History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Shropshire [1851]

Charities.—Sarah Manning charged her real estate in Shakerley with the payment of 10s. annually to the poor of the parish of Donington.  From a deed in the possession of the owner of the Shakerley estate, dated 3rd April, 1729, it appears that this annuity was charged on a butt or section of land called Green Furlong, adjoining to the Kilsale Green, and which was by the provisions of that deed to be conveyed by Thomas Jellicorse and Jonathan Ruston, the trustees therein named, after the death of Sarah Manning, to William Bishton.  What is the particular piece of land subjected to this payment cannot now be ascertained, but the amount is paid as a charge on the Shakerley estate.

The poor have also an annuity of 10s., as a portion of a rent charge of 30s. per annum, given by Mr. Chapman, to be divided between the poor of the parishes of Albrighton, Donington, and Boningale, as stated in the account of the charities of Albrighton.  The owner of the Shakerley estate is not aware in what manner the payment of that rent charge was apportioned, so as to subject him to this share of it, but he considers it as a general charge on the Shakerley estate, and pays it accordingly.  These two sums are distributed among the most necessitous poor of the parish.

Boulton John, farmer, Humphreston

Boulton William, farm bailiff, Sidnall

Cartwright William, farmer, Wood Farm

Dodd Rev. George, curate

Duncalfe William, farmer and surveyor, Chapel House

Holyoake George, Esq., banker, Nachley

Howard Rev. Henry Edward John, D.D., rector and dean of Lichfield, The Rectory

Howell Joseph, shopkeeper

Jones George, Esq., iron master, Shakerley House

Jones John, Esq., ironmaster, White House

Lander Richard, jun., farmer

Miller William, farmer

Moore William, miller, Shakerley Mill

Radford Henry, blacksmith, Shakerley

Reynolds Richard, shopkeeper & shoemaker, Shakerley

Russell John, tailor, Sidnall lane

Sherratt John, farmer, Low Wood Farm

Ward Matthew, Esq., Blue House

Wilkes Samuel, farmer and corn miller, Shakerley

KEMBERTON,

The Church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a small fabric, with a square tower ornamented with pinnacles.  The interior consists of nave and chancel, and is neatly pewed with oak sittings; the tower contains four bells.  A neat marble tablet has been erected, at the expense of the parishioners, in memory of the Rev. John Williams.  The living is a rectory, with the vicarage of Sutton Maddock annexed; valued in the king’s book at £5. 6s. 5½d., in the patronage of Robert Aglionby Slaney, Esq., M.P.; incumbent, Rev. George Whitmore, M.A.  The tithes are commuted for £580.  The Rectory is a handsome stuccoed residence adjoining the church-yard, beautified with pleasure grounds, tastefully laid out.  There is a Parochial School in the village, which is chiefly supported by the rector.

Directory.—George Adlington, wheelwright; Samuel Barker, shoemaker; William Bowdler, farmer; John Cherrington, gentleman; James Clulow, farmer; Wm. Downes, shoemaker; Charles Gough, shopkeeper and wheelwright; Thomas Harper, victualler, Masons’ Arms; Wm. Harper, bricklayer and parish clerk; Benjamin Heyward, gardener; William Richard Jackson, farmer; William Lumley, farmer; John Onions, maltster; Peter Reynolds, farmer; Elizabeth Rogers, school-teacher; Thomas Spenser, gentleman, Langley Cottage; Thomas Stonely, corn-miller; Mrs. Eliza Lloyd Thomas, farmer; Mary Ann Tomkins, shopkeeper; James Vaughan, blacksmith; Rev. George Whitmore, M.A., The Rectory; William Williams, tailor.

RYTON

is a parish, in the Shiffnal Division of the Brimstree Hundred, which embraces 1,390 acres of fertile land, yielding fine crops of wheat, barley, and turnips.  The village is pleasantly situated, three miles S. from Shiffnal, and the same distance W. of Albrighton.  The river Worf, which is celebrated for the excellency and abundance of its trout, intersects the parish.  At the census in 1801 there were 160 inhabitants; 1831, 154; and in 1841, 41 houses and 195 souls.  Rateable value of the parish, £2,507.  The principal landowners are William Angeworth, Esq., Charles Head, Esq., Rev. Robert William Eyton, M.A., and R. A. Slaney, Esq.; there are also several smaller proprietors.  The Church is a neat structure of free-stone, erected in the year 1710, to which additions have from time to time been made.  It consists of nave, chancel, and side aisles, with a square tower, in which are three bells and a clock; the interior has a neat and orderly appearance: the pews are of oak, and the east window is beautifully ornamented with stained glass, with figures illustrative of Scripture history.  There are some neat tablets and memorials to the Hardings, Heads, Sansoms, and others.  The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s book at £5. 12s. 1d., now returned at £508, in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. Robert William Eyton, M.A.; curate, Rev. Richard Seddon, B.A.  The tithes for Royton parish are commuted for £445.  The Rectory is a handsome modern residence, pleasantly situated a little south from the church, and was built on the site of the old rectory.  The National School, a neat Elizabethan brick structure, situated a little east from the church, was built in the year 1850.  The average attendance of children is about forty.  Not far from the National School the stream of the Worf is crossed by a small stone bridge.

Directory.—Robert Bradley, farmer; John Candlin, farmer; Edward Corbett, blacksmith; Elizabeth Corbett, schoolmistress; Samuel Dalloe, schoolmaster; Rev. Robert William Eyton, M.A., The Rectory; Charles Head, farmer, Atchley House; Thomas Hodgkiss, shoemaker; William Holloway, shoe and patten maker; John Knight, wheelwright; William Miles, farmer and beerhouse-keeper, Grindle; George Powell, farmer, Grindle; John Roberts, butler; Rev. Richard Seddon, B.A., curate, Ryton Bank; Thomas Wheeler, farmer, Atchley; John Yates, farmer, Grindle.

anciently called Idesall, or Idsal, is a parish and market town the head of a division of the Brimstree hundred, eight miles south from Newport, ten miles north from Bridgnorth, and eighteen miles east by south from Shrewsbury.  The town chiefly consists of one street upwards of a mile in length, with several minor streets diverging from it.  The houses are irregularly built, and many of the cottage residences have a mean appearance; there are however several good inns and private houses, and a number of respectable shops in most of the branches of the retail trade.  Though the situation of the town is low, it is built on a dry sandy soil, and by no means unpleasant.  According to tradition Idesall was a place of more considerable note in former times, and the principal portion of the town stood westward of the church; foundations and traces of buildings have frequently been discovered which would seem to confirm this supposition.  In the 9th of Edward II.  Bartholomew de Badlesmere obtained for him and his heirs a market on Monday and Friday, and two fairs in the year, one on the eve of the day, and the day after the feast of the Holy Trinity, and the other on the eve, the day, and the morrow after Michaelmas, as also the liberty of free warren in his demesnes in Ideshall, Adderley, Sponley, Calverhall, and Shavington.  He was one of those mutinous lords who took part in the battle of Boroughbridge, March 16th, 1322, where he was taken prisoner and afterwards executed at Canterbury.  The possessions of Bartholomew Badlesmere were granted in the 15th of Edward II. to Edmund Earl of Arundel and the heirs male of his body, but that noble lord was in like manner attainted about four years after, and so we find Giles de Badlesmere, son of the said Bartholomew, restored to the inheritance of his family.  In the 11th of Edward IV., John Earl of Shrewsbury had a grant of a market and two fairs at the Ville of Suffenhall.  The market is still held on Tuesday, but is not of much consideration; formerly corn was sold to a considerable extent.  Fairs are held on the first Monday in April, August 5th, and November 22nd.  The great London and Holyhead road passes through the town, upon which there were formerly seventeen coaches passing and repassing daily, which, with other traffic, added much to the commercial importance and advantage of Shiffnal.  Although the inhabitants have the facilities of railway communication and a station in a central part of the town, this has rather had a tendency to diminish the importance of Shiffnal, by diverting the attention of parties who formerly frequented the market here to places of more consideration at no great distance.

The parish contains 11,433 acres of land, of which 1,090 acres are in woods and plantations, 74a. 3r. 28p. in roads and waste, and there are 60 acres of glebe.  Rateable value, £24,561. 16s.  Population in 1801, 3,632; 1831, 4,779; 1841, 5,244; 1851, 5,616; of whom 2,820 were males, and 2,796 females; at the latter period there were 1,050 houses.  The Marquis of Stafford is lord of the manor and a very considerable landowner.  The parish comprises four divisions, viz.: that of Shiffnal, embracing the town and its suburbs; Hatton district, comprising the hamlets of Idsal, Hem, Wyke, Evelith, and Hinnington; Priors Lee, those of Snedshill, Haughton, and Woodhouse; and the division of Woodside, containing the hamlets of Crackley bank, Decker hill, the Lizzard, Aston, Stanton, Upton, and Coppice green.  The parish is intersected by the London and Holyhead, Shiffnal and Bridgnorth, and the Albrighton and Newport turnpike roads, and is watered by the small streams of the Sal, Worfe, Cosford, and the Lizzard.  The township of Shiffnal contains 188a. 2r. 10p. of land, and in 1841 had 412 houses and 1,872 inhabitants.  Rateable value, £4,153. 4s.  The principal freeholders are the Marquis of Stafford, W. H. Slaney, Esq., William Cope, Esq., Mr. Edward Cherrington, and Mr. Thomas Eaton Lander, besides whom there are between forty and fifty small freeholders.  The tithes were commuted in 1839, when the rectoral tithes were apportioned as follows, viz: £923 to the Rev. John Brooke; £580 to Henry Sidney Herbert, Esq.; £105 to the Duke of Cleveland; and £26 to Messrs. John and George Pritchards.  The vicarial tithes are commuted for £307.  A considerable extent of land, the property of the Duke of Cleveland, Lord Forester, R. A. Slaney, Esq., Rev. John Brooke, and others, is tithe free, and other portions of the parish pay a small modus.

The Baptists have a neat chapel situated on the Salop road, built in 1843, and another chapel in Aston street.  The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is situate in the Back lane.  The National Schools are situated in the Innage.  Seventy-five boys and about seventy girls attend.  It is supported by endowments and annual subscriptions, together producing about £40 per annum.  The endowments of the schools will be found noticed with the charities.  The Christian Knowledge Society have a branch depository for the circulation and sale of religious books, situated in High street; Mr. Cornelius Bennet is the librarian.

The Savings Bank was established in 1819, and is situated in New-street Terrace.  The capital stock of the bank on November, 20th, 1850, amounted to £15,198. 3s. 2d., at which period there were 469 separate accounts; of which nine were charitable societies, and three friendly societies.  Of the respective balances, 260 did not exceed £20, 108 were above £20 and not exceeding £50, 46 did not exceed £100, 30 were above £100 and not exceeding £150, and the deposits of 13 were above the latter amount and under £200.  The amount received from depositors from November 20th, 1849, to November 20th, 1850, was £2,204. 14s. 8d.  The payments during the same period were £2,275. 4s. 7d.  Mr. Thomas Eaton Lander, Treasurer; and Mr. Peter Osborne, Secretary.  The bank is open every alternate Tuesday from ten till one o’clock.

The Shiffnal Union House, a brick structure, situated a short distance from the town, was partly built in 1817, at the expense of the ratepayers.  In the year 1840, additional buildings were erected by the guardians of the union, at a cost of about £800, which will accommodate about one hundred and fifty inmates.  The interior arrangements are well contrived for the comfort, convenience, and cleanliness of the inmates, the number of whom is usually about sixty.  The union comprises an area of sixty-seven square miles, and embraces the parishes of Albrighton, Badger, Beckbury, Boninghall, Donington, Kemberton, Ryton, Shiffnal, Stockton, Sutton Maddock, and Tong, in the county of Salop; and the parishes of Blymhill, Pateshull, Sheriff Hales, and Weston-under-Lizard, in the county of Stafford.  There are twenty guardians appointed for the several parishes, who meet at the board-room every alternate Monday.  The Rev. John Brooke is the chairman; Mr. Peter Osborne, clerk and superintendent registrar; John Fielding, deputy-registrar; Mr. William Roden, of Haughton, registrar of births and deaths for the Shiffnal district; Mr. John Totty, registrar for the Albrighton district; surgeons, Mr. Thomas Eaton Lander and Messrs. Bennett and Orwin; relieving officer, Mr. Richard Venables; master, Mr. George Bailey; matron, Mrs. Bailey; schoolmistress, Hannah Maria Thomason.

The Gas Works, situated in High street, were established by a company of shareholders, with a capital stock of £2,300.  The premises are conveniently adapted for the purposes intended, and there is a gasometer for the reception of the luminous vapour, which will hold 10,000 cubic feet.  A charge of 7s. 6d. per 1,000 feet is made to the consumer.

The Railway Station, situate in the Market place, near the centre of the town, presents a beautiful pile of buildings, in the Italian style, and is approached by a flight of fifty-seven steps.  The railway is carried over the town, and crosses the Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Newport turnpike roads, at an elevation of sixty feet above the level of the ground.  This noble viaduct comprises twenty brick arches, of thirty-seven feet span each; and at the turnpike roads, which are eighty feet wide, are six semi-circular metal arches, resting on brick abutments, with stone capitals.  The embankment extends for several miles.  The metal viaduct and its battlements were cast at the Horseley Iron Works, Tipton, in the year 1848, and the railway was opened on the 12th of November, 1849.  Twelve trains leave the station daily for Shrewsbury and Birmingham.  Mr. George Augustus Frederick Hill is station-master and resident manager.  Mr. Charles Lloyd, station-clerk.  Omnibuses leave the railway station daily for Bridgnorth and Ironbridge.

Aston Hall, a handsome mansion, the property of Major Moultrie, is the residence of Uvedale Corbet, Esq., J.P., and Judge of the County Court.  The house is delightfully situated about half a mile east from Shiffnal.  Crackley Bank is a hamlet, about two miles north from Shiffnal.  Here the Wesleyan Methodists have a small chapel.  Deckerhill Hall, a spacious stuccoed mansion, delightfully situated, is the residence of Mrs. Botfield.  The pleasure grounds and shrubberies are of considerable extent, and laid out with great taste.  Coppice Green and Lizard are hamlets north east of Shiffnal.  Burlington, three miles north of Shiffnal.  Stanton, a hamlet, a mile and a half east from the parish church, is noted as the residence of Mr. Henry Wadlow, a celebrated race-horse trainer.  Stanton Farm, the residence of John Eyke, Esq., land-agent to Lord Stafford, comprises upwards of one thousand acres.  Mr. Eyke is noted for having extensive flocks of superior bred sheep.

Hatton is an extensive district, in the parish of Shiffnal, comprising 3,982a. 0r. 3p. of land, the soil of which in many parts is a strong fertile loam, producing good crops of barley, wheat, and turnips.  Rateable value, £5,761. 12s.  The township of Hatton, situated two miles and a half south from Shiffnal, at the census of 1841 was returned as containing 108 houses and 542 inhabitants.  The principal landowners are Robert Aglionby Slaney, Esq., M.P., Lord Forester, Michael Goodall, Esq., The Duke of Cleveland, Thomas Eaton Lander, Esq., Rev. George Burder, Mrs. Ann Turner, and the Rev. Townshend Brooke; besides whom there are several smaller proprietors.  This is a pleasantly situated district, with a fine undulating surface, containing many good family mansions and farm residences; the houses are mostly built of brick, and the farms are of considerable extent.  Hutton Grange, a handsome brick mansion, the residence of William Henry Slaney, Esq., barrister-at-law, is delightfully situated in a sequestered part of the country, three miles south-east from Shiffnal.  The park grounds are beautifully studded with timber, and the gardens and pleasure grounds are of considerable extent, and laid out with great taste.  Evelith Manor, a beautiful modern mansion, situated a mile and a half south from Shiffnal, is the residence of Michael Goodall, Esq.  Hem is a hamlet, a mile and a half south-west from Shiffnal.  Idsal contains several rural villas, and forms a southern suburb to the town of Shiffnal.  Hinnington, a hamlet south of Shiffnal; and Wyke is situated about a mile to the south-west.

PRIORS LEE

Haughton is a pleasantly situated village in a secluded vale about a mile W. from Shiffnal, watered by the small stream of the Sal, and crossed by the Newport and Priors Lee turnpike road.  There are several neat villa residences here, beautified with tasteful gardens.  Haughton Hall, a spacious and elegant mansion, is the residence of the Rev. John Brooke.  The edifice is of brick, and stuccoed, and being situated on a gentle eminence commands some fine views of the surrounding country.  The gardens and pleasure grounds are beautifully laid out, and the park is richly wooded with fine timber.

Snedshill is a populous district in the parish of Shiffnal, adjoining Oakengates, noted for the extensive iron works of Messrs. Horton, Simms, and Bull, and the iron works and collieries of the Lilleshall company.  Woodhouse is situated three miles N.W. from Shiffnal.  Woodside, a township three miles N.E. from Shiffnal, at the census of 1841 had 72 houses and 360 inhabitants.  This is an extensive farming district, which comprises 4,086 acres of land, of which 324a. 2r. 26p. are in woods and plantations.  Rateable value, £5,592.  The Marquis of Stafford, Mrs. Botfield, Major Moultrie, Rev. John Brooke, Rev. Townshend Brooke, and Mr. Thomas Langley, and others, are landowners.

Charities.—Shiffnal Free School.  The earliest mention that we find of this school is contained in the will of John Aron, dated 5th July, 1595, in which subject to certain contingencies he gives the sum of £20 towards erecting a school house in Shiffnal.  From the will of Gordian Strowbridge, dated 22nd November, 1626, it appears that a school house was there “erected and set up” in the town, in which eight poor scholars were instructed to read and write under the auspices of the testator; and for the continuance of which number therein, after his death, he provides by a legacy of £50.  But contemplating the possibility of a cessation of the school in the house which had been so erected, he in that event appoints the interest of the legacy to other uses, one moiety to be given to any schoolmaster who should teach a school either in the town or parish.  An uncertain or temporary interest in the building which had been there erected would sufficiently explain the grounds of the testator’s apprehension that the school might cease to be kept in it; and we are led to believe that such was the nature of the interest which the charity at that time possessed, from the testimony which we find subsequently recorded on the benefaction table, that “John Careswell, in 1652, gave the sum of £10, with which he purchased the school house for the use of the inhabitants of the town and parish of Shiffnal.”  It is probable, therefore, from this recorded purchase, that we are to derive the title to the school house which the town and parish now enjoy; although a later date seems to be assigned to the present building or some part of it, by an inscription in the year 1682, which appears upon one of its walls.  Of the legacy given by Gordian Strowbridge we do not find any further mention, but it is supposed to have formed a part of the consolidated charities hereafter mentioned.

Sir Humphrey Briggs, Bart., by deed dated 9th November, 1652, granted to certain trustees all the tithes of corn, grain, and hay, coming within the titheable places of the township of Hem, on trust for the security of the payment, among other things, of the sum of £1. 13s. 4d. out of the profit of the premises to the schoolmaster of Shiffnal.

Consolidated Charities.—Robert Sidney, in 1677, in consideration of the sum of £200, which money had been given by ten several donors for charitable uses, granted a rent charge of £10 per annum, to be issuing out of his manor of Grindle, as to 10s. of it for the payment of the Tenstree rent, the residue thereof to be applied in apprentice fees, and other charitable uses.  On the 15th August, 1761, at a general meeting held in the parish church, the vicar, churchwardens, overseers, and others, signed a written declaration in the parish book, testifying that they thereby assigned the annuity so charged for the use of the schoolmaster in consideration of his teaching six additional children to read and write.  In consequence of this proceeding the master has since continued to receive this annuity, which, with the respective annuities of £1. 13s. 4d. and £2. 4s., constituted the whole of his income down to the year 1816, in which year it was resolved to adopt the national system of education, and with the interest of a legacy amounting to £4. 10s., and funds raised by subscriptions, the annual income now amounts to about £40.

Careswell’s Exhibitions.—The particulars of this endowment will be found noticed with the account of the free grammar school at Bridgnorth, where it will be seen that three scholars of the free school at Shiffnal are eligible to exhibitions at Christ College, Oxford.  It does not appear that the free school, properly so called, has ever participated in the benefit of these exhibitions, not having at any time included classical instruction in its course of education.  But it seems that the practice has been to elect the exhibitioners from a private classical school kept in the town of Shiffnal—a practice probably grounded upon the provision which extended the benefit of the endowment to scholars not free of the school.  We conceive (observe the charity commissioners) that the true meaning of that provision was to include the private scholars of the master of the free school, and not the scholars of any other school, having no connection or communication with the free school.  Such, however, as far as we can trace it, appears to have been the character of the classical school to which we have alluded, into which if any scholars were ever admitted from the free school, it was not as free scholars, but on payment of the same price, and subject to the same conditions that were required from the other scholars.  It appears indeed that the master of this school received a formal appointment as classical tutor of the free school from the minister, trustees, and principal inhabitants of Shiffnal; but he was at the same time exempted from affording any tuition or discharging any duties towards the free school, other than preparing for Christ Church such exhibitioners as came forward as candidates agreeably to the provisions made for them in Mr. Careswell’s will.  The duty, therefore, which he thus engaged to perform, appears to have been simply to receive and instruct such of the free scholars of the free school as should be able to pay that price, and comply with these conditions.  We cannot but think that a more important benefit to the free school was contemplated by the founder of these exhibitions, who in extending the benefit to scholars not free of the school, probably intended to provide for a classical master such a source of remuneration from private scholars as should entitle the free scholars gratuitously to participate in the advantages of his instruction.

Richard Bennet, in 1794, bequeathed £100 upon trust, and directed the interest or proceeds thereof to be paid to the master of the free school.  The interest, £4. 10s., is now paid to the master of the national school.

Beatrice Jobber, in 1716, bequeathed £200, and directed the interest to be applied in clothing and instructing six poor children, daughters of widows or other poor persons belonging to the parish of Shiffnal.

Sir Humphrey Briggs, in 1652, left a rent charge of 40s. per annum, to be distributed by the churchwardens and overseers among the poor of the parish.

Arthur Mainwaring, in 1690, gave four butts of ground lying in Churchfield and Wykefield, within the parish of Shiffnal, to Mary, his wife, and Ann, his daughter, and their heirs for ever, on trust, to pay 20s. yearly on the feast of St. Andrew, to forty poor old people belonging the parish.

Vincent Latham gave £20 for the use of the poor.  In respect of this gift there is now a rent charge of 20s. per annum, issuing out of a certain tenement in High-street, which is divided among the poor on the feast of St. Andrew.

William Smith, in 1713, gave £10 to the poor of Shiffnal, and directed the interest to be distributed among poor widows who do not receive parochial relief.

Edward Revell, by deed, 1693, assigned to certain trustees a bond which had been made to him for the payment of £200, with lawful interest, in trust, for the benefit of the poor.  The bond which was thus assigned appears to have been discharged in 1698, and £100 of the money, after passing successively through several hands at interest, was in 1847 given to Humphrey Pitt, Esq.  John Revell, in 1723, gave £100 for charitable uses; this, it appears, eventually also came into the hands of Mr. Pitt, and at his death in 1769 it was found necessary to institute a suit against his representatives for the recovery of the money due from his estate.  An arrangement afterwards took place, by which it was agreed that the sum of £312 should be paid to the trustees, in full of all principal and interest then due, of which £12 was immediately distributed among the poor, and the remaining £300 was placed out at interest.  The other £100 left by Edward Revell, above mentioned, after being held by the Phillip’s family, came into the possession of George Appleby, Esq., in whose hands the above £300 was also placed, and who paid interest at the rate of five per cent. for the same till the year 1804, when the principal was transferred to George Brooke, Esq., who gave a promissory note for the security of the same, and pays interest at the rate of five per cent.  This money, with other charities previously noticed, produces a yearly income of £25. 3s. 4d., which, with other monies furnished by voluntary contributions, is distributed at Christmas in small sums among the poor.

Reginal Piper, in 1659, granted to the churchwardens of Shiffnal a rent charge of 10s. issuing out of his messuage in the Sheep market, and directed the same to be disposed of among twenty poor old people.

Henry Green, in 1702, granted to trustees a rent charge of 20s. per annum, to be disposed of on Good Fridays and Christmas-days among poor widows.

Frances Moreton, in 1781, devised to her nephew, John Brooke, a piece of land, called Aston Croft, in trust, to permit the vicar of the parish to dispose of the rents and profits among poor housekeepers.  By indenture, dated 5th of May, 1788, reciting the abovementioned will, and that the said Frances Moreton had no power to devise the said land, the same descending to Sarah Atkis, as heir-at-law of Robert Moreton, deceased; the said Sarah Atkis conveyed to trustees the plot of land called Aston Croft, to permit the vicar to take the rents thereof, and during the life of Mary Stockwell, to apply a part, and after her decease, the whole of the profits amongst decayed housekeepers.  The land, about the year 1806, was exchanged for 3a. 3r. 12p. situate at Aston, in the parish of Shiffnal, which now produces a rent of £12 per annum.  The amount is distributed at Christmas eve among poor widows or other indigent persons, in sums varying from 4s. to 10s. each, according to their several necessities.

Post Office—At Miss Frances Adams’s, New street.  Letters arrive at 5.30 A.M., and are despatched at 7.30 P.M.

Adams Miss Frances, New street

Allen William, Esq., Bank House

Bailey Mr. George, Union House

Barnfield Mrs., The Cottage

Bennett Cornelius, organist, High street

Bennett Mr. Samuel, The Grove

Bidlake Roger, gentleman, Old road

Bothfield Mrs. Lucy, Decker-hill Hall

Bradburn William, Old road

Brooke Rev. John, Haughton Hall

Brooke Rev. Townshend, Idsal Vicarage

Cannon Chas., inland revenue officer, Innage

Cherrington Mr. Edward, Church street

Cope William, Esq., barrister, Park House

Corbet Uvedale, Esq., Aston Hall

Cuxson Mrs. Eleanor, New street

Evett Mr. James, Horse fair

Eyke John, Esq., Stanton House

Fletcher Mr. John, Park Villa

Gas Company (office) High street

Gilbert Mr. Thomas, Old road

Glover William Cheshire, Esq., High street

Goodall Michael, Esq., Evelith

Gray Mrs., New street

Hills Mr. George A. F., High street

Horton John, Esq., Priors Lee Hall

Hudson Mr. Job, Old road

Jones Miss Martha, Innage

Jones The Misses, Uplands

Lander Edward, Market street

Lander Mr. Thomas Eaton, Beech House

Lander Mr. Thomas Eaton, Innage

Leake James, solicitors’ clerk, High street

Lello Mrs. Mary, High street

Lloyd Charles, railway clerk, High street

Masefield Mrs. Alice, Woodhouse

Masefield Mrs. Ann, Aston street

Masefield Mr. Thomas, Woodhouse

Orwin Mr. James, High street

Osborne Mr. Peter, New street terrace

Perrin Dudley Josiah, New street

Phillips Mr. Andrew, Market street

Pidgeon Robt., Esq., land agent, Russell place

Roden Mrs. Charlotte, Church street

Roden William, registrar, Haughton

Shirley Mr. William, trainer, Church street

Smyth Amelia, Rock terrace

Spedding Rev. Francis, M.A., New street

Thomas Evan, inland revenue officer, High st

Venables Richard, relieving officer, Church st

Wadlow Henry, horse trainer, Stanton

Academies.

Beetlestone John, Old road

Beetlestone Mrs., Aston st

Gentlemen’s Boarding, High street; Rev. James Thos. Matthews, principal

Gilbert Mary, Church street

Ladies’ Boarding, Rock terrace; Miss Smyth

National (Boys), Innage; David Whittle

National (Girls), Innage; Jemima Owen

Accountant.

Gilbert Thomas, Old road

Attorneys.

Glover William, Cheshire High street

Perrin Dudley Josiah, New street

Phillips Andrew, office back of Market place

Auctioneers.

Houlston John, office Mr. Fraser’s, Market place

Weare Wm., office Market pl

Bakers and Flour Dealers.

Lowe Mary, Horse fair

Randle Catherine, Market pl

Bankers.

Shropshire Banking Company, Horse fair; Wm. Allen, manager

Savings Bank, New street; Peter Osborne, secretary

Blacksmiths.

Clarke Thomas, High street

Evans Richard, Church st

Ferney John, Aston street

Smout John, Aston street

Tozer William (and whitesmith), High street

Booksellers, Printers, Stationers, & Bookbinders.

Beddow Barnabas Leman, New street

Edmunds Ann, Market place

Boot and Shoemakers.

Bullock Thomas, High street

Fenn William, High street

Harper John, Aston street

Jones Joseph, Church street

Norton George, High street

Owen John, Church street

Warrender Jas. (and dealer), High street

Westbrooke John, Market place

Williams Thos., High street

Braziers and Tin-plate Workers.

Bullock John, High street

Tomlinson Wm., Market pl

Bricklayers and Masons.

Beetlestone Benjamin, Aston street

Beetlestone John, High street

Ingram William, Aston street

Yates Richard, High street

Yates Thomas, High street

Butchers.

Hall Mary, Market street

Hall Robert, High street

Hall William, High street

Haywood Thomas, Market pl

Parkes Francis, High street

Poyner William, High street

Ward George, Market place

Cabinet Makers & Upholsterers.

Blud Thomas, Back street

King Charles (and dealer in British wines), Back st

Linall William, High street

Pointon William, High st

Cheese, Butter, and Bacon Factors.

Dagleish William, High st

Pointon Thomas, Market pl

Randle Catherine, Market pl

Chemists and Druggists.

Bate Wm. Stokes, Market pl

Langman Frederick, Market place

Pace William Cherrington, Back street

Coal Agents.

Fellows Aaron, Railway statn.

Hills and Phillips (and lime and salt), Railway station

Coal Merchants.

Botfield Beriah, Old Park Colliery

Horton & Company, Priors Lee Works

Lilleshall Co., Priors Lee

Confectioners.

Bartley John, Market place

Lowe Mary, Marketplace

Coopers.

Wakelain Joseph (and dealer in turn and bend ware), High street

Williams Charles, High st

Williams Robert, High street

Corn Factor.

Fellows Aaron, Aston street

Curriers & Leather Cutters.

Cherrington Roger, High st

Lello George, High street

Farmers.

Masefield Thos., Woodhouse

Norton Alfred, New street

Powell John, Church street

Roden John, High street

Fellmongers.

Fenn Samuel, High street

Hodgkinson John, High st

Fire and Life Office Agents.

Accidental Death; Mr. Beddow, New street

Birmingham Fire and Life; Charles King, Back street

Great Britain Life; Mr. Osborne, New street

Salop Fire, Mr. Beddow, New street

Shropshire & North Wales; Lander & Sons, Market pl

Fishmonger.

Harris John, Market street

Grocers and Tea Dealers.

Bate William Stokes, Market place

Bryant John, Market place

Bullock John, High street

Dagleish William, High st

Pace William Cherrington, Back street

Hair Dresser.

Morris James, Market place

Hatters and Dealers.

Hardy Charles, High street

Higgins William, Church st

Reynolds Peter and George, High street

Hotels, Inns, and Taverns.

Bell Hotel, John Podmore, Church street

Crown, Robt. Williams, High street

Eight Bells, Richd. Morgan, Market place

Jerningham Arms Hotel, Commercial, and Posting House, Miss Anne Masefield, Church street and Horse fair

Lion, Donald Fraser, New street

Nag’s Head, John Lowe, Market place

Plough, Thomas Williams, High street

Queen’s Head, Chas. Leake, High street

Railway Tavern, Thomas Latham, Aston street

Star Hotel, Elizabeth Wild, Market place

Talbot, Richard Pointon, High street

Union Inn and Coaching House, Edward Nickless, New road

Unicorn, James Medlicott, Horse fair

Victoria Hotel, Family, Commercial, & Posting House, John Wood, Market pl

Wheat Sheaf, Thos. Dunn, High street

White Horse, Emma Smallman, Market place

Wonder, Thomas Lowe, Horse fair

Beerhouses.

Evans Thomas, High street

Fenn Samuel, High street

Ward Sarah, Aston street

Yates Richard, High street

Yates Thomas, High street

Ironfounders.

Botfield Beriah, Old Park Works

Horton & Simms, Priors Lee

Lilleshall Company, Snedshill Iron Works

Ironmongers.

Bate William Stokes, Market place

Bullock John (and nail-manufacturer), High st

Joiners and Builders.

Cherrington Edward (and timber merchant), Salop road

Power Michael, New street

Linen and Woollen Drapers and Silk Mercers.

Hardy Charles, High street

Higgins William, Church st

Lander & Sons, Market pl

Reynolds Peter and George, High street

Livery Stable Keepers.

Masefield Anna, Horse fair

Roberts John, Horse fair

Wild Elizabeth, Market pl

Wood John, Market place

Maltsters.

Fellows Aaron, Aston street

Forrest William, High street

Lello John, Aston street

Masefield Thomas, Aston st

Morgan Richard, Market st

Podmore John, Church st

Roden George, Old street

Roden William, High street

Thomason Samuel, (and dealer in British wines), High street

Wakelam Samuel, High st

Milliners and Dressmakers.

Biss Eliza, New street

Fenn The Misses, Old road

Jones Elizabeth, Aston st

Nicholas Rebecca, High st

Peake Jane (bonnet maker), New street

Plumbers, Painters, and Glaziers.

Heyward George, High street

Lawson William, New street

Phillips Samuel, Horse fair

Yates James, Horse fair

Rope, Oil Cloth, and Tarpauling Makers.

Heywood Thomas, High st.

Heywood William, High st.

Saddlers and Harness Makers.

Hitchcock Thomas, High st.

Lowe Thomas, Market place

Smith Moses, Horse fair

Tillage Dealers and Farm Seedsmen.

Longman Frederick, Market place

Lander & Sons, Back street, Richard Owen, agent

Shopkeepers and Dealers in Sundries and Groceries.

Cullwick John, High street

Evans Thomas, High street

Fenn Samuel, High street

Mole Allen, High street

Morgan William, High street

Ralphs Mary, Market place

Rudge Joseph, Aston street

Yeardley Andrew, High street

Smallware Dealer.

Morris James, High street

Spirit Vaults and Wine and Spirit Merchant.

Cherrington Edward, Church street

Surgeons.

Bennett Samuel, Aston street

Evett James, Horse fair

Lander Thomas Eaton, Innage

Orwin James, High street

Tailors.

Bennett William, Horse fair

Clemson John, Church street

Hitchcock Thomas, High st.

Pugh Henry, Innage

Roberts Thomas, Aston st.

Tallow Chandler.

Rayworth Wm., High street

Veterinary Surgeons.

Harris Thomas, Church st.

Poole George, cow leech, High street

Robinson Sampson, New st.

Rexham George, High street

Watch and Clock Maker.

Davies John, Back street

Wheelwrights.

Pointon John, Aston street

Pointon Richard.  Back street

Hatton District Directory.

Ashdown Wm., Hem farm

Badger and Hewitt, Grange farm

Barker Thomas, Spring Bower farm

Bill John, corn miller, Hinnington

Booth Henry, Naird and Shaw farms

Bradbury Messrs., bone mills and merchants

Burgess George, Evelith corn mills

Durant Rev. Francis Osian, Old hall, Evelith

Goodall Michael, Esq., Evelith manor

Hoole Richard, Common farm

Lander Thomas Eaton, surgeon, Innage

Lander Thomas Eaton, gent., Beech house

Langley Thomas, maltster, Upton farm

Lawrence John, gardener, Hatton grange

Mellor James, farmer, Wyke

Miller Martha, farmer, Wyke

Morgan George, the Elms farm

Morgan Thos., farmer, Wyke

Morris John, Manor farm and miller

Pepper Sander, the Hill farm

Powell John, farmer, Shaw lane

Power Michael, contractor

Slaney Miss, the Grange

Slaney William Henry, Esq., Hatton grange

Smith John, farmer, Wyke

Smith the Misses, Rock terrace

Smith Robert, Hem farm, and miller

Smith William, Homer farm

Smith William, butler, Hatton grange

Summers Charles, coachman, Hatton grange

Swain Thomas, farmer, Hinnington

Taylor Robert, farmer, Evelith

Wright Herbert Hancox, Grange farm

Haughton Directory.

Baddeley William, farmer

Brooke Rev. John, the Hall

Coulston Joseph, farmer

Old Park and Stirchley Iron Works, Beriah Botfield, Esq., proprietor; George Bishton, secretary and cashier; William Hudson, accountant; William Summers, bookkeeper; Mark Tipton, manager

Phillips David, corn miller

Roden William, farmer

Sharratt Thomas, road surveyor

Ward James, gentleman

Priors Lee Directory.

Astbury James, parish clerk

Booth Edwin, maltster and farmer

Booth Thomas, Castle farm

Booth William, farmer

Bulger Christopher, mine bailiff

Colebank Rev. Robert, M.A.

Dawes Wm., schoolmaster

Franks William Henry, shopkeeper

Garbett John, tailor

Horton John, Esq., the Hall

Horton Samuel, Esq., ironmaster

Horton, Simms and Bull, ironmasters and forgers, Snedshill works

Hughes John, vict., the Lion, and accountant

Hughes Thomas, vict., the Pigeon Box

Jones William, Wood green, farm

Langley Richard, farmer

Langley Samuel, Blythbury farm

Latham Roger, Woodhouse, farm

Lilleshall Company, ironmasters and coal proprietors

Llewyllyn Mary, shopkeeper

Masefield Alice, Woodhouse

Sargent Elizabeth, schoolteacher

Smart Ellen, boarding school proprietor

Smart John, farmer

Tipton Edward, accountant

Tipton Luke, secretary, Lilleshall company

Tipton William, bookkeeper

Tipton William, mine manager

Woodside District Directory.

Abercrombie James, farmer and vict., Hare and Hounds, Crackley bank

Botfield Mrs., gentlewoman, Decker hill hall

Butterton Enoch, farmer, Lizzard

Butterton Mary Ann, farmer, Burlington

Butterton Miss Hannah, Burlington

Corbet Uvedale, Esq., Aston hall

Dunn George, farmer

Embrey Stephen, butler, Aston hall

Eyke John, Esq., land agent to Lord Stafford, Stanton house

Hadin Joseph, farmer, Lizzard

Inscoe Daniel, farmer, Lizzard

Kendrick Mrs. Ann, Burlington

Kendrick Thomas and Wm., farmers, Burlington

Langley Thomas, gentleman, Coppice green hall

Lawrence Charles, farmer, Drayton lodge

Norton Alfred, farmer, Aston

Pickin Widow, Coppice green farm

Revitt John, shoemaker, Crackley bank

Revitt Thomas, shoemaker Crackley bank

Rudge Henry, coachman, Aston hall

Smith John, farmer, Woodside