Over, near Winsford, Cheshire

The custom of ringing the curfew is still kept up at Over, near Winsford, Cheshire; and the parish church, St. Chads, is nightly visited for that purpose at eight o'clock. This bell is the signal amongst the farmers in the neighbourhood for "looking up" their cattle in the winter evenings; and was, before the establishment of a public clock in the tower of the Weaver Church at Winsford, considered the standard time by which to regulate their movements. [We are indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of the *Liverpool Albion* for this Reply, which was originally communicated to that paper.]