THE HALL, a handsome stuccoed mansion, pleasantly situated and beautified
with pleasure grounds, is the residence and property of Richard
Middleton, Esq. Among the land owners in the parish are John A. Lloyd,
Esq.; Robert A. Slaney, Esq., M.P.; Richard Middleton, Esq.; Mr. Joseph
Hignett, Mrs. Morris, Mr. Richard Vaughan, Rev. Edward H. Dymock, Mr.
Richard Lloyd, James Payne, Esq., Mr. James Davies, Devisees of late Sir
John Betton, and others. The Duke of Cleveland is the lord of the manor.
MYTTON
is a scattered village in the parish of Fitz, salubriously situated,
containing some good residences, and surrounded with picturesque scenery.
Mytton is celebrated as the birth place of Edward Waring, M.D., whose
mathematical publications prove the extent and profundity of his
knowledge. He was born in the year 1734, and after being educated at
Shrewsbury free school, was sent on one of Millington’s exhibitions to
Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he applied himself with such assiduity
to the study of Mathematics, that when he left the university he carried
with him the credit of being one of the most able mathematicians that
ever filled the professor’s chair. In 1776 he entered into a matrimonial
connection with Miss Oswell, and not many years after retired from the
university, first to a house in Shrewsbury, and at length to his own
estate at Plealey, near Pontesbury, where he died on the 15th of August,
1798, in the 64th year of his age.—GRAFTON is another small village in
the parish of Fitz. Here are several good farms, and Grafton Lodge, a
good house pleasantly situated, the residence of John Henry Denston, Esq.
FITZ DIRECTORY.—John Bather, Esq., Richard Middleton, Esq., The hall;
Rev. Daniel Nihill, M.A., The Rectory; _Farmers_, Joshua Burroughs,
Leaton Heath; Richard Middleton, Samuel Onions, Leaton Heath; Thomas
Vaughan, corn miller; John Walmsley, Leaton Heath; Alban Davies,
fisherman; Maria Davies, schoolmistress; William France, farm bailiff;
John Vaughan, butcher.—GRAFTON DIRECTORY: Mrs. Ann Denston, John Henry
Denston, Esq.; Edward Davies, farmer; John Davies shopkeeper; Richard
Davies, blacksmith; Richard Lloyd, wheelwright; John Pugh, farmer; and
Thomas Vaughan, farmer.—MYTTON DIRECTORY: William Davies, farmer; John
Evans, farm bailiff; Mrs. Jemima Hopkins; John Litttlehales, basket
maker; Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, farmer; William Rowland, farmer and corn
miller; Richard Wildig, farmer.
GRINSHILL
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