Foulkes William, shoemaker
Howell William, grocer and draper
Jones Robert, superintendent of police
Lloyd Richard, vict., Punch Bowl
Morris Rev. John (Independent)
Phillips Ann, shopkeeper
Savin William, farmer, Ford’s & Hey’s farm
WOOLSTON,
a small village and township two miles and a half S.W. from Felton, has 501a. 2r. 14p. of undulating land, and in 1841 had 15 houses and 77 inhabitants. Rateable value, £748. 13s. Rent charge, £106. 4s. The landowners are Lady Tyrwhitt; Edward Beamand, Esq.; George W. Edwards, Esq.; and Mr. Samuel H. Burrows. There are several well built and pleasantly situated farm residences in this township. Coal is found here; and several years ago a party of miners opened coal works, but finding the seams of small thickness, and the water breaking in upon them, the works were abandoned. There is a well here called St. Winefred’s Well, which was formerly in great repute for its medicinal properties. The baths are walled in, and the water filters through a red grit stone rock; they are now in a delapidated and neglected state. Woolston House, a modern erection of brick, pleasantly situated, is the residence of George W. Edwards, Esq.
Directory.—Edward Beamand, gentleman; George Withers Edwards, Esq., Woolston House; Richard Clarke, farmer; Richard Drury, farmer; John Sides, farmer; Richard Williams, farmer.