ERCALL MAGNA
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This is the extract for Ercall Magna from the 1900 Kelly's Directory.
HIGH ERCALL (or Ercall Magna) is a large parish comprising the hamlets
of Cold Hatton, Cotwall, 1 mile East, Moortown, 1 1/2 miles North-East,
Crudgington, 2 East, Sleap, 3 East, Slafford, Ellerdine, 3 North, Haughton,
3 West, Isombridge, Osbaston, 1 North-East, Poynton 2 West, Roden, 1 West,
Rowton, Tern, 2 East and Walton 1 North. High Ercall is 7 1/2 miles North-East
from Shrewsbury, 5 1/2 North West from Wellington and 2 1/2 West from
Crudgington Station (in this parish) on the Wellington and Market Drayton
branch of the great Western Railway and 151 from London, in the Northern
division of the county. Wellington division of the South Bradford hundred,
Wellington petty sessional division, union and county court district,
rural deanery of Wrockwardine, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield.
Under Local Government Board Orders dated March, 1884, detached parts
of this parish were transferred to Kinnersley and Rodington, and a portion
to Waters Upton was added to High Ercall. The church of St Michael, erected
about 1080 , but was enlarged about two centuries later. Its original
dedication was to St Edward the confessor. The building is of stone in
the early English style, consisting of chancel with chapel on the north
side, nave, south porch and a lofty embattled western tower containing
a clock and 8 bells: it was much injured in the Civil War, but was substantially
repaired afterwards, and in 1864-5 it was restored under the direction
of the late G.E. Street esq. R.A. at a cost of about £1,600, and
affords 350 sittings. The register's date from the year 1585. The living
is a vicarage, net value £300, including 30 acres of Glebe, with
residence, in the gift of Lord Barnard, and held since 1895 by the Rev.
Selwyn Charles Freer M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford. A mission church
of brick was erected in 1863, at a cost of about £500, for the hamlets
of Crudgington, Sleap, and Slafford: it has a western turret containing
one bell, and affords 100 sittings. Here is a hospital, founded by Francis,
Earl of Bradford, for six aged persons and supported by Lord Barnard:
the other charities amount to £26. 16s. 8d. yearly, arising from
Thomas's bequest, being the interest on £484. 12s. 3d.: Roddenhurst’s,
the interest on £85, and the Poor’s Land of 3a. 3r. 4p. which
is let for £8 yearly. A grammar school was founded here in 1663
by Thomas Leeke, but since 1887 the funds have been too low to admit of
it is being carried on. Lord Barnard, who is lord of the manor, the Duke
of Sutherland, John Tayleur esq. of Buntingsdale, Market Drayton and Co-operative
Wholesale Society, limited, Manchester are the landowners. The soil is
principally composed of loam and marl, and rests on the new red sandstone.
The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and artificial grasses. The
area of the parish is 11,347 acres of land and 45 of water; rateable value,
£16,441; the population in 1891 was 1,597. The hamlets of cold Hatton,
Ellerdine and Rowton form a distinct district for each ecclesiastical
purposes, called Rowton, under which head they will be found.
Parish Clerk, James Lockley.
Post Office, M. O., T. O., T. M. O., express delivery, parcel post, S.
B. & annuity & insurance office-Hugh Parry, sub postmaster. Letters
arrive through Wellington at 8 a.m.; box cleared at 5:20 p.m.; dispatched
at 5:30 p.m.
Post Office, Crudgington. John Roster, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive
from Wellington at 6:40 a.m; despatched at 6:5 p.m. postal orders are
issued here but not paid. High Ercall is the nearest money order office.
The telegraph office is at the railway station.
A School Board of 5 members was formed, 3 Nov 1875; J. Jones, Wellington,
clerk to the board; T Addison, attendance officer.
Schools.
Board (mixed), Crudgington, built in 1877, for 90 children; average attendance,
50; John Davies, master.
Board (mixed), High Ercall, built 1860, for 120 children: average attendance,
110: Ebenezer Pitchford, master.
Railway station, Crudgington, Saml Harris, stationmaster.
HIGH ERCALL
Freer, Rev. Selwyn Chas. M.A. Vicarage.
Pascal, Thomas S.
Steedman, Miss, The Grove.
Topham, Richard, Ercall Park.
Commercial
Delves,William, Tayleur Arms P.H. and farmer, Long Waste.
Evans, George Trever & Price Allen, farmers, Shirlowe.
James-Moore, Jas. H. Farmer, The Hall.
Lloyd, Geo. Miller (water) & farmer, Ercall Mill.
Parry, Hugh, general dealer & seed merchant, Post Office.
Ridgway, William, blacksmith.
Smith, Exon , Cleveland Arms P.H.
Topham, Richard, farmer, Ercall park.
COTWALL
Jones, Thomas, farmer, Cotwall farm.
Owen, Frederick, carpenter & Joiner.
Owen, John Francis, grocer & pro.dlr.
MOORTOWN
Bromley, Thomas, farmer.
Hampton, Robert Colley, farmer.
CRUDGINGTON AND SLEAP
Major, Margaret (Mrs), farmer, Sleap.
Lea, Thomas, Farmer.
Middleton, James, Frmr & blacksmith.
Minshull, George, farmer.
Percival, Herbt. France frmr, Sleap
Proudley, Edward, carpenter.
HAUGHTON
Everall, John, farmer.
ISOMBRIDGE
Bromley, Samuel & Vincent, farmers.
Dixon, William, farmer.
OSBASTON
Casewell, Thomas K. farmer.
Colley, Sarah (Mrs), farmer.
POYNTON
Breeze, John, surveyor of roads.
Buttery, Richd, boot & shoe maker.
Humphreys, William, horse breaker.
Llewellyn, Richard (Mrs),farmer.
Morgan, John, farmer.
RODEN
Brisbourne, Peter, farmer.
Bullock, Richard, blacksmith.
Gregory, Thomas, farmer, Red house.
Morris, John, farmer.
TERN
Juckes, Thomas George, farmer.
WALTON
Allcock, Morris John, farmer.
Brookes, Margaret (Miss), farmer.
Hughes, Robert, Tailor & draper.
Kemp, Joseph Hayward, farmer.