a scattered village and township in the parish of Kinnerley, three miles and a quarter S. from Kinnerley church, contains 1383A. 0R. 9P. of land, and in 1841 had a population of 265 souls and 64 houses. Rateable value, £1,694, 4s. 8d. The rectorial tithes are commuted for £120. 18s. 4d., and the vicarial for £44. 9s. 9d. The following are the chief landowners:—The Earl of Bradford, Mr. Thomas Bather, Mr. James Candlin, E. H. Dymock, Esq., Mr. John Comberbach, Sir B. Leighton, Bart., Thomas Mansell, Esq., Mr. Owens, Mr. Parker, Messrs. Rogers, Rev. William Thomas, and others. George Edwards, Esq., is lord of the manor. PENTRE is a small scattered hamlet, in the township of Edgerley, where is a venerable ash tree of immense girth, remarkable as standing upon a site where the dioceses of Hereford, Lichfield and Coventry, and St. Asaph, all unite. It also marks the division of the parishes of Great Ness and Kinnerley. Croxen Richard Jones, Esq. Davies Mrs. Elizabeth, Edgerley Hall Davies John, farmer Davies Richard R., butcher Edwards Richard, tailor Evans Robert, mason Heatley E., Brookhouse farm Higginson Saml., victualler, Royal Hill Inn Hopkins Richard, gardener Jones John, farmer and butcher Jones Thomas, farmer Jones William, farmer Lloyd John, wheelwright Lloyd Samuel, farmer Newall Thomas, farmer Owens Robert, farmer Price Jeremiah, farmer Pritchard Thomas, horse breaker Rigley Smith, beerhouse & shopkeeper Rodgers William, farmer Roberts William, farmer Williams John, bricklayer Williams William, farmer & grazier KYNASTON is a small township, mostly an undulating district, with a fertile soil, one mile and a half S.E. by S. from Kinnerley, and nine miles from Oswestry. In 1841 here were 32 houses and 135 inhabitants. The township contains 517A. 1R. 39P. of land, of which 245 acres are arable, 240 meadow, 11 woodland, and the remainder in gardens and homesteads. The landowners are the Earl of Bradford, Mrs. Eleanor Bather, Rev. S. S. Burroughs, Mr. John Candlin, John Hilton, Esq., Mr. William Duckett, Mr. Thomas N. Parker, and Mrs. Thornes. The tithes were commuted in 1836, when £11 was apportioned to the vicar, and £61 to the impropriators. The Independents and the Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel in this township. DIRECTORY.—Farmers: John Candlin, John Mansell, William Probert, William Rodgers, and William Rodgers, jun. William Davies, tailor. MAESBROOK ISSA,