ra-ilway Staf£o1l (Herefo1·d, Hay, and B1·econ branch of M-idland Railway). Mr. David Evans, Station Maste·r. Ass-istant Overseer. Mr. Philip Henry Pearce. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days Stopping Place John Evans (Weobley) Mrs. Taylor Wed. & Sat. do. Maidenhead Red Lion PRIVATE RESIDENTS. . Bulmer, Rev. Chas. Henry, M. A. (rector), The Rectory Ecroyd, William Farrer, J.P., Credenhill court Hardwick, Mrs., Monnington house Price, Gilbert Nicholas, Havod Price, Mrs., Park cottage Yeld, Mrs. Ad cock, house COMMERCIAL. Mrs., schoolmistress, Return at 4 0 3 3° School

• · CREDENHILL-CROFT. Adcock, John, market gardener Aldridge, Thos., carpenter & wheelwright Bebb, Joseph, farm bailiff for W. F. Ecroyd, Esq., The Cross farm Evans, Da.vid, station master, Railway station Green, Charles, butcher, Rose cottage Hall, Henry, farmer and hop grower, Court farm Handcock George, parish clerk J ones, Mrs., miller & farmer, Credenhill mill Jones, John, blacksmith, shopkeeper and postmaster Like, E. C. T., threshing machine pro· prietor Moythan, J oseph, shepherd Panniers, John, cottage farmer Pearce, H. & 1>., coal merchants, Bridge villa. Pulling, Henry, mason Taylor, Mapson, shoemaker Whiting, Richard M., fanner, Lower house CROFT, WITH THE TowNSHIP OF NEWTON. CROFT is a parish distant 6 miles N.N.W. of Leominster, and 18 from Hereford, adjoining the main road between Ludlow and Presteigne, and about 3 miles from Kingsland railway station ; is in W olphy hundred, Yarpole polling district and electoral division of the county council, Leominster union, county court district, and petty sessional division. The population in 1871 was g8, viz., Croft civil parish, 26; Newton township, 72 : in 1881, 102 1 viz., Croft civil parish, 36; Newton township, 66: inhabited houses, 22, viz., Croft, 7; Newton, 15: families or separate occupiers, 25, viz., Croft, 10; Newton, 15. The area is I ,584 acres, viz., Croft civil parish, 1,077 acres; Newton township, 507 acres; annual rateable value, Croft, £1,282; Newton, £972. The Rev. William Trevelyan Kevill Davies, of Croft castle, is lord of the manor and owner of the Croft estate. John Hungerford Arkwright, Esq., of Hampton court, is the chief landowner in Newton township. The soil is fertile; chief produce, wheat, beans, fruit, hops, and excellent pasture. Croft is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster; living, a rectory, consolidated with Yarpole vicarage; joint value, £254, with residence and 92! acres of glebe; patron, Rev. W. T. Kevill Davies ; rector, Rev. W. T. Kevill Davies, who was instituted in 1886. The church1 dedicated to St. Michael, is a small edifice situated on the lawn in front of Croft castle. It has a nave, chancel, and bell-turret ; also an ancient monument to the memory of the Croft family. The nave is in great need of restoration. Croft and Y arpole national schools will be found under heading of Yarpole. Croft Castle, the seat of the Rev. William Trevelyan Kevill Davies, j.P., is a handsome structure, with circular and pointed windows, embattled tower entrance, and four embattled corner towers. It has an extensive park, famous for its ancient oak and beech trees. It was anciently the seat of the Crofts, a Saxon family of distinction and celebrity, of whom Sir Bernard de Croft resided here in the reign of King Ed ward the Confessor, about the year 1o6o. Sir Jasper de Croft, his successor, was deprived of his freehold estate by William the Conqueror, who gave it to his follower, William de Scotries; the de Crofts continuing in occupation as tenants. Again recovering possession, their descendants continued to reside here till the conclusion of the last century, when ' • •

CROFT. the property was sold by the third baronet, Sir Archer Croft. This is one of the few instances in which property has descended from father to son for more than seven hundred years. A chief of this house, viz., Sir Herbert Croft, M.P., in the fifteenth century, retired from the world, and entered a Benedictine monastery at Douay, in French Flanders, where he lived many years in a narrow cell, and was interred in the church belonging to that order. The ancient family of Croft is now represented by Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, ninth baronet, of Lugwardine Court, near Hereford, vice-chairman of Herefordshire quarter sessions, and M.P. for Herefordshire from 1868 to 1874, whose ancestors represented this county in sixteen Parliaments between 1297 and 1874. (Sir Archer Croft, second baronet, was M.P. for Leominster in 1722). Thomas Johnes, Esq. (the learned translator of Froissart's ''Chronicles'' and other works), bought the estate of Sir Archer Croft, Bart., and sold it to Somerset Davies, Esq., in 1799, from whom it descended to his maternal grandson, the present proprietor. On an eminence in the north-western part of the park is a British camp, of elliptical form, with double ditch and ramparts, called Croft Ambury, and this probably was the site of the original castle an old border stronghold. The prospect from this site is extremely grand and extensive, including within its range thirteen counties. This is said to have been the camp of the British king, Ambrosius. The avenue of Spanish chestnuts is one of the finest in England. It was planted by Sir James Croft, M.P. for Herefordshire and controller of Queen Elizabeth's household, with seeds which were taken from one of the ships of the Spanish Armada which was wrecked on the coast of Wales, near a Welsh residence of Sir J ames Croft. Newton is a small township in the parish of Croft (but distant 8 miles S. thereof), about 4 S. of Leominster, 9 N. of Hereford, and! mile from Ford station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway, by which line the township is intersected. It is situated on the summit of some rising ground westward of the main road between Leominster and Hereford, and the few houses which it contains have a remarkably retired and sequestered appearance. Although forming a part of Croft parish for ecclesiastical purposes, it supports its own poor, and appoints its own officers. There is neither church, chapel, nor school in the township. The inhabitants attend Hope-under-Dinmore and Ford churches, which are each about 1 mile distant. The township is in Hope-under-Dinmore polling district, and electoral division of the county council. (The population and other statistics are given under the Croft heading.) PosTAL REGULATIONS. Croft letters arrive from Leominster at 8.45 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 4.15 p.m Newton letters arrive at 7 a.m. ; despatched at 4-45 p.m. Croft letters, &c. should be addressed Kingsland, R.S.O., and Newton letters, Leominster. Kingsland and Leominster are the nearest money order and telegraph offices. Pansh Church (St. Mzchael's). Rev. W. T. Kevill Davies, Rector,; Mr. John Lewis, Lucton, Churchwarde11,,; George Brown, Partsh Clerk.

CROFT CUSOP. CROFT RESIDENTS. Davies, Rev. William Trevelyan Kevill, J.P. (rector), Croft Castle Thomas, Rev. John (curate of Croft and Yarpole), The Rectory Rees, Waiter J., Home farm, Croft Bytheway, \Vm., head gardener to Rev. Kevill Davies, Croft gardens NEWTON RESIDENTS. Butters, George, farmer and hop grower, Hill house Powell, Wm. Maund, farmer and hop grower, Newton court Roberts, \Villiam, mason Wood, Thomas, farmer, Cold Oak CUSOP. CUSOP (anciently written Cheweshope) is a village and parish situated on the borders of Brecknockshire, and on the main road between Hay and Hereford, distant I mile S.E. of the former town, 19 W. of the latter, and I I S. of Kington. The Hay station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch of the Midland railway, which is also the terminus of the Golden Valley railway, is in this parish. It is in Huntington hundred, Hay union and county court district, Clifford polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Bredwardine petty sessional division. The population of Cusop in I 87 I was 208 ; in 1881, 200; inhabited houses, 50; families or separate occupiers, 53 ; area of parish, 2,262 acres ; annual rateable value, £2,881. The soil is sandy; subsoil, sandstone; chief produce, wheat, barley, 9ats, and roots. F. R. Trumper, Esq., of Hay, who is lord of the manor, Mrs. Slade Baker, Mrs. Watkins, Charles James Lilwall, Esq., Messrs. ]. A. Lindsay, and A. Bushell, are the principal landowners. Cusop is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of W eobley ; living, a rectory ; value, £2 10, with 40 acres of glebe : patron, trustees of the Rev. A. H. Seacome ; rector, Rev. A. H. Seacome, M.A., Christ College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1879. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is supposed to have been erected before the year I 100. It consists of nave, chancel. and porch, with font, bell-turret and two bells. The school is under the management of a school board. It has accommodation for 42 children; average attendance, 25. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Hay, R.S.O., which is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Par·ish Church (St. Mary's). Rev. A. H. Seacome, M.A., Rector./ Rev. J. W. Marsden, Cu1·ate z'n charge/ Messrs. Thomas Tipping Lawden and Charles James Lilwall, Churchwardens/ James Rock, Pansh Clerk. Cusop School Board. F. R. Trumper, Esq., Cha-irman/ Mr. H. C. Lloyd, Clerk to the Board/ Miss E. M. Edwards, Mistress. Hay Raz7way Station (Hereford, Hay and Brecon branch of the M-idland Railway). Mr. Thomas Rainbow, Stat-ion Maste1'. Asszstant Overseer. Mr. H. C. Lloyd, Bricklands, Hay, R.S.O. PR£VATE RESIDENTS. Easthope, John, Nant-y-glaster Griffiths, Robert Thomas, Ty-glyn Lawden, Thomas Tipping, Redwing Lewis, Miss, school residence Lilwall, Charles J ames, Llydyadyway Marsden, Rev. J. W. (curate in charge), Blenheim house Swinburne, Mrs., Dulas house M

186 CUSOP DEWCHURCH (LITTLE). COMMERCIAL. Bowen, Mrs., boarding house, Castle house Davies, Charles, farmer, Penhentland Davies, Edward, farmer, Tyllyshope Davies, Evan, farmer, Terrett Dyke, Evan, farmer, Nant-y-glaster Edwards, Miss E. M., schoolmistress James, Chas.,dairyman, Enocks,res. Hay Jones, John, miller for W. Terrett, The Mill . Jones, Mrs. Caroline, Blenheim house Lane, William, farmer, Tybordy Lilwall, Charles J ames, farmer and landowner, Llydyadyway Lloyd, Henry Charles, clerk to Cusop school board, and assistant overseer, Bricklands DEWCHURCH Meredith, John, farmer and landowner, Red lay Palfrey, Thomas, Inland Revenue officer, Cooper's hall PRICE, GEORGE, monumental mason, Sun Inn, Cusop_ Monuments, tombs, headstones, & tablets, supplied at moderate charges. Inscriptions neatly cut Price, J ames, farmer and quarryman, Blaenau Pugh, Thomas, farmer, Broad meadow Rainbow, Thomas, station master, Hay railway station Rock, J ames, parish clerk and sexton Stephens, Mrs., Nelson Inn Terrett, W., miller, Cusop mill; res. Hay 'Villiams, Charles, farmer, Mill farm Williams, John, farmer, Trevadock (LITTLE). LITTLE DEWCHURCH is a scattered village and parish situated on the main road between Hereford and Ross via Hoarwithy, and distant 6 miles S.S.E. of Hereford, 7 N.N.W. of Ross, and 3 S.W. of Holme Lacy station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester railway; is in W ormelow hundred (upper division), Hereford union and county court district, Dinedor and Little Birch polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Harewood End petty sessional division. The population in 1871 was 348; in 1881, 328; inhabited houses, 7 I ; families or separate occupiers, 7 5 ; area of parish, r,653 acres ; annual rateable value, £2,367. Lady Vincent, of Harewood House, is lady of the manor, and the Governors of Guy's Hospital, London, are the principal landowners. The parish is fertile, the produce being wheat, beans, barley, fruit, and roots. Soil, loam and clay; subsoil, soft rock. Little Dewchurch is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a vicarage ; value, £9o, with residence and I:f acres of glebe, also £7 7s. 4d. paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, an addition of £45 by the patrons, and a grant from Queen Anne's Bounty; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford; vicar, Rev. Donald Cameron, M.A., of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, who was instituted in r883. The parish registers begin with the year 1730. The church, dedicated to St. David, underwent complete restoration in r869-70, at a cost of £I,Soo. The nave and chancel were rebuilt from the ground, and the tower, which contains five bells, has been carefully repaired. There is a reredos ; and the east window of the chancel and two of the side windows are filled with stained glass. Accommodation is provided for I 30 persons. The restoration was carried out under the superintendence of Mr. Preedy, architect, of London. The national school has accommodation for 8o children ; average attendance, 39· A school teacher's cottage was built by subscription in r888, on ground adjoining the school, the site being given by the Governors of Guy's Hospital ; Mr. ]. S. Alder was the architect, and Mr. E. Norris the builder. In this

DEWCHURCH (LITTLE) DEWCHURCH (MUCH). 187 parish there formerly existed a nunnery, on the site of which, cottages have been built. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Edwin Norris, Sub-Postmaster. Letters are received from Ross, via Hoarwithy, at 8.45 a.m. and 4·45 p.m. ; despatched thereto at 4.40 p.m. Hoarwithy is the nearest money order office ; Holme Lacy is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Ross. Parz"sh Chu1·ch (St. Davz"d's). Rev. Donald Cameron, M.A., V£ca1· _; Messrs. John Digwood and Edward Watkins, Churchwardens_; Frederick Dallow, Sexton. Natz"onal School (boys and gi-rls). Miss Annie Jelbart, Mistress. Assistant Overseer. Mr. John William Preece. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Henry Slade Wed. & Sat. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cameron, Rev. Donald, 1\'I.A. (vicar), The Vicarage Kitsell, Alfred William, Kilforge house COMMERCIAL. Bennctt, C. Richard, farmer, Although Brace, Charles, cottage farmer Cooper, J acob, cottage farmer, Catson Dallow, Jas., cottage farmer and mason Dallow, Thomas, mason Digwood, John, miller & farmer, Potheda Evans, William, Plou(Jh Inn Fluck, John, farmer, The Weaven Stopping Place Return at White Lion 3 30 Griffi.th, William, The Friars J elbart, Miss A., school house J ones, John, boot and shoe maker Leake, Henry, Morastone Lewis, Jeremiah, farmer, Mount Boon Morris, Thomas, blacksmith Moxley, Geo., farmer, Dewchurch court N orris, Ed win, grocer and builder Owen, John, farmer, Upper Witherstone Seymour, E., farmer,'I~ower Witherstone Southern, George, farmer, W eavPn Vaughan, Henry, farmer, Altwynt Thomas, John, farmer, Potheda Watkins, Edward, frmr., The Cockshoot \Villiams, J ames, farmer, Knapp green Williams, Phillip, farmer, Sunny bank ' DEWCHURCH (MUCH). MUCH DEWCHURCH is an extensive parish and pleasant village situated on the high road leading from Hay to Ross, about 2 miles S.E. of Tram Inn, and the same distance E. of St. Devereux stations on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway (West Midland section). The village is distant about 61 miles S.S.W. of Hereford, 9 N.W. of Ross, and 16 N.E. of Abergavenny ; is in Wormelow hundred (upper division), Hereford union and county court district, Clehonger and Much Dewchurch polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Harewood End petty sessional division. The population in 1871 was 615; in 1881, 564; inhabited houses, II5; families or separate occupiers, I 20 ; area of parish, 4,886 acres ; annual rateable value, £7,498. T. Raymond Symons, Esq., is lord of the manor, and James Rankin, Esq., M.P., of Bryngwyn, and Mrs. Pateshall, of Allensmore Court, are the principal landed proprietors. The soil is clayey; subsoil, red sandstone ; chief produce, wheat, barley, turnips, peas, beans, fruit, and pasture. Much Dewchurch is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield ; living, a

188 DEWCHURCH (MUCH). vicarage ; value, £440, with residence and 41 acres of glebe ; patron, the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol; vicar, Rev. Jacob Francis Marillier, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1878. The church was anciently called Llan Dewz', or the Church of David, corrupted into Dewchurch. It exhibits the Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular styles of architecture, and is a structure of great antiquity, with square tower, surmounted with a high-pitched roof of oaken shingles, and containing six bells. It is dedicated to St. David, and has nave, chancel, porch, and north aisle, and two ancient monuments to the Pye family, dated 1547, and a stone to the Bodenhams of Rotherwas. It was restored in 1854 at a cost of £900; and again in 1877, when the north aisle was added. The earliest register is dated I 558. The charities belonging to the parish are numerous. There is a national school with accommodation for I 33 children ; average attendance, 54· The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel at Kiverknoll in this parish. About a quarter of a mile from the church is an old Roman camp. Bryngwy1t 7 the magnificent mansion of James Rankin, Esq., M.A., J.P., D.L., M.P., is delightfully situated on an eminence commanding one of the most extensive views in Herefordshire, and perhaps one of the finest landscapes in England. The house is built in the Early English style of architecture, from the designs of F. R. Kempson, Esq., F.I.B.A., of Hereford. The park is extensive and finely wooded, and the pleasure grounds are beautifully arranged. JI!Iynde Park is the property of, and occupied by, T. Raymond Symons, Esq. The mansion is a large and handsome structure, with a noble entrance-hall, 6o feet wide by 30 feet high. It ranges under the west side of Saddlebow hill, and the grounds, in which there is a large ornamental lake, afford some rich and well-wooded scenery. Kiverknoll is a hamlet. PosTAL REGULATIONS. John Bowen, Sub-Postmaster. This is a post and money order office and savings bank. Letters arrive from Tram Inn, 8.25 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 6.25 p.m. Nearest telegraph office, Tram Inn. Tram Inn post office, money order office, savings bank, and telegraph office, Tram Inn railway station, John Prosser, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive at 7-35 a.m.; despatched at 7.15 p.m. Letters should have R.S.O., Herefordshire, added. Parish Church (St. Dav£a's). Rev.]. F. Marillier, M.A., Vicar .i J. Rankin, Esq., M.P., and Mr. Richard Farr, Churchwardens.; Albert Southall, Parish Clerk. National School (boys and gids ). Miss K. Redman, JUi'stress. Prz1n£tive Methodzst Chapel, Kiverknoll. Mz1zz:Sters varz''ous. Tram Inn Railway Stat-ion (West Mz'dland seclz'on of Great Western Railway). Charles Caudle, Stat£on Jl;faster. Ass£stant Overseer. Mr. W. H. Wiltshire, Bryngwyn Cottage. CARRfERS TO HEREFOIW. Name Charles Bur leigh (Orcop) Thomas Oliver Henry Slade Days Sat. do. Wed. & Sat. Stopping Place Black Lion Red Lion White Lion Retumat 3 0 2 0 3 0

DEWCHURCH (MUCH) DEWSALL. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Belton, Samuel, Prospect house Bennett, Major Thomas M., Jvlonkhall Chitson, Mrs. Mary, Poole house Helme, Harold, Pool cottage Marillier, Rev. Jacob Francis, M.A. (vicar), The Vicarage Rankin, James, M.A. (Cantab.), M.P. for the northern division of Herefordshire, J.P., D.L. (for Herefordshire), and county councillor, Bryngwyn ; and 35, Ennismore gardens, Princes gate, London, S. W. Rogers, Miss Mary, Kiverknoll Symons, Thomas Raymond, J.P., Mynde park COMMERCIAL. Barrell, Thomas, Blackhouse Barrell, Thomas, Bettws court Bowen, John, shopkpr. & sub-postmaster Bowen, Thomas, salesman for the South Wales Coal Company, Tram Inn station Candle, Charles, station master, Tram Inn Cooke, J ames, farmer, Coed Moor corn. Cooke, Thomas, farmer, Pool wharf Dew, William, farmer, Ki verknoll Dimery, Charles, farmer, Jews Hayes Digwood, Thomas, headgardenerforThos. Raymond Symons, J.P., Mynde park Edwards, Thomas, farmer, Kiverknoll Edwards, William, farmer, Maypole Farr, Mrs. E., farmer, Cracohill Farr, Richard, farmer, Pool farm Griffiths, William, farmer, The Lawns Griffiths, William, farmer, Hill farm Growcott, John, farmer, Lodge farm Hardwick, Amos, blacksmith Harper, Albert, farmer, Ridby court Jennings, Henry John, farm steward, The Mynde J ones, J ames, farmer, Mileshiggins Jones, Thomas, Black Swan Inn Lee, Robert, farmer, Little Lowe Lewis, Charles, farmer, The Green farm Moran, J oseph, Grove farm, bailiff for James Rankin, M.P., J.P., D.L. N ash, vVilliam, head gardener for J ames Rankin, M.P., J.P., D.L., Bryngwyn Needs, Henry, head gamekeeperforJ ames Rankin, M.P., J.P., D.L., Bryngwyn Phillips, J ames, mason Price, John, wheelwright, Kiverknoll Powell, George, farmer, The Lowe farm Prosser, John, coal merchant and agent for Hadfield's manures, Tram Inn stn. Redman, Miss Kate, schoolmistress Shaw, Elijah, steward for James Rankin, M.P., .T.P., D.L., and agent to the North British and Mercantile insurance company, Bryngwyn cottage Southall, Albert, blacksmith and parish clerk V ale, William, cottage farmer & haulier, Kiverknoll W alters, J abez, cottage farmer & haulier, Coedmore W alters, John, farmer, Rhydd farm 'Villiams, J ames, farmer, Saddle bow farm Williams, James, farmer, New house DEWSALL. DEWSALL is a small parish situated near the Hereford and Ross road, about 4~ miles S.S.W. of Hereford, I I N.W. of Ross, and I! E. of Tram Inn station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway (West Midland section). It is in Wormelow hundred (upper division), Hereford union and county court district, Harewood End petty sessional division, and Clehonger and Much Dewchurch polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in I87I was 45; in I88I, 45 ; inhabited houses, 8 ; families or separate occupiers, 8 ; area of parish, 676 acres ; annual rateable value, £ 599· The Governors of Guy's Hospital, London, are lords of the manor, and own nearly the whole parish. The soil is clayey; subsoil, gravel ; chief produce, hops, wheat, beans, and fruit. Dewsall is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield ; living, a vicarage consolidated with that of Callow; joint value, £2oo, including £I4 allowed by Queen Anne's Bounty, with residence and 2 acres of glebe; patron, Rev. Alfred W. Horton; vicar, Rev. Alfred W. Horton, M.A., of Pembridge College, Oxford, who was instituted in I876. The church, dedicated to St. Mzchael, is a plain but ancient edifice, with nave, chancel, porch, and low tower containing three bells. It was neatly restored in 1868, at a cost of somewhat over £300. TJl.ere

DEWSALL DILWYN. are three monuments to the Pearle family, whose sole heiress intermarried with the family of Buckingham and Chandos, who formerly resided in this parish. The earliest register is dated I s8z. There is a school for the parishes of Dewsall and Callow, built by the Governors of Guy's Hospital. It is situate opposite Callow church. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Hereford, which is the post town. Nearest money order office, King's Thorn, Much Birch; telegraph office, Tram Inn. The wall box near Dewsall cottage is cleared at 4-35 p.m. Par£sh Church (St. Michael's). Rev. A. W. Horton, M.A., Vicar; Mr. A. H. Morris, Churchwarden.; Thomas Whiting, Parish Clerk. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name. Days. Stopping Place. Return at Henry Wall (St. W eonards) Wed. & Sat. Nelson 4 o PRIVATE RESIDENT. COMMERCIAL. Horton, Rev. A. W. (vicar of Dewsall Morris, Arthur Henry, farmer and hop with Callow), The Vicarage grower, Dewsall court DILWYN. DILWYN, or CHURCH DILWYN, is a large parish and village situated on the main road between Leominster and Hay, distant .2 miles N.E. of Weobley, 6 S.W. of Leominster, 1.2 N.W. of Hereford, and 16 N.E. of Hay; is in Stretford and Wolphy hundreds, Weobley union and petty sessional division, Leominster county court district, and Canon Pyon and Dilwyn polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in I 87 I was I ,099 ; in I 88 I, 1,046; inhabited houses, 226; families or separate occupiers, 2 54; area of parish, 6,245 acres; annual rateable value, £8,864- By an order which came into operation on 25th March, I 884, under the Divided Parishes Act, detached parts of Eardisland were amalgamated with Dilwyn and Weobley. Daniel Henry Peploe, Esq., of Garnstone castle, is lord of the manor, and a considerable landowner. The other principal landowners are Lacon Lambe, Esq., John W.Wilson, Esq., T. Burlton, Esq., Mrs. H. Evans, Messrs. Edward Bowen, George Bray, Samuel Griffiths, Henry H. Hope, Henry Moore, &c. The soil is clayey and loamy ; subsoil, clay and gravel; hops are much cultivated, with wheat, beans, barley, roots, and some fruit of a superior quality. There is good pasture, and the land generally is very fertile. Dilwyn lordship formerly belonged to the De Gamages, one of whom gave the right of depasturing on Midsummer meadows to the inhabitants of Leominster. Dilwyn is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of \Veobley; living, a vicarage; value, £442, with residence and 43 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishopof Hereford ; vicar, Rev. Thomas M organ, M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1873· The church, dedicated to the Vi"rgz'n Mary, was erected during the last quarter of the 13th century, and is therefore about 6oo years old. It consisted of nave, with north and south aisles, chancel, sacristy, a western tower and spire, and north and south porches. About a century later, the north

DILWYN. 191 transept was added, and the existing fine south porch replaced the previous one. During the next century (the I sth), the Early English roof of the nave gave place to that now existing, and the church was enriched by the setting up of several screens of carved wood. In the course of the intervening three centuries, the fabric, one of the finest and best proportioned in Herefordshire, fell into a state of dilapidation and decay. In 1867 the interior was thoroughly restored under the superintendence of G. C. Haddon, Esq., architect, of Hereford and Malvern. The chancel is a singularly well-preserved specimen of 13th-century work, for the roof and walls have not suffered in the least, either from the effect of time pr injudicious repairs. The windmvs, again, are intact, and so is the sacristy, rather a rare instance of an original erection, at any rate in Herefordshire. The east window was filled with painted glass in 1867, by Messrs. Heaton, Butler, & Bayne, as a memorial to the late Rev. J. Powell. There are some remains of ancient glass in the single lancet-window on the south side of the chancel. The six bells now in use were placed in the tower in 1733· In 1875 the tower was restored, and the bells re-hung, at a cost of £250. The exterior of the chancel, and the south side of the church, have also been restored within the last eight years. The exterior of the north side has yet to be done. A clock was placed in the tower in 1887, to commemorate the Queen's Jubilee; the funds were raised by subscription. The parish registers commence with the year I ss8. There are charities of £14 yearly value. The school has accommodation for 200 children; average attendance, 107. Ebenezer Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1835 and rebuilt in 1857 ; Salem Primitive Methodist chapel, at Stockmore, was erected in 1864. At Upper Chadnor court in this parish was a chapel dedicated to St. He/en. It has long since been destroyed, though the site can still be identified. Luntley Court, a farm house in the occupation of Mr. Thomas, is an interesting timber-framed structure, with pigeon house bearing date 1673. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mr. Richard Patrick, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive from Pembridge at 7· 10 a. m.; despatched thereto at 5·45 p.m. Weobley is the nearest telegraph office. Dilwyn is a money order office and savings bank. Letters should be addressed, (except where marked * or t) Dilwyn, R.S.O., Herefordshire. Pansh Church (St. Mary's). Rev. Thomas Morgan, M.A., Vicar/ Messrs. John Charles ]ones and Thomas Henry Griffiths, Churchwardens_; Mr. Trembath, Organist_; Charles Richards, Parish Clerk. Natz'onal School (boys and gzrls). J\!Ir. Trembath, Master~· Mrs. Trembath, Mzstress. Infant School. Miss Addis, Mzstress. Prz"mitz"ve Methodzst Chapel ( Ebenezer ). ki£n£ste·rs various. Prz"mz"tzve Methodist Chapel (Sal em), Stockmore. M£msters vanous Regzstrar of Births and Deaths for Dzlwyn District of Weobley Union. Mr. James Griffiths, Canon Pyon. · Relz"ev£ng Officer and Sanitary l1zspecto1·. Mr. Thos. Vaughan. Surveyor of Roads. Mr. F. T. Hawkins, Pepper Ploch, W eobley. Asszstant Overseer. Mr. Charles Richards, Dilwyn, R.S.O.

DILWYN. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Return at Mary Ed wards Wed. & Sat. Stopping Place Maidenhead 4 0 CARRIERS TO John Evans (Weobley} Fri. Mary Ed wards do. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. De Boinville, A. C., Church cottage Hall, Dr. T. Lambert, Townsend house Hundley, Charles, Luntley house Lambe, Lacon, The Hill Top Morgan, Rev. Thomas, M.A. (vicar), The Vicarage Stokes, Mrs. M., The Townsend COMMERCIAL. Abley, Martin, The villas Addis, Miss, schoolmistress Badham, J oseph, mason *Bagley, Thomas, farmer, Sollars Dilwyn *Ball, J ames, farmer, Upper house tBarnett, Geo., bailiff to Henry Griffiths, Newton Bowen, Thos., farmer, Little Dun wood *Bufton, James, farmer, Bedford house Burton, William, blacksmith Bray, Geo., county councillor, farmer and hop grower, Henwood Cresswell, Misses, farmers, Dunwood tDavies, Arthur, farmer, Lower Dewell Davies, George, farmer, Venmore *Davies, Rdwin, wheelwright tDavies, Miss Mary, farmer, Boys:field *Dent, Arthur, farmer, Perryditch Dent, M., fmr. & hop grower, Newton et. *Dent, Robert, Swanstone court farm, res. Corner Cop Evans, James, farmer, The Hurst Evans, John, butcher, &c. *George, Thos, cot. farmer & miller, corn. Griffin, Henry, farmer, Hurst farm Griffin, Jos., jun., farmer, Upper Dewell Griffiths, Samuel, farmer & landowner, Lower house Griffiths, Thos., farmer and hop grower, Little Dilwyn and Alton Court farms Griffiths, Thomas, cottage farmer •Griffiths, W alter, The :Firs *Rains, G., farmer, Stretford bridge *Hill, James, cottage farmer, The Plough Hope, Henry Hood, farmer and hop grower, Chadnor farm Hope, Joseph, farmer and landowner, Stocking farm INGRAMs CHARLES, farmer, C1·own Inn. First-class accommodation for travellers & tourists. Good stabling. ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, Hereford. Price lists and particulars on application * Postal address, Leominster. LEOMINSTER. White Horse King's Head 3 0 4 0 Jones, John C., farmer, Chadnor court *Jones, Waiter, cottage farmer, Plateau *Lane, Ephraim, cot. farmer, Lower field Lewis, J ames, farmer and hop grower, Haven Lewis, William, jun., wheelwright and carpenter Lewis, Wm., carpenter and pump maker Montague, Henry, farmer, Hyla farm Moore, Henry, landowner, farmer, and hop grower, Field's place *Nash, Wm., blacksmith, Stocking field Oliver, Francis, farmer, Upper Haven *Palfrey, Thomas, shopkeeper and blacksmith *Parry, George, cottage farmer, common *Parry, Mrs., common Parry, William, cot. farmer, Bagley head Patrick, Richard, grocer, baker, and subpostmaster, Post office Pope, Jijd,, grocer and draper, common tPrice, J ames, farmer and hop grower, Tibhall, bailiff to T. Burlton, Leominster Price, Mrs. C., shopkeeper l'rice, Thomas, painter and glazier Richards, Chas., shoemaker, parish clerk, and assistant overseer Richards, John, cottage farmer Ricketts, Thomas, cottage farmer, Barewood Roberts, Jas., farmer, Stockmore Rogers, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, The Homme *Russell, James, farmer, Pitch farm *Scandn•tt, George, tailor, common Seward, T., cot. farmer, Stockingfield *Symonds, J., cot. farmer and threshing machine proprietor, Stocking field Thomas, Richard, farmer & hop grower, I .. untley court Trembath, Jas., schoolmaster & organist, School house Tristram, William, Bagley head Tudge, F. J., farmer and stockbreeder, Great house V augban, Thomas, relieving officer, Beret on Wild smith, John, farmer, Headland Williams, Henry, Church house Williams, Jas., farmer, Townsend farm *Williams, .John, cot. farmer, Gravel hill Williams, John, farmer and hop grower, White house, Luntley Williams, Thus., cot. farmer, 'Voodcock cottage Yapp, William, butcher and grocer t Postal address, Pembridge.

DINED OR. 1 93 DINED OR. DINEDOR, or DYNEDOR, is a scattered village and parish distant 4 miles S.E. of Hereford, 12 N.W. of Ross, 12 W. of Ledbury, and 2 N.W. of Holme Lacy station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway, by which line the parish is intersected. It is in Webtree hundred, Hereford union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Dinedor and Little Birch polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1~1 was 283; in 1881, 263; inhabited houses, 56 ; families or sep<ll:tte occupiers, 6o; area of parish, 1,594 acres; annual rateable value, £3,505 15s. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, part of Dinedor on the left bank of the river W ye was amalgamated with Hampton Bishop. Mrs. de la Barre Bodenham is lady of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is fruitful, chiefly sandy loam and gravel, with a substratum of clay; produce, wheat, beans, barley, roots, and a few hops. Dined or is in the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford ; living, a rectory; value, £276, with residence and 6o acres of glebe; patrons, the Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford ; rector, Rev. Rowland Muckleston, M.A., formerly tutor and vice-provost of that college, who was instituted in 1854· The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a neat edifice, consisting of nave, chancel, porch, and tower containing two bells. It was re-built under the present rector in 1868. The earliest register is dated 1750. There is a Roman Catholic church at Rotherwas. There are a few small charities belonging to the parish. The national school for boys and girls has accommodation for 50 children; average attendance, 40. Rotherwas, the seat of Mrs. de la Barre Bodenham, is a spacious and handsome mansion, situated on the south side of the river W ye. This place has been the residence of the Bodenhams for upwards of three centuries. The present mansion was built by the ancestor of the late Charles de la Barre Bodenham, Esq., in 1731 ; near it stands a small Roman Catholic church, which belonged to the ancient manor house. The adjacent grounds, ~tretching towards the banks of the river, are plain and very fertile ; on the south are gradual ascents, on which are some beautiful woods. About a mile and a half S.W. of Rotherwas, is an eminence called Dinedor hill, on which are vestiges of an ancient camp, traditionally recorded to have been occupied by Ostorius Scapula, who led the Roman armies against the Britons in the time of Caractacus. The views from this spot are extreme! y fine ; on the N.W. Hereford is seen rising with an easy ascent from the banks of W ye, and beyond it is spread out a beautiful vale, diversified with many interesting objects, and bounded by the mountains of Brecknockshire ; in the N. and N .E. are the Clee hills of Shropshire, and towards the E. the Malvern hills of Worcestershire ; on the S.W. appear the Hatteral hills or Black mountains; and on the S. and S.E. is a pleasant and variegated country, animated by the meanderings of the Wye. The hill itself is cultivated to the edge of the entrenchment, the bank of which is covered with underwood.

DINEDOR DINMORE. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Hereford about 8.30 a.m. The wall letter box at the Rectory is cleared at 5.30 p. m. Hereford is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town. Parzsh Chzwch (St. Andrew's). Rev. Rowland Muckleston, M.A., Rector/ Messrs. William Lyddiatt and William Eaton, Churchwardens_; John Gains, Parish Clerk. The Presbytery, Rotherwas. Rev. Clement Matthews, Catholic Priest. National School (boys and girls). Miss Clarke, Mzstress. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Wm. Lyddiatt, junr., Dinedor court. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hart, John, farmer, The Prospect Bodenham, Mrs. Irene de la Barre, Rotherwas Lubienski, Count Louis, J.P. Matthews, Rev. Clement, catholic priest Muckleston, Rev. Row land, M.A.(rector), The Rectory Nelson, Hon. E., Hollow farm COMMERCIAL. Clarke, Miss Mary L misa, schoolmistress Colbourn, John, farmer, Upper Raven Eaton, William, miller, Dinedor mill Gains, John, carpenter and parish clerk J ones, J ames, farmer, The Hill J ones, John, Camp cottage Jones, William, farmer, Dinedor cross Lyddiatt, William, farmer & hop grower, Dinedor court & Glebe farm Matty, J ames, farmer, Gate house Morris, Christopher, farmer, Dinedor hill Preece, M., carpenter Price, Edwin, shopkeeper Reedy, John, farmer and estate bailiff, Lower Raven Thomason,Wm., gamekeeper, Rotherwas estate Tyler, Mrs., farmer, Blue bowl Yorath, David L., farmer&c., Sink green DIN MORE. DIN:MORE was formerly an extra-parochial place, and is so still ecclesiastically, but it has been made a parish for the purposes of the Act of 20 Vic.t c. 19. It is distant 7 miles N. of Hereford, and 6 S. of Leominster t and is situated on a hill which rises to a height of some 7 so feet above the sea level. It is in Grimsworth hundred, Moreton-on-Lugg polling district and electoral division of the county council, Hereford union, county court district, and petty sessional division. The population in 1871 was 10 ; in 1881 1 24; inhabited houses, 3; families or separate occupiers, 4 i area of parish, 6o6 acres; annual rateable value, £441. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, 1887, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Dinmore was amalgamated with Wellington. A considerable portion of the parish is woodland. The Rev. Harris Fleming St. John is lord of the manor and owner of the land. The soil is a strong clay loam. The road between Hereford and Leominster is distant about 1 mile E.; and Dinmore station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway, is at the foot of Dinmore hill, 2 miles N.E. Dinmore was an extensive Preceptory and estate of the Knight's Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. It was granted to them out of the forest of Marden by King Henry II. in the 12th century. An ancient chapel (dedicated first to St. :fohn of :Jerusalem, and later to St. :John Baptist), which was that of the Preceptory, adjoins the Manor House; it is in the Norman and Decorated styles of architecture but without much ornament, and

DINMORE DOCKLOW. 1 95 has a square tower and low spire. It was built by the Hospitallers in the 12th century, and partly re-built by them in 1370. It was completely restored by the present owner of the estate in 1886, and the windows are filled with painted glass executed by himself. He is also the patron of the chaplaincy and has carried out its duties since I 88o. Dinmore Manor House, an ancient stone building and part of the Preceptory, is the residence of the Rev. H. F. St. John. It contains a few good pictures, and some interesting cabinets painted by Rubens. The Dinmore estate has been in the possession of the Fleming and St. John families since 1732. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Leominster at 10.30 a.m.; despatched thereto at 12 noon. Bodenham is the nearest money order office; telegraph office and post town, Leominster. Dinmore Railway Statz(m (Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, G. W. and L. & N. W.R., jo'i'nt). James A. Robotham, Stat£on Maste1'. D£nmo1·e Chapel. Rev. Harris Fleming St. John, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Chaplain, Dinmore Manor House. PRIVATE RESIDENT. COMMERCIAL. Rev. H. F. St. John, M. A. (chaplain), Harrison, W., Upper Dinmore farm Manor house Seal, G., gamekeeper DOCKLOW. • DOCKLOW is a parish and village pleasantly situated on the main road between Leominster and Bromyard, Ii miles from Steens Bridge railway station, about si miles E. of Leominster, 7 W. of Bromyard, 7 S. of Tenbury, and 18 N.E. of Hereford; is in Wolphy hundred, Leominster union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Docklow and Kimbolton polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 179 ; in 188I, 195 ; inhabited houses, 35; families or separate occupiers, 42 ; area of parish, 1,262 acres; annual rateable value, £1,401 I os. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Docklow was amalgamated with Hatfield. John Hungerford Arkwright, Esq., of Hampton court. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Major Edward Nicholas Heygate, R.E., and Thos. Lawson Walker, Esq. The soil is clayey ; subsoil, gravel ; chief produce, wheat, beans, hops, fruit and barley. Docklow is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster; living, a rectory, united to that of Stoke Prior; joint value, £226, with Sf acres of glebe ; patron, the Vicar of Leominster ; rector, Rev. Alfred Thomas Peppercorn, of Jesus College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1883, and resides at Stoke Prior rectory. The church~ dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was restored in October, 188o, Major E. N. Heygate, and the late R. H. J. Heygate, Esq., being liberal donors. The children of this parish attend Hatfield school. At Uphampton is a small British camp, forming one of a continuous range which may be traced crossing the county in a north-easterly direction.

DOCKLOW DONNINGTON. Buck/and is the seat of Major Edward Nicholas Heygate, R.E., ].P., and D.L. Oaklands is the residence of Mrs. Heygate. Hampton Wafer, formerly an extra-parochial place, is now a parish, and will be found under a separate heading. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mr. \V'm. Jones, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Leominster about 8.20 a.m. The letterbox is cleared at 4.15 p.m. Bredenbury is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Leominster. Parish Church (St. Bartholomew's). Rev. Alfred T. Peppercorn, Rector./ Messrs. William J ones and vVilliam Skyrme, Churchwardens/ Mr. Hall, Sexton. Ass£stmzt Overseer. Mr. ]ames Wilks, High Street, Leominster. CARRIER TO LEOMINSTER. Name Day Mrs. Childe (Grendon Green) Fri. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Heygate, Major :Edward Nicholas, R.E., J.P., D.L., county councillor, Buckland Heygate, Mrs. Isabel D., Oaklands Hussey, Edward Giles, Docklow house COMMERCIAL. Beavan, Wni., farmer and hop grower, Lower Docklow Davies, John, smith & implement maker Herring, Mrs. J ane, farmer and hop grower, Lower Buckland Stopping Place Lloyd's Stables Return at 4 0 Hodnett, John, carpenter & wheelwright J ones, Wm., grocer, provision dealer, coach builder, & cot. farmer, Post office :Morgan, \Vm., day school Palmer, George, farmer, U phampton, bailiff to Thomas Lawson Walker, Knightwick, Worcestershire Skyrme, Wm., farmer and hop grower, West End Smith, Ernest W., King's Head Inn, ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, Hereford. Price lists and particulars on application. DONNINGTON. DONNINGTON is a small parish situated on the road from Ledbury to Gloucester, distant 2 miles S. of Ledbury, 6 N. of Newent, and 17 S.E. of Hereford; in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, polling district, county court district, petty sessional division and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 89; in 188r, 89; inhabited houses, 19; families or separate occupiers, 19; area of parish, 999 acres ; annual rateable value, £1967 13s. The manorial rights are held by the representatives of the late Richard W ebb, Esq., who, with \V'illiam Charles Henry, Esq., M.D., and Michael Biddulph, Esq., M.P., are the chief landowners. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, beans, hops and apples. This place was one of the earliest settlements of the English in Herefordshire, and takes its name from the clan of the Donns. Its ancient name, according to Domesday, was Dodentune. The parish is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Frome; living, a rectory; value, £zoo, with residence and 25 acres of glebe; patron, Colonel R. F. Webb; rector, Rev. John Lander, M.A., of Pembroke Coli., Oxford, who was instituted in 1845. The church, dedicated to St. Ma1-y, which was erected in the 13th or 14th century, has undergone restoration and enlargement at a cost of over £7oo. In 1882, a further sum of £zoo,

DONNINGTON DORMINGTON. left for the purpose by Samuel Tingle, Esq., was spent on the restoration, which was carried out by Messrs. C. Hill & Sons, Ledbury. It has a wooden tower containing two bells. The eastern window is filled with stained glass. The parish registers date from the middle of the last century. There is no school in the parish ; the children attend Eastnor and Haffield schools. Domzington Hall, the property of the representatives of the late Richard Webb, Esq., is at present void. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mrs. Mary Hook, Sub-postmz''stress, Greenway. Letters are received through Ledbury at 8.35 a.m.; despatched thereto at 4.20 p.m. Dymock is the nearest money order office. Ledbury is the nearest telegraph office and post town. Parish Church (St. Mary's). Rev. John Lander, M.A., Rector; Messrs. G. F. Haines and F. E. Stallard, Churchwardens/ R. W eighall, Sexton. Ass-istant Oversee1·. Mr. Richard Cox, The N urdens. CARRIER TO LEDBURY. Name Days Stopping Place Return at ]. Fencott (Dymock) Tues. & Fri. The Oak 5 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Haines, George Frederick, farmer, Henry, William Charles, M.D., Haffield house Lander, Rev. John, M.A. (rector), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. Cox, Richard, cider maker, farmer and assistant overseer, The Nurdens Din chill Hook, Mrs. Mary, sub-postmistress, Green way Lilly, William, Smallings farm Stallard, \Villiam Henry, farmer and hop grower, The farm Stallard, Francis Edwin, frmr, The court Smith, Charles, farmer, The Vineyard \V all, Mrs., farmer, Lower house DORMINGTON', WITH BARTESTREE CHAPELRY, DORMINGTON is a parish and straggling village situated on the Hereford and Ledbury road, 5 ~ miles E. of Hereford, 9 W. of Ledbury, and about 2 S.E. of vVithington, and the same distance S.W. of Stoke Edith railway stations, on the Hereford and vVorcester branch of the Great Western railway. It is in Greytree hundred, Hereford union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Mordiford polling district and electoral divjsion of the county council. The population of the civil parish of Dormington in 187 I was 121 ; in I 881, 108; inhabited houses, 24; families or separate occupiers, 24 ; area of parish, 970 acres; annual rateable value, £1,244. (The ecclesiastical parish contained 307 persons in 1881, and 41 inhabited houses.) The Lady Emily Foley, of Stoke Edith park, is lady of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is red loam, with a substratum of marl, very fertile, and well cultivated; chief produce, hops, wheat, beans, and pasture. Dormington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weston ; living, a vicarage annexed to Bartestree chapelry; joint value, £239, with residence and 85-! acres of glebe; patron, The Lady Emily Foley; vicar, Rev. Alfred N orris Cope, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge,

DORMINGTON. who was instituted in 1886. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient stone edifice, with nave, chancel, porch, and tower containing two bells. It was restored in 1877 at a cost of £1,629. A new tower was built, and the bells re-hung, a third being added. The porch, roof, seats, and all internal fittings were renewed, the ancient font and sedillia being retained. A vestry was added. The earliest register is dated 1 700. The charities for the use of the poor amount to about £1 ss. yearly. The children attend the national school at Tarrington. Bartestree, although a chapelry to Dormington, is a separate parish. It supports its own poor, pays its own rates, and appoints its own officers. It is distant 4l miles E. of Hereford, and about ~ mile S. of Withington station on the Hereford and Worcester branch of the Great vV est ern railway, which line touches an angle of the township. It is in Lugwardine polling district and electoral division of the county council. The main road between Hereford and Ledbury and the little river Froome also intersect it. The population in 1871 was 98; in r88r, 199; inhabited houses, 17; families or separate occupiers, 25 ; area, 406 acres; annual rateable value, £944- W. H. Barneby, Esq., Mr. James Preece and Mr. John W atkins are the chief landowners. There is fine feeding land in this locality ; and hops, wheat, roots, &c., are grown. The scenery here is very picturesque. The church, dedicated to St. :fames, is a stone building, of modern erection, occupying an exceedingly romantic situation. It was entirely re-built in r888 at a total cost of about £r,soo, from plans prepared by the diocesan architects, Messrs. T. Nicholson & Son. The previous church was built in 1841, but being too small and poorly constructed was taken down in r887. The present church consists of nave, chancel, apse and vestry, with porch and bell turret, and will seat So persons. The interior is very handsome. The seats, pulpit, lectern, and choir stalls are of oak. There are six stained glass windows, all of considerable merit. A reredos of coloured marbles, enclosing panels of glass mosaic, has recently been placed in the church. The living is united to Dormington vicarage, as before mentioned. The Bartestree convent is of the Order of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge, which was founded by the Venerable Father Jean Eudes at Caen in the year 1641, for the religious training and industrial employment of females who have fallen, or may be in danger of falling, into a vicious course of life. The inmates are employed in laundry work and plain sewing. The Very Rev. Monsignor P. Lewis is the chaplain. The building was erected from the designs of E. W. Pugin, Esq., architect, of London. There is a Roman Catholic church adjacent to the convent. The whole forms a very handsome pile of buildings. The situation, four miles from Hereford, is happily chosen on an eminence, commanding a rich and varied panorama, and is an object of notice to the passengers passing along the highway, from which it stands a few yards distant. The children from Bartestree attend the national school at Lugwardine. Bartestree Court, an extensive farm, is the property of Mr. James Preece, and is at present in his occupation.

DORMINGTON DORSTONE. 199 PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Hereford, and are delivered by messenger from Hagley Post-office about 8 a.m. The letter-box in the churchyard wall is cleared at 5-IS p.m. Bartestree letters arrive about 7 .2o a. m. ; despatched at 6 p.m. Hereford is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town. Parish Church (St. Peter's). Rev. Alfred Norris Cope, M.A., Vicar/ Messrs. Henry James Davies and Henry Scott Hall, Chm·chwardens ; John Harris, Pm·z"sh Clerk. • Eartestree Chapel (St. james's). Rev. Alfred Norris Cope, M.A., Vi"car _; Mr. James Preece, Chapelwarden. Roman Catholic Church, Bartestree. The Very Rev. Monsignor P. Lewis, P1'zest. The Convent and Refuge of Our Lady of Charity, Bartestree.- The Very Rev. Monsignor P. Lewis, Chaplain and Rural Dean. Assistant Overseer for D01·mingto1z. Mr. ] . B. Edwards, Stoke Edith. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Stopping Place Return at Peter Oakley (Stoke Edith) Wed. & Sat. Booth Hall 2 30 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cope, Rev. Alfred Norris, M.A. (vicar of Dormington with Bartestree), The Vicarage Lewis, The Very Rev. Mgr. P. (rural dean and chaplain -to the Convent and Refuge of Our Lady of Charity), Bartestree COMMERCIAL. Apperley, J ames, farmer, W ootton Barrel, Edwin, cottage farmer Davies, Henry James, farmer and hop grower, Clafi:ton (and at 1\foorend farm, W eston Beggard) Foreman, .T ohn, farmer, Lower Bartestree Hall, Henry Scott, farmer & hop grower, Dormington court Harris, John, parish clerk Preece, J ames, farmer and hop grower, Bartestree court Taylor, Henry Theophilus, farmer and hop growet, Prior's court & Moorhouse farms Watkins, John, farmer and hop grower, Broomy hill, Bartestree. (See Advt. at end of Directory). DORSTONE. DORSTONE is an extensive parish and village situated on the river Doyer, with a station on the Golden Valley railway, about 6 miles E. of Hay and 15 W. of Hereford ; is in W ebtree hundred, Hay union and county court district, Bredwardine petty sessional division, and Clifford polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 494; in 1881, 445 ; inhabited houses, 98; families or separate occupiers, 101 ; area of parish, 5,218 acres; annual rateable value, £4,II4- The Rev. Sir George Henry Cornewall, Bart., of Moccas court, and the Principal and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford, are owners of the manorial rights in Dorstone. The principal landowners are Rev. Sir G. H. Cornewall, Bart., Rev. Thomas P. Powell, Mrs. Maddy, and J. Lawrence, Esq. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, clay and sandstone ; chief crops, wheat, beans, barley, oats, and roots. The river Dore, Doire, Doyer, or Dwyr, takes its source in the Golden well in this parish, in which tradition states a fish to have been caught with a golden ring

200 DORSTONE. in its gills. Dorstone is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weobley ; living, a rectory ; value,£ 408, with residence and 32~ acres of glebe; patron, Percy Davies, Esq. ; rector, Rev. Thomas P. Powell, B.A., of St. John's College, Oxford, who was instituted in I 887, and is also rural dean of W eobley, second division. The church of St. Fa-ith was probably erected in the nth or 12th century, but was entirely demolished in r8z6, when a re-building in the -worst taste and most unsound workmanship took place. The church was again pulled down and re-built in 1889, as nearly as possible upon the old lines, according to the designs of Messrs. Nicholson & Son, diocesan architects, of Hereford. Richard de Brito, one of Thomas a Beket's murderers, was supposed to have built a chapel adjoining the chancel on the north side, which was dedicated to St. Maty, but an inscribed stone, portions of which were discovered during the rebuilding of I 889, indicates that the chapel was built by Johannes de Brito, in 1255. The massive square tower of the church contains four bells cast in the 17th century. The east window by Messrs. Clayton & Bell, is a memorial to the late Rev. Thos. Powell. The oak lectern was carved by Mr. Clarke, of Hereford, out of old timber found in the church. There is a handsome memorial pulpit and several tablets. The parish registers begin with the year I733· There is a national school, partly endowed by a bequest of Meriotto Maddy, clerk in holy orders, in 1645, for boys and girls, with accommodation for 88 children ; average attendance, 64. The charities belonging to the parish amount to about :( 20 yearly. The name of the parish is generally supposed to be derived from the ancient British "Dwr" water, with the Saxon termination ''ton" a town or village. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here. Arthur's Stone is situated in this parish, on the summit of a range of hills that extends from Whitfield to Bredwardine, and about 2 miles from its N.W. termination. Arthur's Stone is a corruption of Thor-SteZ:n, the Stone of Thor, or Thor's Altar. On the south-western side, the Cromlech is close to an ancient road, (probably British, as most of the British roads ran along the summits of the hills), in the angle formed by another ancient road that comes up the hi11 to Dorstone, and is now only used as a bridle-road. The lower end of this road has been worn away by traffic and water to a depth of about 12 feet, and is now impassable. The Cromlech stands fifteen miles due north of the Skirred-fawr. A line drawn from the Skirred-fawr, near Abergavenny, northwards to Arthur's Stone, would pass over The Camp, on the southernmost point of the Hatterall hill, Old castle, Longtown castle, Urishay, and Snodhill castles. It consists of several stones about eighteen may be counted now, besides fragments. The chief feature is the large incumbent stone broken into three parts, and resting on about ten smaller upright stones of various dimensions. In form it is nearly oval, the sides east and west, being straight, with two irregular sides, north and south, the north somewhat curved, pointed at the extremity, and eroded considerably. An evident fracture of the stone has shortened the south end, which is about four feet in width. The long axis is due

DORSTONE. 201 north and south, measuring about nineteen feet. The short axis east and west, is twelve feet. The straight side on the west is fifteen feet, and on the eastern side, thirteen feet. The thickness varies and probably nowhere exceeds two feet. The ground has been hollowed out under the stone to the depth of about four feet from its under surface, though, of course, this is much less than it was formerly, owing to washings and debris of various kinds that have filled up the hollow. Eight feet from the south end of the large stone is an upright one, five feet high and five feet six inches broad, standing with its edges east and west. A little further on is another similar but smaller stone. Several fragments are scattered about. At the north end of the large stone is a small avenue of five or six stones, standing erect, with their edges north and south, and leading from the stone to the old road. They project from one to three feet above the turf, and bear evidence of much erosion ; the avenue is in width about four feet, in length nine or ten feet. Fragments of stone lie scattered about, half or entirely buried by the turf. The whole stands on a mound of oval shape, its long axis twenty yards, its short axis ten yards. It was probably a sacrificial stone for grand national occasions, and if not the work of the ancient Britons, was that of their predecessors in this country. A splendid panoramic view is obtained from the hill on which this cromlech is situated, more especially from "Meerbach," from whence may be seen parts of thirteen counties, together with a long reach, and the Wye valley and river. There was formerly in this parish a castle, the origin of which does not appear to be recorded. The picturesque mound known as ''The Castle Tump" was probably the principal Saxon dwelling of the village and is worth a visit. PosTAL REGULATIONS. James Higgins, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive from Hereford v£d Peterchurch, at 9.30 a.m., despatched at 4-5 p.m. This is a money order office and savings bank. Telegraph offices, Hay and Pontrilas. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (St. Faz"th's). Rev. Thomas P. Powell, B.A., Rector/ Messrs. Andrew Andrews and John Owen Davies, Churchwardens; James Higgins, Pansh Clerk. Na!t'cmal School (boys and gz'rls). William Palin, Mastet·. Pr£m£tive Methodist Chapel. Mz'm'sters various. Dorstone Railway Station (Golden Valley Raz1way). Mr. George Evans, Stnt£on Master. Ass£stant Overseer. Mr. H. C. Lloyd, Bricklands, Hay, R.S.O. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bishop, Mrs., Erooklands Farr, William, sen., Sycamore house Jones, Miss Maria, Court house Powell, Rev. Thomas Prosser, B. A., J.P., (rector and rural dean), The Rectory COMMERCIAl •• Andrews, Andr.ew, farmer, Cwm farm, and Nant-y-bar Andrews, John, farmer, Llanavon and Lodge farms Beavan, Thomas, farmer, Bach Ereese, Richard Thos, farmer, Bell farm Carver, J ames, cottage farmer, Brampton Davies, Ann, farmer, Mynydd-brydd Davies, James, Miller, Cwm mills Davies, John Owen, farmer, Bach Davies, Thomas, farmer, Great house Davies, Wm., road surveyor for Bredwardine highway district & far., Llana.von Deykes, W. G., farmer, The Llan Evans, J ames, cottage farmer, Winsor Evans, William, farmer, Pentwyn Farr, William, jun., farmer, The Bach N

202 DORSTONE DOWNTON. Greenhouse, John, police constable, Rose cottage Hammond, Mrs., B1•idge Inn, Bach HIGGINS, JAMES, grocer, tea dealer and provision merchant, corn and flour dealer, and general hardware stores, and sub-postmaster James, Charles, farmer, Upper house Jones, Henry, cottage farmer, Green hill J ones, Thomas, farmer, Vowmine Jones, William, farmer, Pen-y-moor J ones, William, farmer, Llanach Lewis, John, farmer, Brynspyr Lewis, Thomas, farmer, Bodcot Lewis, William, cot. farmer, Tredomine Lloyd, John, farmer, Beddw Lloyd, Mrs., farmer, Pen-y-lan Maddox, Thomas, farmer, Gannols M in ton, Thomas, shoemaker, Coppice alley Morris, William, butcher and shopkeeper Page, George, miller, Dorstone mill Palin, William, schoolmaster Pikes, Ephraim, wheelwright, carpenter, and blacksmith, Penpound Price, J ames, Pen-y-land & Drain farms PROBERT, GEORGE, innkeeper, Pandy Inn. Every accommodation for visitors. Good beds. First-class wines and spirits PROSSER, CAROLINE & SON, threshing machine proprietors, Pump house Reece, J onathan, farmer, The Court Rudge, G., blacksmith Tomkins, William, tailor Waring, George, farmer, Commonbach W a ring, J ames, farmer, The Pitt Williams, Richard, farmer, Upper and Lower Crossway DOWN TON. DOWNTON is a parish delightfully situated on the banks of the river Teme, and surrounded by well-wooded country, distant 6 miles W. of Ludlow, 14 N. by W. of Leominster, 26 N. of Hereford, and 2 E. of Leintwardine; is in Wigmore hundred (Leominster division), Ludlow union and county court district, \Vigmore petty sessional division, and Burrington and Wigmore polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 185 ; in 1881, 180; inhabited houses, 32 ; families or separate occupiers, 37 ; area of parish, 1,194 acres; annual rateable value, £1,570. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, 1885, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Downton was amalgamated with Leintwardine (north side), and detached parts of Leintwardine (north side) were amalgamated with Downton and Burrington. Andrew Johnes Rouse Boughton-Knight, Esq., is lord of the manor and owner of the parish. The soil is light and shallow ; subsoil, solid rock ; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c. Downton is in the diocese of Hereford, and archdeaconry and rural deanery of Ludlow; living, a vicarage; value, £170, with residence and 26~ acres of glebe; patron, A. R. Boughton-Knight, Esq. ; vicar, Rev. Percy Brent, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1885. The church is a handsome structure of stone, in the Early Englsih style of architecture, erected at the sole expense of A. J. R. Boughton-Knight, Esq. It cost £6,188, and is dedicated to St. Gt1es. The interior is beautifully fitted, and consists of nave, chancel, and north aisle. It has a pretty spire containing three bells. The churchyard was given to the parish from the Downton castle estate. The old church is still standing. In 1881, a new and substantial vicarage was built at a total cost of £1,786, which was raised in the following way: Mr. BoughtonKnight having purchased the advowson of the living under Lord Chancellor Westbury's Act, £5oo of the money was appropriated for the building of a parsonage house; Queen Anne's bounty gave a grant of £6oo; and £686 was raised by private benefactions. There is a national .school for boys and girls, with accommodation for

. DOWNTON DULAS. 203 67 children; average attendance 54. .Downton Castle, the property and seat of Andrew Johnes Rouse Boughton-Knight, Esq., ].P., D.L., is an elegant residence, and may justly be considered one of the most picturesque in England. This mansion is built with stone, and situated on an elevated bank commanding a lawn bounded by the river Teme, and surrounded by an extensive amphitheatre of woods, admitting occasional views over a varied and beautiful country. The interior is fitted up with great taste and elegance, and some of the apartments are decorated with a few select pictures by the most eminent masters. This mansion was built by Richard Payne Knight, M.P. for Ludlow, in 1774, and was first inhabited in 1778. It has undergone considerable improvements within the last few years. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Ludlow about 10 a.m.; despatched thereto at 4 p.m. Leintwardine is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Ludlow. Parish Church (St. Gt1es'). Rev. Percy Brent, M.A., P£car / A. J. R. Boughton-Knight, Esq., Churchwarden./ Frederick Monnington, Par£sh Clerk. National School (boys and girls). Miss Sheen, Mistress. Asszstant Overseer. Mr. George Price. CARRIERS TO LUDLOW. Name. Richard Bird Mrs. Robinson Days. Mon. & Sat. Mon. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brent, Rev. Percy, M.A., (vicar}, The Vicarage Knight, An drew J ohnes Rouse Bough ton, B.A., J.P. (for Herefordshire and Shropshire} D.L. and county council1or (for Herefordshire), Downton castle, and University club, London, S. W. • Stopping Place The Compasses The George COMMERCIAL. Return at 4 0 4 0 Fenn, Thomas, (estate agent to A. J. R. Boughton-Knight, Esq., J.P., D.L.), Stonebrook house J ones, Mrs. Ann, blacksmith 1\Ionnington, Frederick, parish clerk Monnington, Waiter, boot & shoe maker Owens, William, farmer Price, G., farmer, Downton-on-the-rock Pugh, William, farmer, The Pools Wagstaff, James, carpenter Winter, Mrs., farmer, res. Leintwardine DULAS. DULAS is a small parish situated on Dulas brook, about 13 miles S.W. of Hereford, and 2 N.W. of Pontrilas station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway; is in Webtree hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Pontrilas polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Hereford county court district. The population in r87r was 75; in I 88 r, 82; inhabited houses, 14; families or separate occupiers, 15 ; area of parish, 833 acres; annual rateable value, £773· The executors of the late Lieut.-Colonel Feilden are lords of the manor and principallandowners. The soil is sandy ; subsoil, clay and sandstone; chief crops, wheat, barley, oats, &c. Dulas is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of W eobley; living, a vicarage; value£ 42, with 104 acres of glebe; patrons, the trustees of

204 DULAS EARDISLAND. the late Colonel Feilden; vicar, Rev. E. H. Parry, B.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1883. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, was rebuilt in 1865. It is in the Early English style of architecture, and consists of nave, chancel, sacristy, and north porch, and will accommodate about 1oo persons. The walling is of local stone, with Bath-stone dressing; and the floors are laid with God win's encaustic tiles. The font is of stone, with inlays of coloured marbles. The pulpit, &c., in use are the <;arved oak ones from the old church. The children of this parish attend Ewyas Harold school. Dulas Court is a handsome mansion, the residence of Cecil Butler, Esq. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Hereford vz'd Pontrilas, about 10 a.m. Ewyas Harold is the nearest money order office ; telegraph office, Pontrilas station. Letters should be addressed, Dulas, Pontrilas. Pm-ish Church (St. Peter's). Rev. E. H. Parry, B.A., Vzcar / Mr. Edwin Williams, Churchwarden/ Joseph Pritchard, Parz'sh Clerk. Assistant Ove1·seer. Mr. B. Gwillim, Bridge Farm, Ewyas Harold. PRIVATE RESIDENT. Butler, Cecil, Dulas court COMMERCIAL. Addis, James, farmer, Upper Cefn Davies, William, farmer, Platch farm Griffiths, WilJiam, farmer, Lower Cefn Gwillim, Margaret, Little Cwm, Dulas J ones, George, farmer, Dulas Home farm Price, Thomas, farmer, Cot farm Watkins, James, wheelwright, Little Walk mill Williams, Edwin, farmer, Middle Cefn • EARDISLAND; EARDISLAND is a large parish and village situated on the river Arrow, and on the main road from Leominster to Kington, distant 5 miles W. of Leominster, 14 N. of Hereford, and 9 E. of Kington ; is in Stretford hundred, Weobley union and petty sessional division, Leominster county court district, and Canon Pyon and Dilwyn polling district and electoral division of the county council. The Leominster and Kington railway runs through part of the parish; the nearest stations being at Kingsland and Pembridge, 2i miles. The population in 1871 was 886; in 1881, 781; inhabited houses, 183; families or separate occupiers, 192 ; area of parish, 3,550 acres; annual rateable value, £5,791. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, detached parts of Eardisland were amalgamated with Dilwyn and Weobley. The principal landowners are John Clowes, Esq. (lord of the manor of Burton), Benjamin Lawrence Sanders, Esq., LL.B. (lord of the manor of Hinton), representatives of John Harding, Esq., Right Hon. Lord Bateman, Colonel Richard Snead Cox, C. ]. Haywood, Esq., and Lacon Lambe, Esq. The soil is clayey and alluvial; subsoil, chiefly old red sandstone ; chief produce, wheat, beans, barley, hops, roots, fruit, and pasture. Eardisland is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster ; living, a vicarage; value, £352, with 2 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of 'Vorcester; vicar, Rev. Joseph Barker, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1867. There is no vicarage house, the old one

EARDISLAND. 205 having been taken down many years ago. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a fine example of the architecture of the middle ages. It was restored at a cost of nearly £2,ooo in 1865; architect, Henry Curzon, Esq., of London. It consists of nave, chancel, porch, vestry, and square tower containing a clock and a peal of five bells (with curious inscriptions) cast by Rudhall, of Gloucester, in 1728. The piscina and aumbry, accessories of the altar, leper-window, and other interesting work, may be seen here. The earliest register is dated r615. The national school is endowed with about £so yearly, and has accommodation for 131 children; average attendance, 59· There are a few small charities for the poor. The Wesleyan chapel in the village was built in r864. There is also a Wesleyan chapel at Barewood in this parish. A reading-room was established in 1872 by John Clowes, Esq., of Burton court, and the vicar. It is open till 9.30 p.m., and is well supplied with daily and weekly newspapers, monthly periodicals, &c. Members pay one penny weekly, and have the use of the " Burton Court Lending Library," which is now held in the same building. Bur ton Court is the seat of John Clowes, Esq., ].P., D.L., and is at present in the occupation of R. Alison Johnson, Esq., master of the North Herefordshire Hounds. Near the court is the supposed site of a Roman encampment, probably the one in which Prince Henry, afterwards Henry V., stationed his army to watch the motions of Owen Glendower. Twyford, (the double ford) and Broom, were likewise occupied by the Romans. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mr. Charles Russell, Sub-Postmaster. Letters are received through Pembridge and Leominster, and arrive about 7.50 a.m. and 6 p.m.; despatched at 7.50 a.m. and 5·45 p.m. Pembridge is the nearest telegraph office. Letters should be addressed Eardisland, Pembridge, R.S.O., Herefordshire. Parish Church (St. Mary's). Rev. Joseph Barker, M.A., Vicar/ Messrs. P. W. Turner and C. W. Bassett, Churchwardens; George Parry, Parish Clerk. Grammar School. Rev. Joseph Barker, M.A., Head Master. National School (boys and gzrls). Mr. F. E. Rogers, Master; Mrs. Rogers, Mistress. Wesleyan Chapel, Barewood. Ministers various. Wesleyan Chapel, The village. Minlsters various. Reading Room, Eardisland. Mr. W. Lewis, Secretary. Assistant Overseer. Mr. George Parry. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barker, Rev. Joseph, M.A. (vicar of Eardisland and head master of the grammar school), Staick house Davis, Richard, New house Hall, Mrs. and Miss, Arrow villa Johnson, R. Alison, M.F.H., Burton et. Morris, J. D., The Elms Southern, Dr., Glan Arrow house COMMERCIAL. Am os, Thomas, shoemaker and cot. farmer Bassett, Chas., farmer, Upper Rhydimoor Bassett, Thomas, farmer, Sytches Baynham, Mrs., cot. farmer, Bar farm Bounds, Edward, farmer, Little Broom Caldecott, William, miller, Upper mill Cave, John M., farmer and hop grower, Lower Barewood Davies, Peter, farmer, Barewood Davies, Thomas, farmer, Lower Burton farm George, Thomas, miller and farmer, Burton mill Goodwin, Price, farmer and hop grower, Lynch court Gould, J ames, wheelwright

206 EARDISLAND EARDISLEY. Gregg, WilJiam, farmer, Brockalye Gri:ffiths, Charles, blacksmith and parish constable Griffiths, George, cot. farmer, The Lyme Haines, ,John, farmer, Lower Hard wick Harris, Thomas, Lower Hard wick Horns by, Mrs. E. & J ames, basket makers Howard, J ames, farmer, Barewood Howard, Thomas, farmer, Hardwick Howis, Alfred, farmer, Eardisland cot. J ames, Charles, farmer, Lyme hall J ones, John, cottage farmer, Barewood Kington, J ames, farmer, Grove house Lawrence, Thomas, cottage farmer and miller, The orchard Lewis, Wm., shopkeeper & head gardener to R. A. Johnson, Esq., Burton court gardens Lilley, Samuel, cottage farmer & haulier, Lower Burton Lloyd, E., farmer, The Folly MACKLEN, GEORGE, Cross Inn, Licensed retailer of wines and spirits. Comfortable accommodation for travellers Miles, George, farmer, Lower Hardwick Morgan, Evan, baker and shopkeeper, Bare wood M organ, John, :;;hopkeeper, Bridge house Morris, Francis, cot. farmer, Barewood Mountford, John, cot. farmer,Lower house Parry, Edwin, cot. farmer, Brouch farm Parry, Geo., assistant overseer & parish clerk, The Porch house Powell, John, cottage farmer Powles, Thomas, carpenter and builder, Bare wood Powles, William, shoemaker, Barewood Price, Charles, farmer, Nun's land Price, Thomas Smith, farmer and hop grower, Court house Ricketts, Wm., farmer, Lower Burton Ricketts, William, farmer, Downway Rogers, Benj., farmer, Upper Hardwick Rogers, Fredk. Ernest, assistant master of grammar school Routledge, Robert, farmer, Twyford Russell, Chas., grocer and sub-postmaster, Post office Sheen, John Thos., farmer, Rhydimoor Smith, George, carpenter Somer, John, farmer, The Broom Stedman, J ames, farmer, Hard wick Stephens, William, boot and shoe maker Stinton, W alter, Swan Inn {and dealer) Thomas, George, farmer and haulier, Lower Burton Tomkins, William, stone mason Turner, Phillip w·m., farmer, Nun House farm Walker, Aaron, farmer W ebb, Thomas, farmer, The cottage Williams, Hugh Morgan, farmer, The Riddox EARDISLEY, WrTH BoLLINGHAM, SPOND, WELSoN, WooDSEAVES, ETC. EARDISLEY (anciently Herdesleg) is an extensive parish and pleasant village bounded on the south by the river Wye, having a station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch of the Midland railway, which is here connected with the Kington and Eardisley branch of the Great Western railway. The village is distant sl miles S. of Kington, 8 N. E. of Hay, 1 3! "\-V.N.W. of Hereford, and 24-! from Brecon; is in Huntington hundred, Kington union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Eardisley and Kington polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 903; in 1881, 862; inhabited houses, 170; families or separate occupiers, 171; area of parish, 4,322 acres ; annual rateable value, £6,537· By orders which came into operation on the 2 sth March, I 884, under the Divided Parishes Act, two detached parts of Eardisley were amalgamated with Willersley. Mrs. Perry Herrick, of Beau-Manor park, Leicestershire, is lady of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is loamy, producing wheat, barley, roots, and pasture. A pleasure and hiring fair is held here on May 15th. Eardisley is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of W eobley; the living, with Bollingham chapelry, is a rectory, value £515, with residence; patroness, Mrs. Perry Herrick; rector, Rev. Charles Samuel Palmer, M. A., of Exeter College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1866, and is also rural dean' of Weobley, first division. The income of

EARDISLEY. the benefice is further augmented by the interest of £2,ooo at 2f per cent., paid by the late Miss Herrick in 1870 to Queen Anne's Bounty Endowment Fund, and by the interest of a further sum of £2,832, given by the present patroness, and handed over to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Rev. John C. Mace, is the present curate. The church is a stone edifice, partly of the 12th and partly of the 14th century, and is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. It was thoroughly restored in 1862, at a cost of £2,450, at the sole expense of the late William Perry Herrick, Esq., from the plans of E. Christian, Esq., and was re-opened on July 3rd, 186 3· It has nave, chancel, aisles, and a tower containing six bells. There is also an ancient and beautifully carved stone font, the figures of which are in an excellent state of preservation. It is of Norman (some think of Saxon) date, and is supposed to be one of the oldest in the kingdom: numerous casts have been taken of it. A handsome organ has been erected, bearing the following inscription :- "In grateful remembrance of the protection of Almighty God in many dangers, especially at Delhi, 1858. JOHN CoKE." At the entrance to the churchyard is a beautifully restored lych-gate, with the following inscription :- " To the glory of God, and in memory of HENRY 0LELAN' Vicar of this Parish, this Lych Gate was rebuilt, 1863." The parish registers begin with the year 1630. Here is an excellent national school for boys and girls, with r<:!sidence for the master attached, erected in 1857 by the late W. Perry Herrick, Esq. It has accommodation for 167 children; average attendance, ro8. The charities belonging to the parish amount to about £I 5 yearly. A Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in the village in 1867. There is a chapel for the Calvinistic Methodists, erected in 1848 on Hurstway common. There are traces of British and Roman encampments in the northern part of this parish, and like so many other places in this county, the site of a demolished castle, or rather, as recorded in Domesday book, of a fortified dwelling, domus defenszbz1·i's,- "builded," says Taylor, in his "History of Gavel-kind," " because of its vicinity to the Welsh borders." In cleaning out the old moat at the Castle farm some years ago, several curious antiquities, including a helmet, spears, a sword, &c., were found. Lemore, the residence of Major-General Sir John Coke, K.C.B., J.P., D.L., is about a mile and a half N. W. of the parish church. :Boiling ham is a chapelry in Eardisley, distant about 2 miles N. of the village and about 3 S. of Kington. The chapel was restored in 1867 at a cost of £583, under the superintendence ofT. Nicholson, Esq., of Hereford, the diocesan architect. The roofs of nave and chancel were new; the west wall and part of the north wall and porch were rebuilt ; the windows, paving, seating, and all internal fittings, were also entirely new. The east window is filled with painted glass (by Clayton & Bell) at the expense of Mrs. Aldworth, in memory of the late vicar, the Rev. vV. St. Leger Aldworth. The glass in the west window (by Heaton, Butler,

208 EARDISLEY. and Bayne) is the gift of the Dowager Lady Cockburn, in memory of R. Whitcomb, Esq., and of his son. The font is the gift of the present vicar. Bollz"ngham House is the property and residence of Mrs. M. Bed ward. Spond (Upper) is a hamlet 3 miles N. of Eardisley; Welson (Lower) is 1 mile N.W.; Woodseaves is I! miles W. ; Hurstway Common is ! of a mile W. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Post and telegraph office, John Powell, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive at 7.25 a.m., despatched at 6.25 p.m. A messenger from Letton meets the mail-cart from Hereford, arriving at Eardisley at 9· I 5 a. m., and returning at 4 p.m. This is a money order, savings bank, telegraph, and parcel post office. Letters should be addressed, Eardisley, R.S.O. (Herefordshire). Parish Church (St. Mary Magdalene). Rev. Charles Samuel Palmer, M. A., Rector.; Rev. John C. Mace, Curate./ Major-General Sir John Coke, K.C.B., and Mr. James Marston, Churchwa1·dens; Thomas East, Parish Clerk. BoUingham Chapel of Ease. The Rector or his Curate officiates. National School (boys and girls). Mr. Wm. Lock, Master.; Miss A. Bagley, Jl;fzstress. Home for Orphan and Destz'tute Boys. Mrs. Magill, Supt. Church Institute, Reading Room, ami Club. Major Palmer, President. Brz'tish School (boys and gz'rls), Great Oak (with accommodation for 72 children; average attendance, 29). Miss M. A. Griffiths, Mzstress. Great Oak Tabernacle Chapel ( Calvinzstic Methodzst), Hurstway Common. Rev. H. Davies, JJ:fz"nister. Przm£tive JJ£ethodzst Chapel, Th~ Village. Ministers various. Railway Stati(m (Hereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway, and K-ington and Em-dzsley Raz1way). Samuel Parry, Statzon Master. Steward of the Manor of .I:lm-disley. Anthony Temple, Esq., solicitor, Kington. Road Su1·veyor. Mr. Edward Delfosse, Kington. Ass-istant Oversee1· and Registrar of Bi1·ths and Deaths.- Mr. John Lewis, The Gaer, Michaelchurch-on-Arrow. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barber, William, Newman's place Bedward, Mrs. Matilda, Bollingham house Bromage, Mrs., Laurel cottage Coke, Major General Sir John, K.C.B., J.P. & D.L., Lemore Crump, William, Ivy cottage Darling, Quintin Richard, L.R.C,S.I.L. M., & L.K.Q.C.P. Mace, Rev. John ()ruttenden (curate) Palmer, 1\Iajor Thos., J.P., Brook house Palmer, Rev. Charles Samuel, M.A. (rector of Eardisley with Bollingham, rural dean of Weobley, first div., ·and proctor in convocation, diocese of Hereford), 'l'he Rectory COMMERCIAL. Bach, l\frs. ~lary, farmer, Great Quebb Barber, Wm., estate agent for executors of the late Perry Herrick, Esq., Newman's place Batts, J., New Inn, farmer & coal mrchnt. Breeze, J ames, cottage farmer and shopkeeper, nr. Great Oak Brooks, John, farmer, Lower Welson Cartwright, Wm., estate mason, common Chandler, James, farmer, Upper Spond Davies, Alfred, threshing machine proprietor, New crow DAVIES, SAMUEL CHARLES, plumber, glazier, and painter, Eardisley Davies, Thomas, shoeing & jobbing smith Drew, Dansey, farmer, Upper Spond East, Thomas, shoemaker and parish clerk, Rose cottage Edwards, John, farmer, Upper house Evans, Mrs., farmer, Parton farm Griffiths, Robert ,V,, farmer, Castle farm

EARDISLEY EASTNOR. 209 Gummer, Thomas, farmer, Pound farm Harper, John, grocer, baker, &c. Haynes, 0., shoemkr. & Insurance agent Hobby, John, cot. farmer, W oodseaves Howard, Edward, blacksmith, Spond Jay, John, tailor, &c. J enkins, J ames, mason Jones, William, farmer and miller, Eardisley mill Lewis, Benjamin, Police station LEWIS, WILLIAM~ builder and contractor, trap and carriage painter, wheelwright, &c., Eardisley Lewis, William, Eardisley coffee house and church institute Llewcllyn, Philip, coal agent Lock, 'V m., master of the national school Mackland, H., plumber, glazier, & painter Marston, J., farmer, Lady Arbour farm Meredith, Richard, farmer, Yew-tree house, Upper Spond Mitchell, Chas., saddler & harness maker (and at 46, High street, Kington) Morgan, Ed., farmer, Lower W elson fm. Morgan, John, farmer, Lower W elson Norgrove, Mrs. J., farmer, Little Quebb Mountford, R., cot. farmer, Woodseaves OLD RADNOR LIME, COAL, coke, slate, pipe, and builders' merchants. Head office-Kington. Agent at Eardisley railway station Page, Mrs. Mary Parry, S., station master, railway station Penny, Reuben, cot. farmer, W oodseaves Phillips, John, tailor, draper & grocer Powell, David, Parsonage farm Powell, J ames, Crow farm, Willersley POWELL, JOHN, maltster, gen .. eral grocer, draper, &c., and sub-postmaster, The Post office, Eardisley Powell, J. & Son, spade-tree manufacturers Preece, Thos., cottage farmer, The Field Price, Edward, farmer, Bollingham Price, John, 'Voodseaves farm Price, Thomas, farmer and freeholder, Spond villa Reed, Thomas, farmer, Questmoor SAVEKER, JOHN, saddler and harness maker, boot and shoe dealer Sheward, Thomas, farmer, The Field Smith, Henry, butcher Tantram, Williaru, railway inspector Taylor, Charles, mason, The Turn Turner, Mrs. Hannah, Manor house farm, Eardisley park VAUGHAN, ARTHUR WM., family butcher, Eardisley. Orders called for and delivered daily. See adveTtisement at end of Directory. Wall, Richard, farmer, Upper W elson, res. W ootton Wall, Robert, farmer, Brook house Watkins, Miss Ellen, Trarn Inn Williams, John, blacksmith Williams, Thomas, farmer, The Dukes Williams, William, farmer, St. Mary's EASTNOR. EASTNOR is a pretty village beautifully situated on the road from Ledbury to Tewkesbury, about 2 miles E. of Ledbury, 8 S.W. of Malvern (through Eastnor park), and 16 E. of Hereford; is in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, county court district, petty· sessional division, polling district, and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 410; in 1881, 394; inhabited houses, 93; families or separate occupiers, 95; area of parish, 3,167 acres; annual rateable value, £3,937· Lady Henry Somerset is lady of the manor and owner of the parish. The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, clay and stone; chief produce, wheat, beans, hops and fruit. Eastnor is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Frome; living, a rectory; value, £367, with residence and 64 acres of glebe; patroness, Lady Henry Somerset; rector, Rev. William Pulling, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, formerly Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1848, and is also rector of Pixley, and prebendary of Bullinghope in Hereford cathedral. The Rev. Howard ]. H. Truscott is the curate. The church, dedicated . to St. :fohn the Baptist, was, with the exception of the tower, rebuilt in I 8 52 under the superintendence of the late Sir George Gilbert Scott, R.A. The cost of rebuilding was over £6,ooo, the whole of which was defrayed by John, Earl Somers, father of the

210 EASTNOR. late Earl, and the rector. It is in the Early Decorated style of architecture, and consists of a deep chancel, nave, and north aisle, with a western tower, and a mortuary chapel for the use of the family of Earl Somers. There are some portions of the old church carefully preserved, of late Norman date. The interior of the church is lined with stone of a rich reddish grey; the font and pulpit are of Caen stone, beautifully carved, and enriched with shafts of Cornish marble; the woodwork of the roof and all the fittings is of massive oak, and the windows are nearly all filled with stained glass. The east window is by Wailes, of Newcastle, placed there in memory of the Rev. Joseph Higgins, late rector, and Mary his wife, by their surviving children. The new organ, by Nicholson, of Worcester, was given by Earl Somers, in 1867; the altar plate was also an offering from Earl Somers and his family. There are various new manu~ ments in the church to the Somers family. The earliest register is dated 156r. It was lost for some years, and found on a dung-hill at U pton-on-Severn, and brought to the Rev. J. Higgins soon after he was inducted (which was in I 79 5), in its present mutilated state. There is a brass plate, in Latin, in the tower, giving the genealogy of the Higgins family. The national school for boys and girls has accommodation for 138 children; average attendance, 91. Eastnor Castle, the seat of Lady Henry Somerset, is a noble castellated mansion of stone, built by John, first Earl Somers, in the year r8r5. It has four towers and a keep, commanding a charming view of the Malvern hills, and the picturesque scenery for which the surrounding district is so celebrated. The contiguous grounds are very beautifully laid out and correspond with the grandeur of the castle. The park is about soo acres in extent, and is well wooded and stocked with deer. In the park is an obelisk which can be seen many miles distant. The family of Somers is of long standing in this county, and its members have at various periods held some of the highest offices in the country. The castle is open for inspection by the public on Mondays and Fridays. Visitors will find good accommoda~ tion at the Somers' Arms Temperance Hotel, which is within a quarter of a mile of the castle. At Bronsil, in a glen of the Malvern hills, near the residence of C. W. Bell, Esq., are the remains of an old castle, originally of a square form, with a round tower at each angle, and a double moat surrounding it. From the appearance of the site, it must have been exceedingly strong. Eastnor takes its name from a Roman settlement. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Samuel Manwaring, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Ledbury at 7.10 a.m. and 6 p.m. ; despatched thereto at 5-45 p.m. and 7·5 p.m. This is a telegraph office. Led bury is the nearest money order office and post town. Parz'sh Church. Rev. William Pulling, M.A., Rector / Rev. Howard J. H. Truscott, Curate .i Messrs. C. Wentworth Bell and William Edward ]ones, Churchwardens .i Edward Taylor, Sexton. National School (boys and gids). Mr. William Edward Jones, Master. Assistant Overseer. Mr. William Ed ward J ones.

EASTNOR EATON BISHOP. 211 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bell, C. Wentworth, J.P., Bronsil Pulling, Rev. William, M.A. (rector of Eastnor and of Pixley, prebendary of Bullinghope in Hereford Cathedral), The Rectory Somerset, Lady Henry, Eastnor castle ; and Reigate Priory, Surrey COMMERCIAl~. Barber, Charles, woodman to Lady Henry Somerset, The Holts Boulter, Miss Maria, dairy farmer, Wayend street Brewer, J ames, farmer, White house :BREWER, J AMES, miller and farmer, corn, meal and flour merchant, Clenchers mill, Eastnor Brewer, Neighbour, H., farmer, Ockridge, 1·es., Gold hill Buck, Albert, land agent to Lady Henry Somerset, offices at Eastnor castle and at Pierpoint street, Worcester Cleeton, Samuel, farmer, Upper house Coleman, William, head gardener to Lady Henry Somerset, Eastnor castle gardens EAT ON Connop, George, blacksmith Cropper, J. William, foreman of works Ellis, Mrs., housekeeper to Lady Henry Somerset Hart, ,J ames, farmer, Fowlet farm HODGES, MRS. FANNY, Somers' Arms Temperance Hotel and boarding house. Visitors to Eastnor castle will find every accommodation. Large rooms, tents for parties, stable and coach house, posting, &c. Hollis, J. M., steward to Lady Henry Somerset, Eastnor farm Jones, Wm. E., schoolmaster, organist, and assistant overseer Lewis, Samuel J ames, The hill Manwaring, Samuel, house carpenter to Lady Henry Somerset Paxman, Richard F., head keeper to ,V.S. Broad wood Phelps, John, farmer, Beacon farm Summers, Samuel, grocer, Holly bush Taylor, Edward, sexton, Dean hill cottage Tyler, J oseph, cottage farmer V ern on, William, blacksmith, W ayend st. Williams, Thos., grocer & provision dealer W oodford, J oseph, house steward to Lady Henry Somerset BISHOP. EATON :BISHOP is a parish situated on both banks of the river Wye, about 5 miles W. of Hereford, 10 S. of Weobley, and 16 N.W. of Ross; is in Webtree hundred, Hereford union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Clehonger and Much Dewchurch polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 18 71 was 4 70 ; in 188 r, 450 ; inhabited houses, 101; families or separate occupiers, Io6; area of parish, 1,544 acres; rateable value, £3,145. By orders which came into operation on March 25th, r884, under the Divided Parishes Act, part of Eaton Bishop, on the left bank of the river Wye, was amalgamated with Stretton Sugwas. _ The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor, and Major Richard Snead Cox, Robert Wood Ingham, Esq., barrister-at-law, and Joseph Pulley, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, red sandstone; chief produce, wheat, beans, barley, and roots. Eaton Bishop is in the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford; living, a rectory; value, £485, with residence and 33 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford; rector, Rev. Charles Burrough, M.A., of Jesus Colleget Cambridge, who was instituted in 1882. The church, dedicated to SS. M£chael and All Angels, is a stone edifice, with chancel, nave, aisles, shingle tower, and porch. The tower is Norman, the nave, Early English, the chancel and transept windows Decorated. The chancel contains some beautiful 13th-century stained glass, which was brought from the demolished Episcopal Chapel at Sugwas, in 1750. The church was thoroughly restored at the cost of £I,7oo, and was re-opened in I88s. The bells were

212 EATON BISHOP. tuned and re-hung in 1887, and a memorial organ, built by Eustace Ingram, of Hereford, was placed in the chancel in 1888. The earliest register is dated I 5 88. There is a national school for boys and girls, with accommodation for 92 children; average attendance, 52. The Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Plymouth Brethren have small meeting-houses in the parish. Eaton camp is on the south bank of the Wye, and is of British origin, but appears to have been only a temporary station. It is a large entrenchment, with a single ditch and rampart. The area, which is cultivated, contains between 30 and 40 acres. About half-a-mile N.W. of the camp, and near the river, is Lower Eaton, the residence of Joseph Pulley, Esq., ].P., D.L. At Sugwas, on the opposite bank of the Wye, was a palace and chapel belonging to the Bishops of Hereford, and was the favourite residence of Bishop Cantilupe. The chapel was taken down in 1792. Sugwas Court now occupies the site, and is the residence of R. vV. Ingham, Esq., of Inner Temple. There is a ferry over the Wye, from $ugwas to Lower Eaton. Cageb1·ook House, the residence of Major-General Hopton, C.B., ].P., is situated r mile S.E. of the church. The Manor House, Eaton Bishop, is at present unoccupied. Honeymoor Common and Ruckhall Common are in the parish. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Robert Mason, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Hereford, at 7 a.m., despatched thereto at 5.50 p.m. Letters can be registered here. Madley is the nearest money order office. Hereford is the telegraph office and post town. Parish Church (SS . .J.."Yzchael and All Angels). Rev. Charles Burrough, M.A., Rector./ Messrs. George Waiters and Washington Taylor, Churchwa-rdens/ David Goode, Pansh Clerk. Natz'onal School (boys and gi'rls). Mr. Horace Henry Corsbie, Maste1· / Mrs. Corsbie, .lvl£stress. Baptist Chapel. Ministers various. Primift"ve Methodist Chapel. Ministers various. Plymouth Brethren Chapel. Ministers various. Wesleyan Chapel. Ministers various. Assistant Overseer. Mr. William Dawe, Ruckhall. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dawe, William, wheelwright, res. Pool Burrough, Rev. Charles, 1\.f.A. (rector), The Rectory Hopton, Major-Gen. Edward, C. B., J.P., Cagebrook house Ingham, R. W., J.P., Sugwas court Pulley, Joseph, J.P., D.L., county alderman, Lower Eaton Waiters, George, Ruckhall common COMMERCIAL. Beavan, Charles, Ruckhall Mill Blakeway, Miss Mary, New house Broad, Abraham, poultry dealer, Honey· moor common Corsbie, Horace Henry, schoolmaster Cross, John, farmer, Tump house Dawe, Edward, Green court farm farm, Ruckhall Goode, David, parish clerk Hancorn, Wm., farmer, Upper Wormhill Hawkins, F., farmer, Sugwas farm Holder, James, Camp Inn, Agent for ARNOLD, 'PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, Hereford. Price lists and particulars on application. James, Geo., Boat Inn, Sngwas J ames, Mrs., Bank farm J ones, Hedley, farm bailiff for J oseph Pulley, J.P., Lane Head farm J ones, Roger, farmer, W arloe Lewis, Harry, miller & farmer, New mills Long, C., cabim'!t maker, &c., Little marsh 1\'Iason, John, carpenter, &c., Honeymoor 1\'Iason, Robt., shoemkr. & sub· post· master

EATON BISHOP EDWIN RALPH. 213 Morgan, Charles, farmer, New barns farm Morgan, Wm., farmer, Cross Keys farm Morris, Benjamin, cider retailer, Ruckhall common Powell, J ames, farmer, Marsh farm 1 Powell, Mrs., blacksmith Taylor, Washington, Marsh House farm Tnlley, Miss Sarah, farmer, Red house Wheeler, Thos., caretaker, Manor house Williams, J ames, tailor, Ruckhall com. EDWIN RALPH. EDWIN RALPH, or EDVIN RALPH (from Radulphus de Zeddefen, circa I 350), is a parish delightfully situated on an eminence on the Bromyard and Tenbury road, distant 2~ miles N. of the former town and 9 S.E. of the latter, 16 N.E. of Hereford, and 16 W. of Worcester; is in Wolphy hundred, Bromyard union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Brimfield and High Lane polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 155 ; in 188r, 163; inhabited houses, 30 ; families or separate occupiers, 30; area of parish, I ,2 I 2 acres ; annual rateable value, £r 1158. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Edwin Ralph, known as Butterley, was amalgamated with Wacton parish. Rev. E. G. Baldwyn-Childe is lord of the manor and principal landowner. William Barneby, Esq., of Saltmarshe Castle is also a landowner here. The soil is stiff red clay, producing wheat, beans, barley, hops, and fruit. Edwin Ralph is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome ; living, a rectory annexed to Collington ; joint value, £4o6, with residence and 66l acres of glebe; patron, Rev. E. G. Baldwyn-Childe; rector, Rev. Edward Leonard Childe-Freeman, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1882. The church, dedicated to St. JJfzchael, was partly restored in 1862, at a cost of £soo. In 1885 the tower was restored and partly rebuilt ; the east window was filled with stained glass to the memory of Rev. Arthur Childe-Freeman, the former rector ; a new reredos was also added, together with lectern and choir stalls, at a total cost of£ 335, raised by subscription. The church is a very ancient structure, dating from the end of th~ twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century ; some part of the eh urch is older, a small window on the north side being ear 1 y Norman. It has a square tower containing one bell. Within the church are some very ancient monuments of Crusaders and others, and on a flat stone is the following inscription: "Hie jacet domina Matilda qure fuit uxor domini Thomre de Eddefen : ubicunque dicentibus pater et Avepro anima Matildre de Eddefen Dominus Episcopus Vigorniensis XXX. dies venire concessit." The charities belonging to the parish· amount to about £6 yearly. There is no school in the parish; the children attend the district school at Thorn bury. Butterley (a hamlet formerly in Edwin Ralph but now in W acton parish), containing about 6oo acres, is about I~ miles W. of the church. PosTAL REGULATIONS, -Letters are received through Worcester, vid, Bromyard, and arrive by messenger at 8.45 a.m.; despatched thereto at 3.30 p.m. Bromyard is the nearest money order, telegraph office and post town. The wall letter-box at Thornbury is cleared at 4.40 p.m.