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course system is followed. A few acres are under hops, and a considerable quantity of cider is made. The cottagers have generally large gardens, through the goodness of the late Lord Foley. Population in 1861 was 445. The river Teme passes under Woodbury Hill, which has an entrenchment on the top called Owen Glendower's Camp. Indeed there is a chain of these camps from Witley into Wales, more or less perfect. The high road from Worcester to Tenbury and Herefordshire also runs through the parish, and that famous old hostelry, the Hundred House, was an institution of no small importance in the coaching days. Little Witley is a chapelry belonging to the parish of Holt. Recently, for church purposes, Hillhampton (which formerly was connected with Martley, though several miles distant) has been added to Great Witley. Value of the living, £500; patron, Earl Dudley; rector, Rev. D. Melville; church accommodation, 300, all free.

Wolverley.

FAMOUS for being the first parish in the connty to volunteer against the expected descent of the French upon our coasts. Wolverley has ten or a dozen hamlets, and the Stour and several rivulets wash its light and fertile soil; contains 5,500 acres and a population of nearly 1,500, who are engaged in agriculture, with the exception of the workpeople employed by the Cookley Iron Company, who have a large establishment here; also a Screw Factory and Galvanised Ironworks. The poor people are comparatively well off, and charities abound. There is here another thing to "take a note of" - namely, a Grammar School excellently managed. It was founded by William Sebright, of London, a native of this parish, in the year 1618. For its support he bequeathed two houses in Mark Lane,