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[KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 1912] |
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Haselor |
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HASELOR (or Hazeler), in Domesday "Haselove," is a parish near the river Alne, 1 mile south of Great Alne station on the Alcester line of the Great Western railway, and 2½ miles east from Alcester, in the South-Western division of the county, Stratford division of Barlichway hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Alcester, Alcester rural deanerv, Warwick archdeaconry and Worcester diocese. The church of St. Mary and All Saints, situated on an eminence, is an ancient building of stone, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, containing 2 bells: the church was restored in 1883, and again entirely restored in 1892 by Mrs. Cheape, of Bentley Manor, Bromsgrove, and a new east window erected as a memorial to her father, Richard Hemming esq.: the organ was also moved from the chancel into the south aisle and rebuilt. The register dates from the year 1594. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £73, including 8½ acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1867 by the Rev. John Heath Sykes B.A. of Worcester College, Oxford, who is also rector of Billesley. Here is a Baptist chapel, erected in 1905, seating 70 persons. Sir Nicholas William George Throckmorton bart. of Coughton Court, is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Marquess of Hertford P.C., C.B., Mrs. Cheape, of Bentley Manor, Redditch, and the Misses Heming. The soil is rich marl; subsoil, sandy. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 2,301 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value, £2,112; the population in 1911 was 223. Parish Clerk and Sexton, Joseph Washbourne. Post Office.-Mrs. Rhoda Leach, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through Alcester, Warwickshire, at 7.10 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; sundays, callers only, 8.30 to 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at 7 a.m. & 5.35 p.m. Aston Cantlow, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order office & Great Alne the nearest telegraph office Wall Box, near Vicarage, cleared at 5.45 p.m. week days only Sykes Rev. John Heath B.A. (vicar), Vicarage
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