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ST. MARGARET'S ST. WEONARDS. style, consisting of nave, chancel, porch, and small tower with three bells. It contains a very handsome carved oak rood-loft of 15th century date. St. Margaret's is included in the Longtown school board district. The children attend the schools at Newton, Michaelchurch, and Vowchurch. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received from Hereford, via Vowchurch, by rural messenger. Peterchurch is the nearest money order office. Pontrilas is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (St. Margaret's). Rev. F. T. Wybrow, B.A., Vtcar/ Mr. James Alford, Churchwarden; John Thomas Rees, Par£sh Cle1·k. Assz"sta1zt Overseer. Mr. William Preece, Newton . • CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Mrs. Fleet Mrs. Powell Days Wed. & Sat. do. COMMERCIAL. Alford, J ames, Tan house farm . Altree, John, farmer & parish constable, Coed-pouth Cole, George, farmer, Treva.ker .Cole, Svrlney, farmer, Fernbreed .Cole, William, farmer, Beavan's place Davies, William, blacksmith, Slough Fleet, Thomas, farmer, Cleamants Fletcher, Thomas, farmer, Old Farm Griffiths, James, farmer, Maireses Gwilliam; Thomas, farmer, Lower House Howard, Mrs. E., farmer, Almshouse Ho ward, Thomas, farmer, shopkeeper and gamekepeer to H. H. Wood, Wells green Hughes, Joseph, farmer, Lower Llanon Kedwarcl, .Tohn, farmer, Fair oak Lewis, Edmund, carpenter, Haines' place Stopping Place Return at Plough Inn Nelson Inn Lewis, John, farmer, Gilvah Llovd, Morgan, farmer, Newfield M organ, John, Park farm 4 0 4 0 Powell, James, farmer, Trecoediver Powell, William, farmer, Crossway Powell, \Villiam, farmer and butcher, Murryhurst Price, .J ames, farmer, Gil vah Pritchard, Wm., farmer, Upper Llanon and W ern-willim Pugh, James, cot. farmer, Dellen house Rees, John Thomas, Sun Inn, carpenter and parish clerk Seaborne, George, farmer, Maerdy Watkins, George, farmer, The Corner Watkins, John, farmer, Waiters' place White, George, mason, Slough Williams, J ames, farmer and haulier, Castle Ibo Williams, Mrs., farmer, Iron Pear-tree ST. WEONARDS. ST. WEONARDS is a large parish and vilJage situated on the main road between Hereford and Monmouth, and about I mile N. of the Ross and Abergavenny road ; is distant 7~ miles W. of Ross, 7! N. of Monmouth, and 10 S. of Hereford ; is in W ormelow hundred (lower division), Ross union and county court district, Harewood End petty sessional division, and St. Weonards and Llangarren polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 694; in 1881, 629; inhabited houses, 132; families or separate occupiers, 135 ; area of parish, 4,536 acres ; annual rateable value, £4·457· The principal landowners are Harcourt Capper, Esq., Captain Willoughby B. Mynors, ].P., Thomas Mayos, Esq., and the Governors of Guy's Hospital. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, chiefly rock; produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c. St. W eonards derives its name from the dedication of its church to the British saint .of that name, whose figure, represented as an .old man sustaining a

ST. \VEON ARDS. book and an axe, is in the north aisle east window. Several of the ancient family of the Mynors, who came over with William the Conqueror, and were seated at Treago in this parish, lie buried here. The church is a fine specimen of Norman architecture, and consists of nave, chancel, side aisle, porch, and square tower containing six bells. The tower was pointed in cement and put into a thorough state of repair in I 874 at a cost of about £2oo. The church was beautifully restored in r884 at a cost of over £2,ooo, and contains several monuments and tablets. The east window in the M ynors chapel has been restored at the expense of the late Mrs. M ynors, of Treago, in memory of Peter Rickards M ynors, Esq. A memorial window, on the north side of the chancel, has been erected to the memory of Cecilia, wife of the Rev. W. Bond. The east window in the chancel has been filled with stained glass, in memory of the late Mrs. Mynors, of Treago; and the west window of chancel, in memory of the late Mrs. Philpotts, of Trellesdee. St. W eonards is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford, and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a vicarage; value, £210, with residence and 18 acres of glebe; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford; vicar, the Rev. Lawrence Waiter Richings, B.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was instituted in r885. The charities belonging to the parish amount to about £30 yearly. The national school for boys and girls was enlarged in 1873 at a cost of £220. It has accommodation for I 3 I children ; average attendance, 83. Treago, the property of Mrs. Mynors, now in the occupation of Henry Carnsew, Esq., and Northgate House, the property of Harcourt Capper, Esq., and occupied by James Hope, Esq., are situated in this parish. :Broad Oak is a hamlet partly in this parish and partly in Garway. A mission Room has been erected at Broad Oak, capable of seating about 6o people. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mrs. Elliott, Sub-Postmistress. Letters arrive by messenger from Ross at 7.25 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 6 p.m. Money orders are granted and paid, and post office savings bank business transacted. The wall letter-box at Broad Oak is cleared at 5-15 p.m. Ross is the telegraph office and post town. Pan:Sh Church (St. Weona1·d's). Rev. Lawrence Waiter Richings, B.A., Vicar./ Messrs. William Philpotts and John Stone, Chu1·chwardens; Alfred Dobbs, Parish Clerk. Natio1zal School (boys and g£rls). Mr. T. B. Picketing, Master~· Miss. S. Powell, Sewing Mistress. Assistant OzJerseer. Mr. John Embry, Hungerhill. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Stopping Place Return at Henry Hall Wed. & Sat. Nelson 4 0 CARRIER TO Ross. Henry Hall Thurs. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ca.rnsew, Henry, Trea.go hall Castle Inn 4 0 Hope, James, Northga.te house Richings, Rev. Lawrence Waiter, B.A. {vicar), The Vicarage

ST. WEONARDS SAPEY (UPPER). COMMERCIAL. Barrett, Edmund, farmer, Trevanning Brewer, Henry, farmer, Pendiggot Bright, Mrs. J ames, shopkeeper Davis, John, farmer, Caldicott Dobbs, Alfred, parish clerk & wheelwright Elliott, Mrs., farmer & sub-postmistress, Tything barn Embry, James, farmer, Villendra. Embry, John, assist. overseer, Hungerhill Evans, John, farmer, The Moor Evans, Thomas, farm bailiff for Capt. W. B. Mynors Gibbons, Edward, farmer, Whitelands Grundy, Charles, farmer, Colebrook Hall, David, ti~r and plasterer, Isle of Dogs Hall, Hy., carrier & farmer, Sunnybank Heath, Edwin, farmer, Little Whitelands Howells, Mrs. Ann, blacksmith Hughes, Mrs., farmer, Rhydicar Imms, Albert, farmer, Brinstone SAPEY J ames, Tom, miller, Rhydicar mill J ames, 'Villiam, threshing machine pro- prietor, Penrose green J enkins, J ames, farmer, Gorsty close Lock, George, farmer, W allhead Mailes, John, butcher • Mayos, Thomas, farmer and landowner, Llangunnock Parker, David, farmer, The Palace Pembridge, Thomas, farmer, Glengarren Philpotts, William, farmer, Trellesdee Pickering, T. B., schoolmaster Pritchard, John, farmer, Fish pool Rowberry, Edwin, farmer, Newton Scudarnore, Hy., farmer, Trippenkennett Smith, George, farmer, W erndu farm Smith, James, farmer, Coppice farm Smith, J ermyn, farrier Stone, John, farmer, Penrose V aughan, Henry, beer retailer, Broad Oak Wain, David, farmer, Carwendy Withers, Wm., blacksmith, Broad Oak (UPPER). UPPER SAPEY is a scattered parish, pleasantly situated near the borders of Worcestershire, on the romantic Sapey brook, and on the main road from Bromyard to Kidderminster. It is distant 7 miles N. of Bromyard, 8 S.E. of Ten bury, 14 N. W. of Worcester, 14 S. W. of Kidderminster, and 20 N.E. of Hereford. It is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Brimfield and Collington polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was.383; in r88r, 323; inhabited houses, 70; families or separate occupiers, 70 ; area of parish, 2,159 acres; annual rateable value, £2,8o6. Thesoilisclayey and loamy ; subsoil, rock and clay; chief produce, wheat, barley, hops, fruit, &c. Sir Francis Salwey Winnington, Bart., of Stanford court, Worcestershire, who is lord of the manor, William Barneby, Esq., of Saltmarshe castle, the Trustees of the late Thomas H. Newman, Esq., and the Rev. Edward Addenbrooke, are the principal landowners. Upper Sapey is in the diocese of Hereford, archdeaconry of Ludlow, and rural deanery of Em-ford East ; living, a rectory; value £292, with residence and 39! acres of glebe ; patron, Sir Francis Salwey Winnington, Bart.; rector, Rev. Phipps Onslow, B.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, who was instituted in r859. The church, dedicated to St. M'ichael, is a handsome edifice in the Nor man style, with small tower (containing one bell), spire, nave, chancel, porch, font, and about· roo sittings, all of which are free and unappropriated. It was entirely restored in r86o at a cost of £r,2oo, and has within the last few years been repaired and beautified, and a warming apparatus supplied at a cost of more than £300. The east window is filled with stained glass as a memorial to the late Mr. Towers. There is also a handsome window on the north side of the nave erected to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Dunderdale. The natiqnal school has accommodation for 68 children; average attendance, 29. There is a school charity with a rental from land of

SAPEY UPPER SARNESFIELD. £I8; another for pensions to old parishioners of £6, and a third for distribution at Easter and Christmas of £1 I I os. annually. Hz"gh House, the residence of Samuel Weaver, Esq., is pleasantly situated. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive from Worcester at Io a. m.; despatched thereto at 4 p.m. The letter box is cleared at 4.15 p.m.; on Sundays at I 2. Is. Clifton-on-Teme is the nearest money order office. Bromyard is the nearest telegraph office. Postal address, Clifton-on-Teme, Worcester. Parzsh Church (St . .JI.fichael's). Rev. Phipps Onslow, B. A .. Rector. Messrs. William Harris and Samuel Weaver, Churchwardens; John Cooper, Parish Clerk. National School (boys and girls). Miss Annie Conn, Mistress. CARRIER TO BROMY ARD. Name Henry Fox Frederick Freeman Day Thurs. CARRIER TO Sat. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Onslow, Rev. Phipps, B.A., (rector), The Rectory Weaver, Samuel, High house COMMERCIAL. Amphlett, John, gardener Conn, Miss Annie, schoolmistress Cooper, John, shopkeeper Fox, Hannah, shopkeeper, Sapey common HaiTis, William, farmer and hop grower, Dudshill court Hodges, Mrs., shopkeeper Holder, Wm., frmr. & landowner, Yearston court, Church house, & Brook farms, res. Chapel farm, Orleton-on-Teme Jackson, Thos., farmer, Line hill Kitchen, John, carpenter & wheelwright Lane, J ames, blacksmith l'fferedith, Herbert, farmer & hop grower, Field house Merrick, Waiter, farmer & hop grower, Adam's wood Stopping Place Railway Inn WORCESTER. Bridge Inn Return at 4 0 4 0 Perkins, Thos., beer retailer and farmer Roberts, J ames David, farmer and hop grower, Lea farm Smith, George, farmer and hop grower, Kintal farm Stinton, William, wheelwright Symonds, Ed ward, farmer Warren, Robert, butcher, farmer & hop grower, Common and Waters farm, res. Clifton-on-Teme Watkins, J osepb, blacksmith W atkins, Richard, farmer, Sapey corn. WEAVER, SAMUEL, estate agent & valuer; collector of tythe rentcharge, &c. ; ag-ent to the British Empire Mutual Life Assurance Company, London, & North "British and Mercantile Fire and Life Insurance Com· pany, London; The High house, Upper Sapey, Worcester Webb, Susan, farmer, Primrose bank Y arnold, W illiam, farmer & hop grower, Criftin farm SARNESFIELD. SARNESFIELD is a small parish situated at the intersection of the cross roads from Hereford to Kington and from Leominster to Hay, distant 2 miles W. of Weobley, 7 S.E. of Kington, 10 S.vV. of Leominster, 12 N.W. of Hereford, and about 2 N.E. of Kinnersley and 3 N.W. of Moorhampton stations on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon railway. It is in 'Volphy hundred, Weobley union and petty sessional division, Kington county court district, and Kinnersley and Weobley polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was II4; in 1881, 123 ; inhabited houses, 26 ; families or separate occupiers, 28 ; area of parish, 1,260 acres; annual rateable value, £!,221. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, detached parts of 2 L

666 SARNESFIELD. Sarnesfield were amalgamated with Birley. John Hungerford Arkwright, Esq., of Hampton court (who is lord of the manor), and Major William Worsley 'Vorswick, are the principal landowners. The soil is a strong loam; subsoil, clay; products, wheat, barley, roots, fruit, and hops. Sarnesfield is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of 'N eobley ; living, a rectory ; value, £194, with residence and 48 acres of glebe; patron, Major William Worsley Worswick; rector, Rev. Joseph Dudley, B.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1846. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a very old stone edifice in the Early English style of architecture, with tower containing two bells. It was restored in 187o at a cost of£ 5 so. It has nave, chancel, side aisle, porch, and several monuments to the memory of the Monington family. The register begins with the year 1764. In the churchyard is a tombstone to the memory of John A bel, the celebrated architect, who is said to have rendered great service to the city of Hereford during the siege in 1645, and who built the market·houses of Hereford, Leominster, Kington, Brecon, and Weobley. He died in the year 1694, aged ninety-seven. This stone, which was designed and sculptured by himself, displays his own effigy, kneeling with those of his two wives, together with the emblems of his profession the rule, the compass, and the square. On the stone is the following singular epitaph, which was also written by himself:- " This craggy stone a covering is for an Architect's bed Who lofty buildings raised high, but now lyes low his head ; His line and rule, so death concludes, are locked up in store, Build they who list, or they who wist, for he can build no more. • * * * • His house of clay could hold no longer, May heaven's joy frame him a stronger. JOHN ABEL. Vive ut vivaB in vitam reternam." The children from this parish attend the school at Kinnersley. Sarnesjield Cou1·t is the property and residence of Major William Worsley Worswick, ].P. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Kington at 10.30 a.m., and from Weobley at 9.30 a.m. for a portion of the inhabitants. The wall letter-box is cleared at 3·45 p.m. The nearest post-office is at W oonton (Almeley). W eobley is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Kington or W eobley. Pm·z'sk Church (St. Mary's)-Rev. Joseph Dudley, B.A., Rector; George Edwards, Par-ish Clerk. Asszstant Overseer. Mr. James Griffiths, Bush Bank, W eobley. * Postal address, Weobley, R.S. 0., others, Kington. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. *Dudley, Rev. Joseph, B.A. (rector), The Rectory *W orswick, Major William W orsley, J.P., Sa.rnesfield court COMMERCIAL. Edwards, George, parish clerk Powell, William, fanner, Hallaston Rees, Edward, farmer, The Batch Riley, Wm., gardener to MajorWorswick Snart, Thomas, farm bailiff to Major Worswick *Williams, David, farmer, _W oodmanton fazm

SELLACK. SELLACK. SELLACK is a scattered village and parish possessing much beautiful scenery, being on the borders of the river Wye, about 3"~ miles N.1V. of Ross, Io! S.S.E. of Hereford, and 2 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, Harewood End petty sessional division, and Harewood and feterstow polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in I87I was 353 ; in r88r, 337 ; inhabited houses, 72 ; families or separate occupiers, 84; area of parish, I 7994 acres; annual rateable value, £ 37533· By orders which came into operation on 2 sth March, r 884, under the Divided Parishes Act, detached parts of Fownhope, in Hereford union, were amalgamated with Brockhampton and Sellack. The Governors of Guy's Hospital, London, are lords of the manor. The principal landowners in Sellack are Miss Symonds, of Pengethly, Edward Caddick, Esq., of Caradoc, and the Governors of Guy's Hospital, London. The soil is a rich loam on a red sandstone formation, and is extremely fertile. The chief crops are wheat, barley, roots, and pasture. A ferry-boat crosses the river Wye to King's Caple. The winding course of the river renders the scenery very picturesque in this locality. On a commanding eminence between Pengethly and Michaelchurch is an ancient square camp called "Geer Cop." Sellack is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a vicarage with the chapelry of King's Caple annexed ; joint value, £330, with residence and 98 acres of glebe ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford ; vicar, Rev. Augustin Ley, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in r886. Sellack living is worth £rs8 yearly, with 96 acres of glebe. The vicar of Sellack for the time being is patron of the living of Marstow. The church, dedicated to St. Teseliachus, is a handsome stone edifice, consisting of nave, chancel, and tower, surmounted with a tapering spire. The tower contains a peal of five bells. The church was enlarged in I84r at a cost of £67o, of which, £560 was raised by subscription, and £I ro by Incorporated Society grant. There are several monuments to the Pengethly family, also a handsome stainedglass memorial window to the late W. ]ones, Esq., of Baysham. The register goes back to the year I s66. The charities belonging to the parish amount to £29 yearly. The national school for boys and girls has accommodation for 49 children; average attendance, 41. It is situated on the rise of the hill, opposite to the church. A mission room was built on the Grove Common, a few years ago by the late Rev. W. H. Ley. Pengethly, the seat of Miss Symonds, is a fine mansion, near the main road from Ross to Hereford. This seat was in 1622 the property of Sir Thomas Powell, Bart., and after descending to Sir John Williams, Bart., and his issue, the Rev. T. Powell Symonds succeeded to the property, from whom it descended to its present owner. The view at this point is very fine: deep down in the wooded valley is the grey venerable tower of Hentland church ; in the far distance may be espied the firs which crown the ridge of

668 SELLACK SHOBDON. Stoke Edith park. Fine timber of every variety of leaf forms the foreground of the picture. Caradoc, a handsome Elizabethan mansion, is the seat of Edward Caddick, Esq., whose father recently, at great expense, completely restored and considerably enlarged the ancient building, carefully preserving all the architectural features. It is beautifully situated on an eminence near the Wye, commanding charming views of the surrounding country. Close to the mansion is the site of a small encampment. Baysham Court is the residence of Mr. George Garne. · PosTAL REGULATIONS. Post Office, Pict's Cross, William Tommey, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Ross at 7.15 a.m. and 6.20 p.m.; despatched thereto at 9 a.m. and 6.20 p.m. Hoarwithy is the nearest money order office. Ross and Fawley are the nearest telegraph offices. Post town, Ross. Post Office, Sellack Marsh, Richard Amies, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Ross at 7.10 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. ; despatched at 8.55 a.m. and 6.40 p.m. The wall letter-box at Baysham is cleared at 8.25 a.m. and 6.5 p.m. Pm-ish Church (St. Teselz'achus'). Rev. Augustin Ley, M.A., Vicar/ Messrs. James Colcombe and George Garne, Churchwardens; Mrs. James Colcombe, Organzst; \Villiam Probert, Sexton. National School (boys and girls). Mrs. James Colcombe, Mistress. Assistant Overseer. Mr. J. Colcombe, jun., Glebe house, Sellack. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Gilbert, Charles Loder, Caradoc Ley, Rev. Augustin, M.A. (vicar of Sellack with King's Caple), The Vicarage Southby, Fredk., Belle Vue, Strangford Symonds, Miss Caroline, Pengethly COMMERCIAL. Amies, Richard, carpenter, shopkeeper, and sub-postmaster Caddick, Edward, Caradoc farm Colcombe, James, freeholder Colcombe, J ames, jun., farmer, and assis· tant overseer for Sellack, Peterstow, and Bridstow, Glebe house and Grove farms Col corn be, Mrs. J ames, schoolmistress and organist Davies, Wm., beer retailer, Lough Pool Garne, George, farmer, Baysham court Lloyd, George W oodall, farmer, White house and at Brook farm, Whitchurch. near Monmouth Preece, Richard, stonemason, Grove corn. Probert, Jos., wheelwright, Grove corn. Probert, William, wheelwright and parish sexton Sexty, Richard, farmer, The Grove Stallard, B. J., farmer, Sidonia house Stallard, William, farmer, Pengethly frn. Tommey, Lemuel, parish constable, Pict's cross Tommey, William, b1acksmith and subpostmaster, Pict's cross V oyce, John, blacksmith, Backney SHOBDON, WITH THE HAMLETS OF DowNwoon, EASTHAMPTON, LADYCOURT, AND UPHAMPTON. SHOBDON is a small parish situated on the main road between Leominster and Presteigne, about 8 miles W.N.W. of Leominster, 6 E.S.E. of Presteigne, 18 N.W. of Hereford, and 3 N. of Pembridge station on the Leominster and Kington railway. It is in Stretford hundred, Leominster union and county court district, Kingsland and Aymestrey polling district and electoral division of the county ~

SHOBDON. council and Wigmore petty sessional division. The population in I87I ~as 454; in r88r, 379; inhabited houses, So; families or separate occupiers, 90 ; area of parish, 31549 acres ; annual rateable value,£ 4,437. The Right Hon. Lord Bateman is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is a light clay; subsoil, gravel and limestone; chief crops, wheat, hops, beans, barley, fruit, and pasture. The neighbourhood is well wooded. Shobdon is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster ; living, a rectory; value, £6zo, with residence and 24 acres of glebe; patron, Lord Bateman; rector, the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Alien Bateman Hanbury, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in 1853, and is also prebendary of Hampton in Hereford cathedral, and rural dean of Leominster. The church, dedicated to St. Yoh11, the Evangelist, is a cruciform building, with tower (containing two bells), nave, chancel, transept, organ, and monument to the memory of the late Lord Viscount Bateman. The church was erected about the year 1753, and occupies the site of the former edifice, which was built by Oliver de Merlylond, steward to Hugh de Mortimer, about the year II40. He likewise founded near it a small priory for canons, which was afterwards removed to Eye, and thence finally to Wigmore. The parish registers commence with the year I 5 s6. The charities are of £40 yearly value. The national school for boys and girls has accommodation for I33 children, with an average attendance of s6. It was erected by Lord Bateman, and is chiefly supported by himself, his lady, and the rector. Shobdon Court, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Bateman (Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county), is an elegant brick mansion, in the style of Louis XIV., and has a very beautiful entrance hall. The park is between three and four miles in extent, and includes some rich and picturesque scenery. It is stocked with deer, and studded with trees. Downwood is a hamlet 1 mile N.W. of the village; Easthampton lies to the N.E. ; Ladycourt is r mile E.; and Uphampton is about I mile N. of the village. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Quintin Lowthian, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive at 6.8 a.m.; despatched at 6.55 p.m. This is a money order, post office, savings bank, and telegraph office. Letters should be addressed Shobdon, R.S.O. (Herefordshire). Pan"sh Church (St. John the Evallgelist). Hon. and Rev. Arthur Alien Bateman Hanbury, M.A., Rector>. Lord :Bateman and 1\'Ir. J ames Jenkins, Churchwardens; Charles E. Lewis, Parish Clerk. National School (mixed). Mr. Charles E. Lewis, Master>. Mrs. Lewis, Assistant Mtstress. Assistant Overseer. Mr. George Joseph ]ones, Church House, Pembridge. CARRIERS TO LEOMINSTER. Name Days Stopping Place Retum at Mrs. Strangward Fri White Horse .2 0 Mrs. E. Holder do. Livery Stables .2 30 Mrs. Taylor do. White Horse 2 30

SHOBDON SOLLERSHOPE. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bateman, The Right Hon. Lord William Bateman Hanbury (Lord Lieutenant and custos rotulo1-urn of the county, 1852), Trinity Coli., Cantab., J.P. (for Northamptonshire), J.P. and county alderman (for Herefordshire), Shobdon court and Carlton club, and St. George's club, Hanover square, London, S. W. Hanbury, The Hon. and Rev. Arthur Alien Bateman, M.A., J.P. (rector of Shobdon, domestic chaplain to Lord Bateman, prebendary of Hampton, in Hereford Cathedral, and rural dean of Leominster), The Rectory Ricketts, Miss Louisa, Hillhampton cot. Tanner, Miss Ellen, Easthampton lodge COMMERCIAL. Addis, John, farmer, Lower Ladycourt Bracher, Thos., The Park house, head gamekeeper to Lord Bateman Cadwallader, John, farmer, Down wood Clarke, Gcorge, estate agent, Uphampton house Davies, William, farmer, The Bank Green, Herbert, farmer, Hillhead farm Griffiths, Thomas, head gardener to Rev. Hanbury Holder, Wm., carrier & cottage farmer, Down wood Hutchins, E., head gardener to Lord Bateman J enkins, Jas. & John, farmers, Lady court Laver, Wm., private secretary to Lord Bateman, Shobdon court Lewis, Charles E., schoolmaster & parish clerk Lewis, George, farmer, The farm Lloyd, Thomas, police constable Lowthian, Quintin, grocer and provision dealer, farmer, and sub-postmaster, Post office Monnington, J osepb, farmer, The Leys Morgan, Ambrose, boot and shoe maker, Ladycourt lane Morgan, Thomas & Arthur, farmers, Ox house Owens, Samuel Arthur, farmer, Tan house Ricketts, J ames, farmer, Hillhampton Smith, Thomas, farmer, Easthampton Whittall, David, farmer, Eastbampton Williams, Benjamin, blacksmith SOLLERSHOPE. SOLLERSHOPE is a small parish situated on the main road from Ross to Hereford vza Fownhope, and distant 6~ miles N. of Ross, 9 S.E. of Hereford, and about 3 N.E. of Fawley station on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway. It 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 I87I was I39; in I88I, 83; inhabitedhouses 1 24; families or separate occupiers, 24; area of parish, I,I30 acres; annual rateable value, £1,048. The principal landowners are Henry Clarkson, Esq., of Hereford, Henry Haywood, Esq., of Blakemere, ]. A. N. Booker, Esq., of Wessington Court, Rev. T. B. Paynter, Lieut.-Col. J. Ernle Money-Kyrle, and Mrs. Kingston. The soil is clayey and loamy; subsoil, limestone rock; chief produce, wheat, beans, hops, &c. Sollershope is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Ross ; living, a rectory, consolidated with that of How Caple; joint value, £349 I Os., with I II acres of glebe; patron and rector, Rev. Thomas Beville Paynter, B.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, who was instituted in I 884, and resides at How Caple Court. The church, dedicated to St. Mii:hael, is a plain little edifice, with square tower containing three bells. There are the remains of an old stone cross in the churchyard. The earliest register is dated I698. Both this church and the church at How Caple were re-opened July 26th, 1887, after thorough restoration. The national school at How Caple is for the joint use of the children of that parish and Sollershope. It was built at the sole cost of the rector and his family connections. At Sollershope Cou1'i is a beautiful specimen of a chimney in ornamental

SOLLERSHOPE STANFORD BISHOP. 6p brickwork. This is said to have been the residence of Sir Richard Whittington. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Ross. How Caple is the nearest money order office. Fawley station is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Ross. Parzsh Church (St. Mzchael's). Rev. Thomas Beville Paynter, B.A., Rector; Thomas Wall, Chu1·chwarden; William Lilly, Parish Clerk. Nat-ional School (boys and girls). ~iiss Agnes Saunders, Mistress. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Arthur Price, Hurstans. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days William Bagley Wed. & Sat. COMMERCIAL. Bayley, William, carrier, The Pounds Burton, Richard, farmer, Whittlebury Gammond, George, farmer, Bubble street Gammond, Peter, farmer, Lyndalls Hooper, Mrs. l\fary Ann, farmer, The Falcon Kingstone, William, farmer, Foxholes STANFORD Stopping Place Return at White Lion 3 0 Lilly, William, parish clerk Matthews, John, farmer, Rugden Matthews, Richard, farmer, ]falcon Price, Arthur, farmer and hop grower, Hursta.ns Townsend, Willia.m, machinist, Little Falcon Wall, Thomas, farmer, The Court Willia.ms, James, farm bailiff, Rock farm BISHOP. STANFORD :BISHOP is a parish situated on the borders ofWorcestershire, on the road leading from Bromyard to Malvern, distant 3 miles S.E. of Bromyard, 12 N. of Led bury, 14 N.E. of Hereford, and about 2! S.W. of Suckley station on the Worcester and Bromyard railway. It is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district, petty sessional division, Brockhampton and Whitbourne polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 237; in r881, 173 ; inhabited houses, 42; families or separate occupiers, 44; area of parish 1,471 acres; annual rateable value, £2,082. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, detached parts, of Bromyard, and a detached part of Bishop Frome, were amalgamated with this parish. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Mr. George Bearcroft Essex, Leigh court, near Worcester, Thomas Rowley Hill, Esq., of Worcester, William Barneby, Esq., of Saltmarshe castle, W. Wall, Esq., and the Trustees of theW orcester Municipal Charities. The soil is clayey and loamy ; subsoil, clay and rock; chief produce, wheat, beans, oats, hops, fruit, &c. Stanford Bishop is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome; living, a perpetual curacy, value, £8o ; patron, the Lord Bishop of Hereford ; vicar, Rev. H. W. Weltch, B.A., of London University, who was instituted in 1 88o, and resides in Bromyard. The church, dedicated to St. James, is an old stone edifice, and consists of nave, chancel, low square tower containing two bells, and a handsome well-proportioned

STANFORD BISHOP STAPLETON. porch. The chancel was fully restored in 1867, and the nave, tower, and porch, in 1885. The parish of Stanford Bishop was formerly a part of the ancient parish of Bromyard, but was separated from it in 1735, and constituted a perpetual curacy, and held as such together with W acton, which latter parish is now united with Bredenbury. The great tithe is still held in the possession of the descendants of the Rev. Robert Strong, one of the three portionaries of Bromyard living, who in 1826 was allowed to continue his rectorial possession under a lease of three lives, two of which still continue. The parish register begins with the year 17 so. A school board was formed for the united district of Stanford Bishop and Acton Beauchamp (Worcestershire), and a school erected at Acton Beauchamp in 1877, with accommodation for So children; average attendance, 6o. A district formerly known as Wood ford wood, or W olferwood common, is in this parish but is now enclosed. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Worcester vz"a Bromyard, and arrive by messenger from the latter place about 9.30 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 4.30 p.m. Bromyard is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Worcester. Parish Church (St. James'). Rev. H. W. Weltch, B.A., Vicar; Mr. John Buckle, Churchwarden; William Perkins, Parish Clerk. Stanford Bishop and Acton Beauchamp School Board. Mr. ]. B. Weeks, Bromyard, Clerk ; Miss Brown, Mistress. Ass-istant Overseer. Mr. James Taylor, Lower Tundridge, Suckley, near Worcester. COMMERCIAL RESIDENTS. Badham, John, shoemaker and cottage farmer, W oodford common Banford, Samuel, farmer, W oolner hill Bidewell, Mrs. Mary, frmr., Hill Oak fm. Bowen, Thomas, beer and cider retailer, W oodford common Buckle, John, farmer and hop grower, The Hyde farm Cook, John, farmer & hop grower, Hope house and Meadow farms Hill, Charles, farmer, Sill croft Hill, J ames, blacksmith, New house Jones, Charles, cot. farmer, Barton hall Mercer, Thos., farmer, Lower house farm Meredith, J obn, farm bailiff to George Essex, Stanford court Page, Thomas, beer and cider retailer, Herefordshire house Patterson, Tbos., & Son, brick and drainpipe makers Perkins, Samuel, cot. farmer, The Elms Perkins, William, parish clerk Philpott, Dean, farmer, Hawkins farm Pratt, Thomas, farmer, The Leys Pullen, George, farmer, The Boyce fa;m Teague, Edward, farmer, The Bull Rmg STAPLE TON. STAPLETON is a township belonging to the parish of Presteigne, Radnorshire, but situate in the county of Hereford. It is distant about I mile N .E. of Presteigne railway station, 7 miles N. of Kington, 6 S. of Knighton, 15 W.N.W. of Leominster, and 23 N.W. of Hereford; is in Wigmore hundred, Kington union and petty sessional division, Presteigne county court district, and Kinsham and Titley polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 190; in 1881, 186; inhabited houses, 40 ; families or separate occupiers, 43 ; area of township, I ,333 acres; annual rateable value, £2,140. Francis Lyndon Evelyn, Esq., is lord of the manor, and, with Sir Harford James ]ones Brydges, Bart., is the chief landowner. The soil is loamy, with a gravelly

STAPLETON STAUNTON-UPON-ARROW. 673 subsoil; produce, wheat, barley, oats, roots, &c. On a commanding eminence overlooking the valley of Presteigne, stand the remains of a large castle, but of which now only a few outside walls remain, it having been partly pulled down as the walls became unsafe, and the materials used in erecting farm buildings near. This castle was evidently once a place of great importance, forming one of the links in the chain of castles that formerly existed between England and Wales, standing as it did within a few hundred yards of the border. In the reign of the Charles's it was occupied by one Owens, who was evidently a man of some importance. There is a legend that a foul crime was committed in this castle, the lady of which was the victim. This murder is said to have been avenged within the walls of the castle some years after by the son of the victim, on his return from foreign lands whither he had been smuggled in his youth. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive from Presteigne about 7.30 a.m.; despatched thereto at 6 p.m. Presteigne, R.S.O., is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Assistant Overseer. Mr. John Morgan, Stapleton house. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Baker, John, cottage farmer Ford, Edmund J., farmer, The Moor Griffiths, David, Stapleton cottage Hughes, William, Frith cottage Parsons, Mrs., Stapleton lodge Morgan, John, coal merchant, Stapleton house COMMERCIAL. Morris, E. E., farmer, Stapleton castle farm Badland, Mrs. J., farmer, Castle house Owen, :Mrs., farmer, Upper Moor Badland, Mrs. T., farmer, The Whynn Price, Francis, Brook house STA UN TON- UPON -ARROW, WITH THE HAMLETS oF STANSBATCH AND HoRSEWAY HEAD. STAUNTON, or STANTON, is a parish situated on the river Arrow, distant 6 miles E.N.E. of Kington, 9 ~ W. of Leominster, 5 S.S.W. of Presteigne, 18 N.W. of Hereford, and about 2 N.W. of Pembridge station on the Leominster and Kington railway. It is in Wigmore and Stretford hundreds, Kington union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Kinsham and Titley polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 187 I was 391 ; in 1881, 340; inhabited houses, 66; families or separate occupiers, 66; area of parish, 2,925 acres; annual rateable value, £3,399· W. E. King King, Esq., who is lord of the manor, and j. Charlton Parr, Esq., are the principal landowners. The Misses Fletcher and Edward Howorth Greenly, Esq., are also landowners here. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, barley, oats, hops, fruit, &c. The river Arrow is noted for trout and grayling fishing. In the vicinity are vestiges of an extensive encampment, called "Wapley Camp," which was exceedingly strong, and of British construction. The banks and ditches of it are fivefold, excepting on one side, where the steepness of the ascent is sufficient security: they are also very deep and high. This camp, with all its appendages, corresponds with the description which Tacitus has given of the encampments of the

STAUNTON-UPON-ARROW. great Caractacus ; and it is inferred that this was one of those posts which the illustrious Silurian occupied, and thereby endeavoured to save this country from the rod of tyrants. There is also a rabbit warren, which occupies an area of about 240 acres. Stanton is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster; living, a vicarage; value, £230, with residence and 34 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Chancellor; vicar, Rev. William Peile Babington, M.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1865. The rectorial tithes are commuted at £112 IIs., and the Bishop of Hereford and Francis James King King, Esq., are impropriators. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, was reh>uilt in 18 54 at a cost of £2,o6o, chiefly defrayed by J. King King, Esq. It is a neat stone edifice in an ornamental Gothic style of architecture, and consists of nave, chancel, transept, and tower with six bells, and has accommodation for about 2 so persons. The register goes back to the year I 597. The national school for boys and girls has accommodation for 61 children; average attendance, 53· A class-room has lately been added. It is mainly supported by subscription. Staunton Park, the seat of ]. Charlton Parr, Esq., ].P., is a handsome mansion, situated about half a mile N.W. of the village. Stansbatch is a hamlet I! miles N.W. ; Horseway Head is about the same distance W. of the village. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Matthew Stead, Staunton green, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive from Leominster by mail cart at 6.35 a.m. ; despatched at 6.30 p.m. Pembridge and Shobdon are the nearest money order and telegraph offices. Letters should be addressed.- Staunton-upon-Arrow, R.S.O. (Herefordshire). Parish Church (St. Peter's). Rev. William Peile Babington, M.A., Vicar .i W. E. King King, Esq., and Mr. John Thomas, Churchwardens~· Thomas Morris. Parish Clerk . • Nati(mal School (boys and girls). Mrs. Ann Morris, Mistress. Assistant Overseer. Mr. George Joseph Jones, Church House, Pembridge. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Babington, Rev. William Peile, M.A. (vicar), The Vicarage Fletcher, The Misses, Upper house, Stansbatch King King, W. E., J.P., D.L., Staunton court ; and Oakfield, Leamington Mainwaring, Edward, Highlands Parr, Joseph Charlton, J.P., Staunton park ; and Grappenhall Hayes, W arrmgton, Cheshire COMMERCIAL. Clee, Edward, farmer, Rough acre Edwards, Francis, miller and farmer, Staunton mill Ellis, Arthur, carpenter and wheelwright, Stansbatch Griffi.ths, J ames, farmer, Lower Mowley Griffiths, John, shopkeeper, wheelwright, and machinist J oseph, Aaron, mason, Horseway head Llewellyn, Chas., shopkeeper, Little Birches Mill, John, farmer, Tan house Morgan, John, farmer, The Warren, res. Cwm Morris, Mrs., schoolmistress Morris, Miss Ann, assistant schoolmistress Morris, Thomas, parish clerk Powell, Richard, blacksmith, Stansbatch Powell, Richard, tailor, Stansbatch Price, Thomas, farmer, The Farm Rawlings, John, mason, Horseway head Rogers, David, Lower house, Stansbatch Stead, Matthew, sub-postmaster, shopkeeper, and farmer, The_B"reen Step hens, Edmund, frmr, Upper Mowley and Highlands farm Thomas, John, farmer, Staunton court Williams, John, tailor, Old public

STAUNTON-UPON-WYE. STAUNTON- UPON· WYE. STAUNTON-UPON-WYE, originally STAUNDON, is a parish and village situated on the main road from Hereford to Hay, and between the river Wye and the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon railway. It is distant 9 miles W.N.W. of Hereford, 10 S.E. of Kington, I I E.N.E. of Hay, I 3 S.W. of Leominster, 5 S.S.W. of Weobley, and about 2t S.W. of Moorhampton station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon railway ; is in Grimsworth hundred, W eobley union and petty sessional division, Hereford county court district, and Moccas and Yazor polling district and electoral division of the county council. At the time of the Domesday survey, the manor belonged to Roger de Laci, of W eobley. In the time of Henry Ill. it belonged to Roger Pychard, itinerating justiciary. Sir Milo Pychard, of the same family, had a grant of free warren in 12go, and of a fair and market in 1292. The population in 1871 was 637; in 1881, 526; inhabited houses, 123; families or separate occupiers, 142; area of parish, 2 1305 acres; annual rateable value, £3,328. Rev. James Downes (who is lord of the manor) and Sir Henry Geers Cotterell, Bart., are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, sandy and gravelly; chief crops, wheat, barley, beans, peas, roots, fruit, and hops. Staunton is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weobley ; living, a rectory; net value, about £r7o (arising wholly from 324 acres of land in lieu of tithe), with residence ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford; rector, Rev. Robert Gilbert Ellwood, who was instituted in r888. The church, dedicated to St. Mary the Vz"rgz"n, is an ancient stone edifice, chiefly in the Transition style; it has nave, chancel (rebuilt in 172o), porch on south side, and a spire with five bells. The chancel was thoroughly repaired, the gallery removed, tower opened, nave reseated, the church warmed with Haden's apparatus, and various repairs and improvements executed in r86r-6z, at a cost of about £6oo. An organ was erected in r863. The ceiling of the nave was removed, and the roof opened to the rafters in r867. The reredos was painted in 1868. The bells were repaired and re-hung in 1873, by Messrs. \Vhite, of Appleton, near Abingdon. Open seats were completed and other improvements made in 1875, at a cost of £150, chiefly defrayed by the rector. The earliest register is dated 1677· A beautiful view of the surrounding country may be obtained from the churchyard. The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1867. This parish partakes, with Bredwardine and Letton, in the proceeds of Jarvis' Charity, the income of which arises chiefly from the dividends on about £76,ooo stock and landed property. The charity consists of money left by G. Jarvis, Esq., 179o, and since increased by accumulation and falling in of legacies. The present income is about £.2 1400 per annum, and is distributed, according to a chancery scheme of 1852, in proportions of 13, 1 r, and 6, among inhabitants of Bredwardine, Staunton-uponWye, and Letton, respectively. The objects to which it is applied are: (1) Payment of a medical officer, supply of medical necessaries, and relief of the poor in sickness; (2) Maintenance in two almshouses, in

STAUNTON-UPON-WYE. the parish of Staunton, of six poor men and six women ; (3) Contribution to clothing and coal clubs ; (4) Permanent relief of sundry aged and infirm persons; (5) Maintenance of schools and clothing of many of the children in each of the three parishes. The present trustees are the Bishop of the diocese and the Incumbents of the three parishes, ex-ojfic£o. Besides these, Rev. Sir G. H. Cornewall, Bart., B. Haigh Alien, Esq., and Major Palmer. The Med£cal Officer is William Broome Giles, Esq. Cle1'k and Storekeeper, Mr. Richard James. Accommodation is provided in the school for rg8 children (boys, girls, and infants) ; average attendance, 87. The children from Monnington also attend this school. The medical officer and clerk to the trustees of the charity have residences at Staunton. These arrangements are in operation for the present, but a new scheme has been published by the Charity Commissioners, which, if carried out, will make large alterations, both in the governing hod y and in the distribution of the charity funds. Of this scheme the principal features are of an educational kind, and especially it proposes to withdraw £2o,ooo from the capital to be expended in forming a separate foundation. The eleemosynary part of the existing funds will remain as at present. But as the proposed scheme has not been accepted by the existing trustees, it is premature to describe the form which it will take hereafter. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Tracy Preece, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive from Hereford at 6.45 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 5.40 p.m. Letters can be registered here. This is a money order, savings bank, and telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Post-office, Over Letton ; Mrs. Nicholas, Sttb-Postmzstress. Letters arrive by mail cart from Hereford at 7· 15 a.m.; despatched thereto at s.rs p.m. Letters can be registered here. Staunton-on-Wye is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (St. Mary the Virgln). Rev. Robert Gilbert Ellwood, Rector; Messrs. William Broome Giles and William Pan tall, Chtt1'chwardens; John Probert, Par-ish Clerk. :Jarv£s' Charity Schools (boys, girls, a1td £nfants). Mr. Andrew Thomas Wheeler Andrews, Master; Miss Annie Williams, Assistant; Miss Sarah Lowther, Infants' Mistress. Alms houses ( :Jarvzs' Charz'ty) for six aged men and six aged women. Pr£m£ti've Methodz8t Chapel. Mimsters var£ous. Asszstant Overseer. Mr. Joseph Grigg. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days William Parry (Letton) Wed. & Sat. Sarah Burton do. Mrs. Egginton (Winforton) Sat. Mrs. Meredith Wed. & Sat. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Stopping Place Maidenhead Red Lion do. Horse & Groom COMMERCIAL. Return at 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 Ellwood, Rev. Robert Gilbert (rector), The Rectory Andrews, Andrew Thomas Wheeler, schoolmaster Giles, William Broome, M.R.C.S., and L.R.C.P.E. Baker, Charles, blacksmith Blenkin, John, farmer, Lower house

STAUNTON-UPON-WYE STOKE BLISS. Burton, Mrs. Eliza, grocer and baker Burton, Mrs., carrier Everall, Charles, farmer, Church house Giles, William Broome, M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P., surgeon, medical officer to J arvis' charity, and surgeon to the W ye side of W eobley union Grig~, Joseph, carpenter and farmer, Br1dge end, Over Letton Hicks, Thomas Howes, castrator Hill, George Frederick, Port way Inn J ames, R., clerk to Jarvis' charity J ones, Mrs. Ellen Maria, farmer & landowner, New house J ones, William, haulier Langford, William, shopkeeper and beer retailer, New Inn Lowther, Miss Sarah, schoolmistress Maund, Mrs. Mary, farmer, Duke street N aylor, J oseph, The Surgery Nicholas, :Mrs. Ann, sub-postmistress, Over Letton Pantall, William, farmer, Bliss Hall and Hackford farms Parry, Mrs. Margaret, laundress Parry, Robert, blacksmith, Over Letton Parry, William, carrier, Redlay farm Preece, Tracey, wheelwright & machinist, Portway Price, John, farmer, Oakers hill Richards, George, farmer, Rhydd wr Sandford, John, builder, Swan Inn, Over Letton Savory, Arthur Egerton T., Letton court, Over Letton Skyrme, Thomas, farmer, Hanmore farm Trumper, Alfred, butcher Williams, Thos., shoemkr., Little London WILLIAMS, WILLIAM ADAM, (late of Eign street, Hereford), monumental sculptor, marble, stone, & wood carver, engraver, &c., Portway Young, William, farmer, Kilkington STOKE BLISS, WITH THE HAMLET oF LITTLE KYRE (IN WoRCESTERSHIRE). STOKE BLISS is a parish partly in the county of Hereford, and partly in that of Worcester, distant 6 miles S.E. of Tenbury, 6 N. of Bromyard, 12 E.N.E. of Leominster, and 21 N.N.E. of Hereford; is chiefly in Broxash hundred, but partly in Upper Doddingtree hundred (Worcestershire), Tenbury union and county court district, Bromyard petty sessional division, and Brimfield and Collington polling district and electoral division of the county council. The total population in I 8 7 I was 334; in I 8 8 I, 292, viz., Stoke Bliss, 164, and Little Kyre, 128. The total number of inhabited houses was 69, viz., Stoke Bliss, 43, and Little Kyre, 26. The total number of families or separate occupiers was 7 I, viz., Stoke Bliss, 44, and Little Kyre, 27. The area of the parish is 2,o78 acres, viz., Stoke Bliss, r,I48, and Little Kyre, 930; annual rateable value, Stoke Bliss and Little Kyre, £2,276. The Rev. E. G. Baldwyn Childe, of Kyre park, is lord of the manor and principal landowner; Mr. Herbert is also a landowner here. The soil is loamy clay ; subsoil, pure clay and marl ; chief produce, wheat, peas, beans, hops, and fruit. Stoke Bliss is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frame; living, a rectory; value, £375 1 with residence and 74-! acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Chancellor; rector, Rev. Godfrey Edward Alexander, M.A., of Trinity College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1864. The church is an Early English structure, of stone, with nave, chancel, south aisle, and tower containing three bells, spire and clock. The fabric was restored in 1852 at a cost of £6so. The east and west windows are filled with stained glass. The parish register goes back to the year 1571. A new and handsome district elementary school was built in 18 7 3 at a cost of£ 1 ,ooo, for the accommodation of the children of Stoke Bliss, K yre Parva, Kyre Wyard7 and portions of the parishes of Collington, and Hanley.

STOKE BLISS STOKE EDITH. Childe. There is accommodation for 141 children; average attendance 64. Kyre Parva, or Little Kyre, a hamlet of Stoke Bliss, is wholly in Worcestershire, and comprises 930 acres. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Ten bury about 9.30 a.m. The wall letter-box is cleared at 2 p.m. Tenbury and Bromyard are the nearest money order and telegraph offices. Post town, Tenbury. Par£sh Clzurch. Rev. Godfrey Edward Alexander, M.A., Rector/ Mr. Thomas Dorrell, Churchwarden,; John Thomas, Par·ish Clerk. Elementary District School (boys and g£1·lr). Mr. William Brown Gunn, Master,; Mrs. Rhoda Gunn, Mistress. Assistant Overseer. Mr. William Brown Gunn. CARRIERS TO BROMYARD. Name Mrs. Oliver Mrs. Wheale Mrs. Oliver Mrs. Wheale Mrs. Powles • Days Thurs. do. CARRIERS TO Tues. do. do. (Marked thus* are in Worcestershire). PRIVATE RESIDENT. Alexander, Rev. Godfrey Edward, M.A., J.P. (rector), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. • Aymes, Edward, shopkeeper, New house Bateman, Thomas, carpenter *Dorrell, John, farmer, The Hall Dorrell, Thomas, Barrett's Bank Dorrell, Thomas, junr., farmer and hop grower, The Thorn *Finney, Benjamin, farmer, Grithill Gunn, William Brown, ~choolmaster Hodges, Charles, farmer & hop grower, The Hyde, Little Kyre Oliver, William, farmer, Rose hill Stopping Place Falcon Hotel King's Head TENBURY. The Bell do. do. Return at 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 4 0 Oliver, William, cottage farmer, shopkeeper, and carrier, Wallings Phillips, William, farmer, Garnsley Pitt, Miss Elizabeth, farmer, Sweet green *Powles, Peter, blacksmith and carrier Pugh, J ames, farmer and hop grower, Church house *Robin son, J oseph, carpenter *Sirrell, George, Worcestershire .Arms Inn or (Cross Keys), Little Kyrle *Smith, William, farmer & hop grower, The Bannalls Thomas, John, parish clerk *'l'own, Wm., Hursley farm *Wheal, Peter, New House farm Wilcox, Mrs., farmer and hop grower, Field house Wilcox, Thomas, farmer & hop grower, Upper house STOKE EDITH, WITH THE HAMLET OF PERTON. STOKE EDITH is a parish and village with railway station on the Worcester and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway, distant 6} miles E. of Hereford, 8 W.N.W. of Ledbury, and 10 S.S.W. of Bromyard ; is in Radlow hundred, Hereford union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Mordiford polling district and electoral division of the county council. The main road from Hereford to Ledbury runs through the parish. The population in 1871 was 315 ; in x88r, 282; inhabited houses, 64; families or separate occupiers1 67; area of parish, 1,667 acres; annual rateable value, £r,s87. By orders which came into operation on .25th March,

STOKE EDITH. 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Stoke Edith was amalgamated with Ashperton, and by provisional orders which came into operation on 25th March, 1885, detached parts of Stoke Edith were amalgamated with W esthide and Yarkhill. The Right Hon. Lady Emily Foley is lady of the manor and owner of the whole parish. The soil is mixed; subsoil, clay and marl; chief produce, wheat, beans, hops, fruit, &c. Stoke Edith is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of W eston ; living, a rectory, annexed to W esthide vicarage; joint value, £575, with residence and 123 acres of glebe; patroness, The Lady Emily Foley; rector, Rev. William Henry Lambert, M.A., of Merton College, Oxford, who was instituted in I 8 58, and who is also vicar of W esthide, prebendary of Pratum Minus in Hereford cathedral, and rural dean of W eston. The body of the present church was built by Thomas Foley, Esq., and opened in 1741. It is in the Grecian style of architecture, built of brick, covered with stucco, in excellent repair, but destitute of any architectural beauty. The tower and spire are older and in better style. The old church was dedicated to St. Ed£th, the present one to St. Mary. The earliest register is dated 1538. There is a mission chapel (unlicensed) connected with the Church of England in the hamlet of Newtown, which is partly in the ecclesiastical parish. The children attend the schools at Tarrington, which were built there in 1874 by the Right Hon. Lady Emily Foley, for the three parishes of Stoke Edith, Tarrington, and Dormington, as a joint educational district. Some of the children from this parish go to the enlarged school at Yarkhill. Twelve children are educated free at Tarrington school. Stoke Edz"th Park, the residence of the Right Hon. Lady Emily Foley, is a spacious brick mansion, situated near the church. The north front has a grand appearance, being decorated with Corinthian pilasters and a magnificent flight of steps at the entrance. The hall displays some fine painting, by Sir James Thornhill, and in the other apartments, which are fitted up with taste, is a good collection of family portraits. The library contains a large collection of very valuable books. The park and grounds are well wooded, and display some very :fine scenery; the shrubberies are extensive, and the park is stocked with deer. About a mile and a half from this mansion, on the S.W., and occupying the summit of a commanding eminence, is St. Ethelbert's Camp, said by popular tradition to be the spot where Ethelbert pitched his tents when on his journey to the court of King Offa, at Sutton Wails. It was near a well by the side of the road from Hereford, that Mr. Pralph, vicar of Tarrington, was murdered by some Parliamentarian soldiers in 1644. Ferton is a hamlet about a quarter of a mile from the church. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by mail cart from Hereford about 8.15 a.m.; the wall letter box is cleared at 5.15 p.m. Tarrington is the nearest money order office. Telegrams may be sent from Stoke Edith railway station. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (St. JJ:fary's). Rev. William Henry Lambert, M. A., Rector ~· Messrs. Albert Matson and Henry William Taylor, Ohu1·chwardens,; George Bishop, Parzsh Clerk.

68o STOKE EDITH STOKE LACY. Stoke Edz'th Raz1way Statio1t (in Tarrington parish) West Midland section, G. W.R. Mr. J. George Bowes, Statz''on Master. Assistant Overseer. Mr. John B. Edwards. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Mrs. Oakeley \Ved. & Sat. Letters for Showle Court are received through Ledbury. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Foley, the Right Hon. Lady Emily, Stoke Edith park Lambert, Rev. William Henry, M.A., (rector of Stoke Edith and vicar of West hide ; prebendary of prato Minore in Hereford Cathedral, and rural dean), The Rectory . COMMERCIAL. Stopping Place Booth Hall Return at Edwards, J. B., blacksmith & assistant overseer Fraser, Mrs., shopkeeper Hards, Mrs., Perton Leah, F., head gamekeeper to Lady E. Foley Lewis, Mrs. Matson, Albert, farmer, Perton Morris, J. Francis, police constable Russell, James, farmer and hop grower, Old house, res. Free town Taylor, Henry William, farmer and hop grower, Showle court Ward, Arthur, head gardener to Lady E. Foley, Garden house Bishop, George, carpenter & parish clerk Cooke, Edward, park-keeper to Lady E. Foley Williams, John, painter & glazier, Perton STOKE LACY. STOKE LACY is a parish and village situated on the main road between Bromyard and Hereford, and on the river Leadon ; is distant 4 miles S.S. W. of Bromyard, 10 N.E. of Hereford, II S.E. of Leominster, and 12 N.W. of Ledbury; is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Stoke Lacy polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 346; in 1881, 286; inhabited houses, 68; families or separate occupiers, 69 ; area of parish, 2,520 acres; annual rateable value, £2,881. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, four detached parts of Avenbury were amalgamated with Bredenbury; and another part was united with parts of Much Cowarne, and the parts so united were amalgamated with this parish. The Right Hon. Lady Henry Somerset, of Eastnor castle, is lady of the manor, and George Thomas Dent, Esq., Mrs. Kempson, Captain E. B. Luxmore, and William Orgee, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, limestone ; products, wheat, barley, beans, hops, fruit, &c. Stoke Lacy is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome; living, a rectory; value, £320, with residence and 19 acres of glebe; patron and rector, Rev. Henry George lVlorgan, M.A., of Merton College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1887, and who is also vicar of Moreton Jeffries. The church, dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, is a small stone edifice, consisting of nave, chancel, porch, square tower, and spire, with four bells. The chancel was re-built in I 846. The nave and tower were re-built in 1863-64 at a cost of £963, of which £soo was contributed by Church Building Societies. The interior is plain, and contains some stained glass placed in the church in memory of the late vicar, and his wife,

STOKE LACY STOKE PRIOR. 68I a stone pulpit, screen, and nearly 200 sittings, all of which are free. The register commences with the year 1567. The national school, to accommodate 68 children, was erected in 187 5 by voluntary contributions. The average attendance is 45· PosTAL REGULATIONS. Edmund Philpott, Sub-Postmaster. Letters are received through Worcester, vza Bromyard, and arrive by messenger from the latter place about 9 a. m. ; despatched at 4·45 p.m. Bromyard is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Worcester. Pa·r£sh Church (SS. Peter and Paul). Rev. Henry George Morgan, M.A., Recto1' / Messrs. George Thomas Dent and John Shuffiebotham, Churchwardens/ William Hodges, Parz'sh Clerk. Nat-ional School (boys and gz"ds). Mr. Alfred J. Thomas, Master. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Benjamin J ones, Burghope Inn, Pencombe. CARRIER TO BROMYARD. Name Henry Davies Days Thurs. Stopping Place Rose & Lion Return at 3 0 CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Henry Davies Mrs. ]ones Wed. & Sat. Hop Pole do. Coach & Horses PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dent, George Thomas, county councillor, Nether court Morga.n, Rev. H. G., M.A. (rector), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. Barrett, .Tames, farmer & hop grower, Upper house Busk, George, blacksmith Clifton, John, cottage farmer, Boxpole Davies, Benjamin Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Cookhorn Davies, Henry, farmer and hop grower, Huddle mill Dent, George Thos., farmer, hop grower, and landowner, Nethercourt Edwards, John, farmer, UpperWoodend Edwards, Stephen, carpenter and wheelwright Evans, J ames, cottage farmer, Little Merrifield HARRIS, CHARLES, miller, corn dealer, and flour merchant, Stoke Lacy mill Hodges, James, farmer and hop grower, Tuthill, and Plou,gh Inn Hodges, William, parish clerk Kempson, F. R., farmer, Church house farm, res. Birchyfield, near Bromyard Mason, J ames, cottage farmer, The Park Orgee, William, farmer, hop grower, & landowner, Hopton-in-the.Hole Panniers, John, farmer and hop grower, Hedgeley Parker, J ames Farmer, farmer and hop grower, Newton Pearson, .Tames Thos., farmer, Mintridge Philpott, Edmund, farmer, butcher, and sub· postmaster, Lower house Porter, Solomon, shopkeeper, The Stores, Stoke hill Powell, J oseph, cottage farmer, Croosway house Preece, J ames, cot. farmer, The Folley Redding, Thomas, shopkeeper Russell, .Tames, farmer, Crick's green Shuffiebotham, John, farmer and hop grower, 'l'he Grove, Mintridge, and Halfway house farms Sirrell, Miss Mary Ann, cottage farmer Smith, J oseph, U v.ver Sough farm Taylor, Philip William, farmer and hop grower, Merrifield Thomas, Alfred J., schoolmaster Tyler, George, cottage farmer, Cowarne Brooks Williams, Philip, far., The Lower Sough STOKE PRIOR, WITH THE HAMLET OF WICKTON AND PART OF RISBURY. STOKE PRIOR is a village and large parish containing the places above named, and situated near the river Lugg, between the main 2 M

68~ . STOKE PRIOR. roads from Leominster to Hereford, and from Leominster to Bromyard. It is distant 2! miles S.E. of Leominster, I 1 N. of Hereford, 10 W. of Bromyard, and 24 W. of Worcester; is 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 Shrewsbury and Hereford railway runs through a portion of the parish; the nearest station is at Ford bridge. There is also a station at Steen's Bridge, the terminus of the first portion of a line, the completion of which will connect Worcester with Leominster, via Bromyard. The population in r87I was 512; in I 88 I, 5 I 9 ; inhabited houses, 104 ; families or separate occupiers, ros; area of parish, 2,270 acres; annual rateable value, £3,217. John Hungerford Arkwright, Esq., who is lord of the manor, The Earl of Meath, Mrs. Jarnes, of Hereford, and Major Edward Nicholas Heygate, R.E., of Buckland, are the principal landowners. The soil is a rich loam ; subsoil, clay and gravel; chief produce, wheat, barley, hops, fruit, and excellent pasture. Stoke Prior is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster; living, a rectory, consolidated with that of Docklow; joint value, £226, with residence and 5! acres of glebe; patron, the Vicar of Leominster; rector, Rev. Alfred T. Peppercorn, of Jesus College, Cambridge1 who was instituted in 1883. The rector has a claim, unknown elsewhere in England, called " Trug Wheat." It was originally paid to the vicar of Leominster for officiating at the chapels of ease at Stoke and Docklow. The church, dedicated to St. Luke, was originally Norman, with the exception of the chancel. It was restored and partly rebuilt in 1862-63 of stone, with Bath stone dressings, and is now a handsome structure in the Decorated style, with nave, chancel, and square embattled tower, containing four bells. The floor is laid with Godwin's encaustic tiles ; the old roof has been replaced, and forms a striking feature, showing the rafters, and is especially memorable as having been erected during the protectorate of Cromwell, I658; the pulpit is of stone, richly carved and decorated. The cost of restoration was about £r ,365. The chancel has more recently undergone restoration, by raising the roof, and inserting a new four-light east window, a north lancet, and the reinstating of the two lancets on the south side ; all these windows being :filled in with coloured glass of appropriate design, by Messrs. Heaton, Butler, & Bayne. There is also a handsome stained-glass window, (by Clayton & Bell) in memory of the family of Admiral Watling. Here is a school board with accommodation for zo6 children; average attendance, 55 ; the old school is now used as a teacher's residence. Wickton is a hamlet in this parish. Risbury is a hamlet partly in this parish and partly in Humber. Here are vestiges of a large camp, forming one of a continued chain of encampments, crossing this county in a N .E. direction. A spacious tract of land, once common, but now enclosed, and called Blackwardz1ze, is supposed to have been the site of a British fortified town, named Black-CaerDun. Several Roman coins of Ramulus and Remus suckled by a wolf, of Augustus C<esar, Trajan, Constantine, &c., cast in copper,

STOKE PRIOR. silver, and gold; numerous pieces of pottery, bones of men and animals, and numberless other relics, have been found upon the spot; its soil is of a much darker hue than that of which the adjacent fields are composed, and justifies the propriety of the epithet, Black,; its situation is upon a branch of the Roman military road, which intersected this county in a nothern direction. Its British appellation, Caer-Dun, signifies a fortified eminence, or a fortified town upon an eminence. All these circumstances combined together seem to point to this having been a Roman station, used either as a summer camp or as a military position, which perhaps presented the only point of attacking, with advantage, the British entrenchments at Risbury or on Brierley hill, and of preventing either of these posts from detaching succour or assistance to the other. Black- Caer-Dun commands a view of an extensive range of variegated country; to the south, Hampton Park and Din more woods; in the horizon, to the north, are the Clee hills of Shropshire ; and westward, the town and church of Leominster, surrounded by rich meadows and blooming orchards, and a most fertile tract of country bounded by the distant mountains of Brecon and Radnor. PosTAL REGULATIONS. 'Villiam Wadeley, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Leominster at 7 .o a. m. ; despatched thereto at 5.40 p.m. Letters can be registered here. Leominster is the nearest money order and telegraph office and post town. Parish Church (St. Luke's). Rev. Alfred T. Peppercorn, Rector; William Phillips, Esq., Churchwarden~· George Morris, Sexton. Board School (boys and gz"rls). Mr.]. B. Dowding, Corn Square, Leominster, Clerk to the Board,; Mr. William Miller, Master. Assistant Overseer. Mr. James Wilkes, 6, High Street, Leominster. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bodys, John, Old hall Bowen, John, The Heath Godfrey, Mrs., Croft gate Jones, Edward, White house, Steen's bridge Lloyd, George, The Luce Pearce, Richard, The Court Peppercorn, Rev. A. T. (rector of Stoke Prior with Docklow), The Rectory Phillips, William, The Castle Price, Edmund, Drum Leigh Sutton, A. T., Brynifrid COMMERCIAL. Abley, George, farmer, The Witsets Arthur, Edward, farmer, New Maidenhead, Risbury Bazley, Mrs., farmer, The Bury farm; and at Stone farm, Ford Bowen, John, farmer, The Heath Colley, Bros., wheelwrightfl, blacksmiths, and coach builders Colley, Mrs., farmer, The Slough Davies, John, farmer, 'V all end farm Evans, William, Lamb Inn, and threshing machine proprietor Godfrey, George, farmer, Hill top Godfrey, George, farmer and hopgrower, Great house Grubham, W., Swan Inn Hamar, W., farmer Hards, Thomas, farmer, Church house Lloyd, George, farmer, The Luce Miller, William, schoolmaster Morris, George, sexton Owens, James, mason Palm er, William, farmer, Woodbine villa Pearce, Richard, farmer, Court farm Phillips, William, farmer, Castle farm Poulton, Mrs. Eliza, farmer Price, Edward, Drum Leigh Saw, Wm., shoemaker, Endfield, Risbury Smith, George, shoemaker Smith, Joseph, farmer, Broadstone Snook, George, blacksmith & carpenter, Village Swain, George, The Norman's farm Vaughan, Mrs., farmer and hop grower, Wickton court Vaughan, Mrs., farmer, Hill hole farm Wadeley, William, grocer and provision dealer, tailor, and sub-postmaster, Post office Williams, Hv., cot. farmer, Holly wall Wilson, J oseph, farmer, Holly wall

STRETFORD. STRETFORD. STRETFORD (anciently Stratford) is a very small parish situated on Stretford brook, about 4i miles S.W. of Leominster, I I N.N.W. of Hereford, 4 N .E. of Weobley, and 4 S.E. of Pembridge; is in Stretford hundred, W eobley union and petty sessional division, Canon Pyon and Dilwyn polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Leominster county court district. The population in I 87 I was 4I; in I88I, 43 ; inhabited houses, 9 ; families or separate occupiers, 9; area of parish, 417 acres; annual rateable value, £572. John F. Mereweather, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, clay; products, wheat, barley, hops, roots, and fruit. The old Roman road, "Watling Street," passes through the parish. Stretford is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Leominster; living, a rectory; value, £941 with residence and 15 acres of glebe; patron, John F. Mereweather, Esq.; rector, Rev. George Armstrong Blakely, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1870. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an edifice in the Early English style, and consists of nave, with north aisle, chancel, vestry, south porch, and bell-turret with two bells. It was restored in I 87 5 at a cost of about £6oo. During the progress of the restoration it was found necessary to take down and rebuild the south wall, and this cautiously, by replacing the whole, stone for stone. An oak screen, of the 15thcentury tracery panelling, divides the nave from the chancel, and is carefully preserved and cleaned. The font, of early date, is reconstructed and fixed by the south door, and the canopy of Decorated period in the north wall, containing a couple of recumbent figures is now shown to advantage. In the" History from Marble," completed in the reign of Charles II., by Thomas Dingley, plate ccxliii., is a pen-and-ink illustration of this canopy and figures, as well as of the font, besides its south view and its east face, of this church, and in reference to the figures it states, "Of this family is Richard de la Bere, in the county of Gloucester, Esqre." There are also shields at the foot of the roof principals, bearing arms of the same family. In this MS. it states, " In this parish is also a well, dedicated to St. Cosnio and St. Damia." The pulpit, of oak, of the Jacobean period, is refixed and refitted at the north-east angle of the nave. The chancel is fitted with oak altar rail and standards, and conveniently arranged stalls and prayer desk of pitch pine. The seating of the nave and north aisle is also of pitch pine, on wood floors ; the gangways throughout are laid with Godwin's encaustic tiles, of characteristic design. The windows are reglazed with the old glassr as far as it could possibly be utilized. The parish register begins with the year I 712. The charities amount to 13s. 9d. yearly. The children from this parish go to Monkland school. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Leominster. The nearest money order and telegraph offices are at Leominster, Dilwyn, Weobley, and Pembridge. Post town, Leo- • rrunster.

STRETFORD STRETTON -GRANDISON. 685 ·Parisk Ckurck (St. Peter's). Rev. George Armstrong Blakely, M.A., Rector; Edward Powis, Parisk Clerk. PRIV .ATE RESIDENT. Davis, Thomas, farmer, Ba.instree cross Haynes, Charles, Bridge farm (in Dilwyn Bla.kely, Rev. George A rmstrong, M • .A.. parish) (rector), The Rectory Hopkins, Henry, farmer, Moss hill · Parker, John B., farmer and hop grower, COMMERCIAL. Stretford court Powis, Edwa.rd, parish clerk (in Ea.rdisBounds, John, Church cottage land parish) STRETTON- GRAND I SON. STRETTON-GRANDISON or STRETTON-GRANDSOME, is a small parish situated near the roads leading from Hereford to Worcester, and from Ledbury to Leominster. It is distant 8 miles N.W. of Ledbury, 9 N.E. of Hereford, 9 S. of Bromyard, and about 3 N.W. of Ashperton, and the same distance N.E. of Stoke Edith station, on the Worcester and Hereford rail way. It is in Radlow hundred, Led bury union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Ashperton polling district and electoral division of the county council; The population in 1871 was 129; in 1881 1 110; inhabited houses, .25; · families or separate occupiers, .25; area of parish, 71.2 acres; annual rateable value, £1,483. By orders which came into operation on zsth March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Stretton Grandison was amalgamated with Ashperton ; and by provisional order of .25th March, 1885, changes were made in the areas of this and adjoining parishes. The Rev. William Poole, of Rentland, near Ross, is the chief landowner. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, beans, hops, fruit, &c. Stretton-Grandison is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of South Frome ; living, a vicarage, with the chapelry of Ashperton annexed ; joint value, £351, with residence and 165! acres of glebe; patron, John Hopton, Esq.; vicar, Rev. John Buckle, M.A., of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, who was instituted in 1859, and resides at Ashperton. The Rev. Morris Williams, B.A., Durham University, and Rev. G. E. Buckle, are the curates. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, is in the decorated style of architecture, and consists of nave, chancel, porch, and square embattled tower with spire and six bells. Four good painted glass windows have been erected as memorials. The seats are all· free and unappropriated. The chancel was restored in 1855, and the remainder of the fabric in 1860. The east window is filled with painted glass in memory of the Rev. W. Parsons Hopton, formerly vicar of the parish. There are also three other painted glass windows. The spire was rebuilt in 1867; and the bells have been re-cast and re-hung at a cost of £300. The national school for the parishes of Stretton and Eggleton, with teacher's residence, was erected near the church, in 1875, to accommodate 63 children, at an expense of £576, part of which was defrayed by the Rev. W. Poole, £100 being given by the Vicar. The average attendance is 56. Homend, the property of the Rev. William Poole, M.A., is a handsome mansion situated in a finely wooded park.

686 STRETTON-GRANDISON STRETTON-SUGWAS. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive by messenger from Ledbury about 9.30 a.m. The wall letter box is cleared at 3.25 p.m. Tarring~ ton is the nearest money order office. Stoke Edith and Ashperton are the nearest telegraph offices. Post town, Ledbury. Parish Church (St. Lawrences). Rev. John Buckle, M.A., Vicar.,' ~ev. Morris Williams, B.A., and Rev. G. E. Buckle, Curates./ Messrs. Stephen Pitt & Edward ]. Lewis, Churchwardens.; Arthur Burnett, Parish Clerk. National School (boys and girls). Miss L. Moreton, Mistress. Asszstaut Overseer. Mr. John Smith, New Inn, Yarkhill. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days Return at Edward Newman Thomas Payne Wed. & Sat. do. Stopping Place White Lion Coach & Horses 3 0 4 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Smith, Henry Meredith, Townsend house Williams, Rev. Morris, B.A., Vicarage COMMERCIAL .. Bounds, John Deen, Thomas, blacksmith Lewis, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, New house Morton, Miss, schoolmistress Peart, John Pitt, Step hen, jun., farmer & hop grower, Stretton court Smith, Henry Meredith, farmer and hop grower, Townsend house Taylor, James, carpenter & wheelwright STRETTON-SUGW AS, WITH THE HAMLET OF SWAINSHILL. STRETTON-SUGWAS is a small parish and village situated on the main roads leading from Hereford to Hay and Kington; is distant 4 miles N.W. of Hereford, and about r! S.E. of Credenhill station on the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon branch of the Midland railway. It is in Grimsworth hundred, Hereford union, petty sessional division, county court district, and Burghill and Stretton polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 2/2; in 1881, 303; inhabited houses, 63; families or separate occupiers, 7 r ; area of parish, I ,334 acres ; annual rateable value, £2,735. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, part of Eaton Bishop on the left bank of the river Wye was amalgamated with this parish. The Governors of Guy's Hospital, London, are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The Rev. George Edward Ashley, rector, Hugh Ronalds, Esq., Mr. Edward Russell, Mr. ]. H. Sunderland, Mr. Farr, and Mr. G. Hill, are also landowners here. The soil is loamy ; subsoil, gravel; chief produce, wheat, barley, beans, fruit, and excellent cider and perry. Stretton-Sugwas is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weston; living, a rectory ; value, £ 2co, with residence and 2 1 acres of glebe ; patron and rector, the Rev. George Edward Ashley, M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford, who was instituted in 1884. The church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalette, was entirely rebuilt on a new site in 1887, the

STRETTON -SUGWAS. whole of the old work being carefully incorporated, including some fine Norman remains, and the seventeenth century tower built of brick and timber, which was taken down and re-built in its present position ; it is in the Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, and a western tower containing four bells ; the entrance to the churchyard is through a handsome lych gate. The register begins with the year I733· There is a national school for boys and girls, with accommodation for 92 children, and an average attendance of 68. Swainshill is a hamlet, situated on the Hereford and Hay road, about 1 mile S.W. of the church. At Sugwas, which is near this parish, was a palace and chapel belonging to the Bishops of Hereford. This was the principal residence of Bishop Cantilupe, and was last inhabited by Bishop Ironsides, at the conclusion of the 17th century. Sugwas Pool formerly occupied an area of 7 acres; it is now nearly dried up, and there are a few cottages in its neighbourhood. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Post office, Swainshill, Mr. James Watkins, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by mail-cart from Hereford at 6.30 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 6.20 p.m. There is a wall letter-box at King's Acre, which is cleared at 6. I 5 p.m. Whitecross road, Hereford, is the nearest money order office. Telegraph office and post town, Hereford. Post office, Stretton Sugwas, Mrs. Elizabeth Sandford, Sub-Postmistress. Letters arrive by mail-cart from Hereford, at 7 a.m.; despatched thereto at 6.25 p.m. Nearest money order office, '\Vhitecross road, Hereford. Telegraph office and post town, Hereford. Parzsh Church (St. Mary Magdalene). Rev. George Edward Ashley, M.A., Recto1· / John H. Yeomans, Esq., and George Cresswell, Esq., Churchwardens,; Clement Dawes, Pa1"lSh Clerk and Sexton. National School (boys and girls). Mrs. A. Jelfs, Mistress. Assz"stant Overseer. Mr. E. Edwards, Gwersylt villa, Hereford. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days Return at John Evans (Weobley) Mrs. Egginton (Winforton) Mr. Parry Wed. & Sat. Stopping Place Maidenhead Red Lion Maidenhead 4 0 4 0 4 0 Sat. Wed. & Sat. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ashley, Rev. G. E., M.A. (rector), The Rectory Cranston, John, The Elms, Swainshill Cresswell, George, J.P., Stretton house Hawkins, Francis, county councillor, Sugwasfarm Ronalds, Hugh, Edgecombe house, Swainshill Yeomans, John H., county councillor, Stretton court COMMERCIAL. Dale, Mrs. Mary, farmer, The Lakes Dawes, Clement, parish clerk and sexton Hawkins, Francis, farmer, Sugwas farm Jelfs, Mrs. A., schoolhouse Jenkins, Arthur, Travellers' Rest Inn, ARNOLD, PERRETT, & Co.'s GOLD MEDAL ALES & STOUT, The City Brewery, Hereford. Price Lists and particulars on application Jones, J a.mes, Blenheim house Lawrence, E. J., plumber, painter, and glazier Lloyd, Thomas, tailor Parsons, J ames, carpenter Powell, J ames Skyrme, Mrs. Eliza, Kite's Nut Inn Watkins, James, sub-postmaster, Post office, Swainshill WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, ironmonger and blacksmith, grocer and provision dealer, Swainshill Yeomans, John H., farmer, Stretton court

688 SUTTON. SUTTON. SUTTON is a parish and village situated on the river Lugg, 4! miles N.N.E. of Hereford, about I W. of the Hereford and Bromyard road, 10 S.S.E. of Leominster, 10 S.W. of Bromyard, and 1 E. of Moretonon-Lugg station on the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint railway. It is in Broxash hundred, Hereford union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Marden and Wellington polling district and electoral division of the county council. The pop~lation in 1871 was 391 ; in 1881, 334; inhabited houses, 67; families or separate occupiers, 73; area of parish, 1,393 acres; annual rateable value, £3,122. By provisional order, dated 21st April, 1875, the parishes of Sutton St. Michael and Sutton St. Nicholas were consolidated, and formed into one civil parish; and by orders of 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, certain detached parts of Felton, Ullingswick, Marden, and Preston W ynne were amalgamated with Sutton, and detached parts of Sutton were amalgamated with Marden; and by orders of 25th March, 1887, parts of Amberley township and Ode Pychard were amalgamated with Sutton. Mrs. Evans, of Moreton Court, who is lady of the manor, John Newman, Esq., Mrs. Jancey, Joseph Carless, Esq., WilJiam Pitt, Esq., D. T. Jeffreys, Esq., and Edmund Mason, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy and gravelly; subsoil, marl; chief produce, wheat, beans, hops, fruit, &c. Sutton is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weston. The living of Sutton St. Nicholas is a rectory; · value, £2oo, with 21! acres of glebe; patroness, Mrs. Lister; rector, Rev. George Henry Johnstone, B.A., of Trinity Co1lege, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1847. The Rev. D. A. F. Saunders, of King's College, London, is curate in sole charge. The church of St. Nti:holas is a stone edifice with nave, chancel, south transept (commonly called the ladye chapel), north porch, and substantial square tower containing six bells. The charities belonging to the parish amount to £7 yearly, and are distributed in money and coals. The living of Sutton St. Michael is a vicarage ; value, £62, including the rent of the glebe (29 acres); patrons, the Executors of the late John Price Williams, Esq.; vicar, Rev. D. Arthur F. Saunders, of King's College, London, who was instituted in 1876. The church of St. Michael is a small stone edifice, with nave, chancel, and bell-turret containing two bells. It was restored in 1867 ; the late patron gave reading-desk, lectern, reredos, east window, and tablets for commandments. The seats are all free. The charities belonging to the parish amount to £8 12s. yearly. In this parish is the site of Sutton Walls, which is celebrated as having been the position of the camp of Caractacus. It is equally famous as the site of the palace of Offa, king of Mercia, who· married Quendreda, daughter of Charles the Great, of France. They had a daughter, Elfrida, whom Ethelbert, king of the East Angles, sought in marriage ; but, while visiting at King Offa's palace, he was treacherously murdered by Quendreda, A.D. 793· He was buried at Marden, and afterwards removed to Hereford ; was canonised and became the patron saint of the cathedral. By way of expiation of this

SUTTON. crime, and to get a dispensation from the Pope, Offa greatly enriched the cathedral at Hereford, founded the abbey of St. Alban's, enjoined his subjects to pay Peter's Pence, and established the right of tithes to the clergy, by the common law, throughout his dominions, which hitherto wanted this sanction; and which was extended over all England by Ethelwolf, about the year 853. Sutton Walls continued to be the residence of the Mercian kings until Egbert united the kingdoms of the Heptarchy into one sovereignty, in the year 827. The spot comprehends a spacious encampment on the summit of a hill, surrounded by a single rampart about 40 feet high, with entrances on the east and west ends and north and south sides. The area inclines to a narrow ellipse, or oval form, including about 27 acres of land ; and is nearly level, except towards the western end of the north side, where there is a low place called Offa's Cellar. In digging on this spot, an antique silver ring was found some years ago. Although the place bears the name of Sutton Wails, there is not the least trace of buildings remaining. Giraldus Cambrensis, however, mentions the ruins of a castle which he saw there; and Leland notices the remains of some ancient and great building. The school is under the management of a school board, and has accommodation for 78 children, and an average attendance of 52. There is a Congregational chapel in the village. Freen's Court is the property of D. T. ]effreys, Esq., and is occupied by John Rogers, Esq., and Over Court the property of William Pitt, Esq., and residence of Mr. J. Farmer. Sutton Court is the property and residence of R. 0. Backhouse, Esq. Woodville is the property and residence of J. H. Barratt, Esq. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Thos. Skidmore, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Hereford at 8.15 a.m. The wall letter-box in the village is cleared at 4·35 p.m. This is a money order office and savings bank. Inland Revenue licenses are granted. l\1oreton and Withington stations are the nearest telegraph offices. Post town, Hereford. St. Nicholas' Church. Rev. Geo. Henry Johnstone, B.A., Rector}. Rev. D. A. F. Saunders, A.K.C., Curate in sole charge; Messrs. John Harold Barratt and Francis Burnett, Churchwardens/ William V\Thiting, Pm-ish Clerk. St. Mi'chael's Church. Rev. D. Arthur F. Saunders, A.K.G., ViCar/ Messrs. Francis Burnett and William Bennett, Churchwardens/ Thomas Evesham, Parish Clerk. Board School. T. Llanwarne, Esq., Clerk to the Board/ Mr. W. R. Allison, Master; Mrs. Allison, Mistress. Sutton Congregational Chapel. Ministers various. Assistant Overseer. Mr. W. Mattey, Marden. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Saunders, Rev. D. Arthur F., A.K.C. Backhouse, Robert Ormstone, Sutton court Barratt, John Harold, Woodville Dowding, Miss, Hawker's hill Farmer, James, Over court Norton, Rev. John, B.A.(vicarof Preston W ynne }, Ridgway cottage (vicar of Sutton St. Michael and curate in sole charge of Sutton St. Nichola.s), The Rectory Smith, John, Stone house COMMERCIAL. Aldridge, Joseph, wheelwright, Cross

6go SUTTON TARRINGTON. Allison, Wm. Robert, master of national school Bennett, William, farmer and hop grower, Sutton hill Birt, Edwin, cottage farmer, Lower house Bowns, Thomas J ames, farmer, White house Buckridge, Harry Stephens, coachman to J. H. Barratt Burnett, Francis, farmer and hop grower, The Lane, res. Court house Constable, J ames, cottage farmer Eckley, James, farmer and hop grower, Upper house Evesham, Thomas, parish clerk Griffiths, Wm., gardener, Church house Hughes, Daniel, cottage farmer, Wyatt Jancey, William, farmer, Wyatt Jones, Mrs., cot. farmer, Sutton Lakes Kinsey, John, farmer, Robins' croft Kinsey, Messrs., threshing machine proprietors and cot. farmers, Seabournes Meredith, Mrs., cot. farmer, The Marsh Moore, Frank Newton, farmer and hop grower, res. Pantalls Morgan, Thomas, cottage farmer, Wyatt Moss, Catherine, farmer, The Homme Moss, Joseph, Farmer, Wyatt Parry, William, blacksmith, Mill pool Perkins, Frederick, carpenter, Wyatt Perkins, William, carpenter Powell, John, farmer, Rose cottage Price, William, farmer, Orddis Pumphrey, John, Golden Cross Inn, and shopkeeper Reece, William, farmer, The Villa Rock, J ames, cottage farmer, Homme Rogers, John, farmer, Freen's court Ruff, Francis, gardener, Churchway Skidmore, Thomas, shopkeeper and subpostmaster Walker, William, beer retailer and shopkeeper, Bridge Inn, near Withington W atkins, Edward, cottage farmer Whiting, William, parish clerk Williams, J ames, farmer, Field house TARRINGTON. TARRINGTON is a large parish and village intersected by the Worcester and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway, and by the main road from Hereford to Ledbury; is distant 6J miles W.N.W. of Led bury, 7t E. of Hereford, and ro S.S.W. ofBromyard. Stoke Edith railway station is situate in this parish. It is in Radlow hundred, Ledbury union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Ashperton polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in r87J was 541 ; in 188r, 500; inhabited houses, 110; families or separate occupiers, 123; area of parish, 2,17 5 acres; annual rateable value, £4,986. The Right Hon. Lady Emily Foley, of Stoke Edith park, is lady of the manor and principal landowner. John Hopton, Esq., of Canon ffroome court, is also a landowner in this parish. The soil is a rich clay ; hops are much cultivated, with wheat, beans, fruit, &c. Tarrington is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of W eston ; living, a rectory; value, £3oo, with residence and 34 acres of glebe; patroness, the Lady Emily Foley; rector, Rev. John Winter, M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, who was instituted in r869. The church, dedicated to SS. Phz'lip and james, was restored in 1872, at a cost of £1,265. This venerable structure is of Norman origin, and consists of nave and chancel, with square tower at the west end containing six bells and a clock. The chancel floor has been raised and laid with encaustic tiles from the works of Mr. Godwin, of Lugwardine, the reredos being covered with similar tiles of a superior pattern. Much of the stonework and ancient carving, thickly coated with plaster, has been laid bare and well pointed. The old lath-andplaster ceiling of the nave and chancel has been replaced by a vaulted panel roof in pitch pine, and high-backed and long pews with doors have been converted into low open seats. Three new windows, presented by friends, have been erected in the south wall. A new chancel arch, of admirable design, forms one of the most pleasing

TARRINGTON. features of the restored church. Over this are the new gable, coping stones, and finial cross, where none existed before. An elegant screen in oak spans the lower portion of the tower arch. The east window in the chancel is filled with stained glass by Messrs. Ward & Hughes, as a memorial gift from the family of the late C. A. Mason, Esq. The remnants of ancient glass found in the tracery of the east window have been carefully inserted, with modern glass to match, in a small window on the south side. The two Saxon windows on the north side of the chancel have been filled with stained glass figures SS. Philip and James, to whom the church is dedicated. These windows were given by the widow of the late rector (the Rev. Charles Smith), together with a memorial brass plate. One of the beautiful windows on the south side was given by Miss Phelps (daughter of the Rev. T. P. Phelps, formerly vicar of the parish), assisted by a few friends. This lady also gave the prayer desk, in carved oak, as a memorial of her father. A communion table, in carved oak, is the gift of the Rev. W. H. Lambert, rector of Stoke Edith, and family. The Right Hon. Lady Emily Foley, John Hopton, Esq., and others, have given liberal help in addition to grants from the Incorporated and Diocesan Church Building Societies. The entire restoration reflects great credit on the architect (F. R. Kempson, Esq., F.I.B.A., of Hereford). The parish registers go back to the year I 56 7. An entry of the date May 3, 1644, records the burial of John Pralph, vicar of the parish, murdered by some of the Parliamentary soldiers near the well of Stoke Edith. Mr. Pralph was upwards of 8o years of age, and had been vicar of Tarrington for 42 years. The soldiers were a part of the garrison of Gloucester, who overtook him on his way home from Hereford, and when in reply to their challenge he declared himself to be " for God and the King " shot him dead on the spot. There are several small charities in connection with the church and schools. The new and spacious school-rooms with teachers' residences, were provided and fitted up by the munificence of the Right Hon. Lady Emily Foley, at a cost of £2,777, for the educational benefit of a school district, comprising the parishes of Tarrington, Stoke Edith, and Dormington. They will accommodate 188 children (boys and girls); the average attendance is 87. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mrs. Wood, Sub-Postmz'stress. Letters arrive by mail-cart from Ledbury at 8 a.m.; despatched thereto at 4.40 p.m. Money orders are granted and paid and savings bank business transacted. Telegrams may be sent from Stoke Edith railway station. Post town, Ledbury. Par-ish Church (SS. Pht'Hp and james). Rev. John Winter, M.A., Rector./ Messrs. Henry J. Bishop and William Gri:ffiths, Churchwm·dens. Tarr£ngton D£str£ct Schools (boys, girls, and -infants). Mr. Toyne, M aster ./ Miss Katie Powell, Ass-istant Mz'stress. Relz'evzng OJ!icer a1ld Registrar of Births and Deaths for Yarkhz1l D£strz"ct of Ledbury Un-ion. Mr. John Shattock Stevens, The Hazle. St. Edith Lodge of Odtifellows ( M.U.), established 1844, held at the Foley Arms Inn.

692 TARRINGTON TEDSTONE DELAMERE. Stoke Edz'th Ra£lway Statzon (West M£dland Section, G. W.R.}- Mr. John George Bowes, Statzon Master. Assz'stant Overseer. Mr. John J ones. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bishop, Mrs. Elizabeth, Brookfield Cole, Mrs., Rose cottage Freeman, Richard, The Sparchhills Godsall, Miss Elizabeth, Brick house Pritchard, Mrs., Drury cottage Winter, Rev. John, M.A. (rector), The Rectory Wood, John Hy., Esq., M.B., M.R.C.S., The Willows COMMERCIAL. Bennett, J ames, The Farm, bailiff for Henry \V. Taylor, Showle court Bishop, Henry J onathan, farmer, hop grower & landowner, Little Tarrington farm Bowes, John George, station master, Stoke Edith railway station . Brookes, George Alien, farmer, Hill farm Clarke, George J ames, shoeing smith Cox, Samuel, farm bailiff to Lady Emily Foley, The Lays farm Godsall, Mrs. Eliz., farmer, Eastwood Grant, Francis, farmer, Lower Eastwood Griffiths, William, hop grower, Aldersend farm TEDSTONE Jay, George, wheelwright Jones, John, farmer, shopkeeper, and assistant overseer J ones, Thomas, estate mason Kings, Mrs., laundress, Walnut Tree cot. Mace, Thomas, carpenter & wheelwright, East wood Meek, Mrs., farmer, Sollers Court fann Parker, Henr~ estate agent for the Right Hon. Lady ~mily J!'oley, The Vine Stanley, Charles, esta.te carpenter Stevens, John Shattock, relieving officer and registrar of births and deaths for Yarkhill district of Ledbury union, Tlie Hazle Sutherland, George, Foley .A1·ms Inn Taylor, John, butcher and farmer, Little Tarrington Townsend, J ames, blacksmith, Lower East wood Toyne, J abez, schoolmaster W agborne, John, grocer and provision dealer, Eastwood W atkins, William, Croft cottage Wood, John Henry, M.B., M.R.C.S., surgeon and medical officer to Y arkhill district of Led bury union, The Willows Wood, Mrs., Post office, sub-postmistress Wood, The Misses C. & A., dressmakers DELAMERE. TEDSTONE DELAMERE is a picturesque parish situated on the borders of Worcestershire, 4 miles N.E. of Bromyard, II S.E. of Tenbury, 12 N.W. of Worcester, 18 N.E. of Hereford, and about 4 N.W. of Knightwick station, on the Worcester and Bromyard railway. It is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, petty sessional division and county court district, and Brockhampton and Whitbourne polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 235; in r88r, 251 ; inhabited houses, 45; families or separate occupiers, 52; area of parish, 1,677 acres; annual rateable value, .£2,030- Edgar Wight, Esq., of Tedstone court, who is lord of the manor, Edward Bickerton Evans, Esq., of Whitbourne hall, William Barneby, Esq., of Saltmarshe castle, Stuart Knill, Esq., and Major Baker, are the principal landowners. The soil is red marl, with a subsoil of red sandstone; chief produce, wheat, hops, fruit, &c. The climate of Tedstone is soft, though fine and bracing. It is said that a battle was fought here, close to Tipton farm, during the wars of the Roses. The situation of the church, as also of the Court and parsonage house, on the declivity of the hill, is highly interesting, and commands very extensive prospects in the counties of Worcester, Stafford, Warwick, and Gloucester. The Malvern hills form a leading feature towards the south-east. Tedstone is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome;

TEDSTONE DELAMERE. living, a rectory; value, £246, with residence and 37 acres of glebe; patrons, the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford; rector, Rev. Frederic Simcox Lea, M.A., formerly fellow of that college, who was instituted in 1873· The church, dedicated to St. :fames, was restored in 1856-57, at a cost of £1,54o, chiefly defrayed by the former rector (Rev. I. G. Smith, of Malvern), but with liberal contributions from the landowners and parishioners. Under the direction of the late Sir George Gilbert Scott, R.A., the character of the old building was reproduced in the new, so far as was possible, the Norman and Early English work being replaced, piece by piece, not without difficulty. The chancel screen of carved oak, probably of Tudor date, and the old Norman font, were also carefully preserved, with other relics of ·the past, among which must be mentioned a small arched slab, with carving in relief of the Saviour on the Cross on one side, and on the other the Virgin Mother and Child, which was found embedded in the wall of the chancel, and is supposed to have been originally the top of the old churchyard cross; also an hour-glass case, formerly in the pulpit, but now placed in the porch. The churchyard cross, repaired in 1629, and altered to support a sun-dial in 1718, was restored in 1856. Oak, the timber par excellence of this district, was used largely in the rebuilding, not only in the ordinary fittings of the church, but also in its shingled spire and gable-crosses. The petrified stone formed by a cascade which drops into Sapey brook, and resembling the "peperinoe" of Italy, has been used in the walls, and, notwithstanding its friable appearance, is singularly imperishable. The western wall of the nave is one of the very few specimens extant of Saxon masonry. The church is adorned with small columns of Serpentine marble from the Lizard Point, and with several painted windows, among which the east window, with three tall slender lights, the gift of the late J ames Lane Wight, Esq., of Tedstone court, is conspicuously beautiful. Altogether, although on a very small scale, the church of Tedstone Delamere represents fairly enough the type of parish church which belongs to this border land of Celt and Saxon. The parish registers date from 1690. The Elizabethan chalice and paten (1573) have been preserved: the flagon was the gift of a parishioner in 1715. There is a school on the eastern side of this parish, erected and supported by E. Bickerton Evans, Esq., and Mrs. Evans, of Whitbourne hall. Tedstone Court, the seat of Edgar Wight, Esq., and The Rectory, command magnificent views, extending over 40 miles of beautiful country. PosTAL REGULATIONs. Letters are received through Worcester v-ia Sapey Bridge, and arrive by messenger from the latter place about 8.40 a.m. Bromyard is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, \Vorcester. Parish Church (St. :fames'). Rev. Frederic Si[ncox Lea, MA., Rector; Mr. James Ward, Churchwarden./ Richard Powell, Parish Clerk. Wood End School (Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Evans). Miss James, Schoolmzstress.

694 TEDSTONE DELAMERE TEDSTONE WAFER. CARRIER TO BROMYARD. Name Thomas J ones (High Lane) Day Thurs. Stopping Place Queen's Arms Return at 3 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Lea, Rev. Frederic Simcox, M. A., (rector) The Rectory Wight, Edgar, Tedstone court COMMERCIAL. Atkins, J ames, gamekeeper for Edgar Wight Benbow, Thos., parish clerk of Tedstone Wafer Bishop, Samuel, cot. farmer, Hill cross Evans, Thomas, farmer, Ladywood Gough, J ames, farmer and hop grower, Line house Grubh, James, farmer and hop grower, Wood end Harrington, John, farm bailiff for Edgar Wight Hill, Charles, Tedstone court gardens, (gardener for Edgar Wight) Hodges, J ames, carpenter, blacksmith, and cottage farmer, Tidbatch James, .Tohn, farmer, The Thrift J ones, Richard, gamekeeper for E. Bickerton Evans, Lees Leys J ones, William, farmer and hop grower, Winley Pan tall, J oseph, farmer, Hedge house Pitt, Alfred, farmer, W oodhall Powell, Richard, blacksmith & parish clerk Price, Mrs., Upper Line house Teague, John, Homer's mill Ward, J ames, farmer & hop grower, Tipton hall TEDSTONE WAFER. TEDSTONE WAFER or W AFRE is a very small parish situated on the borders of Worcestershire, about 4 miles N.N.E. of Bromyard, 9 S.E. ofTenbury, 14 N.W. of Worcester, and 17 N.E. of Hereford; it is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Brimfield and Collington polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 64; in r88r, 79; inhabited houses, 19; families or separate occupiers, 19; area of parish, 684 acres; annual rateable value, £607. The Right Hon. Lady Henry Somerset, of Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, is lady of the manor. William Barneby, Esq., of Saltmarshe Castle, Bromyard, is almost entire owner of the parish. The soil is a light clay, producing wheat, beans, hops, fruit, barley, &c. Tedstone Wafer is in the diocese and arch deaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frame; living, a rectory, with that of Edwin Loach (Worcestershire) annexed; joint value, £I 57, with 3 5 acres of glebe; patron, William Barneby, Esq.; rector, Rev. David Nicholl, M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford, who. was instituted in 1873, and resides at Edwin Loach rectory. New churches were erected at Tedstone Wafer and Edwin Loach in 1873- Both the churches supersede older structures, which had fallen into decay. Their erection is due to the generosity of the late Edmund Higginson, Esq., of Saltmarshe castle, and, on his death, William Barneby, Esq., his successor to the property, carried out the intentions of the founder, by furnishing both the churches with their several fittings, also with communion plate, altar cloths, &c. The churches are calculated to contain about 6o ~ittings each, and are erected at some distance from. each other, both being placed in commanding situations; the elegant spire of Edwin Loach serving especially as a landmark throughout a wide tract of thickly-wooded country, beautifully diversified with hill and dale. The church of Tedsto.ne Wafer was designed by Mr.

TEDSTONE WAFER THORNBURY. Haycock, of Shrewsbury, and is dedicated to St.James. The chan~ eel is raised by five steps from the nave, which is separated from it by a low screen of Bath stone, having insertions of variegated marble at intervals. The east window has shafts of black marble, and the chancel has a beautifully sculptured stone screen in the south transept. The High Lane elementary district schools were founded by the late Edmund Higginson, Esq., for the parishes of Tedstone Wafer and Edwin Loach, and portions of the parishes of Upper Sapey, Tedstone Delamere, Lower Sapey, \Volferlow, and Norton. They are chiefly supported by William Barneby, Esq. There. is accommodation for 95 children. The total average attendance of boys, girls, and infants • IS 70. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Mr. John Wood, Sub-Postmaster, High Lane. Letters are received through Worcester, and arrive vt'a Sapey Bridge about 8.35 a.m.; despatched thereto at 4.50 p.m. Clifton-onTeme is the nearest money order office. Bromyard is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Worcester. Par-ish Chut-ch (St. james'). Rev. David Nicholl, 1\I.A., Rector; Mr. William J ames J ohnson, Churchwarden ; Thomas Ben bow, Part'sh Clerk. Hi'gh Lane Elementary Dzstrict Schools (boys, gz'rls, & ztifants).- Mr. John Wood, Master/ Miss Wood, Infants' M-istress. COMMERCIAL RESIDENTS. J ohnson, William J ames, farmer & hop grower, The Green I Mason, Richard Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Tedstone Wafer court Pritchard, John Phillips, shopkeeper Wood, John, schoolmaster and sub-postmaster, High lane district schools THORNBURY. THORNBURY is a parish situated nearly 2 miles W. of the main road from Bromyard to Tenbury, and extending to the borders of Worcestershire; is distant 4 miles N.'\V. of Bromyard, 8! E. ofLeominster, 7 S.S.E. of Tenbury, and 18 N.N.E. of Hereford; is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district and petty sessional division, and Brimfield and Collington polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population of Thorn bury with Netherwood in 1871 was 24r; in 188r, .234; inhabited houses, 47; families or separate occupiers, 49; area of parish, r,67z acres ; annual rateable value, £1,877. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, r884, under the Divided Parishes Act, detached parts of Wacton were amalgamated with Thornbury and Edwin Ralph, respectively. The Rev. E. G. Baldwyn-Childe, who is lord of the manor, Martin Curtler, Esq., of Worcester, and the Trustees of the late Edward Morris, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey and loamy; subsoil, red marl; and gives rise by several heads and powerful springs to the river Froome, sometimes called Froomy, which, passing by Bromyard, empties into the Lugg at Mordiford. The chief products are wheat, beans, hops, fruit, &c. On the summit of the \Vall hills, in this parish, are vestiges of a British encampment, which is supposed to have been

6g6 THORNBURY. constructed by the great Caractacus. Its area is about 20 acres. Coins and weapons have been discovered in this locality. Thorn bury is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome; living, a rectory; value, £188, with residence and 25! acres of glebe ; patron, Rev. E. G. Baldwyn-Childe, of Kyre park; rector, Thomas ·Ratsey Maskew, M.A., of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1885. The church, dedicated to St. Anne, was restored in 1865-66, at a cost of £939· It consists of nave, chancel, south porch, and west tower. There are many interesting architectural features in the church, and much care has been taken to preserve them. On the north side there is a Norman arch and window, and on the south side an arcade of Early English character. The chancel has been entirely rebuilt, with the addition of a vestry, as well as the whole of the north wall of the nave and part of the south wall. A new stone porch has been added on the south side, the tower has been scraped and pointed, and a new spire erected, covered with oak shingle. A west window has been inserted in the tower, which now opens into the church, and a handsome stone arch has been erected at the entrance to the chancel. The tiled floors are remarkably beautiful. The pulpit is of stone, and springs from a small screen of the same material. The seats, desks, &c., are of old oak, varnished. The parish register dates from I 5 38, and is in excellent preservation. A new stained-glass window was in 1871 presented by Martin Curtler, Esq.; subject from Exodus xxxiii. The same gentleman in I 887 placed a still more beautiful one in the west end ; subjects, the Ascension, and Raising of Lazarus. The charities belonging to the parish amount to £I IOS. yearly. The school, with residence for the mistress, for the accommodation of the children ofThornbury, ~nd the adjoining parishes ofEdwin Ralph and Collington (part of), has accommodation for 64 children; average attendance of boys and girls, 36. Thornbury House, a large brick residence, the property of Martin Curtler, Esq.; is occupied by Mr. Thomas Perry. Thornbury CoU?·t, with other lands, the property of the family of Edward Morris, Esq., M.D., and in the occupation of Mr. Edward Richard Payne, is a modern residence beautifully situated in the midst of ornamental timber on rising ground with south aspect, and commands magnificent views of Herefordshire, having the Malvern hills in the eastern distance. About I mjle N.E. of Thornbury is Netherwood, a farm containing about 6oo acres. It was part of the estate of the Mortimers. After the battle of Bosworth Field, William Baskerville, of the house of Eardisley, who had accompanied the army of the Earl of Richmond, afterwards King Henry VII., from Leominster, and fought valiantly in his cause, received a grant of it from that sovereign. In the following century it was sold by Thomas Baskerville, Esq., and, having passed through several families, was purchased about the time of Charles I., by Edward Pytts, Esq., whose descendant, Jonathan Pytts, Esq., of Kyre house, the late owner, willed it to \Villiam Lacon Childe, Esq., of Kinlet hall, Salop, with remainder to present proprietor, Rev. Edward G. Baldwyn Childe. The mansion is recorded to have

THORNBURY THRUXTON. been a noble structure, and was surrounded by a park of nearly one hundred acres. In the former was born the great but unfortunate Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth's favourite and victim. Here was born also, on the authority of Blount, Roger, son of Edmund Mortimer, and Philippa, daughter of Lionel Duke of Clarence. He was slain in Ireland, aged 37. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Worcester via Bromyard, and arrive by messenger from the latter place about 10 a.m. The wall letter box is cleared at 4.40 p.m. Bredenbury is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Worcester. Parish Church (St. Anne's). Rev. T. R. Maskew, M.A., Rector; Messrs. Thomas Perry and Thomas Grubb, Churchwardens_,- Edward Mason, Sexton . .District School (boys and girls), for the united parishes of Thorn bury, Edwin Ralph, and Collington. Miss Mary ]ones, Mistress. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Curt! er, :Martin, The W ooding & Bevere Knoll, near Worcester Maskew, Rev. Thomas R., M.A. (rector), The Rectory Morris, Lionel John Freeman Morris, Mrs., Elmgrove COMMERCIAL. Andrews, James, farmer, Hubbage Barrell, Jas.,farmer, The Upper Hubbage Evans, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Streetfield Evans, Thomas, junr., farmer, W estwood Gill, Albert R., farmer, Roxpole farm Grubb, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Stone house Hanson, William, farmer & hop grower, Kyrebatch Hill, J oseph, farmer, The Yeld Hirons, Henry, The Wooding farm, bailiff to Martin Curtler J ones, Miss Mary, schoolmistress, School house Mason, Edward, blacksmith and parish sexton Moore, James, miller, Thornbury mill Moore, John, farmer, Freeth Parker, J ames, farmer and hop grower, Netherwood Pa.yne, Edward R., farmer, Thornbury court Pa.yne, William, farmer and hop grower, Pool house Perry, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Thombury house Smith, George, farmer, Upper house Smith, Richard, The Park farm THRUXTON. THRUXTON is a small parish situated on the road leading from Ross to Hay, about 6 miles S.W. of Hereford, 14 N.W. of Ross, r6 S.E. of Hay, and 2 W.N.W. of Tram Inn station, on the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford branch of the Great Western railway. It is in Webtree hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Kingstone polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Hereford county court district. The population in I 87 I was 68 ; in 188r, 6o; inhabited houses, 12 ; families or separate occupiers, 13; area of parish, 416 acres ; annual rateable value, £sso. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Thruxton was amalgamated with Kingstone. The Trustees of the late Major Charles Meysey Bolton Clive, of Whitfield, are lords of the manor, and principal landowners. The soil is a stiff loam ; chief crops, wheat, barley, roots, clover, &c. There is an ancient tumulus in the parish. Thruxton is in the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford; living, a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Kingstone; joint value, .2 N

' THRUXTON TITLEY . . . .-(330, with residence and 15 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord B1shop of Hereford; rector, Rev. Reginald Hereford Bird, M.A.,·of Jesus College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1885. The church, dedicated to St. Ba1·tholomew, was restored in 1865-66 (with the exception of the upper part of the tower and the bells), under the superintendence of William Cheiake, Esq., architect, of Hereford. The church consists of nave, chancel, porch, and tower of the Decorated period. The walls inside are denuded of plaster, and the stone laid bare· and pointed. The nave and chancel are paved with Godwin's tiles, the porch restoreq, and a thick glass floor placed above the lower storey of the tower, (which is used as a vestry), for the purpose of introducing light. The church is seated with low open seats, all free. A carved oak pulpit, lectern, and font-cover have been given, together with the holy table and its vesting, and corona for the chancel. The east window is of· stained glass, in memory of Archdeacon W etherell, a former rector of the parish, inserted at the request of his widow. There is another memorial window by Hard- -man, of Birmingham, to the V en. Archdeacon Lane Freer, D.D. The earliest register is· dated 1582 .. The children of this parish are accommodated at Kingstone school. . . PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Tram Inn, which is the nearest money order and telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. , Parz"sh Church (St. Ba1·tholomew's). Rev. Reginald Hereford Bird, M.A., Rector,- Mr. Robert Wood,· Churchwm·de1t. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. • Name Days Mrs. Preece Wed. & Sat. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. • • • Stopping Place Spread Eagle COMMERCIAL. Return at , · Bird, Rev. Reginald Hereford, M.A., , (rector of Thruxton and vicar of King- . stone), The Rectory Fluck, Edward, Thruxton house Carless, C., farmer, Pool farm, Winnall Evans, William, police constable :Morris, Henry, farmer, The Ferns . Ockey, Edward, farmer, Exchequer court Preece, Richard, cooper Wood, Robert, farmer, Thruxton court • TITLEY. TITLEY (anciently Titellege) is a picturesque parish and village, with a railway station on the· Leominster and Kington railway, which is alSo the junction of the Kington and Eardisley, and the Kington and Presteigne railways. The station, although called "Titley," is locally situate in the parish of Lyonshall, being distant about If miles s.·of Titley village. The river Arrow and the main road from Kington to Presteigne run through the parish, which is distant 3 miles N.E. of Kington, 3! S.S.E. of Presteigne, 12 W. of Leominster, and 20 N.W. of Hereford; is in Wigmore hundred, Kington union, county court district, and petty sessional division, and Kinsham and Titley polling

TITLEY. 6gg district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 371 ; in 1881, 389; inhabited houses, 78; families or separate occupiers, 85 ; area of parish, 1,847 acres; annual rateable value, £2,631. Edward Howorth Greenly, Esq., M.A., J .P., D.L., who is lord of the manor, Edward Bacon, Esq., D.L., ].P., and Robert William Daker Harley, Esq., J.P., D.L., of Brampton Bryan, are the principal landowners. Offa's dyke passes through this parish. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, barley, roots, fruit, and pasture. The scenery in the neighbourhood is beautiful, and on an eminence about I mile and a half N., called Wapley, or Warren, hill, are vestiges of an extensive encampment. Titley was the site of a priory, subordinate to the abbey of Tyrone, in France. On the suppression of the alien priories in the second of Henry V., it was given to the college at Winchester. Titley is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weobley; living, a vicarage; value, £rso (including 129 acres of glebe) with residence; patrons, Church Patronage Society; vicar, Rev. James Armstrong Alexander, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford, who was instituted in r885. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, was rebuilt in 1869 at a cost of about £2,000. It is a handsome stone edifice, with accommodation for about 220 persons. There are some stained glass windows. A fine east window was presented in 1879 by the children of C. W. Greenly, Esq., to the memory of their father, and about the same time an organ was placed in the church by contributions, and was much enlarged in 1888, by Mr. Eustace Ingram, of Hereford; another stained glass window was presented by E. Bacon, Esq., in memory of his mother, Lady Charlotte Bacon. The parish register goes back to the year 1 534· There is a school for boys and girls, endowed by Elizabeth, widow of William Greenly, Esq., with the sum of £I,ooo in Consols, and with £5 yearly from the Eywood estate. It has accommodation for 96 children ; average attendance, 72. There are several handsome residences in this parish. About I mile W. of the village is the Eywood estate. This mansion was formerly the principal residence of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, Earl Mortimer, and Baron of Wigmore. The Harleys trace their descent to the time of King Ethelred, in whose army one of their ancestors held an important command. Richard de Harley aided Roger Mortimer and the Lord of Croft in contriving the escape of Prince Edward from Hereford ; and, for this service, was particularly patronised by the latter, after he became King. In his reign, Robert de Harley married Margaret, eldest daughter of Brian de Brampton, by which he obtained the castle of Brampton Brian and a large estate. Sir Thomas Barley was held in much estimation by King J ames l, from whom he obtained a grant of the honour and castle of Wigmore, in consideration of a distant relationship with the Mortimers, its former lords. Sir Edward Harley, Knight of the Bath, assisted in the restoration of King Charles II., and was made Governor of Dunkirk ; but, resisting the iniquitous sale of that fortress, he was superseded. He afterwards raised a troop of horse for the service of the Prince of Orange. His son, the celebrated Sir Robert Barley, afterwards created Baron Harley

TITLE V. of Wigmore, Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer, in the year I7II, had a very important influence over the direction of national affairs in the reign of Queen Anne; having filled the offices in succession of Speaker of the House of Commons, principal Secretary of State, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer, and Lord High Treasurer of England. His power, however, expired with his royal patroness; and, very early in the reign of George I., he was impeached, and tried for high treason, but was acquitted by his peers. He died in May, 1724, aged sixty-two. The grounds at Eywood display a great diversity of scenery, and are ornamented with some fine plantations. It is now the property of Edward Bacon, Esq., ].P., D.L., and is in the occupation of Lord Ormathwaite, J.P., D.L., Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire. Tz"tley Court, the seat of Edward Howorth Greenly, Esq., J.P., D.L., adjoins the village. Burcher is the residence of George Peak, Esq. Tz"tley House is occupied by A. M. Kettlewell, Esq. PosTAL REGULATIONS. George Milne, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by mail at 7 a.m. ; despatched at 7 p.m. Latest time for posting parcels, 6. I 5 p.m. Letter-box closes, 6.45 p.m. This is a money order and telegraph office. Letters should be addressedTitley, R.S.O. (Herefordshire). Pm-z'sh Church (St. Peter's). Rev. James Armstrong Alexander, M.A., Vicar/ Edward Howorth Greenly, Esq., and George Peak, Esq., Churchwardens/ Samuel Lloyd, Pan,"sh Clerk. Endowed School (boys and g£rls). Mr. John Redfern, Master,- Mrs. Redfern, Sew'ing Mistress. Tz'fley Raz'lway Statz(m (junction of the Leomz"nster and Kz"ngtonr Kz''ngton and Eardz'sley, mzd Kz'ngton and Prestez'g1ze Raz'lways), William Wathen, Statt'on Master. Assz'stant Oveneer. Mr. G. J. ]ones, Church House, Pembridge. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Alexander, Rev. James Armstrong, M.A. (vicar), The Vicarage Brodie, Miss F. M., Burcher cottage Greenly, Edward Howorth, J.P., D.L., county councillor, Titley court Kettlewell, M. Arthur, Titley house Lloyd, J ames, Prior's Leasow Ormathwaite, Lord (Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, Chairman of county council and quarter sessions, Radnorshire, J.P. for Herefordshire), Eywood Peak, George, Burcher COMMERCIAL. Berry, John, carpenter Bywater, Henry, farmer, Oatcroft CALDICOTT, HENRY, miller and farmer, corn and meal dealer, and flour merchant, Titley mill (in Lyons- hall parish) Corbett, J ames (gardener for M. Arthur Kettlewell), New cottage DAVIES, T. W., & SON, general smiths, carpenters and wheelwrights, grocers, tea, corn, meal, & flour dealers, The Shawl, Titley, R.S.O. Edwards, J ames, farmer, Rhiwlas farm Evans, Edward, Rhiwlas cottage Farr, Robert, farmer, Turningways Griffiths, Thos., farmer, Lower Flintsham. and Flintsham court J ones, J ames, mason Jones, Mrs. W., farmer, Burcher and· Green lane farms Llewellyn, Charles, shopkeeper, Little Burcher Lloyd, Samuel, parish clerk Miles, Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper, Flintsham square Milne, George, sub-postmaster Price, J ames, shoemaker Redfern, John, schoolmaster Rowland, David, farmer, Balance farm Rowland, Miss M., New cottage Thomas, Edward, farmer, The Stag W a then, William, station master, Titley station

TRETIRE WITH . MICHAELCHURCH. 70J TRETIRE WITH MICHAELCHURCH. TRETIRE is a small village situated on the Ross and A bergavenny road, distant 6 miles W. of Ross, 8 N. of Monmouth, and I I S. of Hereford; is in Wormelow hundred (lower division), Ross union and county court district, Harewood End petty sessional division, and Harewood and Peterstow polling district and electoral division of the county council. Tretire and Michaelchurch form a parish comprising 1,330 acres, the rateable value being £I,695· The population in I87I was I64; in 1881, 173; inhabited houses, 34; families or separate occupiers, 34· Lady Vincent, who is lady of the manor, the Governors of Guy's Hospital, Higford Higford, Esq., Mr. W. C. Donne, and John Edward Smyth, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is sandy and loamy ; subsoil, chiefly rock; products, wheat, barley, oats, roots, &c. The parish is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Archenfield; living, a rectory, with the chapelry of Michaelchurch annexed ; value, £ 26o, with residence; patron and rector, Rev. Edmund John Owen, B.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, who ·was instituted in I 869. His predecessor, the late eminent and learned antiquary, Rev. J. Webb, was incumbent of ~he parish for many years. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt in I855-56, at a cost of £750. It is a neat stone edifice, in a mixed style of architecture, with nave, chancel, font, three bells, &c. In the churchyard are several tombs of great antiquity, and a very ancient sundiaL The parish register commences with the year 17I9. Near this church are the remains of an old castle. This parish is included in the Pencoyd and Tretire with Michaelchurch united school board district, the children attend the school at Pencoyd. MICHAELCHURCH is a small village pleasantly situated about 1 mile and a half N. of Tretire, in a valley, through which runs a branch of the Garron brook. The church of St. Mzchael is an ancient structure of stone, in a very plain style, plastered and white· washed outside. It has nave, porch, and small belfry with two bells. The living is a rectory, united to Tretire. On a commanding eminence, between this place and Pengethley, is an ancient square camp called "Geer Cop." PoSTAL REGULATIONS. Francis Arnold, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive by messenger from Ross, about 7.10 a.m.; despatched thereto at 6.20 p.m. St. W eonards is the nearest money order office. Ross is the telegraph office and post town. Parz"sh Church (St. Mary's), Tretire. Rev. Edmund John Owen, , B.A., Rector,· Mr. John Edward Smyth, Churchwarden_; John Price, P arz'sh Clerk. Parz"sh Church (St. Mz"chael's), Michaelchurch. Rev. E. J. Owen, B.A., Rector. Assz"sta1zt Overseer. Mr. James Prichard, New Inn, near Ross. Name Thomas Lewis (Garway) Henry Hall (St. Weonards) CARRIERS To Ross. Day Thurs. do. Stopping Place New Inn Castle Inn • • Return at 3 0 4 0

702 TRETIRE TURNASTONE. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Return at Henry Hall Wed. & Sat. Stopping Place Nelson 4 0 PRIVATE RESIDENT. Owen, Rev. Edmund John, B . .A. (patron and rector), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. Arnold, Francis, grocer, blacksmith, and sub-postmaster Fisher, Francis, farmer, Michaelchurch Jenkins, Phillip, carpenter and wheelwright, Treberran Roberts, Richard, miller, Tretire mills Smith, Felix Wm., farmer, Tretire farm Smyth, John Ed ward, farmer, Tretire ho. Webb, Samuel, shopkeeper TREVILLE TREVILLE is a parish (for poor-law purposes) situated about I mile from the main road leading from Hereford to Abergavenny, and It N. W. of St. Devereux station on the West Midland section of the Great Western railway. It is distant 7i miles S.W. of Hereford; is in Wormelow hundred (upper division), Dore union, and petty sessional division, Kingstone polling district and electoral division of the county council, and Hereford county court district. The population in 1871 was 170; in 1881, 156; inhabited houses, 32; families or separate occupiers, 36; area of parish, 1,604 acres; annual rateable value, £1,28 I. The Trustee of the late Major C. M. B. Clive is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is clay, on a red sandstone formation ; detached portions of limestone rock may be seen cropping out. The chief products are wheat, barley, oats, and roots. There are 533 acres under oak-woods. Wh£ifield is a handsome mansion, pleasantly situated in an extensive and wellwooded park, the residence of Mrs. Greathed. The children attend the school at Wormbridge. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Hereford. Tram Inn is the nearest post office, money order, and telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Ass£stant Overseer. Mr. James B. Preece, Wormbridge. CARRIER TO HEREFORD. Name Days Mrs. Preece Wed. & Sat. PRIVATE RESIDENT. Greathed, Mrs., Whitfield COMMERCIAL. All croft, John, head gamekeeper for Mrs. Greathed Stopping Place Return at Spread Eagle 3 30 Dean, Mrs. J ane Mary, Three HorseShoes Inn Grindrod, Robert, head gardener for Whitfield estate Preece, J ames, builder, The Laurels Preece, 'l'homas, sawyer, Criseley Smith, William, farmer, Little Whitfield Wood, George, The V allets, land steward for Mrs. Greathed TURN AS TONE. TURNASTONE is a small parish and village situated on the river Dore, in the Golden Valley, distant 11 miles W.S. W. of Hereford, and II S.E. of Hay. Vowchurch station on the Golden Valley railway is in this parish. Turnastone is in Webtree hundred, Dore

TURNASTONE TYBERTON. union and petty sessional division, Hereford county court district, and Vowchurch polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 51 ; in 1881, 57; inhabited houses, 10; families or separate occupiers, 12 ; area of parish, 530 acres ; annual rateable value, £647· Mrs. E. L. Gavin Robinson is lady of the manor. Herbert Howorth Wood, Esq., of White house, Vowchurch, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Gavin Robinson, are the landowners. The soil is sandy and loamy ; subsoil, clay and sandstone; chief produce, wheat, barley, beans, roots, &c. The parish is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weobley; living, a rectory; value, £74, with residence and 31 acres of glebe; patron, Edward L. Gavin Robinson, Esq. ; rector, Rev. Frederick Richard Green, of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in 1886. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient stone edifice, in the Early English style of architecture, and consists of nave, chancel, south porch, and small wooden turret containing two bells. The church was restored in 1884 at a cost of about £450, when the south porch was rebuilt, the chancel and nave reseated, and a stained east window added. The register begins with the year 1674. The children of this parish go to the school at Vowchurch. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Hereford v£a V owchurch. The nearest money order office is Vowchurch, and the nearest telegraph office is Tram Inn. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (St. Mary's). Rev. F. R. Green, Rector,; Herbert Howorth Wood, Esq., Churchwarde11.; John Williams, Parish Clerk. Asszstant Overseer. Mr. Isaac Hughes, Peterchurch. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dowling, Alfred Edward Griffiths, The Cottage Green, Rev. Frederick Richard {rector), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. Dowling, Alfred Edward Griffiths, surgeon, The Cottage Herring, James, farmer, Cothill Howard. George Price, Mrs. Mary Ann, Yew Tree villa. Probert, John, farmer, The Farm Watkins, Mrs., farmer, Dolward Williams, Thomas, carpenter TY:BERTON. TYBERTON is a parish situated on the road from Hereford to Hay, vza Blakemere, distant about 9 miles W. of Hereford, 13 E.S.E. of Hay, and 10 S. of Weobley; 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 1871 was 157; in 1881, 123; inhabited houses, 25; families or separate occupiers, 28; area of parish, 1 1105 acres; annual rateable value, £I,I39· Robert Henry Lee-Warner, Esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, sandstone rock ; chief produce, wheat, barley, beans, roots, &c. Tyberton is in the diocese, archdeaconry, and rural deanery of Hereford; living, a chapelry, united to Madley vicarage; joint value, £566, with 3t acres of glebe; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of

TYBERTON ULLINGSWICK. Hereford; vicar, Rev. Philip Edgar Pratt, M.A., of Exeter College Oxford, and surrogate for the diocese of Hereford, who was instituted in 188o, and resides at Madley vicarage. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a brick structure, erected in 1720 by W. T. Brydges, Esq. It was restored some years since at the expense of Robert Henry Lee-Warner, Esq. It has nave, chancel, porch, font, and bell-tower with five bells. The parish register begins with the year 1634. Tyberton Court, the seat of Robert Henry Lee-Warner, Esq., ].P., D.L., is a handsome mansion situated in a fine park. It contains some good pictures, and a large and well-selected library. This mansion was formerly the property of the ancient family of Brydges, by whom the grounds and plantations were much improved. The children attend the school at Madley. PoSTAL REGULATIONS. Letters arrive from Hereford v£d Madley, by messenger at 8.o a.m.; despatched thereto at s.o p.m. Madley and Peterchurch are the nearest money order offices. Staunton-on-Wye is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (All Saints'). Rev.Philip Edgar Pratt, M.A., Vlcar; R. H. Lee-Warner, Esq., Churchwarden/ James Knight, Parish Clerk. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Thos. Preece, Shenmore cottage, Madley. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days Return at John Gwilliam Wed. Mrs. ]ones Wed. & Sat. Stopping Place Nelson Inn Butchers' Arms 3 0 4 0 PRIVATE RESIDENT. Lee-Warner, Robert Henry, J.P., D.L., Tyberton court COMMERCIAL. Beaver, John, carpenter and wheelwright, Stockley hill . Gwilliam, John, farmer and carrier, Stockley hill Hancorn, J ames, farmer, Hill farm, res. W oodfield farm Hodges, Charles, parish clerk Imms, Thomas, farmer, Eynons farm Ireland, Robert, Brydges Arms, Stockley hill Knight, J ames, parish clerk Lloyd, Mrs. Ann, blacksmith Meats, Thomas, farmer, Church house Williams, John, stonemason and parish constable, Stockley hill ULLINGSWICK. ' ULLINGSWICK is a small parish and village pleasantly situated in a vale It miles N.W. of the main road leading from Hereford to Bromyard, and about I mile N. of the road between Ledbury and Leominster. It is distant 6 miles S.W. of Bromyard, 9 N.E. of Hereford, ro S.E. of Leominster, and 6 E. of Dinmore railway station; is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, petty sessional division, and county court district, and Stoke Lacy polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 323; in r88r, 293; inhabited houses, 65; families or separate occupiers, 73 ; area of parish, I ,62 5 acres; annual rateable value, £r,8or. By orders which came into operatio11- on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided Parishes Act, parts of Felton were amalgamated

ULLINGSWICK. with Ullingswick, and detached parts of Ullingswick were amalgamated with Sutton and Marden. The Rev. John Middleton Ware, who is lord of the manor, James Parker, Esq., William R. George, Esq., Colonel Parker, William Lort, Esq., Mr. John Skerrett, and Mr. Carless, are the landowners. The soil is loam ; subsoil, rock and clay; products, wheat, beans, hops, fruit, &c. The hills in this parish command most extensive and pleasing prospects. Ullingswick is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome; living, a rectory, with the chapelry of Little Cowarne annexed; joint value, £335, with residence and 52 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester; rector, Rev. John Middleton Ware, LL.B., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1855· The church (name of patron saint unknown) was thoroughly restored in 1863, at a cost of £8oo; some of the money was contributed by church building societies, and the remainder by subscription. It has a cupola with five bells, one of which was subscribed for in memory of the late Prince Consort. The interior consists of nave, chancel, south porch, and some memorial windows by Clayton & Bell, of London. The organ was presented by Mrs.]. Garbett in 1867. The font, altar cloths, &c., were also presented. The earliest register is dated 1562. The Rectory house was entirely rebuilt by the present rector. The national school for boys and girls has accommodation for 79 children; average attendance, 35· PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Worcester vza Bromyard, which is the nearest money order and telegraph office. The wall letter-box near the Pulling farm is cleared at 4 p.m. Letters should be addressed "Ullingswick, Bromyard, Worcester." Pan"sh Ohu1·ch. Rev. John Middleton Ware, LL.B., Rector; Mr. Richard Alan Wood, Churchwarden~· Henry Hodges, Parz"sh Clerk. National School (boys and g-irls). Mrs. Jas. Sirrell, Schoolm£stress. Ass-istant Overseer. Mr. Henry John GittingsJ Ode Pychard. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days Stopping Place Return at Joseph Hyde (Little Cowarne) Francis Merrick Wed. & Sat. White Lion Coach & Horses Hop Pole Kerry Arms 3 30 3 30 3 30 3 30 Sat. Jonathan Thomas John Skerrett Wed. & Sat. do. PRIVATE RESIDENT. Ware, Rev. John Middleton, LL.B., {rector of Ullingswick with Little Cowarne), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. Bayliss, John, wheelwright, &c., Little hope Bayliss, Nathaniel, fanner & hop grower, The Pulling farm Hodges, Henry, parish clerk Hyde, Thomas, boot and shoe maker Lewis, George, farmer and hop grower, Wildon cottage Merrick, Francis, farmer, Lowdy hall Pantall, Henry, farmer and hop grower, Pool house Parker, Willia.m, farmer, Marsh farm Sirrell, J ames, farmer and hop grower, The Linnett Skerrett, Herbert, farmer & hop grower, The Gobbetts Skerrett, John, carrier Step hens, William & John, Derndale cot. Taylor, J ames, farmer, Stonehouse Tayson, Charles, farmer and innkeeper Wood, Richard Alan, farmer

UPTON BISHOP. UPTON BISHOP, WITH CRow HILL, UPTON CREws, PHoCLE GREEN, & FISHPOOLS . • UPTON BISHOP is a large parish and village situated on the borders of Gloucestershire, on the upper road between Hereford and Gloucester, and on the main road from Ross to Newent; the church is distant 4 miles N.E. of Ross, 5! W. of Newent, 13 S.E. of Hereford, and I3 W.N.W. of Gloucester; 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 r87I was 716; in r88r, 696; inhabited houses, 142; families or separate occupiers, 152; area of parish, 3,8r6 acres; annual rateable value, £4,371. By orders which came into operation on 25th March, r884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Much Marcle, in Ledbury union, was amalgamated with U pton Bishop, and a detached part of U pton Bishop was amalgamated with Brampton Abbotts. Courtenay C. Prance, Esq., of Hatherley court, Cheltenham, who is lord of the manor, the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton, Lady Coutts Lindsay, Lieut.-Col. John Ernle Money-Kyrle, the Trustees of the late T. Mills, Esq., Thomas Powell, Esq., and Mrs. Ann J ones, are the principal landowners. The soil is a red loam ; subsoil, clay and rock; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, fruit, &c. U pton Bishop is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Ross; living, a vicarage; value, £225, with residence and 191 acres of glebe; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford ; vicar, Rev. Francis Tebbs Havergal, D.D., of New College, Oxford, who was instituted in r874, and is also prebendary of Colwall in Hereford cathedral. The church, dedi· cated to St. Yohn the Baptz''st was re-opened on July 25th, 186z, after having been restored under the superintendence of the late Sir George Gilbert Scott, R.A., at an expense of £r ,Boo, raised by voluntary contributions and grants. The church consists of nave, chancels, aisles, porch, and square tower containing an excellent peal of six bells. The pavements are of God win's encaustic tiles. An organ, by Nicholson, of Worcester, was erected in r874 on the north side of the chancel, at the sole cost of the present vicar. In 1 88o a new vestry was erected on the south side of the chancel, and a new treble bell added to the peal in memory of Frances Ridley Havergal, the younger sister of the vicar. Upwards of £soo was expended about this time on new seats, repair of roofs, and other improvements. There are several stained glass memorial windows. The east window is by Hardman ; subject, "Jesus appearing to Mary in the garden," to the memory of the Rev. James Garbett, vicar of the parish 1840-57· North chancel, by Wailes; subject, "Zacharias and Elizabeth," to the memory of Dr. Gretton and his wife, formerly dean of Hereford, and vicar of the parish r8ro-2o. North nave, by Clayton & Bell; subject, "Raising of Jairus's daughter," to the memory of Maude, daughter of the late Henry Chellingworth, Esq., of Grendon court. East aisle, by Hardman ; subject, "The Good Samaritan," to the memory of Mr. Charles Prosser. South aisle, by Hard man ; memorial window

UPTON BISHOP. and brass plate, erected in I 868. South chancel, by Clayton & Bell; subject, ''The institution of the Eucharist by our Lord,'' to the memory of the Rev. T. B. Power, the late vicar (r857-74). A brass plate, with inscription, is placed immediately beneath. A beautiful brass tablet (by Hardman) was placed in the church in 1872, to the memory of Henry Chellingworth, Esq., and his son and daughters. An ancient monumental stone in the churchyard has been carefully placed on a slightly raised stone base. The parish register goes back to the year 1571. There are two national schools for boys and girls in the parish, with an average attendance of about 90 conjointly. The school at Gayton was built in 1871-72 at a cost of £Joo. The school at Upton was enlarged in 1889, at a cost exceeding £zoo. A Baptist chapel was erected in r86o. There are several good residences in this parish. Grendon Court is the residence of Mrs. Chellingworth, and now the property of the Trustees of the late T. Mills, Esq. ; Gayton Hall, the property of Lord Ashburton, occupied by the Misses Lawson; Manor House, Captain E. Mynde Alien; The Baches House, William Hogarth, Esq.; and The Vicarage, Rev. F. T. Havergal, D.D. Crow Hill is a hamlet distant I mile W.; Phocle (or Focle) Green is 2 miles S.W. ; Upton Crews is near the church; Fishpools is upwards of I mile E. There are interesting old timber houses at Felhampton, Tanhouse, and Tedgewood. A complete record of this parish was published by the vicar in 1883. PosTAL REGULATIONS. William Smallman, Sub-Postmaster, Crow hill. Letters arrive by messenger from Ross at 7 ·35 a. m.; despatched thereto at 5·55 p.m. Money orders are granted and paid, and post office savings bank business transacted. Ross is the nearest telegraph office and post town. The wall letter-box near the school is cleared at 5.4o p.m. Post cif!ice, Phocle Green. John Edmunds, Sub-Postmaster. Letters arrive from Ross at 7·5 a.m. ; despatched thereto at 6.20 p.m. Parish Church (St. :John the Baptist). Rev. Francis Tebbs Havergal, D.D., Vi'car .i Messrs. John Smith and Charles Lippiatt, Churchwardens .i George Taylor, Parz''sh Clerk and Sexton. National School (boys and gt'rls), Upton Bishop. Mr. Alfred Beacham, M aster. National School (boys mzd girls), Gayton. Miss Elizabeth Thomas, .J.l:Hstres s. Baptist Chapel. Ministers various. Assistant Overseer. Mr. Theophilus Turner. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Adams, Francis H., The Upper Baches Alien, Capt. E. Mynde, J.P., Manor house Chellingworth, Mrs., Grendon court Day, John Terrett, Old Gore lodge Havergal, Rev. Francis Tebbs, D.D., (vicar of Upton Bishop & prebendary of Colwall in Hereford Cathedral), The Vicarage Hogarth, William, The Baches house Lawson, The Misses, Gayton ball Martin, Mrs. Col., The Cottage Adams, Francis Ramp, solicitor; com· missioner to administer oaths in the supreme court of judicature; steward of the manor of Eccleswall ; The Upper Baches Bailey, Alfred, shopkeeper, Fishpools Baldwin, John, farmer, Tedgewood Bayley, Mrs. J ames, Ryelands Beacham, Alfred, schoolmaster Bennett, John Powell, farmer, Phocle Brown, William, farmer, Mulhampton Burgham, Henry, farmer, Bayton

UPTON BISHOP VOWCHURCH. Davies, Albert, carpenter, W oodgate Da;r, John Terrett, fanner, Old Gore Drmkwater, J ames, farmer, Crow hill Edmunds, John, shopkeeper and subpostmaster, Phocle green Gibbons, .John, cottage fanner Grundy, Andrew, butcher, Crow hill Grundy, Henry, sheep and cattle dealer, Crews Hardwick, Mrs., farmer, Sandford Hillier, Henry, Pheasant Inn, W oodend Hudd, John, fanner and carrier, Tanhouse cottage J ones, Charles Edward, farmer, Castle farm Jones, Frederick, sawyer, Sandford villa J ones, William, Wellington Inn Lane, Charles, farmer, Tan house Lippiatt, Charles, farmer, Marsh farm Marfell, William Henry, farmer, Foxhall Mason, Mrs., cottage farmer, Fishpools Morgan, J ames, mason, The Crews Oakley, Wm., gardener, Whitehouse Phel;r.>s, Chas., cot. farmer, Church cottage Philhps, James Arthur, grocer and provision dealer, Crow hill Powell, J ames, farmer, V _pton court Powell, T., gamekeeper, Newent road Ratcli:ffe, Thos., farmer, Crow hill Rudge, Joseph, farmer, Coldborough Smallman, George, blacksmith, Fishpools Smallman, J ames, boot and shoe maker, Crow hill Smallman, William, sub-postmaster and blacksmith, post office, Crow hill Smith, John, farmer, Fellhampton Smith, John, mason, Baches cottage Taylor, George, tailor and parish clerk, Upton Crews Teague, William, builder, carpenter, &c., Crow hill Thomas, Miss E., schoolmistress, Gayton Turner, Theophilus, assistant overseer, Rose cottage Webb, Robert, farmer, Wobage and Grendon court farms, res. Ross VOWCHURCH, WITH PosToN, MoNNINGTON, AND STRADDLE. VOWCHURCH is a parish and village situated on the river Dore, in the Golden Valley (a luxuriant and highly beautiful dale), with a station on the Golden Valley railway, distant about 10! miles W.S.W. of Hereford, and II S.E. of Hay. It is in W ebtree hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Hereford county court district, and Vowchurch polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 1871 was 342; in r88r, 325; inhabited houses, 70; families or separate occupiers, 77 ; area of parish, 2,635 acres; annual rateable value, £2,733· The manorial rights are not claimed. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lewis Gavin Robinson are now conjointly the principal landed proprietors. The Governors of Guy's hospital, London, are also landowners here. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsoil, clay and rock; chief crops, wheat, barley, oats, beans, and roots. On a conical eminence above the village is a small square camp commanding an extensive prospect to the S.E. This ancient military post is situated on the line with others in the valley, which constituted a line of encampments through this part of Herefordshire. Vowchurch is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of \X/eobley; living, a vicarage; value, £233, with residence; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester ; vicar, Rev. James Oliver Bevan, M.A., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., late foundation scholar and exhibitioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was instituted in 1885. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a stone edifice with nave, chancel, porch, and small tower containing three bells. It was restored in I 848, at a cost of £67 5. The parish register goes back to the year 1674. The public charities amount to about £27 yearly. The national school for boys and girls has accommodation for 90 children ; average attendance, 7 S· The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here, erected in 1862. Whz'te House is the seat of

VOWCHURCH WACTON. 709 Herbert Howorth Wood, Esq., M.A., ].P., D.L. Poston is about I mile N.W. of Vowchurch. Monnington and Straddle (or Stradel) lie to the E. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received through Hereford at 8 a.m.; despatched at 5.20 p.m. The wall letter box is cleared at 4.50 p.m. Peterchurch is the nearest money order office. Pontrilas is the nearest telegraph office. Post town, Hereford. Parish Church (St. Bartholomew's). The Rev. James Oliver Bevan, M.A., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst., C.E., Vzca1' ,; Mr. Joseph Cooke, Churchwarden; Mordecai Williams, Parish Clerk. National School. Mr. A. ]. Addis, Master/ Mrs. Addis, lf.:fistress. Przmit£ve Methodist Chapel. Min-isters vanous. Ass£stattl Overseer. Mr. Isaac Hughes, Peterchurch. CARRIERS TO HEREFORD. Name Days Return at Mrs. Powell Mrs. Fleet Wed. & Sat. do. Stopping Place Nelson Inn Plough Inn 3 0 4 0 PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Badham, James, Pont-y-pina Bevan, Rev. J. 0., M.A., F.G.S., A.I.C.E. (vicar), The Vicarage Robinson, Edward Lewis Gavin, J.P., county councillor, Poston Lodge Wood, Herbert Howorth, M.A., J.P., D.L., White house COMMERCIAL. CHRISTOPHER, ENOCH, wheelwright, carpenter, and builder Cooke, Joseph, mmer & farmer, Poston mill Davies, Wm., shopkeeper, The Common Fowler, Wm., farmer, Chanstone court Hancorn, John, farmer, Hill farm J ames, William, farmer, Lunnon farm Jones, John, farmer, Monnington court Jones, Reginald Dyke, farmer, Holstrey Meek, J ames, miller & farmer, Chanstone mill Pea.rce, Thos., farmer, Vowchurch court Seaborne, Matthew, shoemaker, Common Seaborne, Thos., mason, The Common Seaborne, William, cottage farmer, The Common SMITH, JOHN LEWIS, linen and woollen draper, and outfitter ; grocer & provision dealer ; agent for Lea, Carpenter, & Co.'s celebrated ales, Allsopp's Burton ales, Bass' pale ales, & Guinness' stout in casks and bottles. All kinds of aerated waters in stock STATHAM, THOS., agricultural implement maker, general implement agent, agent to the Prudential Assurance Co.; and sub-postmaster, Post office Verry, Jas., gamekeeper, High Croft cot. W ATKINS, THOMAS, coal, lime and builders' merchant ; V owchurch Railway station Wilding, James, cottage farmer, The Common Willia.ms, Mordecai, cottage farmer and parish clerk, W assel house Wilson, John, farmer, The Common W ACTON, WITH BuTTERLEY HAMLET. WACTON is a small parish situated about midway between the Bromyard and Tenbury and the Bromyard and Leominster roads, distant 3t miles N.W. of Bromyard, 9 S. of Tenbury, 8-t E. of Leominster, and 16 N.E. of Hereford; is in Broxash hundred, Bromyard union, county court district, petty sessional division, and Bredenbury and :Bromyard polling district and electoral division of the county council. The population in 187 I was 137; in 1881, 102 ; inhabited houses, .21 ; families or separate occupiers, 22 ; area of parish, 1,oo2 acres;

WACTON WALFORD-ON-WYE. annual rateable value, £988. By orders which came into operation on 2 sth March, I 884, under the Divided Parishes Act, a detached part of Edwin Ralph, known as Butterley, was amalgamated with Wacton, and detached parts of Wacton were amalgamated with Thornbury and Edwin Ralph, respectively. The Right Hon. Lady Henry Somerset, of Eastnor castle, is lady of the manor ; and W. Henry Barneby, Esq., of Bredenbury court, Rev. Edward Baldwyn Childe, of Kyre, Mr. Richard Timings, and R A1ison ]ohnson, Esq., are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, producing wheat, beans, hops, oats, fruit, &c. Wacton is in the <iiocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of North Frome; living, a vicarage, united to Bredenbury for ecclesiastical purposes under I and 2 Vie., c. 1 o6, in the year I 876 ; joint value, £ I7 6, with 62! acres of glebe; patron, W. Henry Barneby, Esq., of Bred en bury court; rector, Rev. Charles Bridges, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, who was instituted in 1874. The old church was pulled down in 1881. The parish register begins with the year 1150. There is a board school at Bredenbury for the parishes of Grendon Bishop, Bredenbury, and Wacton. PosTAL REGULATIONS. Letters are received from Worcester via Bromyard and Bredenbury, and arrive from the latter place by· messenger. Bredenbury is the nearest post, money order, savings bank, and telegraph office. Post town, Worcester. Assista1Zt Overseer. Mr. Thomas Barrs, Worcester road, Bromyard. PRIVATE RESIDENT. Timings, Edward, Wacton court COMMERCIAL. Charles, John, farmer and hop grower, Great W acton Compton, Wm., farmer, Butterley mill Drew, Thomas, farmer and hop grower, Little Wacton (&in Bredenbury parish) Johnson, Alison, M.F.H., New Wacton farm J ones, Benjamin, Lower Butterley farm New Inn Company and Coffee Tavern, grocer and provision dealer ; Sergeant J ames Addyman, manager Thomas, William, farmer & hop grower, Butterley court Timings, Edward, farmer, Wacton court Tomkins, Thos., carpenter & wheelwright WALFORD-ON-WYE, WITH BISHOPswoon AND CouGHTON. W ALFORD is an extensive parish and pleasant village, situated near the river Wye, on the Ross and Forest of Dean road, and on the Ross and Monmouth railway, the Kerne Bridge station on that line being in this parish. The adjacent scenery has romantic beauty and loveliness not surpassed by any on the Wye. The village is distant 3 miles S.S.W. of Ross, 7t N.E. of Monmouth, 6 W.N.W. of Mitcheldean, and I 7 S.S.E. of Hereford ; is in Greytree hundred, Ross union, county court district, petty sessional division, and polling district, and electoral division of the county council. The population, including Bishopswood, in 1871 was 1,303; in 1881, 1,179; inhabited houses, 269; families or separate occupiers, 297; area of parish, 4,194 acres; annual rateable value, £7,352. By provisional orders which came into operation on 25th March, 1884, under the Divided

WALFORD-ON-WYE. Parishes Act, a detached part of Hope Mansell, and a detached part of Lea Bailey, known as N ackershole, were amalgamated with this parish. Manley Kingsmill Manley Power, Esq., of Hill court, who is lord of the manor, Harry McCalmont, Esq., Major John Stratford Collins, Major Logan, Mr. B. Brunsdon, and the Representatives of the late Mr. N ourse Harvey, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey, sandy, and loamy; subsoil, clay, rock, red brick earth, and limestone ; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c. Walford is in the· diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Ross; living, a vicarage; value, £242, with residence, and 23 acres of glebe; patron, the Lord Bishop of Worcester; vicar, Rev. Kentish Bache, who was instituted in I 887. The church, dedicated to SS. M-ichael and All Angels, is an ancient stone edifice, in the Anglo-Norman style of architecture, with square tower containing two bells. The loss of the spire, which was destroyed by lightning on Wednesday night, 17th February, 1813, detracts from the completeness of the church. The interior consists of nave, chancel, north aisle, north chapel, and north and south porches. The opening of the chancel arch is elegant, and the arch itself is supported by two piers of Early English design. The nave is separated from the aisle by five piers in the Transition Norman style, with capitals and bases, supporting Pointed arches. In 1865, the lath and plaster was removed from a part of the roof of the nave, thus displaying the old timber-work, which is perfectly sound. There are several handsome monumental tablets. The organ was erected in 1887, when the church was restored. The parish registers date from 1663. The burial-ground is entered through a lych-gate. A beautiful little building, licensed by the Lord Bishop as a chapel of ease to the parish church, and dedicated to St. J'ohn the Evangelist, has been erected on Howle hill, in this parish, at the sole cost of Miss Philips, of Hazelhurst. It consists of nave, chancel, sacristy, and south porch, and accommodation is provided for 130 worshippers, including choir stalls in the chancel; the seats, with the exception of these stalls, being unappropriated. The building is in the Early English style, erected from the designs of Messrs. Haddon Brothers, the total outlay being about £1,300. It was opened in July, 187 5, and is served by the vicar and his curate. The site was presented by a gentleman then resident in the parish, who has a stained-glass window at the east end of the chancel. The organ, by Banfield, of Birmingham, was erected in 1888. The charities belonging to the parish are in the hands of the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds, and consist of an educational charity founded by the late Joseph Clarke, Esq., £269 6s. 4d. in the 2! per cent. consols ; and a clothing charity founded by the late Miss ]ane Clarke, £256 16s. ud. in the 2! per cent consols. The school was erected on glebe land in 1873 at a cost of over £900, defrayed by private subscriptions, an old endowment, and a government grant. Since 1882 it has been under the management of a school board. It has accommodation for 195 children; average attendance, 105. There are chapels for the Baptists, the W esleyans, and the Plymouth Brethren. Cough ton is a hamlet distant about 2 miles from Ross.