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Kelly’s Directory of Shropshire, 1922

WATERS UPTON, or Upton Parva, is a parish and village, on the river Tern and the road from Wellington to Whitchurch and Market Drayton, one mile north of Crudgington station on the Wellington and Market Drayton branch of the Great Western railway, 5 north from Wellington and 7½ miles west from Newport, in the Wrekin division of the county, Wellington division of South Bradford hundred, Wellington petty sessional division, union and county court district, deanery of Edgmond, archdeaconry of Salop and diocese of Lichfield. The church of St. Michael and All Angels, rebuilt in 1865 under the direction of the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. is a building of red sandstone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave and a turret containing 2 bells and a clock, placed in commemoration of the Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria; there are five stained windows, and a porch, built in 1909, as a memorial to the Rev. John B. Davies M.A. rector (1866-1906); in 1915 a stained window was inserted to the Rev. John Thomas Halke LL.B. curate in charge (1859 to 1867); there are 155 sittings. The register dates from the year 1547; burials, from 1679-84 and 1686-92, are in the registers of Ercall Magna. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £325, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late Rev. John Bayley Davies M.A. and held since 1920 by the Rev. William Astbury Meakin. There is a charity for the poor of this parish, yearly value about £14, left by the late Mr. Wase, of Shrewsbury, who built and lived at the Hall, which is now the residence of Ernest James Fisk esq. The principal landowners are E. J. Fisk esq. A. Lea Juckes esq. and Mrs. J. B. Davies. The soil is of a mixed, light, sandy nature; subsoil, sand and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 721 acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £1,790; population in 1911, 185.

Sexton, Edward John Austin.

Post & M. O. Office.—Mrs. M. E. Buttery, sub-postmistress. Letters through Wellington, Salop.. High Ercoll [sic], 4 miles distant, is the nearest telegraph office.

The children of this place attend the school at Crudgington, half a mile distant

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Allen Thomas
Davies Mrs. J. B. The White house
Eardley William H. Crescent house
Fisk Ernest Jas. Waters Upton hall
Juckes Arthur Lea
Meakin Rev. William Astbury (rector), Rectory

COMMERCIAL.
Early closing day, Thursday.
Ball Arthur, rate collector
Bennett Saml. Thos. boot & shoe ma
Brooker [= Brookes] John, farmer
Buttery M. E. (Mrs.), sub-postmstrss
Casewell Wm, farmr, The Harebutt
Goodwin Geo. H. farmr, Grange frm
James Ann (Mrs.), butcher
Morgan William Edward, butcher, The Harebutt
Owen M. H. (Miss), Swan inn
Picken Edith S. (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Powell Charles William, farmer
Powell Herbert John, farmer
Price William Henry, beer retailer
Ridgway Alfred, carpenter
Ridgway Charles John, blacksmith
Woolley Wm. farmer, The Terrill

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From page 272 of the directory. Transcribed from my own copy.