is a chapelry and considerable village, pleasantly situated at the north-east extremity of the county, seven miles N.N.E. from Market Drayton. The village contains many good houses, a neat church, and a respectable hotel, and stands on a salubrious acclivity, which commands extensive views of the surrounding country. The township contains 1,000a. 2r. 26p. of land, and in 1841 there were 98 houses and 372 persons. Gross estimated rental, £1,810. 15s. 2d. Rateable value, £1,632. 17s. 9d. The principal landowner is George Kendrick, Esq. Mr. Smith, Mr. Richard Clough, and the Devisees of the late Mr. Latham, are also proprietors.
The Church is a neat structure, dedicated to St. Leonard, and has been built about twenty years. The cost of the fabric was £1,300. The living is a perpetual curacy, returned at £100, in the patronage of the Kendrick and Kinnersley families alternately; incumbent, Rev. John Hawksworth, M.A., who resides at the Parsonage, a neat residence a short distance from the church. The old church was taken down on the erection of the present structure, and stood near the site of the parsonage house. The National School was built by voluntary subscriptions and a grant from the national society in 1832. At the present time, forty boys and sixty girls and infants attend. The master has £15 per annum paid him, for which fifteen children are educated free; the children of cottagers pay one penny per week, and an additional charge is made for farmers’ children. The Manor House, a handsome residence embosomed in foliage, was unoccupied when our agent visited Woore. The Primitive Methodists have a small chapel here. Fairs are held on the last Thursday in April and November.
Post Office.—At John Hitchen’s. Letters arrive from Market Drayton at 9 A.M., and are despatched at 4.30 P.M.
Baddiley Gregory, grocer
Bradbury William P., farmer and victualler, Swan Hotel
Brooke George, farmer
Buckley Thomas, grocer
Burslem Thomas, tailor
Collier George, cabinet and chair maker
Clough Richard, farmer