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midway between Kidderminster and Bromsgrove. It includes the hamlets or places of Harvington (where there is a Roman Catholic chapel and schools), Drayton, Cakebole, Dorhall, Yielding-tree, and Bluntington (where the Primitive Methodists have a place of meeting in a cottage); and boasts among its institutions a free school, erected in 1809, endowed charities for schools, almshouses, and distribution to the poor, a Clothing Club and Dorcas Society, a Post Office, &c. The district is highly healthful, if we are to judge from the great ages recorded in the churchyard.

Many places in this parish are still known by Celtic names, as Tan Wood, Astwood Hill, Barrow Hill, Tin Meadows, &c. Barrow Hill, about 115 yards long and 90 wide, is probably a place of ancient sepulture. Among other curious names are the Randan Woods, Hob Moor, &c. The parish wake at Whitsuntide, I believe, is still kept up.

The- Rev. F. A. Marriott is vicar of Chaddesley, and the Lord Chancellor is patron; gross value of living, £520; church accommodation, 540; free seats, 199. One of the Beauchamps gave the advowson to the collegiate church of Warwick, for which the latter paid 6s. 8d. a year to the Prior of Worcester to compensate for the loss of procuration fees which the Prior obtained (acting as Bishop pro tem, sede vacante, while visiting churches during the vacancy of the see by the death of a Bishop), and which fees ceased to be paid when a living was appropriated. After the Dissolution the tithes were granted to the Corporation of Warwick, to whom they still belong. The church, which is one of the very few dedicated to St. Cassion (a Christian schoolmaster who in the early Roman persecutions was killed by his own pupils, with their pens, or iron styli) is a fine old structure, perhaps worthy of being ranked with those of Kidderminster and Alvechurch—if not Pershore and Malvern. There are some interesting specimens of Norman masonry in the piers and arches of the nave and its north doorway, also in the front. The nave has aisles, and on the north side of the