* Phillips Joseph Taylor, farmer, Manor House
* Smith William, Esq., land agent to the Duke of Sutherland, Little Hales
Spearman Elizabeth, farmer
Timmis John, farmer, Abbey farm
West Francis, farmer, Lilleshall Grange
Wilde Edward, farmer, Lilleshall Hill
DONINGTON, OR DONINGTON WOOD,
is a considerable township with a scattered population, situated about a mile W. from Lilleshall, and four miles S.W. from Newport. At the census in 1811 there were 498 houses and 2,757 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the extensive iron works, collieries, and ironstone mines, with which this neighbourhood abounds. The collieries vary from 100 to 300 yards in depth, and there are twelve seams from which coal is got; the mines from which the ironstone is procured are also of very great depths; the country extending south and south west for several miles present one vast field of collieries and iron works, and has a teeming population, all busily employed in these and their subordinate manufactures and employments.
The Church is a neat modern structure, situate at Donington Wood, built about the year 1844, at a cost of £2,000. The seats are all free and unappropriated. The living is a perpetual curacy in the patronage of the vicar of Lilleshall; incumbent, Rev. Thomas O’Regan. The Baptists have a chapel here, which was built about twenty years ago. The National School was built at the expense of the Duke of Sutherland, who is also a munificent contributor towards the support of the institution; Thomas Townsend is the teacher. The Donington Wood Mechanics’ Institution was established in February, 1851, for the object of providing useful and intellectual entertainment for the numerous artisans and other inhabitants of Donington; for this object a library and reading room has been established, which is furnished with the leading London and provincial journals and magazines. Toward the library the Duke of Sutherland has kindly presented a large and valuable collection of books. It is intended to employ lecturers on popular subjects, to which members are admissable. The Lilleshall Company holds the collieries in this locality in lease of the Duke of Sutherland.
Post Office.—At Mr. Samuel Hollis’s. Letters despatched at 7 P.M. to Newport.