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54 ASTON-BY-SUTTON.Walker William, timber merchantsteam saw millsWilkinson Joseph, farmer. Park farm*Yarwood Albert, farmer. MarshGate farmA'CDLEM is an ancient market town, parish andtownship at the intersection of the roads between Nantwichand Market Drayton, in Shropshire and Newcastle(Staffordshire) and Whitchurch (Salop), and on theShropshire Union Canal, with a station on the Crewe,Market Drayton and WeUington branch of the GreatCHESHIRE.Westeni raUway, 6i miles south-east from Nantwich,loj from Crewe and 158 from London, on the bordersof Shropshire and is in the Eddisbury division of thecounty, hundred, petty sessional division and union ofNantwich, county court district of Whitchurch (Salop),rural deanery of Nantwich and archdeaconry and dioceseof Chester. The township is Ughted with gas. Thechurch of St. James is a massive structure chiefly inthe Perpendicular style, with remains ot Early EngUshand Decorated work, and consists ot chancel, clerestoriednave of six bays, south porch and a low towerwith turreted pinnacles at the angles, and containing aclock and 6 bells: there are several monuments andfive stained windows: the church was restored in1885 and affords 557 sittings. The register datesfrom the year 1557. The living is a vicarage, netvearlv value ;^43i, with 2 acres of glebe and residence,in tlie gift of the Bishop of Chester, and held §ince1896 by tbe Eev. James Stapleton Cotton, who is alsorural dean of Nantwich. There is a Wesleyan chapel,•erected in 1862, Primitive Methodist, erected in 1871Primitive Methodist Jubilee chapel. Cox bank, erectedin 1861, and a Baptist chapel, erected in 1840. Thecemetery of two acres, opened in 1874, has two mortuarychapels and is managed by the Parish Councilsin the ecclesiastical parish of Audlem. In the Marketplace is an ornamental lamp, erected by public subscriptionat a cost of about ;^2oo, to the memory ofEichard Baker Bellyse, who for 40 years practised as asurgeon in this town. The Public hall, erected in 1904,is a structure of red brick, containing reading roomsand a billiard room. A market is held every Thursdayand a cattle auction every other Tuesday; the AudlemWakes, a kind of fancy fair, with various amusements,are held in October. Ealph Boulton, in thereign of James I. left a rent-charge of ^^6 yearly tobe distributed as follows:—Six great loaves of breadto be given to the most aged and poorest of the workmenin the township every Sunday and 8s. for achurchwarden's dinner. The charities for Audlem includeabout ;^2o for distribution in bread and clothing.[KELLY'SkYarwood George, farmer, ViUage farm Eichardson WiUiam Thomas, AstonArms P.HFRODSHAM BRIDGE. Rigby Thomas k Son Ltd. (ArthurAshworth Jsph. k Sons Lim.OUcake Rigby, managing director), miUersmiUs (A. J. Ashworth, mang. dir) (steam)PUBLIC OFFICERS.Assistant Overseers, WUliam Smith, Sandy lane (forAudlem k Hankelow) k W. Eric Smith, Sandy lane(for Buerton) , . j.Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator for the AudlemDivision of the Nantwich Union, WiUiam Corbet WatsonStain M.B., CM. Beech houseRelieving Officer, Wrenbury District, Nantwich Union,Charles Griffiths, jun. Paddock laneRegistrar of Births & Deaths, Wrenbury Sub-district,Nantwich Union, Charles Griffiths, jun. Paddock laneVestry Clerk, Joseph Hayward BellyseSCHOOLS.Grammar, founded k endowed by Ralph Bolton &Thomas GammuU in 1642, & now a Secondary school,under the control of the Board of Education; ThomasGammuU, by wUl dated January 23rd, 1642, bequeathedthe sum of ;^Soo, k Ralph Bolton, by wUl in1648, gave ^^465 13s. 4d. to the Merchant Taylor'sCompany upon trust to pay ;^2o yearly towards thesupport of this school; these two sums, together withthe interest of ^o left by the Rev. WUliam Evans,constitute the whole of the endowment, which in 18B9passed into the hands of the Charity Commissioners,& the trust is now managed by a body of governors,of which Stephen B. Jackson esq. is chairman: attachedto the school are 5 entrance scholarships of from Ato £6 each & two of ;^5, to be held in the school;these are awarded annually in July; the school is now(1910) closed for rebuildingPublic Elementary, erected in 1868 k enlarged in 1876,for 320 children; average attendance, 90 boys, 102girls & 54 infants; Herbert J. Thomas, master; MissIsabella Brampton, girls' mistress;infants' mistressRailway Station, Henry Rickard, station masterMrs. Emberton,Water Conveyance.To London, Liverpool, Manchester, Chester, Birmingham,Shrewsbury k Wolverhampton &c.—The" ShropshireUnion Railway & Canal Company's boats fromthe wharf daily; John Johnson, agentBUERTON is a township and vUlage, 2 mUes eastfrom Audlem. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel,and i:22 to be given in money; besides abont^2i for , erected in 1891, and H United Free Gospel chapel, builtapprenticing and £8 for clothing^ distributed in 4s. I ^^ gg- r r .tickets to 40 poor persons from Wetenhall's charities;Samuel Hayward in 1863 left ;^2oo, invested in Consols,Highfields, the seat of Charles Walford Kellock esq.the interest of which to be distributed on St. Thomas'is a black and white timbered mansion in the Elizabethanday amongst widows and widowers over 60 years of age:style, erected in 1615, and situated on a rising groundat Brown's Bank is a small farm, yielding an annualin a park of 200 acres; it contains some very fine oldr Qf Ti,^ • ^A""^ IS distributed to the deserving poor ^^^ deluding a carved mantelpiece dated 1615; theon St. Thomas' day: the township of Buerton has Hoi-i ^ouse was entirely restored in 1883. Sir Delves^ Louisbrook s gift, providing ^12 los. for ten 6d. loaves to , Broughton bart. of Doddington, who is lord of the manor,be given away on Sundays; there are also three j,i,3_^.^Vijgon, of the Grove, Market Drayton, Charleschanties for Dodcott-cum-Wilkesley township, producmg Walford Kellock esq. James HaU esq. of Kynsal Lodge,about ;^j[9 a year, which is dis nbuted in money and ^nd Richard Vernon esq. are the chief landed propriebread.The interest of •;^ioo, subscribed about 1873 totors. The area is 2,981 acres; rateable value, ^^4,880;replace lost charities, is distributed to poor persons onthe population in 1901 was 408.St. Thomas' Day. The Earl of Kilmorey K.P. is lordof the manor. James Greaves esq. and W. J. Armstrongesq. are the principal landowners. There are arrive from Nantwich, via Audlem, at 8 a.m. ; dis­Post Office.—Thomas Hampson, sub-postmaster. Lettersseveral other small owners. The soil is light; subsoil, patched at 8.50 a.m. & 8.20 p.m. Audlem, 2 milesvarious, with some sand. The chief crops are corn, distant, is the nearest money order k telegraph officewhe t, barley, turnips &c. The area of the ecclesiasticalPublic Elementary School (mixed), established in 1871,parish is 11,448 acres; township, 2,326 acres of land& now managed by a committee of 6 persons, Samueland 22 of water; rateable value, ^7,868 ; the populationLightfoot esq. one of these, acting as hon. sec.; thein 1901 yias—township, 1,455; ecclesiastical parish,school will hold 90 children; average attendance, 67;2,465. By Local Government Board Order a detachedWilliam Pugsley, masterpart of Audlem, known as Coole Farm, was in 1888annexed to Hankelow.PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.Cemetery, BeUyse & Eric Smith, clerks to joint burialcommitteePolice Station, George Kennerley, sergeantHANKELOW is a small township and compact villageintersected by the road leading from Nantwich to Audlem,ij miles north-north-east from the latter. Aschool church with chancel was built here by subscriptionin 1875, and divine service is conducted everyPost, M. 0. k T. Office.—Miss Harriet Blakeman, subpostmistress.Letters arrive from Nantwich at 6.50a.m. & 3.30 p.m. & are dispatched at 10.45 a.m. k12.15, 6-10 k 9.5 p.m.; no delivery on Sundays Sunday at 3 p.m. by the clergy of Audlem. There isWaU Letter Box, Kynsal, cleared at 8.50 a.m. k 8.10 also a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1838. Jamesp.mGreaves esq. who is lord of the manor, John E.Haworth esq. and the trustees of the late WilliamLaurance Chew esq. J.P. are the principal landowners,and there are a few smaUer proprietors. The area is712 acres; rateable value, £i,(>(>g; the population in1901 was 210. By Local Government Board Order, No.