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412 HOPE-UNDER-DINMORE HOvV CAPLE. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days Stopping Place Return at Thomas Gra venor (Bodenham) Wed. & Sat. Hop Pole do. 4 30 4 30 John Prosser do. do. CARRIERS Thomas Gravenor (Bodenham) TO LEOMINSTER. John Prosser do. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Arkwright, John Rungerford, Esq., M.A. (Oxon), J.P., D.L., county councillor, Hampton court and Carlton club, London, S.W. Evans, Rev. Leonard Henry (vicar), The Vicarage Lister, Rev. J ames Stovin, B. A., The Vicarage Master, Col. W. C., C. B., Hampton Park house COMMERCIAL. Baker, John., wheelwright & implement maker, Upper hill Bye, A., head gardener to J. H. Arkwright, Hampton court gardens Cook, Geo., cowman for J. H. Arkwright Davis, John, Dinmore hill Eckley, Robert, farm bailiff for J. H. Arkwright, Hampton Green farm Fox, James, mason, Upper hill Griffiths, William, farmer, Brownsland Harper, Ed., beer retailer & shopkeeper, Red Lion Inn, Upper hill, agent for ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, Hereford. Price lists and particulars on application Harris, Wm., timber dealer, Dinmorehill, res. New Cottages, Hope HOW Fri. Elephant & Castle do. King's Head 3 3 0 0 J ames, Thomas, assistant overseer for Newton, and secretary to the Hampton Friendly Society, Hope village J ones, John, farmer & hop grower, Lower hill, and at The Old farm, Winforton Law, John Philip, farmer & hop grower, Yoke farm Lewis, Herbert, head gamekeeper to J. H. Arkwright, Rose cottage Mill.ichap, John, farm bailiff to Wm. T. Parry, Middle hill Millichap, Wm., farmer and hop grower, Pigeon house Morgan, Mrs., farmer, Broomwell farm N unn, Jas., master of Upper hill school Parry, Wm. R., farmer, Middle hill, res., Lye court, Leominster Poynter, Ph., master of Hope free school Price, Henry, farmer, Pervin farm Price, William, Royal Oak Inn, collector of Income Tax, and assistant overseer for Hope Probert, George, Dinmore hill Smith, Samuel, farmer and hop grower, Bury of Hope farm Smith, William J ames, farmer, Gattertop, and at The Farm, Monkland Stansbury, Sydney, shopkeeper, Hope Turner, William, farmer, Winsley house V aughan, J no., cott. farmer, Dinmorehill Williams, Thos., parish clerk, Dinmore hill Wood, Henry, farmer, Woodmanton Y ates, J oseph, estate agent for J. H. Arkwright, res. Marlbrook, Leominster CAP LE. HOW CAPLE is a small parish beautifully situated upon an eminence overlooking the river Wye, and near the road leading from Ross to Hereford, vza Fownhope. It is distant 5 miles N. of Ross, 9-! S.E. of Hereford, and about 2 E. of Fawley station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway ; is in Greytree hundred, Ross union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and King's Caple and Upton Bishop polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 153; in r881, II3; inhabited houses, 24; families or separate occupiers, 28 ; area of parish, 980 acres ; annual rateable value, £1,434. The Rev. T. B. Paynter and Mrs. Hornby are lord and lady of the manor and principal landowners. The soil is a rich loam on a red sandstone formation ; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c. The scenery in this locality is very beautiful; a delightful view is

HOW CAPLE HUMBER. obtained from the eminence on which the church stands, looking S.W. How Caple is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Ross ; living, a rectory, consolidated with that of SoBershope; joint value, £349 ros., with residence and I I I acres of glebe; patron, Rev. T. B. Paynter ; rector, Rev. T. B. Paynter, B.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, who was instituted in I884- The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome stone building, probably erected in the latter part of the 14th century. It has a massive tower containing two bells, built by Sir William Gregory (speaker of the House of Commons when the Habeas Corpus Act was passed, and who was formerly owner of the How Caple estate, and an ancestor of the present owners) about the year 1693, and its west face bears his shield of arms. It consists of nave, chancel, south transept, and, on the north side, porch. The nave and the south transept, where many of the family are buried, were re-built by Sir W. Gregory about the same date. The church, together with the sister church of Sollershope, was re-opened on July 26th, 1887, after thorough restoration. In the chancel may be seen a projecting piscina, also two bases for images. Over the chancel screen is a fine specimen of wood carving the Royal Arms of England said to be of foreign workmanship, and carved from one block. In the churchyard, the pedestal and part of the shaft are all that remain of the old stone cross. The earliest register is dated 1677. Here is a joint school for the children of this parish and Sollershope, with accommodation for 40 children ; average attendance, 30 ; built at the cost of the rector and his family connections. PosTAL REGULATIONS. James Harris, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Ross about 8.30 a. m. and 5 p.m.; despatched thereto at 4.10 p.m. Postal orders can be obtained here. Fawley is. the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Ross. Pm-ish Church ( St.ll:fary's). Rev. Thomas Beville Paynter, B.A., Rector~· Mr. James Harris, Churchwarden~· Henry Tomkins, Parzsk Clerk. National School (boys and g·z'rls). Miss Agnes Saunders, Mzst1·ess. CARRIER To Ross. Name Reuben Packwood (Woolhope) Day Thurs. Stopping Place Railway Inn Return at 4 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. King, Joseph J., The Rectory Paynter, Rev. T. B., B.A. (rector of How Caple with Sollershope), How Caple court W ebster, W alter Francis, The Grange COMMERCIAL. Clissold, Richard, boot and shoe maker Harris, .Jas., blacksmith & sub-postmaster Hooper, Mrs. Mary Ann, miller, How Caple mill Sexty, Richard, farmer, Garraway farm Tomkins, Henry, parish clerk HUMBER, WITH RISBURY TowNsHIP. HUMBER is a parish with a railway station at Steen's Bridge, situated on the south side of the main road between Leominster and Bromyard, distant 3! miles S.E. of Leominster, 9 W. of Bromyard, and

HUMBER. 13 N.N.E. of Hereford; ~ in Wolphy hundred, Leominster union petty sessional division. and county court district, and Hope-under~ Dinmore polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 264; in I88I, 257; inhabited houses, 52 ; families or separate occupiers, 58 ; area of parish, 1,768 acres; annual rateable value, £1,904. Major Edward Nicholas Heygate, R.E .. who is lord of the manor, and John Hungerford Arkwright, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, beans, fruit, and hops. Humber is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster; living, a rectory ; value, £22o, including 126 acres of glebe ; patron, ]. H. Arkwright, Esq., of Hampton Court ; rector, Rev. Charles Robert Arthur Grant, M.A., of Magdalen College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1887. An excellent rectory house was erected in 1870. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small stone edifice, with tower, porch, nave, chancel, and about 130 sittings, and was restored in I 877. The interior now presents a very pleasing appearance. In 1884, the tower was raised 12 feet, and surmounted by a shingle spire (38 feet in height), in memory of the late rector, the Rev. Philip ] ohn Scudamore Stanhope, M.A. The school, with class-room and teacher's residence, was erected in 1874-7 5 at Risbury, at a cost of £soo. It is built to accommodate about 74 children; the average attendance is 49· Risbury is a township in this parish. Risbury Camp comprises an area of 8 acres ; it is now annexed to the farm of Mr. Henry C. Lambert. It is one of the line of British encampments which commence at the Malvern Hills. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Leominster. The letter box at Steen's Bridge is cleared at 4.50 p.rn., and that at Risbury Cross at 9 a.m. Leominster is the nearest money order and telegraph office, and post town. Par£sh Church (St . .1.l1ary's). Rev. Charles Robert Arthur Grant, M.A., Rector_; Major E. N. Heygate, R.E., and Mr. Robert Beamand, Churchwarde1ts; \Villiam Lippett, Parish Clerk. Natz'onal School (boys and gz'rls), Risbury. Mr. A. L. Smelt, Master; Mrs. Smelt, .i11istress. Assz'stant Overseer. Mr. Jarnes Wilkes, 6, High street, Leorninster. Steen's Bridge Ra£lway Stati'on. Mr. Charles John Howes, Statz'on Master. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Grant, Rev. C. R. A., M.A. (rector), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. Angeleri, Carlo, shopkeeper, Risbury Bemand, Robert, frmr., Upper house farm Bound, Thomas, farmer, Little Maidenhead, Risbury Bowcott, George, boot and shoe maker Bowcott, J ames, farmer, Butt oak gate Crump, Thos. Wm., farmer & hop grower, Wood farm, Risbury Diggory, George, Hop Pole Inn, Risbury Edwards, Mrs. Ann, farmer, Court farm George, Edward, farmer, The poplars, Risbury Hill, Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper, Risbury Howes, Charles John, station master, Steen's bridge J ackson, George, farmer and hop grower, Upper Priddleton Lambert, Henry Caswell, farmer and hop grower. Risbury court Leary, J., coal, coke, lime and salt merchant, wharf, Steen's bridge station Lippett, Wm., parish clerk & shoemaker Mason, Henry, farmer and hop grower, Risbury

HUMBER HUNTINGTON. Rooke, Fred, miller, manager for H. C. Lambert, Risbury court mill Smalley, Thos., cott. farmer, Low brook Smelt, A. L., master of national school, School house Vaughan, W alter, fanner, Glebe farm, res., Wickton V enning, T., fatmer and hop grower, Lower Priddleton W atkins, Ed., wheelwright, and blacksmith, Steen's bridge W atk.ins, W., blacksmith and farmer, Risbury HUNTINGTON. HUNTINGTON is a parish situated on the river Arrow, and on the borders of Radnorshire, about 4 miles S.W. of Kington, 7 N. of Hay, I 1 S.W. of Presteigne, 16 W. of Leominster, and 24 N.W. of Hereford; 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 1 87I was 244 ; in 188 I, 2 59 ; inhabited houses, 49 ; families or separate occupiers, 52 ; area of parish, I ,937 acres ; annual rateable value. £2,327. The Executors of the late James Cheese, Esq., with Mrs. Romilly, and Charles Payne Evans, Esq., are the chief landowners. The soil is light ; subsoil, stony ; chief produce, wheat, barley, oats, and roots. Two considerable fairs are held here annually, on July 18th and November 13th, for all kinds of stock and wool. Huntington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weobley ; living, a rectory annexed to the vicarage of Kington : joint value, £66 I, with residence ; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester; rector, Rev. Charles Edward Craigie, M.A., of Keble College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1888. The church is a plain stone edifice, erected in the 12th century, consisting of nave, chancel, and wooden turret with two bells. About a quarter of a mile N. from the church stood the castle, which is now in ruins. It was formerly a considerable border stronghold, and gave name to the hundred. "Huntington castle," says Leland, "longid to the Duke of Bokingham." It was in form nearly oblong; the keep was on the south-west side. The foundations have been so ransacked for stones to erect buildings in the neighbourhood, that there remain only a few fragments of the walls. It was surrounded by a mound and a moat, or fosse, and had the green on the north-east side (about an acre of land); the moat was formidable and deep. On the north-west side over the moat was a drawbridge. The walls were seven feet thick ; and the general plan of the structure resembled the castle at Clifford, and was probably erected in the reign of William the Conqueror. In this parish is a free school for boys and girls, built and endowed in 1791 by Edward Goff, of London, coal merchant. It has accommodation for 94 children; average attendance, 62. It is also used as a chapel by the Congregationalists. There is also a school at Mahollam, between Huntington and Kington, built by the late H. Romilly, Esq., of Huntington park, for the use of the children of this parish and an outlying portion of Kington. It is conducted by a mistress appointed and chiefly supported by Mrs. Romilly, and has accommodation for So children; average attendance, 28. The principal residences in the parish are Hzmtzizgton Park, the seat of

HUNTINGTON KENCHESTER. Mrs. Romilly, and Hzmtz'ngton Court, occupied by J. E. Bateman Dash wood, Esq. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Kington at 10 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 4-30 p.m. Kington is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town. Parish Church. Rev. Charles Edward Craigie, M.A., Rector/ Messrs. William ]ones and]. H. Stephens, Churchwardens; William Teague, Parish Clerk. Nat-ional School ( gzrls and infants), Mahollam.-Miss Schofield, .J.lfzstress. Go_ff"'s Free School (boys and g£ds). Mr. John Hy. Lloyd, 1.Waster. Congregat-ional Chapel. Rev. William ]ones, M-inister. Assz'stant Ove1·see1·. Mr. William Lewis, Blanpeak. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Lewis, Joseph, farmer, Arrow cottage Dashwood, J. E., Huntington court J ones, Rev. Wm., Congregationahninister Romilly, Mrs. R. G., Huntington park COMMERCIAL. Bound, Samuel, farmer and carpenter Bounds, Bryan, farmer, Little Hengoed and Yew-tree farms Burgoyne, John, stone cutter, Swan Inn Davies, Cornelius, farmer, LittleGwernybwch Evans, John, farmer, Pentiley Hammond, Henry, farmer, The Hengoed Hobby, Edwd., farmer, Burnt Hengoed J ones, J ames, farmer, Great Penland Jones, John, farmer, Upper house J ones, Thomas, farmer, The Lodge J ones, William, farmer, Lower house Lewis, William, boot & shoe maker, tax collector, &assistant overseer, Blanpeak Lloyd, John Henry, schoolmaster Morgan, William, farmer, Penland Morris, Thomas, miller, Hall's mill Powell, Ed., shoemaker, Bungyhead Pritchard, Thos., cattle dealer, The Firs Rees, William, farmer, Upper Hengoed Sheen, J ames, cottage farmer, Greenfield cottage Stephens, John, cottage fanner, Cae Cwm Thoma8, J., farmer, Penland Walker, Thomas, gardener, Park cottage W ethersby, J ames, farmer, New house Wilding, Timothy, cottage farmer, Grove cottage Williams, Jas., tailor & grocer, Brilley's mountain Worthing, John Joseph, grocer and provision dealer and wheelwright KENCHESTER. KENCHESTER is a small parish bounded on the S. by the river Wye, and situated about half-a-mile N. of the main road between Hereford and Hay, and a short distance from Credenhill railway station. It is distant 5~ miles W.N.vV. of Hereford, 8 S. of Weobley, 14 S.E. of Kington, and 15 E. of Hay ; 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 1871 was 103; in 1881, 8o; inhabited houses I 9 ; families or separate occupiers, 2 I ; area of parish, SII acres; annual rateable value, £1,183. The Hon. Mrs. Griffiths is lady of the manor and principal landowner. C. Hardwick, Esq., and the Rev. William Williams, ofBuilth, and the Misses Williams also own land in this parish. The soil is loamy and gravelly; subsoil, clay ; chief produce, wheat, barley, beans, peas, and roots. There are chemical works in the parish, carried on by Mr. John Jacob, of Hereford. Kenchester is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weston ; living, a rectory ; value, £143, with good residence and 53 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Chancellor; rector, Rev. Compton Reade, M.A., of Magdalen College,

KEN CHESTER. Oxford; who was instituted in 1887. The church, dedicated to St. Mz"chael, is an old stone edifice, in the Norman style of architecture. It has no tower, and is a very plain building, consisting of nave and chancel, which has been recently ornamented by an oak reredos, the gift of the Hon. Mrs. Griffiths, in memory of her late husband, Major]. Harward Griffiths, ].P., D.L. The parish registers begin with the year 17 58. Here is an institution, erected in 1830, and endowed by the late Dowager Lady Southampton, consisting of a chapel, with residence for the minister, and a British school with accommodation for 108 boys and girls, with an average attendance of 64; separate dwellings are attached to each school for master and fnistress. Kenchester is extremely ancient, having been a famous Roman town, and the lf-:fag1ta Castra of the Itinerary of Antoninus. The distances, as well as the general regularities observed in the course of the Itinerary, perfectly accord in support of this opinion; and the etymology of the appellation Kenchester itself, from Ken or Kyn, first or chief; and Chester from Chestre, equivalent to the Roman Castra, appears equally in favour of this being the real Magna Castra. "Kenchester," says Leland, "standith a 3 mile or more above Hereford, upward on the same side of the river that Hereford doth; yet is yt almost a mile from the ripe of the Wye. This towne is far more ancient than Hereford, and was celebrated yn the Romans' time, as apperith by many things, and especially by antique money of the Cresars, very often found within the towne, and in ploughing aboute, the which the people there call Duarfes money. The cumpace of Kenchester bath been by estimation as much as Hereford, excepting the castle, the whiche at Hereford is very spacious. Pieces of the walls and turrets yet appear proje fundamenta, and more should have appearid, if the people of Hereford towne, and other thereabout, had not in tyme past pulled down much, and picked out of the best for their buildings. By likelihood men of old time went from Kenchester to Hay and so to Breknok and Carmardin. The place wher the towne was is all overgown with brambles, hazles, and like shrubs. Nevertheless here and there yet appear ruins of buildings, of the whiche the foolish people caull on (one) the King of Feyres Chayre." Great numbers of Roman antiquities, and other vestiges of the ancient consequence of this city, have from time to time been discovered, and may yet be traced in different parts of the parish. Among the chief which have been found are a part of a Roman temple, a hypocaust, tesselated pavements, urns, implements of war, and an aqueduct of considerable extent. Roman coins and pottery are frequently found at the present day. A collection of these is in the possession of Mrs. Hardwick, of Credenhill. The form of this station is an irregular hexagon, inclining to a parallelogram. The area is raised about four or five feet above the level of the adjacent country, and is now divided into two enclosures; that westward is converted into arable land, and is remarkable for the blackness of its soil ; in the eastern enclosures are numerous inequalities, arising from foundations, vaults, and ruins of buildings. This station has been erroneously V

KENCHESTER KENDERCHURCH. fixed by Camden as the Anco1zt"um of the Romans. The New Wezr, the residence of the Hon. Mrs. Griffiths, is pleasantly situated near the river Wye, and about-! of a mileS. from the church. The Old Weir is the residence of Charles Hard wick, Esq. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Elizabeth N ash, Sub-Postmistress. Letters arrive by messenger from Hereford about 9.30 a.m.; despatched thereto at 3.50 p.m. Nearest money order office, White-cross road, Hereford. Telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (St. Mi'chael's) Rev. Compton Reade, M.A., Rector~· John L. Passey, Esq., Chztrchwardm / George Apperley, Parish Clerk. Lady Southampton's Chapel. Rev. Thomas Hughes, Minister. Lady Southampton's School. Miss A. M. Hughes, Mistress. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Philip Henry Pearce, Bridge Villa, Credenhill. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Evans, David, Chapel house · Griffiths, The Hon. Mrs., The New Weir Hard wick, Charles, The Old Weir Hughes, Rev. Thomas Reade, Rev. Compton, M.A. (rector), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. Apperley, George, parish clerk Hughes, Miss, schoolmistress J acob, John, chemical works, res. River bank, Tupsley, Hereford J ones, Thomas, manager at the chemical works, Bridge house Passey, John Rowland, farmer, Kenchester court Richards, Edward, farm bailiff to Charles Hard wick, The Old Weir KENDERCHURCH. KENDERCHURCH, or HOWTON, is a small parish and village situated on the river Doyer, and intersected by the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great West ern railway (West Midland section). The Golden Valley railway passes along the borders. It is distant rot miles S.W. of Hereford, and about I mile N.W. of Pontrilas railway station. It is in Webtree hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Hereford county court district, and Pontrilas polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in I87r was 70; in I88r, 58; inhabited houses, I2 ; families or separate occupiers, 14; area of parish, 788 acres; annual rateable value, £2,773· E. Scudamore Lucas, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, chiefly clay ; produce, wheat, beans, roots, &c. Kenderchurch is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield ; living, a vicarage; value, £64 I os.; patron, Robert William Dacre Barley, Esq.; vicar, Rev. Edward Reade Firmstone, B.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, who was instituted in I 88 I and resides at Kilpeck vicarage. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was completely restored in I87o, at a cost of £780. It has nave, chancel, porch, font, and small belfry with one bell. The children attend W ormbridge day school. PosTAL REGULATIONs. Letters are received through Hereford. Pontrilas is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (St. Mary's). Rev. Edward Reade Firmstone, B.A., Vicar; Mr. J ames Parry, Chu1·chwarden ; William Virgo, Sexton.

KENDERCHURCH KENTCHURCH. Assistant Overseer. Mr. B. Gwillim, Bridge farm, Ewyas Harold . • COMMERCIAL RESIDENTS. Higley, Arthur, tailor, Howton Grove Jones, Miss A., and Webb, Mrs. E., farmers, Howton Grove Parry, James, farmer, Howton farm Prosser, Alfred, cottage farmer, New Invention W atkins, Richard, farmer, Howton court KENTCHURCH, WITH PoNTRILAS HAMLET. KENTCHURCH is a large parish and village, situated on the river Monnow, which here divides the counties of Hereford and Monmouth. It is distant 13 miles S.S.W. of Hereford, 14 W. of Ross, II N.W. of Monmouth, and about 2 S.E. ~f Pontrilas station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway (West-Midland section). It is in Webtree and Wormelow hundreds, Dore union and petty sessional division; Hereford county court district, and Pontrilas polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 381; in r88r, 353; inhabited houses, 69; families or separate occupiers, 70; area of parish, 3,235 acres; annual rateable value, £3,892. Edward Scudamore Lucas, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landed proprietor. The soil is clayey, sandy, and loamy; subsoil, chiefly rock; produce, wheat, barley, beans, oats, and pasture. Kentchurch is in the diocese and archdeaconry ofHereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a rectory; value, £348, with residence and St acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Chancellor; rector, Rev. Morgan George Watkins, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, who was instituted in 188 5· The church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, was rebuilt in 1858-591 at a cost of £1,390. It has nave, chancel, tower (containing five bells) with low spire, porch, font, harmonium, and several handsome monuments and tablets. A monument to the Scudamore family occupies a side chapel, and has two full-size reclining figures and nine smaller figures at the base, the whole surmounted by the Scudamore arms. The church underwent some improvements in 1869. The earliest register is dated 165o. There is a national school for boys and girls, endowed by John Bevan, Esq., in 1729, with a house and garden and the interest of £150. It has accommodation for 56 children, but is at present closed. The school-room has been recently repaired at a cost of £5o. The parochial charities amount to about £2o yearly. Kentchurch Court, the seat of Edward Scudamore Lucas, Esq., J.P., D.L., but at present occupied by George Lee Morris, Esq., is an ancient mansion. In Leland's "Itinerary" it is called Penchirche, and affirmed to be the seat of the eldest house of the Escuedamours. The park is between three and four miles in circumference, and contains some fine timber, .and is well stocked with deer. Kentchurch is divided from Grosmont, Monmouthshire, by the river Monnow, one of the best trout streams -in England. Pontrilas is a hamlet and small village forming part of Kentchurch parish, with a railway station at the junction of the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford, and Golden Valley railways, about 2 miles N .W. of Kentchurch village, and midway between

420 KENTCHURCH. Hereford and Abergavenny. The Golden Valley railway was opened for traffic in 188I 1 from Pontrilas to Dorstone; and the extension to Hay, where it joins the Midland line, was completed in 1889. The Pontrilas chemical works are carried on by Captain R. P. Rees, of Abergavenny. Pontr£las Court is the residence of B. St. John Attwood-Mathews, Esq., M.A., J.P. Llanithog was formerly an extraparochial place. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Kentchurch; Elizabeth Kennard, SubPostm-istress. Letters arrive from Hereford at 9 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 6 p.m. Letters can be registered here. Grosmont is the nearest money order office. Pontrilas is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Pontrilas ; Samuel Thomas, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive at 7.5o a.m. and 1 p.m. ; despatched at 7 p.m. Letters can be registered here. Letters should be addressed, Pontrilas, R.S.O., Herefordshire. Parish Chttrch (St. Mary the Virgin). Rev. Morgan George Watkins, M.A., Rector.; G. Lee Morris, Esq., Churchwarden; Charles Davies, Parish Clerk. National School (boys and girls). Closed at present. Pontrilas Railway Station ( Yunctz"on of the Great Western Railway and Golden Valley Raz7way ). William Henry Higginson, Station Master. Pontrilas and Golden Valley Cart Horse Society. Mr. C. W. Wall, Cock yard farm, Abbeydore, Secretary. Pontrzlas and Golden Valley Agricultural Soci'ety.-.Mr. T. F. Morgan, Secretary, Pontrilas Court farm. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Edwin Sayee, Kentchurch. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Jones, John, hurdle maker, Pontrilas Attwood-Mathews, Benjamin St. John, M.A., J.P., Pontrilas court Davies, Samuel, Doyer villa Morris, George Lee, Kentchurch court Stewart, W alter, Doyer villa Walker, W entworth, Pontrilas Watkins, Rev. Morgan George, M.A., (rector of Kentchurch, and Llangua, Monmouthshire), The Rectory Wilson, G. J., Doyer house, Pontrilas COMMERCIAL. Bennett, William, Bridge Inn and farmer Cole, Edwin, farmer, The Bradley Cole, J. E., grocer and provision dealer, drapery & shoe warehouse, nr. railway station. Pontrilas Cooke, Thomas, New Buildings farm Davies, Charles, parish clerk Davif's, Samuel, manager of Pontrilas chemical works, Doyer villa Farr, .Tames, farmer, The Elms Farr, Thomas, beer retailer, Royal Oak Groves, J ames, farmer, Gwern Gounsell Harris, Miss, infant school, Pontrilas Hi~rginson, \Villiam Hy., station master, Pontrilas J ohnson, Thomas, farmer, Brook farm Kennard, Elizabeth, sub-postmistress King, John, Pontrilas Inn, agent for ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, Hereford. Price lists and particulars on application. Lewis, Mrs. Hannah, Orchard farm Mannings, William, farmer, Ridway and Crab's Castle farms 1\forgan, Mrs. Thomas, farmer, Pontrilas court farm Parker, George, blacksmith, Kentchurch Pearce, William, coal agent and farmer, Llanithog Pearson & Watkins, carpenters & wheelwrights. Pontrilas Pitt, Charles, farmer, Court-y-grove Pontrilas Chemical Works, near Pontrilas railway station, Capt. R. P. Rees, proprietor, manufacturer of charcoal, acetate of lime, naphtha, pitch, and tar Pontrilas Coffee House-Samuel Thomas, manager Price, John, farmer, Bannut Tree farm Price, Thomas, coal agent, Pontrilas railway station, res. Upper Ridway Pritchard, George, carpenter & joiner Sayct>, Edwin, jun., assistant overseer, Old House farm

KENTCHURCH KILPECK. 421 SMITH, JOHN, ornamental iron, brass, and copper worker, practical repousse, shoeing and general smith, Pontrilas Sparks, David, farmer, Little Corras V earnals, Benjamin, police constable W atkins, Geo., farmer, Castle Field farm W atkins, Milburn, farmer, The Skerrid 'Vatkins, Richard, farmer, The Meadows W atkins, William & J ames, farmers, Great Corras Whitlock, T. & W., timber merchants, Pontrilas; George Bennett, manager \Villiams, John, farmer, Barton Hill farm Wilson, G. J., brick, tile, and drain-pipe manufacturer, Doyer house, Pontrilas, and at Hampton Park, Hereford, steam brick and tile works KILPECK. KILPECK is a parish and village distant 9 miles S.,V. of Hereford, 12 N.W. of Ross, 12 N.N.W. of Monmouth, and about half a mile S.E. of St. Devereux station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway (West Midland section), by which line the parish is intersected. It is in W ormelow hundred (upper division), Dore union and petty sessional division, Pontrilas polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Hereford county court district. The population in 1871 was 240; in I88I, 224 ; inhabited houses, 48 ; families or separate occupiers, 54 ; area of parish, 2 1II3 acres; annual rateable value, £2,870. Thomas Raymond Symons, Esq., who is lord of the manor, E. Scudamore Lucas, Esq., and the Trustees of the late C. Meysey Bolton Clive, are the chief landowners. The soil is loam and stiff clay; subsoil, limestone; produce, wheat, beans, oats, and pasture. Kilpeck is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a vicarage; value, £161, with residence; patron, the Lord Bishop of \V orcester ; vicar, Rev. Edward Reade Firmstone, B.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1881. The vicarage was built during the present vicar's incumbency, in 188 3· The church, dedicated to St. David, is one of the most ancient and curious buildings in the county; its fine Norman arches and apsidal chancel denote its antiquity, there being only three of the kind in the country. It has al~o nave, large and curious font, two tablets, and a bell-turret with one bell. It underwent restoration in 1864 at a cost of £6so. The register begins with the year 1673. The school, which was enlarged and refitted in 1871 at a cost of £56, has accommodation for 46 children ; average attendance, 28. The charities are of £1 yearly value. In this parish was anciently a castle (a portion of the ruins of which still remain), and a cell of Benedictines; the former was the residence of the noble family of Kilpec, who obtained it by marriage with an heiress of the Walerane's, who lived here in the time of Edward I- In Leland's time it belonged to the Earl of Ormond. The priory was situated about a quarter of a mile from the castle, and was subordinate to St. Peter's, at Gloucester, to which the church had been given by Hugh-Fitzwilliam, an ancestor of the Lords Kilpec. It was suppressed by Thomas Spofford, Bishop of Hereford, in 1422, and united to Gloucester. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive from Tram Inn via Worm~ bridge by messenger, about 10 a.m. Tram Inn is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. The letter box at St. Devereux railway bridge is cleared at 6 p.m.

422 KILPECK KIMBOLTON. Parish Church (St. Davz"d's). Rev. Edward Reade Firmstone, B.A., Vt"car; Messrs. William Powell and John Griffiths, Churchwardens.; Josiah Beavan, Pansh Clerk. National School (boys and gz'rls). Miss Sarah Jaynes, M-istress. Assz"stant Overseer. Mr. Richard Minton Davies. PRIVATE RESIDENT. Firmstone, Rev. Edward Reade, (vicar of Kilpeck and Kenderchurcb), The Vicarage, Kilpeck COMMERCIAL. Barrell, J obn, farmer, Green way Bateman, William, farmer, Allen's hill Beavan, James, cooper, carpenter and wheelwright, Pentwine Bea van, J osiah, shoemaker & parish clerk Davies, Richard Minton, farmer and assistant overseer, Little Size croft Farr, John, farmer, Benarth Florence, Edwarrl, cot. farmer, Staracre Green, Charles, farmer, Hill Top farm Griffiths, Mrs., farmer, Knolton Griffiths, Thomas, farmer, Size Croft Gri:ffiths, William, farmer, Kilpeck court Harris, Mrs. Eliza, Bridge farm J aynes, Miss Sarah, schoolmistress Lewis, John, stonemason Manning, William, farmer, Dippersmoor and Middle Ridway Morgan, Charles, farmer, Merryvale Pritcbard, Eliz., farmer, Perry hill Red Lion Inn, W atkins & Son Ruck, John, farmer, Gwerngenny Thomas, Charles, blacksmith, Marlas Thomas, J oseph, shopkeeper West, John, miller and farmer, N ewbarns and Marlas mill Wildes, Mrs., Kezia, cottage farmer, Old shop Williams, Thomas, cottage farmer, The Greegs i Williams, Wm., farmer, Lower Ridway KIMBOLTON, WITH THE TowNSHIPS oF STocKToN AND HAMNISH CLIFFORD. KIMBOLTON is a large parish comprising the townships above named, and situated on rising ground on the main road between Leominster and Tenbury. It is distant 2-! miles N.E. ofLeominster, 15 N. of Hereford, 7 S.W. of Tenbury, and 10 S. of Ludlow; is in Wolphy hundred, Leominster union, petty sessional division, and county court district, Docklow and Kimbolton polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 705; in x88x, 622; inhabited houses, 148; families or separate occupiers, 159 ; area of parish, 4,033 acres ; annual rateable value, £4.465. John C. Bengough, Esq., Lord Rodney, and Mr. Herbert Smith Williams, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, beans, hops, and fruit. In this parish is the site of a small Roman encampment, distant about one mile and a half east from the church. Kimbolton is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster ; living, a vicarage, annexed to that of Middleton-on-the-Hill ; joint value,£ 350 ; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford ; vicar, Rev. Thomas Hutchinson, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1841. The tithes are received by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Vicar, and amount to £320 yearly. The church, dedicated to St. James, was built in the 12th century, and, with the exception of the east window (Norman), is an excellent specimen of Early English architecture. It consists of nave, chancel, ladye chapel, south porch, and low western tower (containing four bells), with shingle spire, which, from its situation on an elevated site, forms a picturesque object from several adjacent points. It was restored in 1875, at a cost of £1,46o, by Messrs. Haddon Brothers, architects, the builder

• KIMBOLTON . ' being Mr. Charles Edwards, of Leominster. The restoration of the chancel was executed from plans furnished by Ewan Christian, Esq., at a cost of about £350. All the exterior stonework is of Luston stone. A chancel arch, and an arch between the nave and ladye chapel were erected. The archway between the nave and tower was opened out, and across it was placed an oak arcaded screen. The ground-floor of the tower thus forms a vestry. The chancel floor, passages, vestry, and porch have all been laid with encaustic tiles. The exquisite south window in the ladye chapel has been filled with stained glass by Messrs. Heaton, Butler, & Bayne, the subject being " Christ blessing little children," and erected by Mrs. Hutchinson as a memorial to two daughters. A handsome brass tablet underneath bears a suitable inscription. The pulpit and font are of Painswick stone, with tracery similar in design to the above-named window. The chancel stalls have been formed out of some very good I 6th-century panelling. The windows are glazed in lead quarries with cathedral tinted glass. The parish registers commence with the year 1565. The school is a plain brick building, erected in I 8 56 at a cost of£ 260, and a class-room for 34 children was added in 187 I at an expenditure of£ 120. It has accommodation for I I2 children; average attendance, 62. The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel, erected in 18so. Stockton is a township and scattered village about 2 miles from Leominster, and near the junction of the roads from Ludlow and Tenbury. The church is situate in this township. Hamnish Clifford is a township distant 3 miles E. of Leominster and about It miles S.E. of the parish church. It lies between the main roads from Leominster to Bromyard and from Leominster to Tenbury. The views from here, in a western and southern direction, are extensive and very pleasing. Hennor House, the residence of Captain Charles Benjamin Stevenson, j.P., stands in the out-parish of Leominster, but the estate is partly in Kimbolton parish. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Sub-Postmaster, Frederick Jaine. Letters arrive by messenger from Leominster, at 6.55 a.m. The letter-box at Stockton cross is cleared at 5 p.m. Leominster is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town. Parish Church (St. :James's). Rev. Thomas Hutchinson, M.A., Vicar; Rev. Charles Harington, B.A., (Selwyn College, Cambridge), Curate; Messrs. George Pitt and Herbert Smith Williams, Churchwardens; Aaron Wall, Parish Clerk. Nalional School (boys and g£rls). Mr. Blaker, Master/ Mrs. Blaker, M£stress. Primitive Methodist Chapel. 1l:ft1z£sters van'ous. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Bedford, Broad street, Leominster. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Burlton, Thomas, Ea.ton house (out-parish of Leominster) Burlton, Thomas D., North Ea.ton (outparish of Leominster) Goode, T. L., Brook hall, H amnish Clifford Hutchinson, Rev. Thomas, M.A. (vicar of Kimbolton with Middleton-on-theHill), Grantsfield Pateshall, William, Upper Hennor Stevenson, Captain Charles Benjamin, J. P., Hennor house (Leominster parish) Willia.ms, H. S., Stookton Bury

KIMBOLTON KING'S CAPLE. COMMERCIAL. Allard, Mrs., farmer, Docklow cottage Bathurst, Charles, farmer, The Hundred Bird, Benjamin, farmer and hop grower, Pateshall Bird, Lowe, Stockton Ryde Bird, W. & H., farmers, Lea farm Bishopbrigg, John, farmer, Hawthorn fm. Brooks, Samuel, far-mer and hop grower, Grove farm Broom, Mrs. Eliza, farmer, Holly bush Burgess, J osiah, farmer, Kimbolton court Burgess, Mrs. Mary, farmer and landowner, Lower Bach Chadney, Henry, cot. farmer, The Wails Connop, J ames, farmer, The Mennells Cooke, George, farmer, The Hundred Derry, W. Richard, frmr., Little Pateshall Duggan, .Tames, farmer, Brook house farm, Stockton Edwards, J ames Rowley, bailiff to H. S. Williams Edwards, Richard, farmer, Hamnish farm, res. Hares green, Radnor Evans, Thos., farmer, Hamnish court Franks, Thomas, farmer, Stockton field Gregory, .T ohn, cot. farmer, Grantsfield Griffiths, Herbert, farmer, Brook house Haines, William, farmer, The Hundred Hope, John, farmer, Olden farm J aine, Frederick, blacksmith and cottage farmer and sub-postmaster KING'S Jones, Mrs. Sarah, farmer, Upper Kimbolton Langford, William, farmer, Gorsty hill Lcwis, Evan, farmer, Lower Kimbolton Miles, William, Cam farm Minton, Thos., Jun., farmer, Lower Bach Owens, William, cottage farmer, wheelwright, &c. Parry, Barley, cot. fanner, Rowley field Pember, John, fanner, Hamnish Clifford Phillips, Jas., stonemason & cot. farmer Pitt, George, New house, 1·es. Stagbatch Preece, J ames, farmer, Gorsty hill Price, Mrs., shopkeeper, Stockton Priest, J ames, Cross Inn, and fruit and cider dealer Ravenhill, John, farmer and haulier, Lever hill Robinson, John, farmer and hop grower, Hamnish Clifford Robinson, John, jun., farmer, Grantsfield Rowley, Thos., cot. farmer, Grantsfield Tomkins, William, farmer, The Hundred Wall, Aaron, wheelwright, carpenter, and parish clerk, Stockton Weaver, Alexander, Little Britain Weaver, George, farmer, Stanley farm White, J ames, farmer, Stockton court Williams, Herbert Smith, landowner, farmer, and hop grower, Stockton Bury Y eld, Edward, farmer and hop grower, Hen dol York, John, farmer, Wharf cottage CAP LE. KING'S CAPLE is a parish and small village situated in a peninsula formed by the river W ye, which renders the scenery very picturesque in this part of the county. It is distant 5 miles N.N.W. of Ross, 9~ S.S.E. of Hereford, and about I mile S.W. of Fawley station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway. It is in Wormelow hundred (upper division), Ross union and county court district, King's Caple and U pton Bishop polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Harewood End petty sessional division. The population in 1871 was 327, in 1881, 315; inhabited houses, 6o ; families or separate occupiers, 69; area of parish 1,7o3 acres; annual rateable value, £3,950. There is now no lord of the manor, the manorial rights having lapsed. The principal landowners are Robert Wyndham Woodhouse Smith, Esq., Sir Edward Cludde Cockburn, Bart., and Richard ]ones, Esq. The soil is a rich loam on a red sandstone formation ; chief produce, wheat, barley, beans, roots, and excellent pasture. A pretty grove of trees on a tumulus called '' Caple Tump," was formerly the scene of a festival held annually, which was attended by the inhabitants from the adjacent neighbourhood, and is still kept up by the peasantry. From Hoarwithy the River Wye is crossed by a new iron bridge at Ruxton, in this parish, there being no other public bridge crossing the river between Fownhope and Ross. There is a ferry across to Sellack. The river and the rail way bound this parish in the shape

KING'S CAPLE KINGSLAND of a horse-shoe. King's Caple is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a chapelry, united to Sellack vicarage; value, £172, with 2 acres of glebe ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford ; vicar, Rev. Augustin Ley, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in I 886. The Rev. ]. C. May, M.A., of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, is the curate. The church, dedicated to St. john the Bapt£st, stands on an eminence, and is a neat building with nave, chancel, porch, and square tower containing five bells, surmounted by a spire, which is a pleasing feature in the land sea pe. There is a national school for boys and girls, erected in I84o by subscription, with accommodation for SI children ; average attendance, 38. It is a stone building, situated a short distance from the church. Aramstone, the seat of Robert Wyndham Woodhouse Smith, Esq., is a red brick mansion, in Queen Anne's style, delightfully situated on the banks of the Wye. Pennoxstone Court is the seat of Sir Edward Cludde Cockburn, Bart., M.A., J.P., D.L., who served the office of high sheriff of the county in 1866. This mansion is situated on rising ground and commands some beautiful views. Poulstone Court, the property and residence of Richard ]ones, Esq., is situated near the river. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Ross about 9 a.m. The wall letter box is cleared at S-40 p.m., and that at Fawley railway station at 6.40 p.m. Hoarwithy is the nearest money order office. Nearest telegraph office, Fawley. Post town, Ross. Parish Church (St. johtt the Baptist's). Rev. Augustin Ley, M.A., Incumbent; Rev.]. C. May, M.A., Curate; Messrs. Isaac Hart and William Hillier, Churchwardens; William Nicholas, Sexton. National School (boys and girls). Miss Macpherson, JJ1istress. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brisland, Mrs. Lucy, wheelwright and Cockburn, Sir Edward Cludde, Bart., M.A., J.P., D.L., Pennoxstone court Fry, Francis Gibson, King's Caple court Jones, Richard, J.P., county councillor, Poulstone court May, Rev. John Cecil, M.A. (curate in charge), The Green Smith, Robert Wyndham Woodhouse, Aramstone COMMERCIAL. Bendall, William, fanner, Little Ruxtone carpenter Davis, Henry Francis, blacksmith Hall, Edwin, shopkeeper, Sheildbrook house Han·is, John, British Lion Inn, near Fawley railway station Hart, Isaac, fanner, Upper Ruxton Hillier, William, fanner, Lower Penalt Lewis, Matthew, fann bailiff for Richard J ones, Upper Poulstone Macpherson, Miss Isabella, schoolmistress Nicholas, William, shoemaker & sexton Simpson, Alex., The Firs, fann bailiff for .F. G. Fry KINGS LAND. WITH THE TOWNSHIPS OF ASTON1 LAWTON1 LONGFORD, STREET, AND WEsT TowN. KINGSLAND is an extensive parish comprising the townships above named, and situated in a rich valley, watered by the rivers Lugg and Pinsley. It has a station on the Leominster and Kington railway, distant 4! miles N.vV. of Leominster, IS N.N.W. of Hereford, 10 S.W. of Ludlow, and 10 E.S.E. of Presteigne; is in Stretford hundred, Leominster union, county court district, and petty sessional

KINGSLAND. division, and Kingsland polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 11138; in 1881, 1,063; inhabited houses, 249; families or separate occupiers, 259 ; area of parish, 4,734 acres; annual rateable value, £9,623. The Right Hon. Lord Bateman, who is lord of the manor, Rev. Richard Evans, (Eyton hall), Benjamin Lawrence Sanders, Esq., LL.B., W. H. Bradley, Esq., Miss Gethin, John J. Lewis, Esq., Rev. L. J. Stephens, Francis Parker, Esq. (Worcester), James Bevan, Esq. (Leominster), vVilliam Davis, Esq. (Tenbury), Rev. W. T. Kevill-Davies (Croft castle), and John Francis Merewether, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and gravel, and is very fruitful, producing hops, wheat, barley, beans, roots, apples, pears, &c. The parish is generally level, and there is a large portion of excellent meadow and pasture land. The rivers Lugg and Arrow are deservedly famed for trout, grayling, and other fish. The village of Kingsland is about a mile in length, and is remarkably neat and pretty. Most of the cottagers have gardens. This parish was anciently a part of the great inheritance of the Mortimers. In the reign of Edward I., Margaret, widow of Lord Mortimer, procured a grant for a market and fair ; the former has long been disused. The fair is held on October I Ith, yearly, for cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs. About a quarter of a mile above the village, at the junction of the roads, stands a neat Tuscan pedestal of white stone, erected by the neighbouring gentry to commemorate the celebrated battle of Mortimer's Cross, fought near this spot, between the partisans of the rival houses of York and Lancaster, on Candlemas eve, in 1460. On the base of the pedestal is an inscription. Kingsland is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster ; living, a rectory; value, £78 s, with residence and 43i acres of glebe ; patron, W. H. Bradley, Esq.; rector, Rev. Thomas George Baillie, who was instituted in 1884. The church, dedicated to St. M£chael, was built by Edward, Lord Mortimer, in the reign of Edward I. It is a massive stone building, with square embattled tower (containing six bells, restored in 1 888), and consists of chancel, nave, two side aisles, porch, piscina, sedillia, font, clock, and some neat monuments. It was completely restored in 1868, at a cost of £2,ooo, raised mainly through the exertions of the late Rev. Richard D. Evans, the former patron, rector, and lord of the manor. G. F. Bodley, Esq., of London, was the architect. The church is one of much beauty, and is a very interesting specimen of the architecture of the early part of the 14th century. It has a most interesting and almost unique "Sepulchre" Chapel attached to the north porch, with tomb and foundation of altar still £n situ. The fabric has not been altered by more recent additions, and therefore shows great unity of style. The nave and aisles are fitted with oak benches, and the chancel with oak stalls. All the windows of the chancel are filled with stained glass, and its ceiling is beautifully decorated. The pavement is of Godwin's encaustic tiles. The nave roof, previously ceiled, has been opened out and restored. There are several memorial windows: one to a former rector of the parish ; another placed

KINGSLAND. in the tower by Mr. Edward Russell, jun., to the memory of his wife and child ; another given by Miss Weyman, of Stagbatch; and one 'at the end of the north aisle, by Heaton, Butler, & Bayne, placed there by the patron, W. H. Bradley, Esq., in memory of his eldest daughter. The east window, of painted glass, was erected as a memorial to the Rev. Richard Davies Evans, the cost being defrayed by the subscriptions of the parishioners and friends. The parish registers begin with the year I 564. The charities bequeathed for the benefit of the poor amount to £15 14s. yearly. Here is a national school for boys and girls. It has an endowment of £5 per annum. A new school-room, with accommodation for 180 children, was erected in 1874, at a cost (including fittings) of about £6oo. The average attendance is 81. There is a Wesleyan chapel in the village, built by Mrs. Holloway, in 1857, and a Primitive Methodist chapel at Shirl heath, erected in 1861. Street Court is the seat of Benjamin Lawrence Sanders, Esq., LL.B., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, J.P. and D.L. for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and lord of the manors of Hinton and Street. This ancient mansion has been beautifully restored. It occupies a healthy and pleasant situation; the old Roman road (Watling street) passes near the grounds. The Rectory is a neat building in Queen Anne's style, with extensive gardens and grounds, in which is the site of an ancient castle, which tradition states to be the burial-place of King Merwald, founder of the nunnery at Leominster. Aston is a township distant 1~ miles -N.E. of the church; Lawton is about 2 miles S. of Kingsland and 3! W. of Leominster; Longford and West Town form the village ; Street is ~~ miles S.W., where there was formerly an ancient chapel. One-third only of the tithes of this township were at the dissolution of the monasteries returned to this parish, no doubt for the service of this chapel, the other two-thirds after passing through several hands were purchased by one Whittington, of Burton court, who augmented the endowment of the free school at Eardisland, with them. PosTAL REGULATIONS. William John Brindley, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive at 5.38 a.m. and 4.30 p.m.; despatched at 7.27 p.m. Money order office, savings bank, and telegraph office. Letters should be addressed, Kingsland, R.S.O., Herefordshire. The wall letter box at Brook Bridge is cleared at 6.30 p.m., and that at Cobnash, at 7.30 p.m. Parish Gnurch (St. M£chael's). Rev. Thomas George Baillie, Rector; Messrs. Edmund Parkes and E. Lewin Palmer, Churchwardens_; James Scandrett, Parish Clerk. National School (boys and girls). Mr. \Villiam Jones Pritchard, blaster j Mrs. Pritchard, Assz'stant. Primitz"ve Methodist Chapel, Shirl heath. Ministers various. Wesleyan Chapel, Kingsland village. J.l1inisters vm·ious. Baptist Chapel. Ministers various. Railway Station ( Leominster and .Kington branch of G. W.R.) Jqhn H. Light, Station Master. St. Michael's Lodge of Oddfellows. (The annual meeting is held at the Corners Inn on the first Monday in June). Assistant Overseer. Mr. George Joseph }ones, Pembridge.

KINGSLAND. CARRIERS TO LEOMINSTER. Name Frederick Bywater (Wigmore) Mrs. Holder Day Fri. Fri. Stopping Place White Hart Livery stables Return at 4 0 2 30 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .7Jfarked thus * m·e in the township of West Town; thus t ate in Longford; thus 11 are in Street; thus § ate in Lawton; thus •• are in Aston. t Auchmuty, Rev. Arthur Compton, M.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford., (vicar of Lucton) *Baillie, Rev. Thomas George, (rector), The Rectory + Bowden, Mrs., The Shru blands §Davies, Mrs. Martha, Alma house tEdmunds, Mrs., Stone cottage Edwards, Mrs. S,, Park house *Edwards, Miss, Harbour house tJ ones, Mrs. Elizabeth, The Villa t Lewis, Mrs. Ann, Ivy cottage *Marris, Mrs., The Wardens tPalmer, E. Lewin, Stone house *Palmer, William, Preston villa Pitt, Miss S., Mount Green *Price, Mrs., Lorne house *Price, Thomas, Stanley villa IISanders, Benjamin Lawrence, LL.B., J.P. and D.L., for counties of Hereford and Worcester ; Street court, and St. George's club, London tSmall, Samuel, The Elms *Stephens, Edward, Green park tWall, Frederick, Rose cottage, Cobnash tW ebb, Mrs., Fairfield *Weyman, Mrs. M. A., Upper house tWilliams, Henry, Vine cottage vViHiams, Mrs. *Williams, Robert, M.B., The Croase tYouni-Ash, Moses, Mount Pleasant COMMERCIAL. *Bathurst, John, farmer, Brook bridge tBrindley, James, baker and grocer tBrindley, Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper tBrindley, William John, grocer and ironmonger, sub-postmaster, post and telegraph office *Brown, Chas., cot. farmer, Shirl heath 11 Brown, William, gamekeeper to B. L. Sanders, W oodgate tBurden, Elizabeth, Angel Inn tChapman, Thomas, mason **Colebatch, George Frederick, farmer and hop grower, The Day house Daniel, James, farmer, Upper house tDavies, Arthur, painter, plumber, glltzier, and house decorator *Davies, Edward, farmer, Lincoln's Inn farm tDavies, Edward, farmer, Stonehouse, Cobnash tDavies, George, blacksmith, Cobnash * Da vies & Goodman, coal and wood dealers, Shirl heath *Davies, John, farmer, The Hall 11 Davies, Thomas, farm bailiff to B. L. Sanders, Street farm §Davies, Thomas and William, millers, Arrow mill §Davies, Thos., farmer, Lawtonbury t Dunn, Thomas, bootmaker t Dykes, William, police constable *Edwards, John, farmer and hop grower, The Showers Edwards, William, tailor, Drybridge tEdwards, William and George B., fanners, St. Mary's §Edwards, vVilliam, farmer, Marsh farm, Lawton *Evans, George, cot. farmer, Shirl heath §Evans, James, cottage farmer, Lawton marsh **Evans, John, farmer, Gilbert farm .,.*Evans, John, miller, Lugg mills FIELD'S MERCANTILE Co., Limited, coal factors, brick and pipe · manufacturers, burners of the celebrated Old Radnor lime ; head office, Shewsbnry; agent, Mr. A. Stephens *Fowler, Samuel, cottage fanner and haulier, Dry bridge tFrancis, Richard, miller and fanner, Waterloo mill *Gatehouse, Wm., cot. farmer, Shirlheath tG-reenhouse, J ames, shoemaker t Harris, Frederick, tailor and draper, Lower house tHARRISON, HENRY GEORGE, Corners Inn, licensed to sell wines, spirits, &c., comfortable accommodation for travellers, good stabling *Hatfield, William, farmer, Corn hill t Hughes, George, farmer, Cobnash *Hundley, George, fanner, Malthouse * J enkins, George, farmer & cattle dealer, Harbour fann ** Jones, William, farmer, Whitehouse **Kinsey, Chas., cottage farmer, Harbour t Lancett, John, cat. dealer, Fairfield cot. t Leake, Robert, Cobnash t Lewis, George & Sons, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, & agricultural implement manufacturers *Lewis, John J ames, farmer, Sunny bank *Light, John H., station master, railway station **Martin, J. & J., farmers, Bank farm, and Sodgley *Mason, Thos., cot. farmer, Shirl heath **Miles, Charles, cot. fanner, Reed field **Morgan, William, farmer and horse dealer, Nap fann *Morris, William, farmer, Little Green

KINGSLAND KINGS PYON. OLD RADNOR LIME, ROADstone, & General TradingCo., coal, coke, slate, pipe, & builders' merchants, head office, Kington; agent, George Ashley, railway station §Pantall, William, farmer, Lawton park •Parkes, Edmund, farmer, :Moor house §Parry, Joseph, farmer, Lawton court tPhillips, Benjamin, farmer, Cobnash tPoulton, :Frank, butcher and dealer Preece, George, tailor t Preece, J ames, Red Lion Inn "*Price, Mrs., beer retailer, The Three Horse Shoes Inn *Price, Thos., farmer, Shirl Heath farm **Pritchard, Joseph, farmer and dealer Pritchard, William George, schoolma~ter **Proctor Henry, farmer, Black hall **Reece, Thomas, farmer, Well house +Reynolds, G., butchert Corners Inn *Robinson, William H., cottage farmer, and mason, Shirl heath *Scandrett, James, farmer, tailor, and parish clerk, Brook farm tSmall, Samuel, farmer and landowner, The Elms *Smith, Richard Oseman, relieving officer for Kingsland district of Leominster Union, Yew Tree villa tSpencer, James George, farmer, New house, Hereford lane KINGS *Stephens, Amold, The Plesaunce; agent for Field's Mercantile Company STEPHENS, MISS, draper and grocer ; good accommodation for commercial travellers, Bell Inn *Turner, Thomas, fa1wer and dealer, Rose cottage §V ale, William, farmer, Broomy hill farm WALL & SONS, coach builders, dealers & restorers of old oak Chippendale furniture ; large stock on hand. Works, Kingsland station. t Wall, Frederick, wheelwright, Cobnash *W ebb, Thomas, cot. farmer, Shirl heath *W ebb, William, farmer & timber dealer, Bone mill Williams, J ames, blacksmith, Cobnash *Williams, John, farmer, Harbour house Williams, Richard Thomas, fishing tackle maker, &c., Lugg Green cottage *Williams, Mrs., cottage farmer, Hereford lane *Williams, Robert, M.B., medical officer and public vaccinator 2nd district Leominster Union, and medical officer of health Leominster Urban district ; surgeon, The Croase t Williams, Thomas, farmer & hop grower, Holgate *Wynde, Mrs. Margaret, blacksmith PYON. KINGS PYON is a village situated between the Tillington and Weobley and the Canon Pyon and Stretford Bridge roads, which form boundaries of the parish. It is distant 3 miles E.S.E. of Weobley, about 8 S.\V. of Leominster, and 9 N.\V. of Hereford; is in Stretford hundred, \Veobley union, petty sessional division, and Canon Pyon and Dilwyn polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Hereford county court district. The population in 1871 was 471; in 188r, 439; inhabited houses, 99; families or separate occupiers, 102 ; area of parish, 2,364 acres; annual rateable value, £2,986. William Thomas Cooke, Esq., who is lord of the manor, D. Henry P. Peploe, Esq., of Garnstone, and Mrs. Evans, of Moreton court, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, clay; chief products, wheat, beans, hops, roots, and fruit. Kings Pyon is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of W eobley ; living, a vicarage consolidated with that of Birley; joint value, £375, with residence and 16 acres of glebe; patron, D. Henry P. Peploe, Esq.; vicar, Rev. Henry Auriol Barker, M.A., 'Vadham College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1884. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was originally Norman in style, of which two windows and two doors with a belfry door remain ; the other windows and arches are of different dates. There is a side chapel of the 14th century, and a remarkable roof of Irish timber. It has a square tower containing four bells and clock. A thorough restoration was effected in 1872 1 at a cost of £1,16o. This included the addition of a new north transept, erected as a memorial to the Rev. ] ohn

430 KINGS PYON. Birch Webb-Peploe, of Garnstone. The east window has been filled with stained glass to the memory of William and Margaret Cooke, erected in 1872 by their nephew and niece. The carved oak reredos and font are also memorials of members of this family. In the south transept is a fine monument bearing the arms of the Mortimers, formerly lords of the manor. There is an excellent organ and choir. The national school has accommodation for 137 children; average attendance, so. Kz"ngs Pyon House is a handsome residence, the property of, and occupied by, Charles Warre Prescot, Esq., }.P. Brook House is the property and residence of William T. Cooke, Esq. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Weobley, and arrive by messenger about 9.30 a.m.; despatched at 4 p.m. Weobley is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Letters should be addressed Kings Pyon, Weobley, R.S.O. (Herefordshire). Parish Chu1·ch (St. Mary's). Rev. Henry Auriol Barker, M.A., Vica1'.; Messrs. Thomas Tomkins Galliers and Matthew W. Wilson, Churchwardens.; Thomas Maddox, Parish Clerk. · National School (boys and g-irls). Mr. John Smith, Master~· Mrs. Smith, Jl[zstress. Pn"m-itive Methodist Chapel. Mz"nisters varz'ous. Assistant Overseer. Mr. James Gri:ffiths, Bush bank, Canon Pyon. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days Return at ·Mrs. Edwards (Knapton) Wed. & Sat. Stopping Place Maidenhead Horse & Groom 4 0 Mrs. W alton (Weobley Marsh) do. 4 0 CARRIER TO LEOMINSTER • • Mary Edwards Fri. King's Head 4 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barker, Rev. H. A., M.A. (vicar), The Vicarage Prescot, Charles Warre, J.P., Kings Pyon House "Wilson, Matthew W., New Hall COMMERCIAL. Arrowsmith, John, Lidgn10or Bell, J ames, shopkeeper, The cottage Cooke, William Thomas, landowner, farmer and hop grower, Brook house Curran, John, blacksmith, Parr cottage Evans, Henry Rawlings, fanner and hop grower, The Hill and Brown's farm, Dilwyn Galliers, Thomas Tomkins, farmer and hop grower, Wistaston Higgins, William, farmer, New house, Lidgmoor Lloyd, Humphrey, joiner & paperhanger Lloyd. William, farmer, Holly bush farm Maddox, Thomas, carpenter &parish clerk Magness, Mrs., East view cottage Moythan, Mrs. Henry, shopkeeper Oliver, Richard, farmer and hop grower, Hyde field Parker, William, head gamekeeper to William Smith, Garnstone Passey John, mason, The Bogs Powell, George, shoemaker, Bush bank Powell, Richard J ames, farmer and hop grower, Butt house REECE, J AMES~ carpenter and wheelwright, Lidgmoor Skyrme, Richard, farmer and hop grower, Wootton Smith, John, schoolmaster Steele, Ellen, shopkeeper Symonds, William, farmer & hop grower, Meers place Thomas, George, mason and builder, Bridge house, Lidgmoor Timaeus, John Benjamin, farmer & hop grower, Black hall Walton, James, beer retailer, Corner's Inn, Bush bank, Kings Pyon, agent for ARNOLD, PERRETT. & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT. The City Brewery, Hereford. Price lists and particulars on application Wilson, George, cot. farmer and cow· keeper, The marsh

' KINGSTONE. 431 KINGS TONE. KINGSTONE is a village and parish situated on the road from Ross to Hay, distant 6 miles S.W. of Hereford, I 5 E.S.E. of Hay, I7 N.N.W. of Monmouth, and 3 N.W. of Tram Inn station on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway (West-Midland section). It is in Webtree hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Hereford county court district, and Kingstone polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in I871 was 488; in x881, 437; inhabited houses, 99; families or separate occupiers, 115; area of parish, 1,97 5 acres; annual rateable value, £2,678. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Thruxton was amalgamated with Kings tone. The Trustees of the late Rev. Archer Clive, of Whitfield, are lords of the manor and principal landowners. John Wathen, Esq., H. H. Martin, Esq., and Edward Caddick, Esq., are also landowners here. The soil is clay with gravel ; subsoil, gravel; chief crops, wheat, barley, roots, beans, peas, &c. Kingstone is in the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford ; living, a vicarage, annexed to Thruxton rectory; joint value, £330, with 15 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford ; vicar, Rev. Reginald Hereford Bird, M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, who was instituted in I885, and resides at Thruxton rectory. The church, dedicated to SS. Mzchael and All Angels, is a spacious edifice, chiefly in the Early English style of architecture. It has a square tower, containing five bells, which was re-built in I 842 by the parishioners and the late Archdeacon Wetherell; the rest of the church was also partially restored. The interior consists of double chancel and double nave a peculiar construction caused by additions -porch, font, and several monuments. An organ, by Nicholson, of Worcester, was placed in the church by parochial and general subscription in 1858. A stained glass window, by Hardman, of Birmingham, was erected in I 866 at the east end, by the Rev. Archer Clive, as executor of Mrs. W etherell, in memory of Archdeacon W etherell, a former vicar of this parish. The church was restored in I 889-90. The cost of the restoration of the nave and N. aisle:- about £1,1oo was defrayed by the voluntary contributions of parishioners and friends. The architects were Messrs. T. Nicholson & Son, of Hereford, and the builders Messrs. H. Smith & Son, Kidderminster. The S. chancel was restored by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the N. chancel by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The architect of these was Ewan Christian, Esq., and the huilder Mr. W. Cullis, of Hereford. Gifts of furniture, &c., were made to the church by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Vicar, Rev. G. L. Spencer 7 Mrs. Atlay, Mrs. Greathed, Mrs. F. R. Green7 Mrs. Murray-Aynsley, Mrs. and the Misses Purton, Mrs. Bird, Mrs. C. P. Bird, Mrs. R. H. Bird, Rev. C. Saunders, and others. The opening service was held on April I 7th, I 890. The church, which previously was in a very wretched condition, has been thorough! y restored windows, floor, pews renewed ; roofs repaired ; outside drainage effected ; walls,

432 KINGSTONE KINGTON. outside and inside, cleaned and painted ; and organ repaired by Mr. E. Ingram, Hereford. The earliest register is dated 1659. The charities amount to £62 Ios. yearly. There is a national school for boys and girls for this parish and Thruxton, with accommodation for IOI children; average attendance, 70. There is a chapel for the Primitive Methodists, erected in 1857. Coldwell, distant half a mile W., consists of a few cottages. · PosTAL REGULATIONS. Isaac ]ones, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Hereford at 9· 15 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 4 p.m. Letters can be registered. This is a money order office. Tram Inn is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Parz"sh Church (SS. Mzchael and All Angels). Rev. Reginald Hereford Bird, M.A., Vicar; Messrs. John Wall and G. West, Churchwardens/ J ames Phillips, Sexton. Natz(mal School (boys and girls). Mr. C. E. Bullock, Master; Mrs. Lucy Bullock, Mistress. Pr£mitzve Methodist Chapel. Rev. George Annakin, M·i'nister. Assistaut Overseer. Mr. Thomas Preece, Shenmore Cottage, Madley, Hereford. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD •. N!me Days Return at Mrs. Broad (Shenmore) Mrs. Preece (Cockyard) Mrs. Poyner (Kingstone) Wed. & Sat. do. Stopping Place Spread Eagle do. 4 3 2 0 0 do. 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Annakin, Rev. George, Primitive Methodist minister, Rose villa Carpenter, Edward, Turner's house Evans, David, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., Kingstone villa Garrett, Miss, Green cottage Holl, William, Mona villa Seall, Mrs. Mary, Green cottage COMMERCIAL. Bullock, Charles Edward, schoolmaster Dale, J onathan, farmer, White House farm Davies, Mrs. Emma, Bull-Ring Inn and shopkeeper Griffiths, Thomas, farmer, Dunswater GWYNNE, GEORGE HENRY, Secretary to the South Herefordshire Liberal Association The Plough Hoddell, J ames, farmer, The Grange Hope, J oseph, builder and contractor, Woodbine villa J ones, Isaac, shopkeeper, post office Lang-ford, Ernest W., farmer, Marshes Lew1s, William, blacksmith Minson, Thomas, shoemaker Morgan, George, carpenter and farmer, Brookfield Paske, John, farmer, Arkstone court Phillips, J ames, sexton Preece, Arthur, Mason's Arms Inn, Cold well Price, Alien, carpenter Seall, John, carpenter Wall, John, farmer, Hanley court Wathen, Thos. W., farmer, Bridge court W atkins, Benjamin, farmer, Green court Wheeler, William Thos., miller & farmer Williams, John, shoemaker Williams, Lewis, Smallbrook farm KINGTON. XINGTON is a market town and parish, delightfully situated and embosomed in a fertile valley on the borders of Radnorshire, and almost surrounded by water, having the river Arrow (which is famous for its superior trout) on the south side, and the Weythel brook on the north and east sides. The town is intersected by the main roads leading from Hereford to Aberystwith, Hay to Presteigne, and Radnor to Leominster, and is distant 14 miles \V. of Leominster, 20

KING TON. 433 N.W. by W. of Hereford, 14 N.E. of Hay, 30 N. by N.E. of Brecon, 7 S. of Presteigne, 6! E. by S.E of Radnor, 9 W. by N.W. of Weobley, 6 W. of Pembridge, 6o E. of Aberystwith, 2I from Llandrindod, and 152 by road and 168 by rail W. by N.W. of London. Within recent years Kington has become the centre of much railway enterprise. The Kington and Eardisley line was opened for traffic on the 3rd of August, 1874, and joins the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch of the Midland railway at Eardisley. The line from Kington to New Radnor was opened in August, 1875, and is a continuation of the Kington and Eardisley line. The branch railway, connecting Presteigne (the county town of Radnorshire) with the Leominster and Kington and the Eardisley and Kington lines, was opened on September 9th, 1875· This line commences at Titley, passes through Staunton-upon-Arrow, vt"d Corton into Presteigne. The Leominster and Kington branch of the Great Western railway joins the Shrewsbury and Hereford railway (G.W. and L. & N.W.R. joint) at Leominster. The parish of Kington comprises an area of 8,313 acres ; and is divided into five townships, viz., Old Kington; New Kington; Upper and Lower Hergest; Bradnor, Barton, and Rushock; Pember's Oak, Chickward, and Lilwall. The annual rateable value is £15,226. It is situate in the hundred ofHuntington, is in Eardisley and Kington polling district and electoral division of the county council, and is the head of a union, county court district, and petty sessional division. The town consists of four well-built streets, which contain several good shops, two excellent hotels, and several respectable inns. Many new houses have been erected, and old projections taken down ; and the whole town has assumed a more regular, uniform, and modern appearance. The houses are chiefly built with stone, from the Hergest, Bradnor, and other quarries in the neighbourhood. During 1889-90 a valuable quarry of :first-class building stone was opened upon the Hergest mill estate, which will prove of great value to the district. The trade of the town is chiefly with the agriculturists of the adjoining county of Radnor. There are two banking establishments, viz., the head offices of the Kington and Radnorshire Bank (Messrs. Davies, Banks, & Co.), established in 1808; and a branch of the Birmingham District and Counties Banking Co., Limited. The principal employers of labour in the district are the Old Radnor Lime, Roadstone and General Trading Co., Limited, whose chief offices are situated here, their works and quarries lying about four miles west of the town. The Company was formed in the year 1875, (upon the completion of the railway to New Radnor) for the purpose of developing the renowned beds of Macadam and limestone in the district; and, with their ever increasing activity under the able management of Mr. C. W. Lloyd, have secured a wide reputation for their different products. Their lime is used throughout the kingdom as a land fertilizer of invaluable quality, also for gas purifying, building, chemical, paper-making, and other purposes. They also produce by patented steam machinery a specialty of limestone chippings, used largely in the manufacture of asphalted paving, for which their light appearance and granitic nature is peculiarly adapted. To meet their w

• • 434 KINGTON. increasing trade they laid down, during the years 1888-89, additional railway sidings and improved plant and machinery, including very powerful stone breakers. About three miles west of the town also lies the Gore Macadam Quarries, renowned as a road metal, and worked by the same company, who supply Corporations and Highway Boards throughout the kingdom. This company are also coal brokers on a very extensive scale, having depots throughout several counties. The market day is Tuesday, considerable business being transacted on that day in eggs, butter, poultry, &c., and is the mart to which the Welsh send their produce, to meet dealers who frequent this town from all quarters. A capital horse show is held in September in each year, and is largely supported by breeders and agriculturists. Fairs are held on the Tuesday before February 2nd (horse fair), second Tuesday in March, Tuesday before Easter (horse fair), May I Ith, first Tuesday in June, second Tuesday in July, third Tuesday in August, September 18th (for .sheep and pigs only), September 19th (for cattle and horses), Tuesday before October Ioth, Tuesday before November I 3th (horse fair), and second Tuesday in December. The population of Kington, according to the census returns in 18011 was 2,062; in I8II, 2,312; in 18211 2,813; in 1831, 31III; in 1841, 3 1139; in 1851, 2,871 ; in 1861, 3,076 j in 1871 1 31III; and in.1881, 2,952, with 635 inhabited houses, which are thus divided:- Kington Urban ... Kington Rural ... ... ... . .. . .. Inhabited Houses. ... 441 . .. 195 Population. 2,075 877 636 2,952 HISTORY, GovERNMENT, ETc. The name of this town is written in ancient documents in several different ways, as Chingtune, Kingstown, Kyngton, Kynton, Kinton, Kineton, Keinghton, and Kington ·; the latter of which, and the most usual at present, is the correct one, having been given to it in honour of King Edward the Confessor, who obtained possession of property in the district in the 1 Ith century. A celebrated writer has conjectured that the town derived its original name, Keynton, from Keyn or K£ne, signifying cattle or cows that is, the place of sale for them. The government of the district of Kington remained with the Princes of Brecknock, the descendants of . Caradoc, until they were dispossessed of it by Earl Harold in the nth century. In the year 1055, the thirteenth year of the reign of Edward the Confessor, Griffith ap Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, having been excited and assisted by Algar, Earl of Chester, assembled his forces, attacked the English, and made an inroad into Herefordshire. When within two miles of Hereford he was opposed by Ralph, Earl of Hereford, who had raised what troops he could to stop his progress. The consequence was that a battle was fought, the issue of which was for some time in doubt, but at length the Welsh were successful ; a tumultuous pursuit took place, and the two armies entering the city together, the whole became a scene of pillage and slaughter. This battle took place on the 24th day of October, and the inhabitants of Kington assisted the Welsh, who were at that time their countrymen,

KINGTON. • 435 on this memorable occasion. King Edward, being informed of these proceedings, which were so disastrous to his subjects, caused a great army to be collected at Gloucester, the command whereof was given to Harold, Earl of the West Saxons, whom the Welsh prince so dreaded, that he retreated into North Wales, leaving the country at the mercy of the victors. Harold, having drawn the hostile army from the district of Kington from political motives and by way of revenge for the aid afforded to his enemies, dispossessed the landed proprietors of their estates, and divided them between the king. himself, and the officers of the army. What the name of Kington was previously is not known, but the place, as well as many others in the surrounding district, obtained at that time a new appellation as well as a new' proprietor; it was deprived of its ancient Welsh name and the present English one given in its stead. And it may be observed that the place was considered to be of such considerable importance at the time as to de:>erve to be called the "King's Town." Earl Harold, having become a very extensive landed proprietor in the district in consequence of these proceedings, was, at his death, found possessed of much property in the county of Hereford, having in this district and neighbourhood, according to "Domesday Book," Eardisley, Barton, Hergest, Kington, Rushock, Willersley, Winforton, Lyonshall, Pembridge, Titley, besides several other more distant places. An eminent antiquary (the late Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick) was of opinion that if the town had been founded since the Conquest, in all probability we should have seen it in a Norman drtss. The inference from this is, that it was of Anglo-Saxon origin, because it had no distinctive appellation in Welsh. He therefore conjectures that although it was Exf1·a Clawdd Offa, or without Offa's Dyke, it must have been founded by one of the Mercian kings. The old Saxon name by which the town was known in the time of Edward the Confessor is Chz'ngtune. The town is considered a borough by Charter within the manor and hundred of Huntington; and formerly had a bailiff, called a reeve, or sergeant, nominated and appointed at the court-leet, annually held in the month of October at the Talbot Inn, originally the property of Philip Holman, Esq., the lord of the manor. Kington never had the honour of returning members to parliament. The government of the town is now vested in 24 commissioners elected by the ratepayers. The magistrates' sittings are held at the police court every alternate Thursday, and the county court every alternate month. This town is included in the 28th circuit of the county courts. An Act of Parliament was obtained in 1829 for lighting the town with gas. In I 83o, works wc;re erected at the east end of the town, but being inadequate to supply the increasing demand, a company was formed in the year 1865, under the title of" The Kington Gas Company, Limited," and works were erected adjacent to the old ones, whereby the inhabitants are supplied with gas at a reasonable price. The water supply of the town, which is considered perfect, is furnished by the Kington Water Company, Limited, (of which Mr. C. W. Lloyd is secretary) from their springs at the Crooked Well, adjoining

KINGTON. the town. The water is of exceptional purity, and the supply unlimited; it is pumped to a large covered reservoir recently erected at the Wych. The Company, formed in the year I886, purchased the freehold rights from E. H. Greenly, Esq., and the representatives of the late Mrs. Baynham, and in the same year the mains were laid through the principal streets. The works were completed in the year 1889 by the extension of mains to Head brook, and the erection of a new pumping-house and very powerful pumping machinery, driven by water power, erected on a novel and modern principle. The work was carried out under the superintendence of R. L. Bamford, Esq., C. E., of Hereford, the company's engineer, the pumps and machinery being supplied by Messrs. J. Warner & Sons, hydraulic engineers, of London. A Market House was erected in the market place, in the year 1654, by the celebrated John Abel, for Philip Holman, Esq., who was at that time lord of the manor. This building was taken down in the year I 82o, and another erected by Edmund W atkins Cheese, Esq., the then lord of the manor, with the old materials. The erection of the hall cost £soo. In 1841, James Thomas Woodhouse, Esq., the late lord of the manor, effected some improvements in the building, but having fallen into disuse, it was taken down a few years ago, and in 1885 a new Market Hall was erected at the Upper Cross, on the site of the King's Head Hotel, which had been purchased by some of the inhabitants, who presented it to the Town Commissioners for the purpose. The building is a handsome structure in red brick, with ornamental moulded cornices, etc., designed by F. R. Kempson, Esq., and was erected by Mr. R. Morgan, of Kington. The Police Court is situate in Bridge Street, and is a stone building erected, in I 841, at a cost of £soo (including site). The Union Workhouse was erected in 1837 at a cost of £2,400, aHd is situated about a quarter of a mile south of the town, near Kings wood. It is a stone building, capable of accommodating 1 so paupers besides the officers of the establishment The number of inmates at the present time is about so. The Guardians meet every alternate Tuesday at the. Board-room. At Burton House Hotel is a public hall, available for concerts, lectures, entertainments, &c. The reading-room is situate in Bridge Street. The Victoria Cottage Hospital, the first stone of which was laid on June 21, I887, by Mrs. Robinson, ofLynhales, was built by subscription on land situate on the north side of the road leading to the railway station, kindly presented for the purpose by Anthony Temple, Esq., and founded in commemoration of the Jubilee of the reign of Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victor.ia. The institution, which is available to the inhabitants of Kington and neighbouring parishes, and has already proved of great benefit to the district, was opened in Julyt 1888, by Lady Ormathwaite. The building was erected by Mr. Henry Wishlade, of Kington, after designs and plans contributed by Keynes Purchase, Esq., architect, of London. A weekly newspaper (The Kz"ngton Gazette) is published every Tuesday by Mrs. Rester Humphreys. The principal landowners. in Kington parish are

KINGTON. 437 Edward Bacon, Esq., J.P., D.L., of Eywood ; Robert William Dacre Harley, Esq., J.P., of Brampton Brian; Edward Howarth Greenly, Esq., ].P., D.L., of Titley Court, and Richard William Banks, Esq., ].P., ofRidgebourne. The manor ofHuntingtonisin Kington parish. This manor is denominated " The Ho nor and Manor of H untington, otherwise Huntington English, and English Huntington." PLACEs OF WoRSHIP, ScHOOLs, ETc. The parish church is erected on an eminence about a quarter of a mile N.W. of the town. It is an irregular structure, and was, with two altars therein, dedicated by Bishop Orleton to the Blessed Virgz1z Mary, A.D. 1325. The area of the ground upon which it stands is 907 square yards. The early history of this church is enshrouded in antiquity; the records in the registry office at Hereford will not supply information prior to the time of Thomas de Cantilupe A.D. 127 5· The church is said to have been built in II3o, but the opinion of some learned antiquaries is in favour of the erection of the old church at a much earlier period. The church now standing seems to have been erected about the middle of the I 3th century, upon the foundation of a former one, of which nothing now remains, and our ancestors have neglected to transmit to us any authentic account of its erection ; but according to tradition the structure was of Saxon origin, and after flourishing for several centuries, was doomed to destruction by the hand of time, in the latter part of the twelfth century. This edifice before its restoration consisted of the ancient nave, so feet high, a new addition built on the north side in the year 1829 (a chancel belonging to the owner of the great tithes with Vaughan's chapel annexed), and a tower on the north side containing a peal of six bells. The part of the church restored, is the chancel and nave, which, with the roof, were formerly covered with plaster. The gallery formerly running along the north side has been removed, the roof opened, and the plaster removed from the walls, the rood vaulting taken from the ceiling, the chancel thoroughly restored, the old seats removed, and open stalls substituted in chancel and nave. The windows were filled with stained glass, the floors relaid with red and black tiles, a porch erected at the north entrance, a stone pulpit added, new windows substituted on the north side, and new windows introduced in the tower, with new steps, porch, &c., up to the belfry. In 1873-74, the north side of the church a very ugly structure added in the year 1829 was taken down and rebuilt at a cost of about £2,ooo, R. \V. Drew, Esq., of Park street, Westminster, S.W., was the architect, and Mr. Charles Edwards, of Leominster, the bui1der. The north wall of the chancel, which had long been in a dilapidated state, was also rebuilt by the late impropriators, the greatest care being taken to restore it to exactly its original condition. A new pavement of God win's encaustic tiles was laid in the chancel, and gas standards placed in the new nave. The tower, which has undergone a great deal of restoration, is built with rough stones from the neighbouring quarries, and may be considered nearly coeval with the church. The walls, which are six feet thick, contain several corbel heads, and windows to admit light to the vestry and belfry.

• • KINGTON. . . The tower terminates in a well-proportioned octagonal spire, which was built. by a person of the ~own, named Parker, in 1794, the old one having been destroyed by lightning the year before. It was repaired in 1868, at a cost of £383, and again in 1884, when it was raised a few feet, rendering it more symmetrical, and re-covered with new oak shingles. The nave of the church measures 64 feet 6 inches, and the width between the pillars, 23 feet 7 inches ; the length from the communion table to the west of the nave is 109 feet, and the width from the southern door to the north door, II9 feet. The nave is supported by twelve Gothic arches, six on each side, resting on octagon stone pillars. The lower part of the tower is used as a vestry room, and near the door, in the wall is a piscina, which is a proof that an altar once stood there. The chancel measures 39 feet 6 inches in length, and is 24 feet wide. It is now fitted with open stalls, and the windows, twelve in number, are filled with coloured glass, which give a very beautiful and imposing appearance. In the south wall of the chancel is another piscina, and in the north wall an ambry and an ancient sepulchral slab bearing a budding cross. Vaughan's chapel, the private property of the Harley family, measures in length, 19 feet 6 inches, and in width, 13 feet 6 inches. It contains the magnificent altar tomb of Thomas Vaughan, of Hergest court, slain at Banbury, in 1469, and Ellen Gethin, his wife. It is in alabaster, with two full-length figures representing a knight and his lady thereon. The pedigree of the Vaughan family is placed against the wall over the tomb. A fine-toned organ was erected in 1848 by subscription. The organ gallery at the west end of the church has been removed, and the organ placed in the Vaughan chapel, which adjoins the south side of the chancel. The east window is of stained glass beautifully executed. The west window, of stained glass (by Clayton & Bell), was . erected in 1867, by Arthur Henry \Vall, Esq., late of Burghill house, near Hereford, to the memory of the Rev. John Wall, M.A., who was vicar of Kington from June, 1782 to November, 1834. Three windows in the south aisle were erected in 1868, by A. H. Wall, Esq., to the memory of Hannah Wall, wife of the above Rev. John Wall. The six chancel windows were filled with stained glass, by Captain Beavan, in 1874, as memorials to the late J. Beavan, Esq. A handsome stained glass window by Mayer & Co., of Munich, has recently been placed in the east wall of the north nave, in loving memory of Gustavus Foote, who died in 1884, a humble follower of the" Great Physician." A handsome carved oak credence table was presented to the church in October, 1889, by Miss Walsh, in memory of her uncle, the late Rev. J. N. Walsh. The table bears a silver plate with the following inscription, "To the glory of God, and in memory of the Rev. Joseph Neate Walsh, M.A., 38 years master of Lady Hawkins' school, and lecturer of this eh urch. The gift of Emil y W alsh, 1889." In the churchyard are the remains of an old cross, consisting of a pedestal and a portion of the shaft. The destruction of the same may have taken place in the year 1648, when an Act of Parliament was granted for destroying throughout the kingdom, before the 1st November in that year, all tables of stone, candlesticks,

KINGTON. 439 tapers, basins, crosses, and all superstitious inscriptions in churches and churchyards. The parish registers begin with the year 1667. Kington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of W eobley; living, a vicarage, with the rectory of Huntington annexed; joint va1ue, £66r, with residence; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester; vicar, Rev. Charles Edward Craigie, M.A., of Keble College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1888, and is also rector of Huntington; curate, Rev. Leland B. Dundas. The cemetery, a mile from the town on the Eardisley road, was opened in 1861. The charities belonging to the parish amount to about £125 yearly. The Baptist chapel, in Bridge street, was erected in 1868, at a cost of upwards of £2,ooo. It is built of red brick with Bath stone facings, and will accommodate about 6oo persons. The W esleyan chapel, situated at the Upper Cross, was erected in I 8o I. There is also a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1862, at Kingswood, about 1 mile south of the town. The Primitive Methodist chapel, a small brick building in Bridge street, was erected in 1858. The Town Grammar School, which was founded and endowed in 1632 by Lady Margaret Hawkins, the wife of Admiral Sir John Hawkins, treasurer of the navy, stands at the north-west side of St. Mary's church, on the road to Huntington. It was built by the famous Herefordshire architect, John Abel. The school building and master's residence, having fallen into a dilapidated condition, were closed for a few years. They were rebuilt at great expense, and re-opened in I88I, under a new scheme of management, on the recommendation of the Endowed schools commission. The school is now under the control of seven governors, of whom, Edward Howarth Greenly, Esq., is the chairman. One of its earliest headmasters was the Rev. Christopher Harvey, well-known as a poet of the George Herbert school. The school is situated most picturesquely, and commands a fine view of the Arrow valley and the surrounding mountains. The present headmaster is T. H. Williams, Esq., M.A., Oxford. The boys' school of Kington is under the management of a school board. The ordinary meetings of the board are held on the first Friday in each month. The school was erected at a cost (including residence for the master) of about £1,300. There is accommodation for 154 boys; average attendance, 138. Mr. R. Roberts, of Perseverance Works, was the builder. The national school, for girls and infants, situated on the north side of the Common close, was built in 1836 by subscription, at a cost of£ 450, on a site of land given by the late John Meredith, Esq. There is a small endowment, left by Mrs. Rester Sayer, in 1729. Accommodation is provided for 277 children ; average attendance, 178. A school for girls was erected in 1 86o, by Mrs. Romilly at Mahollarn, with accommodation for 8o children, and is supported by her. It is a neat stone structure; average attendance, 28. HAMLETS, ETc. Upper and Lower Hergest form a township about 2 miles W. by S.W. of Kington. Hergest ridge is an eminence commanding exceedingly extensive and picturesque views of the surrounding country. Races were formerly held here, on a course

440 KING TON. laid out by subscription in 1826, but no meeeting has been held since 1876. Bradnor, Barton, and Rushockform a township about I mile N. by N.E. On the summit of Bradnor hill there are the remains of a camp, of a square form, commanding a most extensive prospect. Leland was unable to determine whether this camp was British, Roman, or Saxon. Pember's Oak, Chickward, and Lilwall form a township about 2 miles S.W. Kingswood was purchased in 1868, and has been divided, and the greater part has been cleared and brought under cultivation ; and some neat villa residences have been erected. SEATS IN THE VICINITY. Eywood, formerly the principal mansion of the Earl of Oxford, is now occupied by the Right Hon. the Lord Ormathwaite, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Radnor; T£tley Court, the seat of Edward Howorth Greenly, Esq., J.P., D.L., is built of stone, and ornamented externally with battlements; Ridgebourne, the seat of Richard William Banks, Esq., ].P. for Herefordshire and Radnorshire, who served the office of high sheriff of the latter county in I 87 4; Staunton Park, the seat of Charlton Parr, Esq., ].P.; Knill Court, the seat of Sir John Walsham, Bart., ].P., but at present occupied by The Marquis de Biddle Cope ; Dunjield House, an interesting old mansion, the property of Rev. H. Miles, and residence of Mrs. Evans; Harpton Court, the seat of Sir Herbert Edmund Frankland Lewis, Bart., J .P.; Huntington Park, the seat of Mrs. Romilly; Lynhales, the property and residence of Stephen Robinson, Esq., ].P., D.L. ; The Whz'ttern, Richard Green, Esq. J.P.; Castle Weir, Colonel Price; Moor Court, Rev. C. Greville, M.A. ; Broxwood Court, the seat of Lieut.-Colonel Richard Snead Cox, ].P., D.L.; The Byletts, the seat of John Bowles Evans, Esq., ].P., D.L.; Shobdon Court, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Bateman (Lord Lieutenant of the county of Hereford) ; lfewpo1't House, the property of Mrs. Pease, and the residence of John Gardiner Muir, Esq., ].P.; and Newcastle Court, the seat of Mrs. Otway. · POSTAL REGULATIONS. Post & Telegraph Office, 1 3 & q, Bridge Street. Mr. James William Lloyd, Postmaster. Despatch of Letters. WITHOUT WITH AN ADDI- LE'ITERS, ETC., CAN LINEs oF RoAD AND CHIEF PLACES EXTRA CHARGE TIONAL PENNY BE REGISTERED OF DESTINATION. UNTIL . STAMP UNTIL UNTIL . *London and General Mail 6.so p.m.' 7·0 p.m. 6.30 p.m. *Hereford, West of England, 2.15 p.m. 2 . .20 p.m. 2.15 p.m. South Wales, &c .. • Local • • • • 6.45 a.m . 7.0 p.m. 8.o p.m. I • . *These mails are not ma.de up on Sundays.

KINGTON. 441 Delive1y of Letters . • . LINES OF RoAD AND CHIEF PLACES FROM DELIVERY BY PosT- DELIVERY TO WHICH MAILS ARE RECEIVED. MEN BEGINS AT CALLERS BEGINS AT . . London and General Mail . • 8.o a.m. 7.30 a.m . West of England, South Wales, . I I. 30 a. m. I 1.30 a.m. and Hereford . • • • London and the North Day Mail 5-30 p.m. 5-30 p.m. Local Mails • • • • 8.o a.m. 7-30 a.m. . - On Sundays there is only one delivery by postmen, which commences at 8 a.m. Parcel Post business is transacted on week-days, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Parcel Post delivery commences at 8 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. ; despatched at 7 a.m. and 6.o p.m. Money Orders are granted and paid from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m., and on Saturdays till8 p.m. Post Office Savings Bank, Government Annuity, and Insurance business transacted during the same hours. The Postal Telegraph office is open from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. on weekdays, and from 7 a.m. till 10 a.m. on Sundays. The Wall Letter-box in Church street is cleared at 6.40 a.m., I0.35 a.m., 2.5 p.m., 5.0 p.m., and 6.20 p.m., Sundays, 6.35 p.m. The Wall Letter-box, Floodgates, is cleared at 4.50 p.m., and 6.25 p.m., Sundays, 6.25 p.m. The Wall Letter-Box, Victoria Road, is cleared at 6.40 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 4·45 p.m., and 6.25 p.m., Sundays, 6.0 p.m. AcTING MAGISTRATES FOR KrNGTON PETTY SESSIONAL DrviSION.- (The justices meet every alternate Thursday at the Court house, at I I o'clock in the forenoon). Edward Howorth Greenly, Esq., M.A., D.L., Titley Court, Chairman./ The Right Hon. Lord Ormathwaite, Eywood, Titley, R.S.O.; Francis Lyndon Evelyn, Esq., Kinsham Court, Presteigne; Richard Green, Esq., D.L., The \Vhittern, Lyonshall, Kington; \Villiam Edward King-King, Esq., Staunton Court; Lieut.-Colonel John James, Bryn Curl, Lyonshall ; Joseph Charlton Parr, Esq., Staunton Park; Major-General Sir John Coke, K.C.B., D.L., Lemore, Eardisley; Lieut.-Col. Richard Snead Cox, D.L., Broxwood Court, Pembridge; Stephen Robinson, Esq., D.L., Lynhales, Kington. Clerk to the justices, Anthony Temple, Esq., Duke street. Lzst of Parishes and Places compn:sed £1Z the Petty &sst'onal D£vzs£on: Brilley, Byton, Corn be, Eardisley, Harpton (Lower), Huntington, Kington, Kinsham, Knill, Lyonshall, Pembridge, Rodd Nash, and Little Brampton, Stapleton, Staunton-upon-Arrow, and Titley. PLACES OF WORSHIP. Parish Church (St. Mary's). Rev. Charles Edward Craigie, M.A., Vt'car ./ Rev. Leland B. Dundas, Curate; Messrs. Anthony Temple and Stanley F. Parker, Churchwardens; Mrs. Charlesworth, Organ£st; James Knowles, Pansh Clerk.

442 KING TON. Baptz'st Chapel, Bridge street. Mz"nz'sters varzous. Pr£m£tive Methodz"st Chapel, Bridge street. Ministers varz''ous. Wesleyan Chapels, High street, and Kings wood. M£nzsters van"ous. SCHOOLS, ETC. Grammar School. Richard William Banks, Esq., Chairman ; Rev. C. E. Craigie, Messrs. Richard Green, Stephen Robinson, Anthony Temple, Aaron Edward Purchase, and Thomas Hall, Governors; Mr. F. P. Young, Clerk. Kington, School Board. Mr. J. B. Froysell, Chairman_; Mr. E. F. Mitchell, Vice-Chairman_; Rev. C. E. Craigie, B. Philpin Esq., and Mr. T. Sankey. Mr. T. G. Sprague, Clerk,- Mr. A. J. Dillow, Head Master,- Mr. W. T. Fewings, 9, Mill street, Attendance Officer. The board meets on the first Friday in each month, at 10 a.m. Natzonal School ( gz"rls), Common close. Miss N. Butterworth, M-istress. National School (zizfants). Miss F. 0. Butterworth, Mistress. Natz'onal School (boys and girls), Mahollam. Miss Schofield, M£stress. KING TON UNION. The guardians meet at the Board-room, Union workhouse, every alternate Tuesday, at I 1 a.m. Stephen Robinson, Esq., Chairman_,- George Wilson, Esq., and T. A. Turner, Esq., Vice-Chai'·rmen _; Thomas Price, Esq., Treasurer; Anthony Temple, Esq., Clerk to the Guardia11s and to the Rural Sanitary Authordy; G. H. Brett, Esq., A udz'tor ; Richard Atherstone Billiald, Esq., L.R.C.P.~ Lond., Surgeon to the Union House and K£ngton District_; Quintin Richard Darling, L.R.Q.C.P. and L.M., Ireland, (Eardisley), Surgeon to Eardzsley DistriCt; James Chute, Esq., B.A., M.D. (Kington), Surgeon to Pembridge Distr£ct,; Richard Harding, Esq., L.R.C.P., Edin. (New Radnor), Surgeon to New Rad11or District; Frederic Bromley, Esq. (Presteign), Surgeon to Kz"nsham Distrz'ct; Mr. Bradley, Master; Mrs. Bradley, Matrotz; Mr. William Jones, Duke street, Rel£evz1zg 0./ficer for Kington, or first District; Mr. John Evans (New Radnor), Relz"evz'ng Officer for Radnor, or second Distrz"ct. The Umon comprises the followi'ng places i'n Herefo1·dshire: -Brilley, Byton, Combe, Eardisley, Harpton (Lower), Huntington, Kington, Kinsham, Knill, Lingen, Lyon shall, Pembridge, Rodd N ash and Little Brampton, Stapleton, Staunton-on-Arrow, Titley, vVillersley, Willey, Winforton. In Radnorshz"re : Colva, Ednol, Evenjobb, Gladestry, Glascwm, Harpton, Kinnerton, Llandegley, Llanfihangelnantmelan, Michaelchurch-on-Arrow, Newchurch, New Radnor, Old Radnor and Burlingjobb, Trewern and Gwithla, Walton and W omaston. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES. Superintendent Registrar, Anthony Temple, Esq., Duke street, (Deputy, Mr. Bernard Philpin, Duke street); Registrar of Marrz"aKes for Kington DistriCt, Mr. Henry Cook, Bridge street (Deputy, Mr. George Davies, 10, Church road); Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Vaccination Officer, Kington District, Mr. Henry Wishlade, 1 3, Duke street ; Registrars of Births, Deaths, Marriages, aud Vaccination Officers, New Radnor District,

KING TON. 443 Mr. Thomas A. Shewell, New Radnor (Deputy, Mr. William Shewell, New Radnor); Bnl/ey Distnct, Mr. John Lewis, The Gaer, Michaelchurch-on-Arrow (Deputy, William Lewis, Blanpeak); .Kinsham Di'stnct, J. Davies, Combe (Deputy, John Morgan, Combe). BANKS. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, (Davies, Banks, & Co.), head office, I, High street, draw on Robarts, Lubbock, & Co., IS, Lombard street, London, E.C. ; bank hours xo till 3, on Tuesdays and fair days IO till 4, and on Saturdays 10 till 1; Thomas Price, Esq., Manager. (Branch Bank at Rhayader, Radnorshire, T. P. Humphreys, Esq., if.fanager). Bt"rmwgham District &- Counties Bankz'ng Company, Lz"m£ted (b1·anch of), bank hours 10 till 3, on Tuesdays and fair days 10 till 4, and on Saturdays 10 till I; Alfred Turner, Esq., Manager. NEWSPAPER. Kz'ngton Gazette & Radnorshzre Chro11icle, printed and published by the proprietress, Mrs. Rester Humphreys, every Tuesday; price one penny; independent politics; office, 5 r, High street. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, BUILDINGS, OFFICES, SOCIETIES, &c. Bible Society (Depot of the), 30, High street. Mr. Francis Parker, Hon. Secretm-y. Cemetery. New road, Mr. James E. Peene, Clerk to the Buna,l Board; Charles Williams, SexltJn. Chrz'stz'an Knowledge Society (DepOt of the). Mr. ]. W. Lloyd, Post-office, Bridge strett. County Court. (Registrar's offices, Duke street) held every alter~ nate month at the Court house, His Honour Judge Bishop, Llandovery, :Judge (Circuit 28). The Super£nte1zdent, County Court Department, Treasury, Whitehall, S.W., Anthony Temple, Esq., Registrar ; Edward Johnes, Esq., H£gh Bailz'ff; Messrs. C. F. and H. E. Blakeley, Sub-bailiffs. The following is a list of places in the jurisdiction of the Kington County Court : Almeley, Brilley, Colva, Eardisley, Ednol, Evenjobb, Gladestry, Glascwm, Harpton, Harpton (lower), Huntington, Kington, Kinnersley, Kinnerton, Llandegley, Llanfihangelnantmellan, Lyonshall, Michaelchurch-on-Arrow, N ewchurch, Pembridge, Penybont (part of), Radnor (New), Radnor (Old), Sarnesfield, Staunton-upon-Arrow, Titley, Trewern and Gwithla, W alton and W omaston, Willersley and Winforton. Court House, used for magistates' and county court sittings. Fire Engine Statz'on, Upper cross. E. F. Mitchell, Esq., Capta£n of Fire Brt"gade. Freemasons (Arrow Lodge, 2240), held at the Burton House Hotel. -Mr. F. P. Young, Secretary. K£ng's Head Frtimdly Society (established 1792), meetings held at the Burfrm House Hotel. Anthony Temple, Esq., 'Treasurer; A. Cheese, Esq., Trustee; Mr. Henry '\Vishlade, Secretary.

444 KINGTON. Kzizgton Gas Company, Limited. Works, Sunset. Anthony Temple, Esq., and Bernard Philpin, Esq., Secretar-ies ; Mr. John Rogers, Workzng Ma1zager. K£ngton Horse Show Soc-i'ety. Mr. R. W. Satchell, Secretary. Kz1zgton Horticultural Society (show annually). Mrs. ]. W. Ward, Hon. Sec. Kington L£te1·ary Institute, Bridge Street. Anthony Temple, Esq·., Pres-ident/ Rev. C. E. Craigie, Vice-President.; Mr. A. J. Parmee, Secretary/ Alfred Turner, Esq., Treasurer. Ki11.gton Musical Society. E. F. Mitchell, Esq., Hon. Sec.; Mr. ]. Charlesworth, Hon. Conductor. Oddfellows' Club (Lord Durham Lodge, M.U.), held at the Castle Inn. Mr. Richard Roberts, Secretary. Police Statz'on, Market Place. Mr. Richard Edwards, Superintendent of Police for Kz'ngton Dzvz'sz'on, and one Constable. Publz'c Hall, Burton House (available for concerts, balls, entertainments, lectures, &c.). Mr. F. Parmeter, Proprz'etor. Water Works, Crooked Well. Mr. C. W. Lloyd, Secretary .i John Rogers, Superzntendent. PUBLIC OFFICERS, Asszstant Overseer for Kzngton Parish. Mr. Charles Frederick Blakeley, Bridge street. Clerk to the Burzal Board. Mr.]. E. Peene, 32, High street. Clerk to the Comm:issi(mers oj Taxes for Kington Divzsz'on.- Anthony Temple, Esq., Duke street. Surveyor of Taxes, Mr. John M. Hue, Ludlow. Clerk to the Guardians of Kzngton Unz'on. Anthony Temple, Esq. Clerk to Kington Highway Board. Edmund Hall Cheese, Esq., 14, Bridge street. Clerk to the Local Board. Mr. T. G. Sprague, Io, Mill street. Clerk to Magz"stratesfor Kington Dzvzsion. Anthony Temple, Esq. Clerk to the Rural Sa11itary Author-ity. Anthony Temple, Esq. Deputy Coroner for Herej'o1·dshire (Leomz1zster Dzstrict). Edmund Hall Cheese, Esq., 14, Bridge street. Herefordshire (Ist) Rifle Volunteers (G. Company). Armoury, Island terrace; Ernest F. Mitchell, Esq., Captazn .; William Jones, Color Sergeant; Horace Whittingham, Sergeant Instructor. Inla12d Revenue Offices. Mr. John Murrell, Duke street. Inspector of Nuisances under the Ru1·al Sam'tary Authorz'tz'es.- Mr. William Bufton, Lyonshall. Urban. Mr. Claudius Smith, Duke Street. Inspector of Wezghts and Measu1·es. Supt. Edwards, Court house. Medical Officers of Health u11der Rural San-itary Authon'ty.- Richard Harding, Esq., New Radnor. (]rban R. A. Billiald, Esq. Secretary to the Kington Charity Trustees. Mr. Henry Cook, 30, Bridge street. Steward of the Crown ... Yanors zn Radnorshzre. Frederick Rogers Tidd-Pratt, Esq., 2, Bridge street.

KINGTON ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY. 445 Steward of the Manor of EardisleJ'. Anthony Temple, Esq. . Steward of the Manor of Hunting/on (in K-ington Parzsh). Henry Gosling, Esq., solicitor, Leominster. Super£ntende1zt of Police. Mr. Richard Ed wards, Court house. Surveyor to the Radnorsht"re County Roads Board. Mr. Thomas Lewis Wishlade, Penybont. Town Crier. James W oolf, Head brook. RAILWAYS. K£ngton a11d Eard£sley Rarlway Company. Offices: 44, Gresham street, London, E.C. ; Charles Chambers, Esq., Chairma11. of .Dz1·ectors / George Sneath, Esq., Secretary~· .:Messrs. William Edwards, Jackson, Browning, and Husey, r8, King street, Cheapside, London, E.C., Auditors .i Messrs. Fowler & Co., Victoria Mansions, Westminster, S.W., SoHcitors .i The Birmingham, District, and Counties Banking Co., Limited (Kington branch), Bankers. Leominster and King/on Railway Company. Offices: Corn square, Leominster. Stephen Robinson, Esq., Chairman/ Thomas B. Stallard, Esq., Vzce-Cha£rma1t / J. A. Daggs, Esq., Secretary and Solicitor. Razlway Stat-ion ( Leomt'uster and Kz'ngton Raz'lway and Kington and Eardisley Railway), Sunset. Mr. George Parmee, Station JWaster and Goods Manager. CARRIER TO BUILTH. Name Day Stopping Place Return at William Angel Mon. Lion Hotel 5 0 CARRIER TO PENYBONT. \Villiam Angel Wed. Severn Arms 5 0 KINGTON ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Abell, Mrs., Rose cottage Adams, C. G., Sunset Arundell, Shirley W., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., The Beeches, Sunset 13anks, Richard William, J .P., Ridgebourne house :Baynham, Mrs., Common close :Billia.ld, Richard A., 11 & 12, Brdge street Bird, Ebenezer, Ramornie Bobby, Rev. F. H., Wesleyan minister, Sunset Bodenham, Mrs., The Firs Bore, Thomas, 9, Bridge street Bowen, Thomas, Portway :Brya.n, Miss, The Villa, Hergest Cbarleswortb, J oseph, Rose cottages Chute, James, M.A., M.D., 29, Church st. Cox, William, 28, Church street Craigie, Rev. Charles Edward, M.A. (vicar of Kington and rector of Huntington), The Vicarage, Kington Davey, David, Ivy cottage, Kingswood Davies, George, Church cottage Davies, Morgan James, 48, Bridge street Douglas, .John, 21, Church street Down, Mrs., Church house Dykes, Mrs., 9, The Terrace Edwards, Mrs. Martha, 7, Bridge street Edwards, William, Church street Evans, Robert, Oakland, W oodbrook :Fawcett, Miss, The Wych Griffiths, Wm. Parlors, Bank cottage Hall, Thomas, Castle Hill house Hamer, Ben Alfred, Rock close Hatton, 1\:Trs., The l .aurels, Duke street Humphrey, Gwynne, Bridge street Humphreys, Miss C., Duke street Huxley, Miss, Bridge street J ames, Miss, Glan Arrow villa, Sunset Lewis, Mrs., Duke street Lloyd, Charles Wellington, 30, Church st. Lloyd, Miss, The Square Meredith, Henry Frederick, Gravel bill 1\'leredith, J ames, High street

446 KINGTON ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY. Meredith, Mrs., High street Mitchell, H., Glan Arrow villa, Sunset Mitchell, Mrs. W. A., Bridge street 1\'Jorgan, Richard, Engine house Nash, Edward, Oxford terrace N ott, Miss, The Terrace Parker, Stanley Francis, Holiday hall PassPy, John, The Close Passey, Samuel, The Square Philpin, Bernard, Duke street Pope, Henry Brougham, B.A., M.D., The Square Powell, Mrs., Church street Price, Thomas, The Bank, High street Purchase, Aaron Edward, The Laurel Rogers, Miss, Prospect house Rogers, Miss, 8, The Terrace Sankey, Mrs. E. L., 9, Bridge street Skarratt, T. C., High street Sprague, T. G., Mill street Stanway, Mrs. Mary, Castle Hill cottage Temple, Anthony, county councillor, Bridge street Temple, Miss Holiday, Church street Tidd-Pratt, Frederick Rogers, Mountford house Turner, John J ones, Arrow lodge Turner, Phillip James, Island house Vaughan, Miss Olive, Duke street Ward, John W., Tramroad cottage Williams, T. H., M.A., grammar school Y a pp, Edward, Duke street COMMERCIAL. A bbott, J ames, greenjlrocer, Church street ADAMS. CHARLES G., wholesale wine and spirit merchant. Sole agent for the "Lorne" Highland whiskey, and "Royal Connaught." Consignee for J ameson, Pim & Co's Dublin stout. Agent for W orthington & Co's celebrated Burton ales. Wine Vaults, High street . ."ee advt. at end of Directory Addiss, George, cow keeper, Haywood Common Angel, J ames, haulier, Floodgates Angel, William, game dealer & carrier, Floodgates Arnndell, Shirley W., M.R.O.S., L.S.A., The Beeches, Sunset Bach, Edward, butcher, Church street Bach, Mrs. Mary, farmer, Rushock Bainbridge, Thomas, farmer, Woodbrook Bannister, Frederick, cabinet maker, Duke street Bannister, Mrs. L., dressmaker, Bridge st. Barber, Herbert, cot. farmer, Kingswood Baylis, Mrs., farmer, Bredward Baynham, Miss, plumber, glass and china dealer, 6, Bridge street Eeard, Elizabeth, lodging house, Mill st. Bebh. John, farmer, School farm, Upper Hergest Bebb, Robert, farmer, Barton Bedd11es, Williaru, draper, High street Belcher. Thomas, manager of iron works, Church street Bellion, Chas., watchmaker and jeweller, Church street Bevan, Price, farmer, Pound farm BIGGLESTONE BROS. and CO.s clothiers, tailors, hosiers, and general out. fitters, house furnishers, hardware and hollow ware merchants, bedsteads, bedding, oilcloths, linoleum, &c. The Star Stores, Church street Billiald, Richard A., L.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), 11 & 12, Bridge street Birmingham District & Counties Banking Co.(branch of), Manager-Alfred Turner, Duke street BLAKELY, C. F., auctioneer and assistant overseer for Kington, 16, Bridge street, and at Hay Bodenham, Miss, dressmaker, Duke street BORE & SON, confectioners, fancy bread and biscuit bakers. Rich cakes made to order on the shortest notice. All kinds of pastry made to order. Genuine home-made bread. 9, High st. Boulter, Henry, shoemaker, Bridge street Boulter, Thomas, shoemaker & shopkeeper, Church street Bound, Samuel, cottage farmer & haulier, Kingswood Boundford, William, shoemaker, Bridge street Bowen, John, blacksmith, Market Hall st. Bridges, Geo., general dealer and marine stores, 49, High street Briggs, Arthur William, watchmaker, Church street BUCK. JOHN, fancy bread and biscuit baker, confectioner, flour dealer, &c. Wedding cakes made to order. High street Burgoyne, Thos., cot. farmer, Ivy chimney BURTON HOUSE family and commercial hotel. Agent for Charrington's celebrated ales and stout. Posting in all its branches. Billiards. An omnibus meets all trains. Head quarters of cyclist's touring club. Frank W. Parmeter, proprietor Butterworth, Miss Nancy, schoolmistress, girls school Caldecott, Charles, miller, Floodgates mill Cheese and Jones, solicitors, 14, Bridge street, and at Hay and Presteigne Chute and Pope. surgeons, Church street CLARKSON & SONS, grocers, &c., The Stores, Church street Coleman, T. H., watchmaker, jeweller, and fancy repository, High street Cook, Cobden, coachbuilder, 10, Bridge street Cooke, C. P., shoemaker, Duke street COOPER, THOMAS, hair dresser, perfumer, and dealer in fishing tackle, fancy sticks, spectacles, &c., 21, High street. Established 50 years Corbett, Edwin, lamp lighter, Duke street

KINGTON ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY. 447 County Court, Anthony Temple, registrar, Duke street Cox, William, grocer's assistant, Church st. Crofts, W. D. & Co., boot stores, High st. Croose, George, farmer, Hergest Croose, Richard, farmer, Bredward DAVIES, BANKS & Co., bankers, Kington & Radnorshire Bank, 1, High street. Draw on Robarts, Lubbock & Co., 15, Lom bard street, London, E. C. Thomas Price, Esq., Manager Davies, David, tailor, High street Davies, Edward, farmer, Bower farm Davies, James, farmer, Knoll farm Davies, Miss E. A., girls school, Duke st. Davies, Miss M., 28, Duke street Davies, Morgan J., currier and bootmaker, 1, Bridge street Davies, 1\Irs., boarding house, Oxford terrace Davies, Mrs., fancy repository, High st. Davies, Mrs. J ane, White Lion Inn, Church street Davies, Mrs. Margaret, shopkeeper, 5, Bridge street Davies, 1\'lrs. Mary, boarding house, Church street Davies, Mrs. Sarab, grocer, Bridge street DaviPs, Richard, Swan Inn, Church street Davies, Robert, cowkeeper, Lane house Davies, \Villiam, Upper house, Hergest Delfosse, D. C., solicitor, Church street Deykes, Richard, haulier, Bridge street Dillow, Alfred J ., schoolmaster, board school Drew, Mrs. C., cooper, fruiterer, and :fishmonger, High street Drury, Miss, matron, Victoria Cottage hospital Duggan, J. T., butcher, farmer, and innkeeper, Woodlands, res. Lamb Inn, High street Edmund, J ames, outfitter, Church street Edwards, Richard, superintendent of police, Court house Egglestone, Ben, chimney sweep, Floodgates EV ANS, EDMUND, machinist, patentee and manufacturer of the patent drum guard for threshing machines, 15, Sunset. See page advertisement at end of Directory Evans, William, wheelwright, Pember's oak EVERARD, HENRY C., boarding and day school for young ladies, preparatory for young gentlemen. Agent to Standard Fire and Life, and Liverpool, London and Globe Fire Insurance offices, Broughton house school Fewings, William Thomas, 9, Mill street. AgPnt for the Liverpool and London and Globe Fire and Life ; Temperance and General Provident Life ; Rock Life ; Ocean Accident and Guarantee ; Plate Glass; Secretary and Registration Agent. to the North Herefordshire Liberal Association FIELD'S MERCANTILE COMPY., Limited, coal factors, brick and pipe manufacturers, burners of the celebrated Old Radnor lime, head office, Shrewsbury. Agent, William Holder, Church street Foster, 1\lrs. R., Talbot Inn, Brid~e street Freeman, Mrs. Ann, laundress, Duke st. FROYSELL, JOSEPH BANG HAM, wholesale & family grocer, and provision merchant, 35, High street. Agent for the Alton Court Brewery Company, Limited, of Ross. Agent to the Royal Fire and Life Insurance Company Fryer, Jas., agent to the House and Land Investment Trust, Limited, Old Radnor Lime Company's office Gas Works, Secretary, Anthony Temple; Manager, John Rogers Geaussent, Stephen, butcher and farmer, 16, High street GRIFFITHS, CHARLES, practical tailor, 25, High street. All orders will receive prompt attention Griffiths, Thomas, farmer, Poole house - Griffitbs, William, shopkeeper, Bridge st. Hackett, Thos., shopkeeper, nail maker, &c., 20, Bridge street HALL, THOS. & SONS, wholesale and family grocers, hop and provision, ale porter, and wine and spirit merchants, and farmers, 40, High street, res. Castle hill house HAMER, BEN ALFRED, builder and contractor, appraiser and building surveyor. Offices and works Sunset Hancocks, Llewellyn, farmer & brick maker, Kingswood, t•es. Leominster Harper, Miss, dressmaker, Bridge street Harper, Mrs., tea and coffee rooms, High st. Harris, Edwin, carpenter and joiner, Duke strt>et Harris, George, fishmonger, Bridge street HARVEY, WILLIAM, Oxford arms family and commercial hotel and posting house, Duke street. See advertl.$ement at end of I>irectory. HATTON, JOHN, English and foreign timber merchant, Steam Saw Mills, Duke street. See .Advertisement at end of Directot·y Havard, Thomas, cottage farmer, Beech grove Holder, William, agent for Field's mercantile company, Church street Roll, Charles, butcher, High street Holl, Mrs., toy dealer, Church street Howells, Arthur J ones, butcher, High st. Ho wells, John, woolstapler, Bridge house HOWELLS, WILLIAM J., general merchant ; coal, corn, building materials of every description, fine rock and broad salt, linseed and cotton cake : agent for Lawes' Chemical Manure Co., and Gould· ing's manures. res. Bridge street. See advt. at end of Directory.

448 KINGTON ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY. HUGHES, JOHN, saddler and harness maker, :39, Church street. Every requisite for the stable and saddle-room in stock Hughes, Richaro, farmer, Lower Hergest Humphreys, Arthur, farmer, New Ashmoor Humphreys, Mrs. H., printer & bookseller, High street Hussey, John, baker and confectioner, Bridge street Hutchins, Miss S., Mitre Inn, Duke street JAMES, EDMUND, tailor and woollen draper, 9, Church street J ames, J ames, farmer, Chickward James, Miss M. A., grocer, 41, High street JAY, HUBERT, Monumental works, monuments, headstones, tombs, crosses, &c., in granite, marble, and stone, Duke street JONES, ALFRED, Railway Tavern, Sunset. Wines, spirits, and cigars. Noted for home-brewed ales Jones, Evan, chimney sweep, Bridge street J ones, J ames, blacksmith, Bridge street Jones, John, carpenter, joiner, and spring cart maker, Headbrook J ones, John, farmer, N ewburn J ones, Thomas, farmer, The Hill J ones, Thomas, Bridge Inn and Queen's Head Inn, 2:3, Bridge street; agent for ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, Hereford. Price list.~ and particulars on application J ones, William, relieving officer, Duke st. Kedward, Wm., farmer, Black House farm Kington IronWorks, Sunset.-Proprietors, James Meredith and Co.; managerThomas Belcher Kington Gazette & Radnorshire Chronicle. Proprietress, Mrs. Rester Humphries, 51, High street Kington and Radnorshire Bank (Davies, Banks & Co.); manager, Thomas Price, 1, High street Knight, .Tames, boot maker, Church street Knowles, Henry, shoemaker, Duke street Knowles, James, shoemaker and parish clerk, Church street Knowles, Richd., painter, 1:3, Church street Lewis, Arthur J., chemist, seedsman, and tobacconist, High street Lewis, Isaiah, baker, High street Lloyd, C. W., manager of Old Radnor Co., Bridge street Lloyd, Evan, farmer, Empton LLOYD, J AMES WILLIAM, post- . master, boot & shoe manufacturer, agent for the Sun Fire & Life Insurance Office, and for the Inman and AUan Lines of Steamships, 15, Bridge street Lloyd, Miss A., dressmaker, Duke street LLOYD, MRS. ANN, Waggon and Horses Inn, Sunset. Refreshments at moderate charges. Home-brewed ales, porter, cider, and cigars Machine Bakery Stores, :3, Church street, J. & P. Turner, proprietors Mason, J. T., coffee and dining rooms, High street Meredith, Bridgewater, farmer, Mahollam Meredith, J ames, & Co., ironmongers, :3 & 4, High street, and Kington iron works, Sunset Meredith, Mrs., farmer, Wallstych Mills, Thomas, farmer, Apostles farm Mitchell, Charles, saddler, 46, High street Mitchell, .K F., tanner, Bridge street Monnington, J ames, farmer, Rack way Moore, Richard, .farmer, Lower Hergest Morgan, Richard, builder, Sunset Morris, J ames H., clothier and outfitter, High street Morris, W., hair dresser and tobacconist, 27, High street Munslow, Reuben, veterinary surgeon, 19, Bridge st1eet MmTell, John, Inland Revenue officer, Duke street Nash, Frederick, Oxford terrace OLD RADNOR LIME, ROADstone, and General Trading Company : coal, coke, slate, pipe, and builders merehants ; C. W. Lloyd, manager Owens, Arthur, farmer, Tuthill Owens, Owen, farmer, Hergest court Oxford Arms Hotel, Duke street; William · Harvey PARKER, FRANCIS & SONS., linen and woollen drapers, wholesale and retail, silk mercers, milliners, hosiers, haberdashers, hatters, family mourning warehousemen, hearse & mourning coach proprietors, SR, High street, and Manchester warehouse, 12, Church street. See advt. at end of Directory. Parmee, G. station master, railway station Parmeter, Frank W., Burton house hotel Parry, Mrs. Sophia, boot and shoe dealer, and fancy stores, 18, High street PASSEY, SAMUEL & JOHN, maltsters, seed and corn merchants, The Square, and 16, Church street PEENE, JAMES E., furnishing & general ironmonger, cutler, japanner, tin plate worker, brazier, coppersmith, and nail manufacturer. Agent to the Royal Farmers Fire, Life and Hail Insurance Co., 32. High street PhillipF~, Charles, coffE'e house, Bridge street PIQUET, HENRY, taxidermist, photographic artist, bookseller, picture frame maker, stationer, dealer in African grasses, &c., 14, High street Poole, H. J., traveller for Old Radnor lime company, Duke street Powell, Thomas, Royal Oak, Church street Price, Charles, White Horse Inn, High street Price, David, farmer, Bank farm, Rushock Price, James, farmer, The Cross Price, James, farmer. Lilwall

KINGTON ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY. 449 Price, Mrs., laundress, Old Bridge Price, Thomas, bank manager, High street, agent for Royal Exchange Fire & Life Assurance Corporation Price, William, farmer, Chickward Pritchard, John, farmer, Vestry Pritchard, 1\'lrs., milliner and dressmaker, Bridge street Pritchard, Thomas, farmer, Mill farm Pritchard, Thos., Castle Inn, Church street Pritchard, William C., coal dealer & beer agent, Bridge street Pritchard, William, blacksmith, 22, Bridge street Probert, John, farmer, Hergest Pryce, A. W., draper and milliner, High street PURCHASE, AARON EDWARD, wholesale and family grocer, ale, porter, and provision merchant, agent for W. & A. Gilbey's wines and spirits, 44, High street, res. The Laurels Rawlings, Thomas, cottage farmer and lime burner, Mere, Kingswood Reece, J oseph, foreman printer, Oxford terrace, Restall, Mrs., shopkeeper, 44, Duke street ROBERTS, RICHARD, builder, &c., Headbrook. Dep8t for building materials ; agent for the City of London Fire Insurance Co. ; also for the Marine and General Mutual Life Insurance Co. Row lands, John, town postman, Mill st. Rowlands, John, tailor, 62, Bridge street Ruff, Thomas, cottage farmer, Bradnor Sankey, Thomas, farmer, Lower Downfield Sargant, R. D., house, land, and estate agent, auctioneer, surveyor, and valuer, Church street, res. Leominster Sargeant, Thomas, cottage farmer and threshing machine proprietor, Sunset SATCHELL, R. W ., printer, stationer, bookseller, and newsagent, subscription library in connection with Mudie's ; agent for the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company, 33, High street Schindler, Miss, Arrow house school, Bridge street Schofield, Miss, School house, Mahollam Shute & Pope, surgeons, Church street Smart, Miss E. 0., Berlin wool and fancy repository, High street SMITH, HORATIO, family grocer, tea dealer and provision merchant, 31, Church street Smith, J. B., watchmaker and taxidermist, Bridge street Sprague, Thomas Grafton, Mill street, clerk to the Improvement Commissioners, and to the School Board, W estfield STANWAY, WILLIAM.HENRY, denti.'lt, family, dispensing and agricultural chemist, and seedsman, High street Stephens, Richard, grocer, 2'2, High street Stephens, Thomas, bookseller, stationer, photographer & seedsman, 17, High street Strangward, John, farmer, New House farm Stubley, W. H., shopkeeper, 53, Bridge street SWAIN, JOHN LACEY, woollen manufacturer, Crabtree mill Tarrant, Wm., The Sun Inn, 53, Duke street Temple & Philpin, solicitors, Duke street Thomas, George, farmer, Old Ashmoor Thomas, John W esley, cottage farmer, Wood brook Thomas, Mrs., dressmaker, Duke street Thomas, Thomas, shopkeeper, 26, Church street Thomas, W. J., NagsHeadinn, 3, Dukest. Tidd-Pratt, Frederick Rogers, solicitor, 2, Bridge street TURNER, J. & P., millers, malt· sters, corn and seed factors, guano merchants, agents for Morris & Griffin's artificial manures, Earles & King's linseed cakes, and American cotton cake, Arrow lodge steam corn mills, Hergest mill, and 3, Church street Victoria Cottage Hospital, matron, Miss Drury Wainwright, A. H., clothier, boot and shoe stores, High street WALKER, RICHARD E., family butcher and farmer, 47, High street, and Y eld and Sunny Bank farms. Prime ox beef, wether mutton, corned beef and tongues; prime Radnor Forest mutton. Orders for town and country promptly executed. Wall, James, farmer, Pember's Oak Walters,.Arthur, railway guard, Duke st. Watkins, Chas., farmer, Woodbrook W atkins, J ames, farmer, The Rods farm Watkins, Mrs. Mary, farmer, The Grove W elson, Hughes, farmer, New house, Upper Hergest Welson, John, farmer, Bank farm Welson, William, farmer, UP.per Hergest Whittingham, Horace, dnll instructor, Bridge street Widdowes, George, shoemaker, Duke street Williams, Meredith, dep6t for Singer's sewing machines Williams, Thomas, tanner, 17, Bridge street Williams, William, farmer, The Birches WISHLADE, HENRY, surveyor and builder, appraiser, house and estate agent, registrar of births and deaths, and vaccination officer for Kington district. 13, Duke street. See advt. at end of Directory Woolf, J., billposter, Headbrook Yapp, Edward, agent for Plate Glass Insurance Co., 6, Duke street Yates, William, farmer, Chickwa.rd YATES, W. J., photographic artist. Frames of all kinds made to order. All kinds of musical instruments. Agent for Singers' sewing machines. 13, High st. X

450 KINGTON TRADES DIRECTORY. KINGTON TRADES DIRECTORY. Agents,-Coal. Holder, William, Church street (district agent for Field's Mercantile Compy., Limited) Poole, H. J., Duke street, collector and travel1er for Old Radnor Co., coal brokers, head office, Kington Pritchard, William C., Bridge street Agent-Emigration. Lloyd, J ames William (for the Inman and .Allan lines of steamships), Post office, 15, Bridge street Agents-House and Estate. Blakeley, C. F., 16, Bridge street Sargant, R. D., Church st., res. Leominster Wishlade, Henry, 13, Duke street Agents,-Insurance. Atlas (life)-Temple and Philpin, Duke st. Church of England (fire and life)-Wm. Hy. Stanway, High street City of London (fire).-Richard Roberts, Headbrook Commercial Union (fire)-Bernard Philpin, Duke street Commercial Union (fire and life).-C. W. Lloyd, 30, Church street Crown (life)-Thos. Bowen, Portway Imperial (fire)-Thos. Bowen, Portway Life .Association of Scotland-Bernard Philpin, Duke street Liverpool and London and Globe (fire and life)-Wm. Fewings, 9, Mill street (fire only)-Henry C. Everard, Broughton ho. Marine & General Mutual (life).-Richard Roberts, Headbrook National-R. W. Satchell, 33, High street National Provident (life)-Francis Parker, 38, High street Norwich and London (accident)-Bernard Philpin, Duke street Norwich Union (fire and life)-A. J. Lewis, High street Ocean (accident and guamntee}-Wm. Fewings, 9, Mill street Phrenix (.fire)-T. G. Sprague, Mill street Plate Glass-Edward Yapp, 6, Duke street Plate Glass-Wm. Fewings, 9, Mill street Reliance Mutual (life)-Edmund Hall Cheese Rock (life)-Wm. Fewings, 9, Mill street Royal (fire and life)-J oseph Bangham Froysell, 35, High street Royal Exchange Assurance Corp01·ation (fire and life)-Thomas Price, 1, High street Royal Farmers' (fire, life, and hail)-J. E. Peene, 32, High street Scottish National-T. G. Sprague, Mill st. Scottish Union (.fire and life)-R. W. Satchell 33, High street Standard (life)-Henry C. Everard Sun (.fire and life)-J ames William Lloyd, Post office, 15, Bridge street Temperance and General Provident (lije)- W m. Fewings, 9, Mill street Agricultural Implement Manufacturers. Meredith, James & Co., 3 & 4, High street, and Kington Iron Works, Sunset Ale and Porter Merchants and Agents. Adams, Charles G. (consigneP. for Jameson, Pim, & Co.'s Dublin stout; agpnt for W orthington & Co.'s celebrated Burton ales) Froysell, Joseph Bangham {agent for the Alton Court ales), 35, High street Hall, Thomas & Sons (agent for A1l11opp & Sons' Burton ales, and W atkins' Dublin stout), 40, High street Parmeter, Frank W. (agent for Charrington's ales and stout), Burton House hotel Pritchard, W. C., Bridge street Purchase, Aaron E., 44, High street; agent for Rogers & Co., Bristol Appraisers. Blakeley, C., 16, Bridge street Hamer, Ben Alfred, offices, Sunset Wishlade, Henry, 13, Duke street Auctioneers. Blakeley, C. F., 16, Bridge street Sargant, R. D., Church st., res. Leominster Bakers. Bore and Son, 9, High street Buck, John, High street Hussey, John, Bridge street Lewis, Isaiah, High street Turner, J. & P., 3, Church street Bankers. Binuingham District & Counties Banking Company, Limited (branch of). Bank hou~, 10 till 3; Tuesdays and fair dayR, 10 till 4 ; Saturdays, 10 till 1. Alfred Turner, Esq., Manager

KINGTON TRADES DIRECTORY. Kington and Radnorsbire Bank (Davies, Banks, and Co. ), head office, 1, High street, draw on Robarts, Lubhock & Co., 15, Lombard street, London, E.C. ; bank hours, 10 till 3 ; on Tuesdays and fair days, 10 till 4 : Saturdays, 10 till 1. Thomas Price, Esq., Manager. (Branch bank at Rhayader, Radnorshire-T. P. Humphreys, Esq., Manager) Berlin Wool Repositories. Da.vies, Mrs. Morgan, High street Parry, Mrs. Sophia, 18, High street Smart, Miss E. 0., High street Bill Poster. Woolf, J., Headbrook Bird Stuffers. Piquet, Henry, 14, High street Smith, J. B., Bridge street Blacksmiths. Bowen, John, Market Hall street J ones, J ames, Bridge ~:~treet Pritchard, William, 22, Bridge street Boarding Houses. Davies, Mrs., Oxford terrace Davies, Mrs. Mary, Church street Booksellers. Humphreys, Mrs. H., High street Piquet, Henry, 14, High street Satchell, R. W., ~. High street Stephens, Thos., 17, High street Boot and Shoe Makers. Boulter, Henry, Bridge street Bonlter, Thomas, Church street Boundford, William, Bridge street Cooke, C. P., Duke street Crofts, W. D. & Co., High street Davies, M. J., High strPet Knight, James, Church street Knowles, Henry, Duke street Knowles, James, Church street Lloyd, J ames William, 15, Bridge street Parry, Mrs., High street Wainw1·ight, A. H., High street Widdowes, George, Duke street Brick and Tile Makers. Hancock, Llewellyn, Kingswood, res. Leo- min~ter Olrl Ra.dnor lime, roadstone, and General Trailing Company, coal, coke, slate, pipe, and builders' merchants; C. W. Lloyd, manager Builders. Hamer, Ben Alfred, office & works, Sunset Morgan, Richard, Sunset Roberts, Richard, Headbrook Wishlade, Henry, 13, Duke street Building Material Dealers. Field's Mercantile Company, Limited; Depot, Railway station; W. Holder, agent. Old Radnor lime, coal, coke, slate, pipe, and builders' merchants; C. W. Lloyd, manager Roberts, Richard, Perseverance Works, Head brook Butchers. Bach, Edward, Church street Duggan, J. T., Hi~h stref't Geaus~ent, Stephen, 16, High street Roll, Charles, High street Howells, Arthur Jones, High street Walker, Richard E., 47, High street Cabinet Maker. Bannister, Frederick, Duke street Carpenters and Joiners. Harris, Edwin, Duke street J ones, John, Head brook Carpet Warehousemen. Meredith, James & Co., 3, & 4, High street Parker & Sons, 38, High street Castrator. Pritchard, Thos., Castle Inn Chemists and Druggists. Lewis, Arthur J., High street Stanway, William Henry, High street Chimney Sweepers. Egglestone, Ben, Floodgates J ones, Evan, Bridge street China and Glass Dealers. Baynham, Miss, 6, Bridge street Bigglestone, Bros. & Co., Church street Bridges, George, High street Clothiers. Bigglestone, Bros. & Co., Church street Morris, James H., High street Wainwtight, A. H., High street

KINGTON TRADES DIRECTORY. Coach Builders. Cook, Cobden, 10, Bridge street J ones, John, Head brook Coal Merchants. Field's Mercantile Company, Limited ; Dep6t at railway station ; William Holder, agent : head office, Shrewsbury Howells, W. John, Old Wharf, Sunset Old Radnor lime, coal, coke, slate, pipe, and builders' merchants; C. W. Lloyd, manager Confectioners. Bore & Son, 9, High street Buck, John, High street Hussey, John, Bridge street Turner, Messrs. J. & P., 3, Church street Cooper. Drew, Mrs. Charlotte, High street Corn Factors. Bore & Son, 9, High street Howells, William .J., Duke street Passey, Sam. & John, Church street Turner, J. & P., Arrow lodge steam corn mills, and Hergest mill Currier. Davies, Morgan .Tames, 1, Bridge street Dentist. Stanway, William Henry, High street Drain Pipe Manufacturer. Hancock, Llewellyn, Kingswood, res. Leominster Drapers. Beddoes, William, High street Meredith, .Tames & Co., High street Parker, Francis & Son, 38, High street Pryce, A. W., High street Dressmakers. Bannister, Mrs., Bridge street Bodenham, Miss, Duke street Harper, Miss, Bridge street Lloyd, Miss A., Duke street Pritchard, Mrs., Bridge street Thomas, Mrs., Duke street Farmers. Addis, George, Haywood common Bach, Mrs. Mary, Rushock Bainbridge, Thomas, W oodbrook Barber, Herbert, Kingswood Bay lis, Mrs., Bred ward Bebb, John, School farm, Upper Hergest Bebb, Robert, Barton Bevan, Price, Pound farm Bounds, Samuel, Kingswood Burgoyne, Thomas, Ivy Chimney Croose, George, Hergest Croose, Richard, Bredward Davies, Edward, Bower farm Da vies, J ames, Knoll farm Davies, Robert, Lane house Davies, William, Upper house, Hergest Duggan, J ames Thomas, Woodlands Geaussent, Stephen, l 6, High street Griffiths, Thomas, Pool house Hall, Thomas, farmer, High street Hancocks, Llewellyn, Kingswood Havard, Thomas, Beech Grove Hughes, Richard, Lower Hergest Humphreys, Arthur, New Ashmoor J ames, J ames, Chickward J ones, John, N ewburn J ones, Thomas, The hill Kedward, William, Black house Lloyd, Evan, Empton Meredith, Bridgwater, Mahollam Meredith, Mrs., W allstych Mills, Thomas, Apostles fa"'t'U""l Monnington, J ames, Rackway Moore, Richard, Lower Hergest Owens, Arthur, Tuthill Owens, Owen, Hergest court Price, David, Bank farm, Rushock Price, ,J ames, The Cross Price, James, Lilwall Price, William, Chickward Pritchard, John, Vestry Pritchard, Thomas, Mill farm Probert, John, Hergest Rawlings, Thomas, Mere Ruff, Thomas, Bradnor Sankey, Thomas, Lower Downfield Sergeant, Thomas, Sunset Strangward, .John, New house Thomas, George, Old Ashmoor Thomas, John W esley, W oodbrook Walker, Richard, Y eld and Sunny Bank farms Wall, .Tames, Pember's Oak Watkins, Chas., Woodbrook W atkins, J ames, The Rods farm Watkins, Mrs. Mary, The Grove Welson, Hughes, New House, Upper Hergest W elson, John, Bank farm, Upper Hergest W elson, William, Upper Hergest Williams, William, The Birches Y ates, William, Chickward Fancy Repositories. Coleman, T. H., High street Davies, Mrs., High street Parry, Mrs., High street Smart, Miss E. 0., High street Fell monger. Ho wells, John, Bridge house

KINGTON TRADES DIRECTORY. 453 Fishing Tackle Maker. Cooper, Thomas, 21, High street Fishmongers. Drew, Mrs. C., High street Harris, George, Bridge street Fruiterer. Drew, Mrs. C., High street Game Dealer in. Angel, Willia.m, Floodgates General Dealers. Bigglestone Bros. & Co., Church street Bridges, George, 49, High street Greengrocers. Abbott, James, Church street Drew, Mrs. Charlotte, High street Hackett, Thomas, Bridge street Grocers. Clarkson & Son, Church street Davies, Mrs. Sarah, Bridge street Froysell, J oseph B., 35, High street Griffiths, William, Bridge street Hall, Thomas & Sons, 40, High street James, Miss M. A., 41, High street Purchase, Aaron E., 41, High street Restall, Mrs., 44, Duke street Smith, Horatio, 37, Church street Stephens, Richard, 22, High street Thomas, Thomas, 26, Church street Guano Merchants. Old Radnor Lime Co., Bridge street; agent, C. W. Lloyd Turner, J. & P., Arrow lodge mills Hairdressers. · Cooper, Thomas, 21, High street Morris, William, 27, High street Hardware Dealers. Bigglestone Bros. & Co., Church street Bridges, George, 49, High street Meredith, Jas. & Co., High street Peene, J ames E., 32, High street Hatters. Bigglestone, Bros. & Co., Church street Meredith Ja.mes & Co., High street Parker, Francis & Son, High street Hauliers. Angel, J ames, Floodgates Bound, Samuel, Kingswood Deykes, Richard, Bridge street Hackett, Thomas, Bridge street Hop Factors. Hall, Thomas & Sons, 40, High street Purchase, Aaron E., High street Hotels. Burton House {family and commercial), Frank W. Parmeter,'High street Oxfm·d Arms (family, commercial, and posting house), William Ha.rvey, Duke street Inns and Taverns. Bridge-Thos. Jones, 23, Bridge street Castle (Commercial)-Thomas Pritcbard, Church street Lamb-J. T. Duggan, 12, High street Mitre-Mrs. S. Hutchings, Duke street Nag't Head-W. J. Thomas, 3, Duke street Queen's Head-Thoma.s Jones, Bridge street Railway-Alfred J ones, Sunset Royal Oak-Thomas Powell, Church street Sun-William Ta.rrant, 53, Duke street Swan (Agricultural and Commercial)- Richa.rd Davies, Church street .Talbot-Mrs. Rachell!,oster, Bridge street Waggon&: Horses-Mrs. Ann Lloyd, Sunset White Horse-Cbarles Price, High street White Lion-Mrs. Jane Da.vies, Church st. Iron and Brass Founders. Meredith, James, & Co., High street Ironmongers. Meredith, James, & Co., High street Peene, J ames E., 32, High street Jewellers. Bellion, Charles, Church street Briggs, Arthur William, Church street Coleman, T. H., High street Laundresses. Price, Mrs., Coopers Yard Ca.dmore, Mrs., Old bridge Freeman, Mrs. Ann, Duke street Libraries (Circulating). Kington Literary Institute, Bridge street Satchell, R. W. (in connexion with Mudie's) 33, High street

454 KINGTON TRADES DIRECTORY. Lime Merchants. Fields' Mercantile Company, Limited. Dep<lt at railway station ; William Holder, agent ; head office, Shrewsbury Old Radnor Lime, Roadstone and General Trading Company, coal, coke, slate, pipe, and builders' merchants. C. W. Lloyd, manager. Head office-Kington Lodgings. Beard, Elizabeth, Mill street Machinist. Evans, Edmund, 15, Sunset Maltsters. Passey, Samuel & John, 16, Church street Turner, J. & P., Arrow and Hergest mills Manure Dealers & Agents. Howells, William J., (agent for Lawes' Chemical Manure Co. and Goulding's manures) Old Radnor Co. (C. W. Lloyd, manager), agent for Odams' Manure Co., Avon Manure Co., Norrington & Co.'s, and others Turner, J. and P. (agents for Morris and Griffin's artificial manures), Arrow and Hergest mills Marine Store Dealer. Bridges, George, 49, High street Millers. Caldicott, Charles, Floodgates Turner, J. & P., Arrow Lodge & Hergest mills Milliners. Bannister, Mrs. L., 55, Bridge street Parker, Francis & Son, High street Pritchard, Mrs., Bridge street Pryce, A. W., High street Mourning Warehouse. Parker~ Francis & Son, High street Music Seller. Satchell, R. W., 33, High street Nail Makers. Hackett, Thomas, 20, Bridge street Meredith, James & Co., High street Peene, James E., 32, High street Newsagents. Satchell, R. W., 33, High street Stephens, Thomas, 17, High street Newspaper. Kington Gazette and Badnorshire Chronicle, printed and published by the proprietress, Mrs. Rester Humphreys, every Tuesday. Price, one penny. Independent politics. Office-51, High street Optician. Coleman, T. H., 45, High street Outfitters. Bigglestone, Bros. & Co., The Star Stores, Church street Griffiths, Charles, High street J ames, Edmund, Church street Morris, J ames H., High stref't Painters and Decorators. Baynham, Miss, 6, Bridge street Knowles, Richard, 13, Church street Paperhanging Warehouses. Knowles, Richard, 13, Church street Satchell, R. W., 33, High street Photographers. Piquet, Henry, 14, High street Stephens, Thomas, High street Yates, William James, 13, High street Picture Frame Makers. Piquet, Henry, 14, High street Y ates, William J ames, 13, High street Plumbers and Glaziers. Baynham, Miss, 6, Bridge street Knowles, Richard, 13, Church street Posting Houses. Harvey, William, Oxfo'rd Arms, family and commercial hotel, Duke street Pam1eter, Frank W., Burton House Printers. Humphreys, Mrs. H., High street Satchell, R. W., 33, High street

KINGTON TRADES DIRECTORY. 455 Provision Dealers. Clarkson and Sons, Church street Froysell, Joseph Bangham, 35, High street Hall, Thomas and Sons, 40, High street Purchase, Aaron E., 44, High street Smith, Horatio, 37, Church street Quarry Owners. Building Stone.-Quarry, Hergest mill, Anthony Temple, ownf>r Limestone.-The Old Radnor Lime, Roadstone, and General Trading Co. (C. W. Lloyd, manager). Works-Old Radnor Macadam Rtone.-The Old Radnor Lime, Roadstone, and General Trading Co., (0. W. Lloyd, manager). The works- " Gore" quarries. Refreshment Rooms. Harper, Mrs., High street Mason, J. T., High street Phillips, Charles, Bridge street Registry Office for Servants. Satchell, R. W., 33, High street Saddlers & Harness Makers. Hughes, John, 39, Church street Mitchell, Charles, 46, High street Saw Mill. Hatton, John, Duke street Schools (Private). Everard, Hy. C., Broughton House school Davies, Miss E. A., (girls), Duke street Schindler, Miss, Arrow House school, Bridge street Seedsmen. Lewis, Arthur J., chemist, High street Pa.ssey, Samuel & John, 16, Church street Stanway, Wm. Henry, High street Stephens, Thomas, High street Turner, J. & P., Arrow and Hergest mills Sewing Machine Agents. Williams, Meredith Y ates, Willia.m J ames, 13, High street (Singer's) Shoeing Smiths. Bowen, John, Market Hall street J ones, J ames, Bridge street Pritchard, William, 22, Bridge street Shopkeepers. Boulter, Thomas, 7, Church street Cook, Cobden, 10, Bridge street Davies, Mrs. Margaret, 5, Bridge street Griffiths, Willia.m, Bridge street Hackett, Thomas, 20, Bridge street Restall, Mrs., 44, Duke street Stubley, W. H., 53, Bridge street Thomas, Thomas, 26, Church street Silk Mercers. Parker, Francis & Son, 38, High street Slate Merchants. Old Radnor Co. (C. W. Lloyd, manager). Head office-Bridge street Solicitors. Cheese, Edmund Hall (sec. to the Old Radnor lime, roadstone, and general t1•ading company ; clerk to Kington highway board; deputy coroner for Herefordshire; com. to administer oaths in the supreme court of judicature), offices, 14, Bridge street Delfosse, D. C., Church street Philpin, Bernard (com. to administer oaths in the supreme court of judicature), Duke street Temple, Anthony (firm of Temple and Philpin), (elk. to magistrates for Kington division; registrar of the county court; elk. to guardians of Kington union and supt. registrar of births, deaths, and marriages ; clerk to the rural sanitary authority; elk. to com. of income and land taxes ; steward of the manor of Eardisley; deputy steward of the manor of Lyonsluill; com. to administer oaths in the supreme court of judicature), office, Duke street Temple & Philpin, Duke street Tidd-Pratt, Frederick Rogers (com. to administer oaths in the supreme court of judicature; perpet. com. for cos. of Hereford and Radnor; steward of the crown manors in Radnorshire; office, 2, Bridge street Spade-tree Maker. Hatton, John, Duke street Stationers. Humphreys, Mrs. H., High street Piquet, Henry, 14, High street Satchell, R. W., 33, High street Stephens, Thomas, High street Stone Mason. Jay, Hubert, Duke street. See advt. at end of Directory.

KINGTON KINNERSLEY. Stone Merchants. Old Radnor Lime, Roadstone, and General Trading Company ; office, Bridge street. -C. W. Lloyd, Manager Surgeons. .Arundell, Shirley W., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., Duke street Billiald, Richard A., L.R.C.P., (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.}, 11 & 12, Bridge street Chute & Pope, Church street Surveyors. Hamer, Ben Alfred, offices & works, Sunset Sargant, R. D., Church st, res. Leominster Wishlade, Henry, 13, Duke street Tailors. Bigglestone, Bros. & Co., The Star stores, Church street Davies, David, High street Griffiths, Charles, 25, High street J ames, Edmund, 9, Church street Morris, J. H., High street Rowlands, John, 62, Bridge street Tanners. Mitchell, E. F., Bridge street Williams, Thomas, 17, Bridge street Toy Dealers. Coleman, T. H., High street Holl, Mrs., Church street Smart, Miss E. 0., High street Turner Wood . Hatton, John, steam saw mills, wood turnery, and spade works, Duke street Upholsterers. Bannister, Frederick, Duke street Bigglestone, Bros. & Co., Church street Veterinary Surgeon. . Munslow, Reuben, 19, Bridge street . Watch and Clock Makers. Bellion, Charles, Church street Briggs, Arthur William, Church street Coleman, T. H., High street Smith, J. B., Bridge street Wheelwrights. Evans, Wm., Pember's oak Jones, John (and coach builder}, Headbrook Threshing Machine Proprtrs. Wine and Spirit Merchants. Evans, Edmund, patentee & manufacturer Adams, Charles G., High street of the patent drum-guard for threshing Hall, Thos., & Sons, 40, High street machines, 15, Sunset Sa.rgeant, Thomas, Sunset Wine Merchant's Agents. Timber l\1erchant. Hatton, John, Duke street Tin-plate Workers. Meredith, James & Co., High street Peene, James E., 32, High street Tobacconists. Lewis, Arthur J., High street Morris, William, 27, High street St&Dway, W. H., High street Clarkson & Sons, Church street Hall Thos. & Sons, 40, High street Purchase, Aaron Edward (for W. & A. Gilbey's wines & spirits}, 44, High street Smith, Horatio, Church street Woollen Manufacturer. Swain, John Lacy, Crabtree mill W oolstapler. Ho wells, John, Bridge house KINNERSLEY, WITH NEWCHURCH TowNSHIP. KINNERSLEY is a parish and railway station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch of the Midland railway, distant I It miles N.W. of Hereford (14 by road), 9! N.E. of Hay, 7 S.S.E. of Kington, 5 S.W. of Weobley, and 12 S.W. of Leominster. It is situated on the main road between Leominster and Hay, is in Stretford and

KINNERSLEY. 457 W olphy hundreds, W eobley union and petty sessional division, Kinnersley and W eobley polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Kington county court district. The population in 187 I was 356; in r88r, 306; inhabited houses, 61 ; families or separate occupiers, 66; area of parish, 2 7I91 acres; annual rateable value, £3,269. Thomas Reavely, Esq. (who is lord of the manor), Colonel R. Bridgford, and Mrs. Pease, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, marl; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, fruit, and a few hops. Kinnersley is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of W eobley ; living, a rectory ; value, £420, with residence and IS acres of glebe ; patron, Thomas Reavely, Esq.; rector, Rev. Frederick Andrews, B.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, who was institut~d in I873· The church, dedicated to St. :fames, is a very old structure partly in the Early English style; some portions have been added at different periods, and are in the Middle Pointed style. The interior consists of nave, chancel, and aisles, and was restored and reseated in 1867-68 at a cost of £965. It has now accommodation for about 270 persons. Since 1873 the old oak reredos has been gilded, and the nave and chancel painted, under the advice of G. F. Bodley, Esq., A.R.A. In 1888, a new organ was bought at a cost of £240. The chancel windows are of stained glass. There is one good monument, of the period of Charles I., and the remains of one brass, of the time of Henry V. The tower dates as far back as I I so, and has a saddleback roof. It was restored in 1871 at the expense of Colonel Bridgford. The earliest register is dated r62S. The charities belonging to the poor amount to about £Io yearly. The national school for boys and girls has accommodation for S8 children ; average attendance, 5 I. Kz'nnersley Castle is a fine old mansion nearly surrounded by trees. It is the seat of Thomas Reavely, Esq., ].P. and D.L. for the county, who served the office of high sheriff in 1867. Some magnificent views are to be obtained from the top of the tower. The Rectory is a substantial stone residence, delightfully situated near the castle. It is surrounded by extensive ornamental grounds, and commands some most beautiful and extensive prospects. Newchurch is a township distant 1 mile N.E. of the parish church. It is in Wolphy hundred, and comprises about 400 acres, the property of Mrs. Pease. Ailey, Newton, and Sallies are places in this parish. PosTAL REGULATIONS. \Villiam Branston, Sub-Postmaster. Letters are received through Hereford v'id Letton, and arrive from the latter place by messenger about 9.10 a.m.; despatched thereto at 4.0 p.m. The letter box (near the church) is cleared at 3·35 p.m. Eardisley is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Pan.sh Church (St. james's). Rev. Frederick Andrews, B.A., Rector/ Col. Robert Bridgford, C.B., and Mr. Thomas]. Williams, Churchwm·dens; Thomas Lewis, Deputy Par-i'sk Clerk. Natio11al School (bo_rs and gz"rls). Miss M. E. Johnson, Mistress. Raz7way Stat£on (Hereford, Hay, a1ld Brecon branch of Midland Ra-ilway). Mr. Richard James, Statz'on Master. Asst"stant Overseer. Mr. Thomas Lewis.

KINNERSLEY KINSHAM. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Andrews, Rev. Frederick, B.A. (rector), The Rectory Beavan, Henry, Rock cottage Reavely, Thomas, J.P., D.L., county councillor, Kinnersley castle W aring, Mrs., Stanley cottage, Ailey COMMERCIAL. Alcock, Samuel, farmer, Upper Newton Bush, J ames, painter, &c., t;allies Coomber, Edwin, farmer, Little Parks Davies, Samuel, farmer, Lower Ailey Edwards, Thomas, agent for the Breconshire Coal & Lime Company, Limited, dep5t at Railway station Evans, Mrs. Margaret, shopkeeper and beer retailer, Ailey Goodwin, G. T., farmer, Old castle, Ailey Hall, Mrs., Rock cottage, Ailey Hopley, Thomas, Little Parton, farm bailiff to Col. Bridgford James, Richard, station master, Railway station Johnson, Miss M. E., School house J ones, J ames, farmer, Ailey Jones, Philip, farmer, The Parks LEWIS, THOMAS, builder and contractor, deputy parish clerk, and assistant overseer, and a.gent for the OLD RADNOR LIME, ROADstone, & (:ieneral Trading Co. : coal, coke, slate, pipe, & builders' merchants, Kinnersley station, res. Yew tree cot. Longdon, Herbert F., farmer, Castle farm Roberts, John, sawyer Sirrel, Ed ward, veterinary forge and agricultural implement maker Smith, James, farmer, Lower Newton SMITH, J AMES, Kinnerstey .Arms Hotel Spencer, ,John, Elm cottage TRUMPER, SAMUEL, carpenter, wheelwright, &c. W ATKINS, FREDERICK, black .. smith, contractor, &c., near Railway station, Ailey Watkins, John, carpenter, &c., Sallies Weaver, Wm., coal agent, Rail way station Wilkinson, William, farmer, Ailey farm, bailiff for Edward Bigglestone Williams, Thomas, farmer, Gate farm Williams, Thomas J., farmer and hop grower, N ewchurch KIN SHAM. KINSHAM is a parish situated on the main road from Presteigne to Leintwardine, distant about 4 miles E.N.E. of Presteigne, 8 N.E. of Kington, 12 vV.N.W. of Leominster, and 23 N.W. of Hereford; is in \Vigmore hundred, Presteigne county court district, Lingen and Titley polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Kington union and petty sessional division. The population of Upper Kinsham in 1871 was 79; in I88I, 64; inhabited houses, 15; families or separate occupiers, 15. By an order which came into operation on 25th March, r886, under the Divided Parishes Act, the several parts of a township known as Lower Kinsham (with a population in 1881 of 28 ; inhabited houses, 7 ; families or separate occupiers, 7 ;) were amalgamated with Upper Kinsham, and the parish thus altered was designated Kinsham. The area of the parish of Kinsham is 1,584 acres ; and the annual rateable value, £r,8I8. Francis Lyndon Evelyn, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various ; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c. Kinsham is a donative; stipend, £so yearly, paid by Francis Lyndon Evelyn, Esq.; chaplain, Rev. T. M. Newbery, B.A., London University, who resides at Presteigne. The church is a small structure, with nave, chancel, gallery, and belfry, it has been restored, and was re-opened by the Bishop of Hereford, on All Saints' Day, r887; in the chancel there is a recess containing a piscina of some interest, and on the walls are the escutcheons of several members of the Oxford and Mortimer family. Kinsham is included in Byton school board district, and the children attend school at that place. K-insham Court, formerly the seat of members

KINSHAM KNILL. 459 of the Oxford family, is at present the property and residence of Francis Lyndon Evelyn, Esq.,J.P. It was also occupied by Lord Byron, and subsequently by Miss Nightingale. Immediately below Kinsham court js Kinsham dingle, presenting one of the most picturesque views in Herefordshire, or indeed any other county; the river Lugg winds round the bottom of the dingle, below the house. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Pres· teigne about 9.30 a.m. Lingen is the nearest money order office. Presteigne is the nearest telegraph office. Letters should be addressed Kinsham, Presteigne, R.S.O., (Radnorshire). Pansh Church. Rev. T. M. Newbery, B.A., Chaplain.; Francis Lyndon Evelyn, Esq., and Mr. George Howells, Churchwardens; John Kinch, Parish Clerk. PH.IV ATE RESIDENT. Evelyn, Francis Lyndon, J.P., Kinsham court COMMERCIAL. Brown, Francis, Old mill Edwards, John H., fartner, New house and Lower court farms Howells, George, farmer, Kinsham farm Preece, James, blacksmith Reynolds, George, farmer KNILL. KNILL is a small parish situated on the borders of Radnorshire, distant about 3! miles S.S. W. of Presteigne, 4 N. of Kington, and 24 N.W. of Hereford; is in Wigmore hundred, Kington union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Lingen and Titley polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was I ro; in 1881, 94; inhabited houses, 20; families or separate occupiers, 22 ; area of parish, 798 acres ; annual rateable value, £851. Sir John vValsham, Bart., is lord of the manor, and owner of nearly all the parish. The soil is loamy, producing wheat, barley, roots, and pasture. Knill is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery ofWeobley; living, a rectory; value, £74, with residence and 9-! acres of glebe; patron, Sir John Walsham, Bart.; rector, Rev. George Hanbury Fielding, M.A., of Lincoln College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1883. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is situated in the grounds of Knill court. It underwent thorough restoration in 1873-74. The work included entire rebuilding the walls of nave and chancel, new porch, new roof to chancel, new windows in nave and chancel, and reseating with open seats. The floor of nave and chancel has been laid with Godwin's encaustic tiles. The east window and north and south windows of the chancel have been filled with painted glass, by Wailes, of Newcastle. It has a tower with three bells. Sir Samuel Romilly, Knt., a distin. guished lawyer and statesman, was buried here. The walls of the nave are well-nigh covered with marble tablets to the Walsham family. The rectory house was re·built in 1874. The parish registers corn· mence with the year 1585. There is a school for boys and girls, built at the expense of Sir John Walsham, with accommodation for 41 children; average attendance, 22. Knzll Court, the seat of Sir John Walsham, Bart., D.L., J.P., and at present occupied by The Marquis

.. KNILL-LAYSTERS. de Biddle-Cope, is a handsome mansion in the Elizabethan style of architecture. Sir John Walsham is the lineal descendant and heir of Sir John de Knill, Knt., lord of Knill in the 12th century. Knill is in a beautifully romantic situation, in the midst of Swiss-like scenery of woody hill and fertile valley, through. which sounds its bubbling stream (the End well). The mansion is perched, as it were, on a vast perpendicular rock, from the windows of which may be seen one of the fairest views in the West of England. At the back rises the lofty furze-covered Knill Garraway, terminating on the right in the abrupt and perpendicular Hurrock, a landmark for miles, beyond which towers again the rugged, rocky Stanner, surmounted by the "Devil's Garden," of wide renown ; on the other side, the richly wooded steeps of Knill and Burva close the valley from that of Evenjobb and Old Radnor. Along the plain stretches a lovely valley of rich pasturage, terminated in the blue and hazy distance by Radnor forest, whose tops seem to mingle with the clouds. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Kington. Presteigne is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Kington. Parish Church (St. Mkhael's). Rev. George Hanbury Fielding, M.A., Rector; Mr. Henry Hamar, Churchwarden. NaHonal School (boys and gtrls). Miss Clifton, Mt"stress . • PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Biddle-Cope, Marquis de, Knill court Fielding, Rev. George Ha.nbury, M.A. (rector), The Rectory . COMMERCIAL. Clifton, Miss, schoolmistress Hamar, Henry, farmer, Knill farm Morga.n, Cha.s., cottage fanner, W oodside LAYSTERS, WITH THE TowNSHIP OF WooNTON. LAYSTERS, or LEYSTERS, is a parish situated on the borders of Worcestershire, and near the main road leading from Leominster to Tenbury. It is distant 5 miles N.E. of Leominster, 4! S.S.W. of Ten bury, and 18! N.N.E. of Hereford; is in Wolphy hundred, Leominster union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Docklow and Kimbolton polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 279; in 188r, 238; inhabited houses, 53; families or separate occupiers, 58; area of parish, 1,977 acres; annual rateable value, £r,87o. The Trustees of Mrs. Catherine Lort, William Lort, Esq., of Fron Goch hall, vta Berriew, Montgomeryshire, Col. R. Prescott Decie, ofBockleton court, Ten bury, Charles Davis Andrews, Esq., The Square, Leominster, the Trustees of the late James Withington, Esq., and William Adams, Esq., are the chief landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay and marl, except where the rock (which is limestone and cornstone) crops out at the surface. Laysters is in the diocese of Hereford, archdeaconry of Ludlow, and rural deanery of Burford (West) ; living, a vicarage; value, £268, with residence and 90 acres of glebe ; patron, Colonel R. Prescott Decie; vicar, Rev. A. Hawkins, M.A., of St. John's

LAYSTERS LEA. College, Cambridge, who was instituted in r886. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is an old one, and was partially restored in 1842 at a cost of £6oo. A further restoration was effected in 1870 at a cost of£ 350, or thereabouts, the roof being laid open, the tiro her varnished, and the church re-pewed. It is a massive stone edifice, with tower, nave, chancel, and several plain mural tablets. Near to the church is a mound, or tumulus, which appears to have been an ancient burialplace. The endowed charities amount to £37 9s. yearly. There is a national school for boys and girls, with accommodation for 48 children ; average attendance, 44· The ecclesiastical parish of St. Mzi:hael and All A11-gels, Old Wood, formed in 1856, comprises (in Herefordshire) parts of the civil parishes of Laysters and Middleton on the Hill, and (in Worcestershire) part of the civil parish of Tenbury. Rosedale, the property of the Trustees of the late James Withington, Esq., and occupied by Charles William Brierley, Esq., is a genteel residence, sheltered by plantations and pleasantly situated on a sloping eminence which is terminated by a small stream and fishpond. Woonton is a township distant Ii miles S.W. of the church. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Tenbury, and delivered by messenger. Ten bury, Brimfield, and Leominster are the nearest money order offices. Nearest telegraph office and post town, Ten bury. Parish Church (St. Andrew's). Rev. Arthur Hawkins, M.A., Vicar; Messrs. George Yapp and William Baylis, Churchwardens; William Preece, Parish Clerk. National School (boys and girls). Mr. William Preece, Master. Wesleyan Chapel. Ministers various. Assistant Overseer. Mr. William Preece. CARRIER TO LEOMINSTER. Name ]ones, John Day. Fri. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brierley, Charles William, Rosedale Hawkins, Rev. Arthur, B.A. (vicar}, The Vicarage Lort, Catherine, Great heath Smith, Mrs., The Portway COMMERCIAL. Baylis, Wm., farmer, Woonton Court farm Brookes, William, farmer, The Laurels Callow, Miss Annie, Little Laysters Childs, Charles, farmer, Southley Stopping Place Anchor Inn Return at 4 0 Da.vies, William, farmer, Wilden Greenway, George, farm bailiff for C. W. Brierley Horsnett, Thomas, fa1·mer, New house Jay, John, farmer, Whitehouse, W oonton Lort, Oatherine, farmer and hop grower, Great Heath farm Powell, Thomas, farmer, Cinders wood Preece, William, schoolmaster, assistant OV(>rseer and parish clerk Stubb.s, Mrs. ,J ane, shopkeeper Thomas, Da.vid, farmer and hop grower, Church house Yapp, George, fal'mer and hop grower, Hill Hall and Cinders farms LEA. LEA, or THE LEA, is a small parish and village pleasantly situated on the main road between Ross and Gloucester, on the borders of Gloucestershire. The Mitcheldean Road station on the Hereford,