Index: K-Z

A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 4, Agriculture. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1989.

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Index K-Z kale, see crops: green kant morkie, kant tydion, Kemberton, Kempton (in Clunbury), and see Clunton and Kempton Kenley, n Kenstone (in Hodnet), Kent, John of, Kent, and see Deptford Kenwick park (in Ellesmere), n, Kenyon: Geo., Baron Kenyon, Lloyd, see Tyrell-Kenyon fam., Kenyon, Barons, see Kenyon; Tyrell-Kenyon Kerry (Mont.), Kerry Hills (Mont.), Ketley (in Wellington), Kidderminster (Worcs.), Kilmorey: earls of, see Needham Vcts., and see Needham Vctss., see Offley Kilsall, see Donington Kilvert: Ric., Rob., King's Norton (Worcs.), see Bournville Kingsland (Herefs.), Kingston, duke of, see Pierrepont Kingston (Herefs.), Kinlet, n , and see Earnwood Kinnerley, man., and see Dovaston and Kynaston; Edgerley; Maesbrook, Lower and Upper; Tyr-y-coed Kinnerton (in Wentnor), Knight: Thos., -, breeder, Knighton (Radnors.), Knighton (Staffs.), Knockin, welshry, and see Caldicott Knox, Ronald A., Knyvett, Sir Hen., n Kraft Dairies Ltd., Kynaston fam., Kynaston, see Dovaston and Kynaston Kynnersley, Kyre Wyard or Kyre Magna (Worcs.), n labour, labourers, frontispiece, allotments, pastoral enterprises, child, costs, diet, as drovers, emigration, enfranchised, n farm servants, n, and see famuli; oxmen; slaves female, hiring of, housing, and see cottages immigrant, juvenile, and machinery, 'poor', the, equated with, n problems, seasonal, sickness and old age, supply, trade unions, wages, n, labour services, see services Labourer's Friend Society, Lacon fam., Lacy, Rog. de, lairwite, Lake District (Cumb., Lancs., and Westmld.), lakes, see ponds, pools, and lakes Lancashire, n, and see Lake District; Liverpool; Manchester land market, peasant, land values, n, falling, rising, Langley (in Ruckley and Langley), Larden (in Shipton), Lascelles, Lady Marg. Selina, m. Vct. Boyne, Laundry farm, see Nesscliff Lawes, Sir J. B., Lawley: Beilby, Baron Wenlock, n Sir Fra., Mary Anne, Lady, see Talbot Rob., Baron Wenlock, Thos. (d. 1559), Sir Thos. (d. 1646), n fam., n, Lawley, the, see Cardington le Strange, see Strange Lea (in Bishop's Castle), lead, Leamington (Warws.), leases, leaseholds, n , n, of beehives, of bird traps, champart, conditions, covenants, of fisheries, of fishing rights, for lives (freehold), of livestock, long, of mills, quousque, standard, n stock-and-land, for years (chattel), Leath, Ric., leather trade, Leaton (in St. Mary's, Shrewsbury): Leaton heath, Leaton Shelf plantations, Leaton (in Wrockwardine), Overley Hall, Leaton Knolls, see Berwick Ledwyche (in Ludford), Lee: Sir Humph., Ralph, Ric., fam., n Lee Brockhurst, Leebotwood, Cress grange, n and see Botwood Leegomery (in Wellington), Leek (Staffs.), Lees, John, Lege (? Longnor), Leicestershire, and see Bosworth, Market Leighton: Sir Baldwin, Sir Baldwyn, n, Sir Charlton (d. 1780), Sir Charlton (d. 1784), Charlton Thos., Frances Christina, m. E. G. Baldwyn-Childe (formerly Childe), Hugh, Isabella, m. Beriah Botfield, Alf. Seymour, Sir Mic. John Bryan, Sir Rob., Stanley, Wm., fam., Leighton, Leintwardine (Herefs., formerly partly Salop.), see Jay Leiston (Suff.), Leland, John, Leofric, earl of Mercia, his w., see Godiva, Ctss. Leominster (Herefs.), Leveson: Jas., n Sir Ric., his s., n Sir Wal., fam., n, and see Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Leveson-Gower: Geo. Granville, duke of Sutherland (d. 1833), as marquess of Stafford, Geo. Granville (d. 1861), see Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Geo. Granville Wm., see Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Granville, marquess of Stafford, n as Earl Gower, Granville Geo., Earl Granville, (formerly Gower), Sir Wm., and see Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Lewis fam., leys, see mixed farming Leyte, Ric., Liberals, Lichfield (Staffs.), bp. (later bp. of Chester), and see Coventry and Lichfield diocese, Liebig, Baron Justus von, n lieutenants, deputy, Lilleshall, abbey, abbot, canons, est., treasurer, arable farming, Cheswell Grange, daffodils, n Donnington, q.v. freeholds, geol., Honnington Grange, improved fms., inc., Lilleshall Grange (home fm.), Lilleshall pk., livestock, n, Lubstree pk., meadow, Muxton, q.v. New Lodge Fm., n open fields, Pain's Lane, q.v. woods, n, Lilleshall House, see Sheriffhales lime, liming, lime works (kilns and quarrying), n Lincoln, earl of, see Clinton Lincoln, Lincoln Hill, see Ironbridge Lincolnshire, and see Boston; Lincoln; Stamford Lincolnshire Farmers' Union, linen, Lingen fam., Linley, Linley (in More), Beach, the, Little Drayton, see Drayton, Little Little Rhadley, see Rhadley, Little Little Wenlock, see Wenlock, Little Little Wollaston, see Amaston Little Wytheford, see Wytheford, Little Littleford, John, Littleton: Sir Adam, n Joan, see Burley Sir Thos., fam., Liverpool, earl of, see Jenkinson Liverpool, livestock and pastoral farming, animal diseases, q.v. autumn slaughter, beekeeping, q.v. breeding, breeds, cattle, q.v. dairy farming, q.v. deer, q.v. demesne, expanding, fattening, q.v. goats, q.v. hawks, q.v. hired, horses, q.v. mixed farming, q.v. nos., pigs, q.v. prehistoric, rearing, q.v. specialized, transhumance (straking), value of, wood-pasture economy, q.v. Llandrinio (Mont.), see Cymmerau Llanfair hills (in Llanfair Waterdine), n, Llanfyllin (Mont.), n Llangedwyn Farmers' Co-operative Cheese Association, Llanhedric, see Shadwell Llanyblodwel, and see Bryn farm; Cefn-y-maes Lloyd: Sam. (fl. c. 1600), Sam. (fl. 1797), fam., LLoyd fam., n Lloyd George, David, Llwyn-y-mapsis, see Sweeney Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Llywelyn the Great), local authorities, and see boroughs; parishes; poor-law unions; urban districts Loch, Jas., n, Lockhart, J. W., Lodge farm, see Quatt London, Blackwell Hall, City, aldermen, ld. mayors, town clk., cloth, wool trade, Deptford, q.v. Holborn, q.v. Islington, q.v. livestock for, mkt. gardens around, merchants, tradesmen, auctioneers, cheesemongers, mercers, restaurateur, milk supply, Oxford Street, q.v. Salop. men in, univ., Westminster, q.v. London & North Western Railway, Long forest, Bushmoor hay, Hawkhurst hay, Lythwood hay, Long Meadowend, see Aston on Clun Long Mountain (partly Mont.), Long Mynd, arable farming, inc., livestock and pastoral farming, plantations, prehist. rem., Longden (in Pontesbury), Longden Man., Longdon upon Tern, Longe, Rob., Longford, Longford (in Moreton Say), Fordhall fm., Longleat (in Horningsham, Wilts.), Longnor, n, and see Lege; Micklewood Lonsdale, A. P., see Heywood-Lonsdale Loppington, Loton (in Alberbury), Loton Hall, Pk., and est., Loughton (in Chetton), and see Brown Clee Hill; Clee Burf Lovekyn, Wm., Lovel: Fra., Vct. Lovel, n, n John, Baron Lovel, Lower Hayton, see Hayton Lower Heath, see Prees Lower Measbrook, see Maesbrook Lower Millichope, see Millichope Lubstree park, see Lilleshall Ludford (formerly partly Herefs.), and see Ledwyche Ludlow: John of, Lawr. of, his w., Nic. of, fam., Ludlow, agric. educ., artist, boro., recorders, bridge, butchers, Carmelite friary, cattle, cloth ind., club, soc., fulling mills, hosps. (medieval), malting for, marketing, n, fairs, n, tolls, n, merchants, tanning, town foundation, Ludlow Agricultural Society, Lumley fam., Luther, Rob., Lutwyche fam., Lutwyche, see Wilderhope and Stanway Lydbury North, n, and see Acton; Down; Plowden; Walcot Lydham (partly Mont.), Roveries, the, Lydley Hayes (in Cardington), Lydley preceptory, man., see Cardington Lymore (Mont.), Lynches farm, see Yockleton Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (formerly Dalberg-Acton): John Emerich Hen., Baron Acton, Ric. Maximilian, Baron Acton, Lyster: Lady Charlotte Barbara, see Cooper Hen., Lythwood (in Condover), n, n Lyth Hill, Lythwood hay, see Long forest machines, see tools, equipment, and machines Mackley, Tom, Mackrory, John, Mackworth fam., madder, see crops: dye Madeley, Coalbrookdale, q.v. demesne, n, Hay, the, q.v. holdings, peasant, n, hops, inc., Ironbridge, q.v. labourers' conditions, man., 'old field', pigs, n Timber wood, q.v. tithe, town promotion, vicar, Madog ap Maredudd, king of Powys, Maelor creamery, see Marchwiel Maesbrook, Lower and Upper (in Kinnerley), Maesbury (in Oswestry), Mainstone (partly Mont.), n, n Mainwaring: Art., C. K., fam., Malinslee (in Dawley), Malpas (Ches.), malting, malt trade, Manchester, mangold-wurzels, see crops: roots Mansell, Edm., manure, see fertilizers: dung Marbury (Ches.), the Nether Marbury Heys, March, earls of, and see Mortimer Marchamley (in Hodnet), marcher lords, lordships, Marches of Wales, Council in, see Wales, Council in Marches of Marchwiel (Denb.), Maelor creamery, Market Bosworth, see Bosworth, Market Market Drayton, see Drayton, Market Market Drayton & District Agricultural and Small Holding Society, Market Drayton Steam Ploughing, Cultivating & Thrashing Co. Ltd., n market gardening, markets and fairs, marketing, commodity futures, credit in, fairs, forestalling, wholesale, and see Milk Marketing Board marl, see fertilizers marlpits, 'Marsetelie', see Marsley Marshall & Lewis, Marsley ('Marsetelie', in Habberley), Marston, Fra., Martin, Wm., maslin, see crops: cereal (mixed corn) Matthews, Sam., mattock, see tools, equipment, and machines Maurice, Edw., Mawddwy (Merion.), Maxstoke (Warws.), n Mayall: Ric., Sam., meadows, see grass Meat Traders, National Federation of, see National Federation of Meat Traders Medewe, Phil. de, Mediolanum (Whitchurch), Meeson (in Great Bolas), Meeson heath, Meire, John, Melverley, man., and see Cymmerau Meole Brace, n, and see Bank, the; Bayston Hill; Pulley Meole brook, see Rea, river merchet, Mercia: ealdorman of, see Eadric Streona earls of, and see Edwin; Leofric king of, see Offa meres and mosses (fenlands, marshes), Merionethshire, see Mawddwy merlins, see horses Merrington (in Preston Gubbals), Mersey, river, n messor, see officers, landlords': overseer Mexico, Micklewood (in Longnor), Middlesex, see Harefield; Holborn; Islington; Oxford Street; Westminster Middleton, Rob. of, Middleton (in Bitterley), Crowleasows fm., Middleton (in Oswestry), Middleton Priors (in Ditton Priors), Middleton Scriven, n, militia, county, registrar of, Milk Marketing Board, Millenheath (in Prees), Millichope, Lower (in Munslow), n mills, fulling (walkmills), horse, multure, seigneurial monopoly of, stones, and see tools, equipment, and machines: quernstones water, wind, millers, toll exacted by, minerals, mining, and quarrying, and see clay; coal mining; lead; lime works; salt Minor, J. B., n minster churches, Minsterley (in Westbury), common rts., creamery, n, demesne, Hogstow forest, lead miners, livestock, pk., tenures, wages, Welsh raids, Minton: Peter of, Ric., Wal. of, Minton (in Church Stretton), mixed farming, alternate husbandry, cattle-corn husbandry, convertible husbandry, 'high' farming, leys, n sheep-corn husbandry, moats, and see farmhouses: defended molasses, monasteries, religious houses, dissolution, estates, see estates, landed; granges moneylending, Monkhopton, n; and see Netchwood; Oxenbold Monkmeole (in St. Chad's, Shrewsbury), Montford, n, Montford Bridge, and see Ensdon House; Forton; Forton heath Montfort, Baron, see Bromley Montgomery, Rog. of, earl of Shrewsbury), Montgomery (Mont.), honor of, Montgomeryshire, and see Alberbury; Corndon Hill; Cymmerau; Gorddwr; Kerry; Kerry Hills; Llanfyllin; Long Mountain; Lydham; Lymore; Mainstone; Montgomery; Plas Dolguog; Powis Castle; Stoke, Church; Trelystan; Worthen; Welshpool Moodie fam., Moortown (in Ercall Magna), Moorwood, see Pontesbury Morcar, earl of Northumbria, Morda, river, More, R. J., More, see Linley; Rhadley, Little Moreton Corbet, n, Moreton Say, see Longford; Styche; Ternhill Morfe forest, Claverley bailiwick, 'Skyneresmore', Morlas brook, Morris, C. R., see Morris-Eyton Morris-Eyton: (formerly Morris), Col. C. R., fam., n, mortgages, Welsh (prid deed), Mortimer: Sir Hugh, Joan, m. Ric. Talbot, Rog. de, Baron Mortimer (d. 1326), Rog. de, earl of March (d. 1330), fam., Morton (in Oswestry), Morville, n, Aldenham Bridgwalton, see Walton Croft Fm., n Harpswood bridge, q.v. Moseley, Wal., mosses, see meres and mosses Mostardmaker, Edw. le, n motor transport, motorways, see roads and bridges: roads Mount Gilbert forest, see Wrekin forest Much Wenlock, see Wenlock, Much muck, see fertilizers: dung Mucklewick (in Hyssington), multure, see mills Munslow, n, n, hund., man., and see Broadstone; Millichope, Lower murage, murrain, see animal diseases Murroll, Wm., museum, agricultural, see Acton Scott mustard: see crops Muxton (in Lilleshall), Myddle, agric. equipment, arable farming, bailiff, Balderton, q.v. Baschurch Pools, q.v. corn badger, fishery, Hadnall, q.v. Hardwick, q.v. Haston, q.v. inc., leaseholds, livestock, n, Myddlewood common, Newton, q.v. pk., pools, Shotton, q.v. wastes, Webscott, q.v. woods, n, Myddlewood common, see Myddle Myndtown, n Mytton: John (fl. 1552), John (d. 1834), John Fox Fitz-Giffard, fam., N.F.U., see National Farmers' Union nabobs, Nagelon, Thos., Nagington, Nantmawr, see Trefonen Nash, John, Nash (in Burford), National Farmers' Union (N.F.U.), Nateley Scures (Hants), see Hook National Federation of Meat Traders, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, see Cambridge National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Union of Agricultural & Allied Workers, n National Union of Agricultural Workers, Needham: Fra. Chas., earl of Kilmorey, Vct. Newry, and his aunt, his mother, see Colville Fra. Jack, earl of Kilmorey, Rob., Vct. Kilmorey, n Thos., Vct. Kilmorey, fam., Neen Savage, Overwood fm., Neen Sollars, neifs, see customary tenants Neolithic period, Ness, Great, Oliver's Point, and see Alderton; Felton Butler; Nesscliff Nesscliff (in Great Ness), Laundry fm., n Netchwood (in Ditton Priors and Monkhopton), Nether Gorddwr, see Gorddwr Nether Marbury Heys, see Marbury Nether Stanway, see Wilderhope and Stanway 'Neuton' (in Clun), New House farm, see Stoke St. Milborough New Lodge Farm, see Lilleshall New Ruyton, see Ruyton in the Eleven Towns New Zealand, Newcastle (in Clun), Caer-din ring, Vron promontory fort, Newnham (Hants), see Hook Newport: Sir Fra., Ric., Baron Newport, Thos., Wm., fam., n, Newport, Vct., see Bridgeman Newport, burgesses, corn badger, horse dealers, inc., malting for, marketing, fair, Smithfield, Newport marsh, n rly., roads, sugar beet, town foundation, vegetables, vivary, wool staplers, Y.F.C., Newport & District Agricultural Co-operative Trading Society Ltd., Newport & District Agricultural Society, Newry: Vct., see Needham Vctss., see Colville newspapers, and see Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal; Shrewsbury Chronicle Newton (in Myddle): Harmer Hill, Harmer Moss, Newton (in Stokesay), Newton (in Worfield), 'Nimrod', see Apperley Noel-Hill (formerly Hill): Ric. Noel, Baron Berwick, Hon. Thos. Hen., Wm., Baron Berwick, and see Hill nooks, Norbury, see Whitcot Norbury (Staffs.), see Weston Jones Norden, John, Nordley (in Astley Abbots), Nordley, King's (in Alveley), Norfolk, duchess of, see FitzAlan, Eliz. Norfolk, and see Houghton, New; Norwich Norman Conquest, North America, see America, North North Herefordshire and South Shropshire Agricultural Labourers' Mutual Improvement Soc., North York Moors (Yorks. N.R.), Northampton, earl of, see Howard Northampton, Northamptonshire, Northern parliamentary division of Salop., Northfield (Worcs.), see Bournville Northumberland, duke of, see Dudley Northumberland, n Northumbria, earl of, see Morcar Northwood (in Wem), Norton: Bonham, John, Norton (in Condover), Norton, King's (Worcs.), see Bournville Norwich (Norf.), Nottinghamshire, n Oakeley: John (d. 1811), John (d. 1897), n fam., Oakeley (in Bishop's Castle), n, Oakengates (in Shifnal and Wom-bridge), Oakly Park, see Bromfield Oaks (in Pontesbury), oats, see crops: cereal Obley (in Clunbury), Offa, king of Mercia, Offa's Dyke, officers, landlords', agents (managers), land stewards, n, n, architect, est., n auditors, n bailiffs and reeves, gamekeepers, house stewards, overseers (messor), parkers, receivers, surveyors, warreners, Offley, Mary, m. Vct. Kilmorey, n oil-cake, Old Pool, see Wem Oldbury, see Harpswood bridge Oldbury (now Worcs., in Halesowen), Oldfield Common, see Stanton Lacy Oliver (formerly Olivers): Bold, John (d. 1780), John (d. 1789), Onibury, n, and see Vernolds Common Onny, river, Onny, West, river, see West Onny, river Onslow, Rog. of, Onslow (in Pontesbury and St. Chad's, Shrewsbury), n, heath, open fields, see fields orchards, Orleton (Herefs.), Orleton (in Wrockwardine), Ormsby-Gore, Fra. David, Baron Harlech, Osbaston (in Ercall Magna), Oswestry, assarts, agric. educ., agric. soc., Aston, q.v. burgages, burgesses, cloth finishing, Crickheath, q.v. Cynynion, q.v. demesne, servants, fmrs.' assoc., fmrs.' co-op., game, gwelyau, hay, Hisland, q.v. honey, inc., livestock, n, lordship, man., n, Duparts, n receiver, surveyor, Traian, meadows, Maesbury, q.v. marketing, fairs, n merchants, Middleton, q.v. mills, Morton, q.v. N.F.U., pks., n pasture, Sweeney, q.v. tenures, Treflach, q.v. Trefonen, q.v. warren, Welsh raids, welshry, Weston Cotton, q.v. woods, n wool collected at, Wootton Fawnog, q.v. Oteley (in Ellesmere), outlaws, Overley Hall, see Leaton Overley Hill (in Wellington and Wrockwardine), overseers, see officers, landlords' Overwood farm, see Neen Savage Owen: (formerly Pemberton), E. W. Smythe, n, Thos., and see Smythe Owen Owlbury (in Bishop's Castle), owner occupation, oxen, see cattle Oxenbold (in Monkhopton and Stanton Long), n, Oxford, Oxford Street (in St. Marylebone and Westminster, London, formerly Mdx.), n Oxfordshire, and see Banbury; Oxford oxmen (bovarii), oyer and terminer, commissions of, Pain's Lane (in Lilleshall, Shifnal, and Wrockwardine), palaeontology, Palmer, John, n pannage, of goats, and see tack Pantulf fam., paper making, parishes, poor relief, Parker: Jos., T. N., parkers, see officers, landlords' parks, n, common rights in, parliament, M.P.s, Partridge: Ric. (d. 1809), Ric. (d. 1850), partridges, pasture, see grass Patshull, Wm., Pattingham (partly Staffs.), paupers, see poor peace: co. clks. of the, co. justices of (magistrates), Pearce, Geo., peas, see crops: leguminous Peasenhall (Suff.), peat, cutting, Peate, Adam, Pecknall (Mont., in Alberbury), pedlars, see chapmen Peele fam., Pegolotti, Francesco Balducci, Pemberton: E. W. Smythe, see Owen Revd. R. N., Rob. (d. 1794), n Rob. (d. 1816), n fam., and see Childe-Pemberton Penegoes (Mont.), see Plas Dolguog 'penimen', see customary tenants: at will Penkridge (Staffs.), Penn (Staffs.), Pentre Hodre (in Clun), Peplow (in Hodnet), perch, Percy, A. C., see Heber-Percy Perkyn, Ric., Perry, river, n, Perseverance Ironworks, see Castle Foregate Perton, John, Peru, Peshall fam., pesticides, Petton, Wackley fm., pheasants, Phillips: Cath., Wm., physical environment, and see regions, agricultural Picken, Wm., Picklescott (in Smethcott), Picklescott Hill (in Smethcott and Church Stretton), Pierrepont: Evelyn, duke of Kingston, fam., n pigeons (doves), Pigot, Hugh, Pigott: Rob., n fam., pigs, swine, breeding, breeds, Berkshire, Chinese, Essex, Neapolitan, Old Spot, Shropshire, White, herd size, nos., reared, kept, by smallholders and labourers, trade in, and see animal diseases; fattening; pannage; rearing; tack Pim Hill (in Preston Gubbals), Pimley, see Uffington Pinches, Wm., pinfolds, see pounds Pinsell, Humph., Pitchford, n, n Pitchford Hall, n and see Buriwood pitchforks, see tools, equipment, and machines place names, Plaish (in Cardington), Plaish brook, Plantagenet: Edw., duke of York, see Edward IV Ric., duke of York, Plas Dolguog (in Penegoes, Mont.), Plaxton, Revd. Geo., Plealey (in Pontesbury), Plessis, John du, earl of Warwick, Plimley, Sam., and see Corbett (formerly Plymley), Jos. ploughbote, see estovers ploughlands, ploughs, see tools, equipment, and machines ploughteams, demesne, lack of, peasant, size, supervision of, and see cattle: oxen; horses Plowden fam., Plowden (in Lydbury North), Plymley, Jos., see Corbett; and see Plimley Plymouth, earls of, see Windsor; Windsor-Clive poaching, political parties and groups, see Conservatives; free-traders; Liberals; royalists; Whigs politics, and see franchise, parliamentary; parliament ponds, pools, and lakes, n, drained, fishponds (stews, vivaries), mill, work on (labour service), Pontesbury, Moorwood, and seeArscott; Cruckton; Farley; Longden; Oaks; Onslow; Plealey; Pontesford Hill; Wood-house Pontesford Hill (in Pontesbury), Pooler: Hen., Wal., pools, see ponds poor (paupers, destitute), the, relief of, see parishes; poor-law unions; workhouses and see beggars; labour; vagabonds poor law, n, poor-law unions, Pope: Cath., Rog., fam., population, falling, low, rising, porthyant bagell, see rents Posenhall, potato lifters, planters, see tools, equipment, and machines potatoes, see crops potteries, and see earthenware trade pottery containers, see tools, equipment, and machines poultry, breeds, ducks, geese, turkeys, pounds, pinfolds, Powell: Hen., fam., Powis: ctsses. of, see Herbert earls of, n, and see Clive; Herbert marquesses of, see Herbert Powis Castle, in Welshpool (Mont.), Powkesmoor, see Ditton Priors Powlett (formerly Vane), Harry Geo., duke of Cleveland, n, Powys (formerly Feilding), Hon. H. W., Powys, king of, see Madog ap Maredudd Poynton (in Ercall Magna), Pradoe, see Eardiston Preece, W. G., Preen, Church, n, n, Preen common, priory, Preen, Holt (in Cardington), Prees: arable farming, assarts, Black Death, Calverhall, q.v. commons, Darliston, q.v. demesne, n Dogmoor, n encroachment on waste, Higher Heath, n hops, horse dealers, labourers' housing, livestock, n, Lower Heath, man., n, n mkt. and fair, marling, meadow, Millenheath, q.v. open fields, Prees Heath, saffron, Sandford, q.v. tenures, Whixall, q.v. Whixall Moss, q.v. Willaston, q.v. woods, n, wool, prehistoric periods, n, est. or territorial boundaries, and see barrows; Beaker period; Bronze Age; burials; fields; Iron Age; Neolithic period Presthope (in Much Wenlock), n Presthope common, Preston Boats (in Upton Magna), Preston Brockhurst, Preston Gubbals, see Merrington; Pim Hill Preston Montford (in St. Alkmund's, Shrewsbury), Price, -, breeder, prices, cereal, n, falling, low, guaranteed, and see government aid rising, high, prid deed, see mortgages: Welsh Pride: Ric., Rog., Priorslee (in Shifnal), Pritchard: Geo., John (d. 1837), John (d. 1891), fam., Probert, John, protection, and see corn laws public houses, see inns Pugh, Mr., Pulley (in Meole Brace and St. Julian's, Shrewsbury), frontispiece pulses, see crops: leguminous Pulteney: Wm., earl of Bath, n, fam., Pulverbatch, Church, and see Boveria; Cothercott Purslow (in Clunbury), hund., purveyors, Crown, Quatford, 'Cwatbridge', Quatt, Dudmaston, q.v. Lodge fm., Quatt Malvern, quernstones, see tools, equipment, and machines rabbits, Raby Castle (co. Dur.), radmen, Radnorshire, and see Beacon Hill; Knighton Ragleth Hill, see Stretton, Little railways, Ransomes, Sims, & Head, rape, see crops: green rat, musk, rates, local (incl. parish), for the poor, Ratlinghope, n, n priory, and see Boveria; Gatten Rayleigh, Baron, see Strutt Rea, river (Meole brook, Rea brook), Rea, South, river, see South Rea, river Rea Valley heavy horse soc., reaping machines, see tools, equipment, and machines rearing livestock, cattle, horses, q.v. pigs, sheep, rebellions, rebels, and see customary tenants: villeins receiver general (in Salop.), receivers, see officers, landlords' recreation, see entertainments, recreation, and sport Rednal (in West Felton), Redrice (in Upper Clatford, Hants), n reeves, see officers, landlords': bailiffs and reeves regions, agricultural, specialization, and see Clee Hills: plateau; coalfield, east Shropshire; dairying districts; Ryeland; sandstone plain, eastern; Weald Moors; Wheat-land religious houses, see almshouses; collegiate churches; hospitals; minster churches; monasteries rents, allowances, rebates, from, remission of, arrears of, assize, collection, n cottage, decayed, fossilized, nominal, high, increased, interest charge on improvements added to, low, reduced, porthyant bagell, rack (economic), renders in kind, corn, eel, milk, poultry, reserved, servile tenants', Reynold the sheriff, see Bailleul Reynolds: H. P., John, Ric., Rhadley, Little (in More), Rheims (Marne, France), abbey of St.-Remi, abbot, Rhodesia, Southern, Richard's Castle (partly Herefs.), and see Woofferton Richmond & Chandler, Ridley (in Bunbury, Ches.), n Ritton (in Wentnor), Bog mine, rivers, streams, and brooks, bylets (barge gutters), dammed, ferries, fisheries, weirs, fords, hemp and flax watered in, irrigation, power source, and see mills: water traffic on, water supply, roads and bridges: bridges, roads, diverted, n drove, motor transport, q.v. motorways, stretward, q.v. turnpike, Roberts, Thos., Rock Lane, see Stanton Lacy Roden (in Ercall Magna), Rodenhurst, Roden, river, Rodenhurst, see Roden Rodington, Rodway, see Cherrington Rofe, Thos., rollers, see tools, equipment, and machines Rollisword, Rob. de, Romano-British period, villas, Romsley (in Alveley), root cutters, see tools, equipment, and machines roots, see crops Rossall (in St. Chad's, Shrewsbury), rotations, see crops: rotation of; grass: artificial Rouse-Boughton: Sir C. H., (formerly Boughton Rouse, formerl Boughton), Sir C. W., Roveries, the, see Lydham Rowett Institute, see Aberdeen Rowley: Revd. Ric. (fl. 1793), n Mr. (fl. 1635), Rowley park, see Cleobury Barnes Rowton Castle (in Alberbury), Royal Agricultural Society of England, royalists, Ruckley (in Stanton Lacy), see Hamlets, West Ruckley (in Tong), grange, Ruckley and Langley, see Hawksley; Langley Rushbury, n, n; and see Stoneacton; Wilderhope and Stanway Ruskin, John, rustling, see theft: of livestock Ruyton, New, see Ruyton in the Eleven Towns Ruyton in the Eleven Towns, Allans wood, arable farming, assarts, Baggy Moor, q.v. Black Death, burgesses, commons, Coton, q.v. demesne, servants, Eardiston, q.v. fmrs.' club, holdings, peasant, labour services, livestock, n, man., mkt. and fair, New Ruyton, Shelvock, q.v. vicar, Welsh raids, woods, n Rychard, Ric., rye, see crops: cereal rye grass, see grass: artificial Ryeland, the, Ryton, S.S.S.I.s, see sites of special scientific interest saffron, see crops: dye sainfoin, see grass: artificial St. Asaph diocese, St. Ives (Hunts.), St. Martin's, see Bronygarth St. Marylebone (London, formerly Mdx.), see Oxford Street St.-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France), St.-Remi, abbot of, see Rheims Salop archdeaconry (in Heref. dioc.), Salop County Council, see Shropshire County Council Salt, Thos., n salt, Salusbury fam., Sambrook (in Cheswardine and Chetwynd), Sambrook Hall, Sampson, Ric., bp. of Coventry and Lichfield, Samuelson & Co., Sandford fam., Sandford (in Prees), Sandford (in West Felton), sandstone plain, eastern, Sansaw, see Clive Savage, Wm., Saville, Sir Geo., marquess of Halifax, score (weight), n Scory, John, bp. of Hereford, Scotland, n, and see Aberdeen; Forfarshire scythes, see tools, equipment, and machines Second World War, seed, serfs, servi, see slaves services, carrying, carting, labour, commuted, pool work, see ponds sheep washing, weeding, military, riding, villein, Severn, river, bridges, grazing on banks, fisheries, fulling mills, sheep washing, transport, Severn Gorge, Severn-Trent Water Authority, sewers, commissioners of, Seymour, Isabella, see Leighton Shadwell (in Clun), Llanhedric, share cropping, see crops Shareshill, Sir Wm. of, Sharpstone Hill (in Condover, St. Julian's, Shrewsbury, and Sutton), Shavington (in Adderley), Shawbirch (in Eyton upon the Weald Moors and Wellington), Shawbury, heath, and see Acton Reynald; Charlton; Wytheford, Great; Wytheford Heath; Wytheford, Little sheep, n, breeds, Clun (Forest), Dorset, Down (downland), Southdown, Kerry Hill, Leicestershire (New Leicester), Longmynd, longwools, Merino, Ryeland, short-woolled, Shropshire, Welsh, 'common', flock sizes, folded on arable, trade in, 'flying flocks', nos., products: wool, q.v. milk, and see animal diseases; mixed farming; rearing Sheinton, Sheinton brook, n Shelderton (in Clungunford), Sheldon fam., Shelton (in St. Chad's and St. Julian's, Shrewsbury), pauper lunatic asylum (mental hosp.), Shelve, Foxhill Fm., n Shelvock (in Ruyton-XI-Towns), shepherds, Sheppen Fields, see Cothercott sheriff, Reynold the, see Bailleul Sheriff Hutton (Yorks. N.R.), see Stittenham Sheriffhales (partly Staffs.), n, Lilleshall Ho., and see Woodcote sheriffs (high sheriffs), Sherratt, John, Shifnal, n, n, Drayton Lodge fm., n Upton common, and see Bridwick; Decker Hill; Hatton; Hollinswood; Oakengates; Pain's Lane; Priorslee; Wyke Shifnal Agricultural Society, n Shipton, see Larden Shire Horse Society, Shirlett forest, Bentley hay, shooting, Shorey, Ric., and his w. and s., Shortwood, see Stanton Lacy Shotton (in Myddle), shovels, see tools, equipment, and machines shows and meetings, agricultural, n, Shrawardine, n, n, man., Shrawardine Castle, Shrewsbury, earls of, n, and see Belléme; Montgomery; Talbot Shrewsbury, abbey, see Abbey Foregate agric. shows at, boro.: burgesses, corporation, liberties, town clk., bridges, carectae, Chester St., chyards., Corn Exchange, dairying around, friaries, inds., manufactures: agric. implements, brawn, n brewing, cloth finishing, malting, mills, Smithfield Ironwks., n tanning, n inns, livestock, malting for, marketing, cattle sales, dairy produce, fairs, n firewood, n horse sales, mkt. ho., Smithfield, stallage, staple, merchants, traders, etc.: butchers, corn badgers, drapers, fmrs.' co-op., fish, graziers, mercer, Samuelson Implement Depot, seamstress, steam ploughing co., wool, murage, N.F.U., parishes: Holy Cross, see Abbey Foregate; Wenlock Road St. Alkmund's, see Castle Foregate; Coton; Preston Montford St. Chad's, see Betton Strange; Bicton; Bicton heath; Horton Lane; Monkmeole; Onslow; Rossall; Shelton St. Julian's, see Bayston Hill; Bicton heath; Coton; Pulley; Sharpstone Hill; Shelton St. Mary's, see Albrighton; Astley; Berwick; Castle Foregate; Clive; Coton; Leaton pavage, potatoes grown for, professions: artist, attorneys, banker, land agent, solicitor, Quarry, the, river traffic, roads, n St. Giles's Hospital, see Wenlock Road Shirehall, see Abbey Foregate Shrews. Tech. Coll., see Abbey Foregate suburbs, and see Abbey Foregate; Bayston Hill; Bicton heath; Castle Foregate; Coton; Meole Brace; Wenlock Road vegetables, vineyard, Welsh raids, Shrewsbury and District Farmers' Association, Shrewsbury Chronicle, Shrewsbury Steam Cultivation Co. Ltd., n Shrewsbury Steam Cultivation Society, n Shropshire Adult College, see Atcham: Attingham Hall Shropshire & West Midlands Agricultural Society, n, n, Shropshire Agricultural Association, Shropshire Agricultural Protective Society, Shropshire Agricultural Society, Shropshire Association of Parish and Town Councils, Shropshire Beet Sugar Co., Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture, Shropshire (formerly Salop) County Council, Shropshire Farm Institute, see Walford (in Baschurch) Shropshire Farmers Ltd., Shropshire Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, Shropshire Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs, Shropshire General Agricultural Society, Shropshire Groundwater Scheme, see water Shropshire Practical Farmers' Association, Shropshire Sheep Club, n Shropshire War Agricultural Executive Committee, Shukar, Ric., sickles, see tools, equipment, and machines Sidbury, Siefton (in Culmington), Siefton forest, silage, see grass sites of special scientific interest (S.S.S.I.s), Siward (fl. 1066), skins, hides, goat, Skitt: Wm., fam., 'Skyneresmore', see Morfe forest Skynner, John, Slack, W. J., n Slaney: R. A., fam., slave trade, slaves (serfs, servi), Sleap (in Ercall Magna), sledges, see tools, equipment, and machines smallholders, bordars, q.v. cottars, q.v. unfree, smallholdings, county-council, Smethcott, and see Betchcott; Boveria; Picklescott; Picklescott Hill Smith: Geo., John, Wm., and see Smyth; Smythe; Smythe Owen smith: Wm. the, see William Hen. the, see Henry Smithfield Club, Smithfield Ironworks, see Shrewsbury: inds. smiths, and see farrier Smyth: Rog., fam., and see Smith; Smythe; Smythe Owen Smyth, Jas., & Sons, Smythe: N. O., see Smythe Owen fam., n and see Smith; Smyth Smythe Owen (formerly Smythe), N. O., and see Owen snails, societies, county agricultural, societies and clubs: agric., co-operative trading, and see Co-operative Wholesale Society farmers', friendly, soiling, see fattening: covered feeding solskifte system, see fields: open Soudley wood, see Worfield South Rea, river (Rea brook), South Shropshire Farmers Ltd., Southern, John, Southern parliamentary division of Salop., Sowdley, Great (in Cheswardine), Spain, n Sparling: John, Wm., Sparrow: W. H., and his ss., fam., Speen (Berks.), see Benham Park Spencer, Alice, m. Vct. Brackley, n; and see Spenser Spender, Griffith, Spenser, Wm., and see Spencer spinning, Spoonhill, see Callaughton sport, see entertainments, recreation, and sport; field and country sports spreaders, mechanical, see tools, equipment, and machines squatters, Stafford: Edw., duke of Buckingham, Hen., Baron Stafford, n, n Rog., Baron Stafford, fam., n, Stafford: Barons, and see Stafford; Stafford-Jerningham earls of, marquesses of, see Leveson-Gower Vct., see Howard Stafford (Staffs.), Stafford-Howard fam., n Stafford-Jerningham (formerly Jerningham), Hen. Valentine, Baron Stafford, Staffordshire, n, and see Aqualate; Backbrook; Black Country; Blymhill; Brewood; Brewood forest; Burton abbey; Drayton, Market; Forton; Haywood; Knighton; Leek; Lichfield; Pattingham; Penkridge; Penn; Sheriffhales; Stafford; Stoke-upon-Trent; Tamworth; Trentham; Weston Jones; Weston under Lizard; Wolverhampton Stamford (Lincs.), Stanhope, Hon. Edw., Stanier: Sir Beville, F. A. H., (alias Stanier Phillip Broade), Fra., fam., Stanley: Ferdinando, earl of Derby, Frances, m. earl of Bridgwater, n fam., Stanmore (in Worfield): Stanmore Grove ('Gitton's Folly'), n Stanmore Hall, Stanton heath, see Stanton upon Hine Heath Stanton Lacy, n, n, n, apples, arable farming, bailiff, commons, cottagers, demesne, dovecot, Green Lane, Hamlets, West, q.v. harvesting, Hayton, Lower and Upper, q.v. Hayton's Bent, see Hayton Henley, q.v. herbage, Hopton, q.v. inc., livestock, man., meadows, mole plough, Oldfield Common, n Rock Lane, Ruckley, see Hamlets, West Shortwood, n tenures, Vernolds Common, q.v. Welsh labourers, Stanton Long, n; and see Oxenbold Stanton upon Hine Heath, Booley, q.v. Hatton, High, q.v. Hine heath, Stanton heath, Stanway, Nether, see Wilderhope and Stanway Stapeley Hill (in Chirbury), Stapleton, Hugh, Stapleton-Cotton, Charlotte Anne, see Ellis-Fletcher statistics, national agricultural, n, steam engines, see tools, equipment, and machines Stedman, Thos., Steedman, Edw., n Steventon fam., n stewards, see officers, landlords' Stiperstones, the, forest or chase, Stirchley, Stittenham (in Sheriff Hutton, Yorks. N.R.), Stockton, n, and see Apley Park; Apley Terrace plantations; Winscote heath Stoke, Church (partly Mont.), and see Brompton; Corndon Hill Stoke Heath, see Stoke upon Tern Stoke St. Milborough, n New Ho. fm., and see Bockleton; Brown Clee Hill; Clee Burf; Heath; Titterstone Clee Hill Stoke upon Tern, n, Helshaw, q.v. Stoke Heath, Woodhouse Fm., Stoke-upon-Trent (Staffs.), Stokesay, n, and see Craven Arms; Newton Stone, Thos., stone (weight), n stone quarries, and see lime works Stoneacton (in Rushbury): Hill End, Stoney Stretton, see Stretton, Stoney storage pits, see farm buildings: grain stores (prehistoric) Stottesdon (formerly partly Herefs.), and see Farlow Stour, river, Stourbridge (Worcs.), straking, see livestock and pastoral farming: transhumance Strange (le Strange): Ankaret, Baroness Strange of Blakemere, m. Baron Talbot, John (d. c. 1233), John (d. c. 1269), John (d. 1309), Rog., fam., Strange of Blakemere, Baroness, see Strange Strange of Knockin, Barons, n streams, see rivers, streams, and brooks Street, A. G., Stretton, All (in Church Stretton), Stretton, Church (Stretton-en-le-Dale), Botvyle, q.v. Boveria, q.v. Brockhurst castle, Caer Caradoc Hill, q.v. Hazler Hill, q.v. Helmeth Hill, inc., labourers' conditions, man., marketing, fair, Minton, q.v. Picklescott Hill, q.v. Stretton, All, q.v. Stretton, Little, Ragleth Hill, Stretton, Stoney (in Westbury), Stretton Dale, Stretton-en-le-Dale, see Stretton, Church Stretton Hills, stretward, strike (measure), n strike's seedness, acre equivalent of, Strine, river or brook, Stringer, John, Strutt, Rob. John, Baron Rayleigh, Stury, Ric., Styche (in Moreton Say), Suffolk, see Bury St. Edmunds; Ipswich; Leiston; Peasenhall Suffolk, earl of, see Howard sugar beet, see crops: roots sugar beet lifters, see tools, equipment, and machines Sundorne (in Haughmond), Sundorne Castle, Surrey, earls of, and see Warenne Surrey, and see Deptford surveyors: land, see officers, landlords' tithe, n Sussex, n, and see Arundel Sutherland, dukes of, and see Leveson-Gower; Sutherland-Leveson-Gower Sutherland-Leveson-Gower: Cromartie, duke of Sutherland, (formerly Leveson-Gower), Geo. Granville, duke of Sutherland, (formerly Leveson-Gower), Geo.Granville Wm., duke of Sutherland, (formerly Leveson-Gower) fam., Sutton, and see Sharpstone Hill Sutton Maddock, and see Brockton Sutton upon Tern (in Market Drayton), swans, swedes, see crops: roots Sweeney (in Oswestry), Llwyn-y-mapsis, Swinfield, Ric., bp. of Hereford, tack (greystack, wormtack), and see pannage Talbot: Alethea, m. earl of Arundel, Edw., earl of Shrewsbury, Fra., earl of Shrewsbury, Geo., earl of Shrewsbury, n, Gilb., Baron Talbot, Joan, see Mortimer John, Baron Furnivalle, later earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1453), John, earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1654), Mary Anne, m. Sir Fra. Lawley, Ric., Baron Talbot, fam., n, Talbot, Baroness, see Strange tallage, Tamworth (Staffs. and Warws.), Tanat, river, Tanner, Hen., tanning, n, Tasley, n taxes, taxation, customs and excise: maletot (1294), 'whisky money', death duties, exemption from, geld, lay subsidies, (1306), (1327), (1340), Hearth Tax (c. 1688), television, Telford (formerly Dawley) new town, Teme, river, Templars (Knights Templar), tenant right, Tench, Mr., terciary, commuted, Tern, river, Tern (later Attingham) Hall, Park, and estate, see Atcham Ternhill (in Market Drayton and Moreton Say), terra regis, see estates, landed: royal Tetchill (in Ellesmere), theft, of game, see poaching of livestock, rustling, Thomas: Mic., Thos. (d. c. 1558), Thos. (fl. 1586), Thornes, Thos., threshing machines, see tools, equipment, and machines Thynne: Ld. Alex. Geo., Sir Hen. Fred. (d. 1680), n, n, Sir Hen Fred., marquess of Bath (b. 1905), n Thos. Hen., marquess of Bath, fam., n, Tibberton (in Edgmond), Tibberton Manor, Ticklerton (in Eaton-under-Heywood), Tiler fam., Tilley (in Wem), Tilstock (in Whitchurch), timber, see woodland: products timber trade, Timber wood (in Madeley and Little Wenlock), tithe, n, appropriated, calves, foals, garden, hay, lambs, moduses, impropriated, paid in kind, piglets, rectorial, n vicarial, n wool, and see surveyors Titterstone Clee Hill (in Bitterley and Stoke St. Milborough), Toke fam., toll, see millers Tomkins, -, breeder, Tong, n, n, and see Ruckley tools, equipment, and machines (agricultural), axes, bee stalls, bells, livestock, carts, carectae, carrae, chaff cutters, dairy, milking machinery, drills, flails, flint, forks, harrows, harvesters, combine, hay rakes, haymakers (tedding machines), hoes, hooks, horse-powered, see horses iron, marling auger, mattock, mills, q.v. oil-cake breakers, pitchforks, ploughs, potato lifters, potato planters, pottery containers, prehistoric, quernstones, reaping machines, n, rollers, root cutters, scythes, seed basket, shovels, spades, sickles, sledges, spreaders, mechanical, steam engines, power, sugar beet lifters and harvesters, threshing machines, n, tractors, n, trusser, tumbrils, turnip cutters, wagons, wains (plaustra), water-powered, wheelbarrows, winnowing fans and machines, wooden, and see agricultural engineering Tories, see Conservatives Toulouse (Tarn-et-Garonne, France), tourism, n Tower, Brownlow R. C., towns, fashionable, feeding of, large, n, new, privileges, shops, slums, street and night soil, and see boroughs; murage; urban districts Townsend, Thos., Townshend, Chas. ('Turnip'), Vct. Townshend, n townships, new, tractors, see tools, equipment, and machines trade, and see badgers; broggers; butchers; cattle; chapmen; cloth and wool trade; earthenware trade; horses; leather trade; malting; markets and fairs; moneylending; pigs; sheep; timber trade; wine trade trade unions, see labour tradesmen, see craftsmen Traian, see Oswestry: lordship transhumance, see livestock and pastoral farming Transport and General Workers' Union, n Treflach (in Oswestry), Woodhill, Trefonen (in Oswestry), Nantmawr, Trelystan (Mont., in Worthen), Trent, river, Trentham (Staffs.), Trussell, Eliz., Lady, see Burley Tugford, n, n, n Balaam's Heath, n Tully, -, breeder, tumbrils, see tools, equipment, and machines tunc, Tuppe, Wm., turf, turkeys, see poultry turnip cutters, see tools, equipment, and machines turnips, see crops: roots Twitchen (in Clunbury), Twyford (in West Felton), the Fords, Tyr-y-coed (in Kinnerley), Tyrell-Kenyon (formerly Kenyon), Lloyd, Baron Kenyon, Tyrwhitt, Gerald Hugh, see Tyrwhitt-Wilson Tyrwhitt-Jones (formerly Jones), Sir Thos. John, Tyrwhitt-Wilson (formerly Tyrwhitt), Gerald Hugh, Baron Berners, Uckington (in Atcham), Uffington, Pimley, and see Haughmond Hill underdraining, see drainage, artificial Unigate Dairies, United Hunt, United States of America, see America Upper Clatford (Hants), see Redrice Upper Gorddwr, see Gorddwr Upper Hayton, see Hayton Upper Maesbrook, see Maesbrook Upper Wood Farm, see Hopton Cangeford Upton, Waters, Upton common, see Shifnal Upton Cressett, Upton Magna: arable farming, assarts, blacksmith, common rts., demesne, Downton, q.v. Haughmond Hill, q.v. Haughton, q.v. livestock, n, n, n, n, man., n, meadow, Preston Boats, q.v. woods, n urban districts, n vagabonds, and see beggars Vale Royal abbey (in Whitegate, Ches.), vandalism, Vane: Chris. Wm., Baron Barnard, Harry Geo., see Powlett Wm. Harry, earl of Darlington, fam., varneth, see fines: surrender Varnolds Common, see Vernolds Common vegetables, see crops Venables, Lazarus Jones, Verdon, Isabel de, m. Baron Ferrers of Groby, vermin, and see rat, musk Vernolds (Varnolds) Common (in Culmington, Onibury, and Stanton Lacy), n, Vernon: Sir Ric., fam., Vesey, Yvo Ric., Vct. De Vesci, n vetches, see crops veterinary lectures, Victoria, Queen, villages: dormitory, 'open', villeins, see customary tenants vineyards, virgates, Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter), Voulare, Rog. le, and see Fowler Vron promontory fort, see Newcastle Vynar: Hen. n, fam., Vyrnwy, river, Wackley farm, see Petton wagons, wains, see tools, equipment, and machines Wakeman, Sir Offley David, wakes, Walcot fam., Walcot (in Clunbury and Lydbury North), n, Walcot (in Wellington), Allscott sugar factory, n, Wales, n, admin. divs., border and Marches, assarts, horse breeding, Welshmen, welshries, q.v. and see marcher lords cloth, Denbighshire, q.v. Flintshire, see Breaden Heath; Caerwys; Whixall Moss geol., gwelyau, q.v. hills, labourers from, language, law and customs, tenures, livestock, Merionethshire, see Mawddwy Montgomeryshire, q.v. ploughing, raids and rebels from, Radnorshire, q.v. rulers, and see named rulers timber, Wales, Council in Marches of, Walford, Fra., Walford (in Baschurch), Walford Coll. of Agric. (formerly Salop. Fm. Inst.), Walker fam., walkmills, see mills: fulling Waller, Wm., Wallop, Lady Cath. Henrietta, m. C. G. Milnes Gaskell, Wallop (in Westbury), Walpole, Col. Rob., n Walton fam., Walton (? Bridgwalton, in Morville), Walton, High, farm, see Bromfield Ward: Rowland W., Steph., T. C., T. H., Wm., n Warenne, John de, earl of Surrey, Waring fam., warren, free, warreners, see officers, landlords' warrens, wars, world, and see First World War; Second World War Warter: Hen. de Grey, fam., Warwick, earls of, see Dudley; Plessis Warwickshire, n, and see Arden forest; Birmingham; Combe Abbey; Coventry; ingham; Combe Abbey; Coventry; Leamington; Maxstoke; Tamworth; Whitmore Park; Willenhall waste, see commons and wastes; Domesday Book water, Salop. Groundwater Scheme, and see drainage; ponds; rivers water authorities, and see Severn-Trent Water Authority water meadows, see grass water mills, see mills water supply, Waters Upton, see Upton, Waters Wathes Bros., Wathes, Cattell & Gurden Ltd., Watling Street, Watling Street Demesne or Wellington Hay (in Wellington), Ercall, the, Watson: Geo., Jas., Wattlesborough (in Alberbury and Cardeston), Bretchell, Gt., Wattlesborough Heath, Watts, W. W., Weald Moors, the, Weaver, Thos., n Weaver, river, n Webscott (in Myddle), weedkillers, weeds, frontispiece, and see services: labour Weeseland, see Ercall Magna weights and measures, see acres; bushels; carucates; nooks; perch; score; stone; strike; strike's seedness; virgates Weld: Eliz., m. Brooke Forester, Geo., Sir John, Lt.-Col. Thos., n fam., Weld-Forester: Cecil Geo. Wilf., Baron Forester, Geo. Cecil Beaumont, Baron Forester, Geo. Cecil Brooke, Baron Forester, (formerly Forester), John Geo. Weld, Baron Forester, Orlando Watkin Weld, Baron Forester, (formerly Forester) fam., n, Wellington, agric. engineer, Apley Castle, q.v. Aston, q.v. auctioneer and est. agent, bacon, dairying around, Dothill, q.v. fmrs.' club, Hadley, q.v. Ketley, q.v. Leegomery, q.v. marketing, Smithfield, N.F.U., Overley Hill, q.v. poultry, Shawbirch, q.v. town promotion, Walcot, q.v. Watling Street Demesne, q.v. windmill, Wrekin, the, q.v. Wellington Hay, see Watling Street Demesne Wellington hay, see Wrekin forest Wells: Ric., Thos., Welsh mortgages, see mortgages Welshampton, and see Breaden Heath Welshmen, see Wales: border and Marches Welshpool (Mont.), and see Powis Castle welshries, and see Clun; Gorddwr; Knockin; Oswestry Wem, barony, club, soc., common rts., dairying and cheese, drover, Edstaston, q.v. honey, inc., labourers' housing, livestock and pastoral farming, n, lordship, man., n, marketing, fairs, mills, Northwood, q.v. Old Pool, pks., P.O.W. camp, co. council smallholdings, sparrowhawks, tenures, Tilley, q.v. Welsh raid, woods, n, wormtack, n Wem Cow Club, Wenlock, John, Baron Wenlock, n Wenlock, Barons, n; and see Lawley; Wenlock Wenlock, Little; assarts, common rts., demesne, Huntington, q.v. inc., man., n, meadows, open fields, pigs, tenures, Timber wood, q.v. woods, Wenlock, Much, n, boro., n, n Bourton, q.v. Bradeley, q.v. Callaughton, q.v. demesne, n Farley common, q.v. inc., labour services, labourers' wages, marketing, n, fair, Presthope, q.v. priory, prior, est., n, Wenlock Abbey, post-Dissolution est. and residence, Westwood common, Wigwig, q.v. Windmill Hill, wood, Wenlock Agricultural Reading Society, Wenlock Edge, Wenlock Farmers' Club, Wenlock priory, see Wenlock, Much Wenlock Road (in Holy Cross par., Shrewsbury), St. Giles's hosp., Wentnor, and see Adstone; Kinnerton; Ritton West Felton, see Felton, West West Hamlets, see Hamlets, West West Indies, n West Onny, river, Westbury, and see Caus; Hayes forest; Minsterley; Stretton, Stoney; Wallop; Whitton; Yockleton Westhope (in Clun), Westhope (in Diddlebury), Westminster, duke of, and see Grosvenor Westminster (London, formerly Mdx.), abbey, and see Oxford Street Westmorland, see Lake District Weston, Wm., Weston (in Clun), Weston (in Oswestry), see Weston Cotton Weston, Cold, Weston Cotton (in Oswestry): Cotton, n Weston, Weston Jones (in Norbury, Staffs.), n Weston Lullingfields (in Baschurch), the Berth, Weston under Lizard (Staffs.), Weston Pk., Weston-under-Redcastle (in Hodnet), Bury Walls, Citadel, the, Westwood common, see Wenlock, Much Whaddon (Wilts.), wheat, see crops: cereal Wheathill, Wheatland, the, wheelbarrows, see tools, equipment, and machines wheelwrights, Whigs, Whitchurch (partly Ches.), arson in area, Ash Magna, q.v. Blakemere, q.v. bylaws, commons, dairying and cheese, n demesnes, Dodington, q.v. encroachment on waste, heath, inc., man., n marketing, fairs, n marl pits, Mediolanum, q.v. mills, pigs, rector, steam ploughing co., tenures, Tilstock, q.v. Welsh raids, Yockings Gate, Whitchurch Dairy Farmers' Association, Whitchurch Steam Ploughing, Cultivating & Thrashing Co. Ltd., n Whitcot (in Norbury), Whitcott Keysett (in Clun), White, Ric., n Whitegate (Ches.), see Vale Royal abbey Whiteley: Hon. R. G., Hon. W. T., Whitmore: Eliz., m. Sir Wm. Craven, T. C., T. C. D., Sir Thos. (d. 1653), Thos. (d. 1846), Sir Wm., Wm. Wolryche, n fam., n, Whitmore Park (in Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warws.), n Whittington, Whitton (in Westbury), Whixall (in Prees), and see Whixall Moss Whixall Moss (in Hanmer (Flints.) and Prees), Wigmore (Herefs.), Wigmore Basin (Herefs.), Wigwig (in Much Wenlock), n wildfowl, Wilding: Revd. Sam., fam., Wilderhope and Stanway (in Rushbury): Lutwyche, Stanway, Nether, will, tenants at, see customary tenants; rents: rack Willaston (in Prees), Willenhall (in Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warws.), n Willey: Burga of, Wm. of, and his w. Margery, Willey, n, Bold, q.v. rector, n Willey Hall and est., William I, the Conqueror, William the smith, Williams, John, Williams Wynn, Sir Watkin (d. 1789), n, Willstone Hill (in Cardington), Wilmington (in Chirbury), Wiltshire, and see Longleat; Whaddon Winchester, Winchfield (Hants), see Hook Windmill Hill, see Wenlock, Much Windsor, Other Lewis, earl of Plymouth, n; and see Windsor Clive; Winsor Windsor, Baron, see Windsor-Clive Windsor (Berks.), Windsor-Clive: Other Rob. Ivor, earl of Plymouth, Rob. Geo., earl of Plymouth, n as Baron Windsor, wine trade, Wingfield: John, Thos., n kinswoman of, Winnington (in Alberbury), winnowing fans and machines, see tools, equipment, and machines Winsbury (in Chirbury), Winscote heath (in Stockton and Worfield), Winsor, Ric., and his f., and see Windsor wireless, Wistanstow, n woad, see crops: dye Wollaston, Little, see Amaston Wollerton (in Hodnet), Wollerton wood, n Wolryche: Fra., Sir Thos., n fam., Wolverhampton (Staffs.), Wombridge, n priory, and see Coalpit Bank; Oakengates Women's Institutes, Women's Land Army, Wood, Sam., wood-pasture economy, woodcock, Woodcote (in Sheriffhales), Woodhill, see Treflach Woodhouse (? in Pontesbury), Woodhouse Farm, see Stoke upon Tern woodlands, clearance (felling), commoned, intercommoned, coppices, demesne, division of, enclosed, forests, q.v. grass and pasture in, 'hays' (Domesday Bk.) in, imparked, management, plantations, products, bark, brushwood, charcoal, deadwood, firewood, timber, underwood, reduction of, royal, sheep pasture, swine fattening, pig feeding, trenches, and see Domesday Book; forests; grass; livestock and pastoral farming; wood-pasture economy Woodward fam., woodward, Woofferton (in Richard's Castle), wool, wool trade, see cloth and wool trade Woolstaston, n, Woolston (in West Felton), Wootton Fawnog (in Oswestry), Worcester, bps., Worcestershire, and see Black Country; Bournville; Evesham; Halesowen; Holt; Kidderminster; Kyre Wyard; Oldbury; Stourbridge; Worcester; Wyre chase Worfield: Apley Terrace plantations, q.v. bees, Bradney, q.v. Burcote, q.v. Chesterton, q.v. copyholds, Hallon, q.v. Hilton, q.v. livestock, Newton, q.v. potatoes, Soudley wood, Stanmore, q.v. sugar beet, Winscote heath, q.v. Worfield wood, workhouses, wormtack, see tack Worthen (partly Mont.), and see Aston Pigott; Aston Rogers; Earl's Hill; Hope; Trelystan Wotherton (in Chirbury), Wrekin, the (in Wellington and Wroxeter), n, and see Wrekin forest Wrekin Farmers, Wrekin (Mount Gilbert) forest, Wellington hay, Wrenbury (Ches.), see Combermere abbey Wright: Hugh, fam., Wrockwardine, n, n, n, Wrockwardine Hall, and see Admaston; Allscott; Leaton; Orleton; Overley Hill; Pain's Lane; Wrockwardine Wood Wrockwardine Wood (in Wrockwar dine), n, Wroxeter, n, n, n, n, and see Donnington; Viroconium Cornoviorum; Wrekin, the Wycherley, Dan., Wyke, the (in Shifnal), Wykes fam., n Wynn, Sir Watkin Williams, see Williams Wynn Wyre chase, ? formerly forest (partly Worcs.), Wyre Forest coalfield, Wytheford, Great (in Shawbury), Wytheford, Little (in Shawbury), Wytheford Heath (in Shawbury), Y.F.C.s, see Young Farmers' Clubs Yockings Gate, see Whitchurch Yockleton (in Westbury), n 'Country World' (formerly 'Butterfly World'), Lynches fm. (the Lynches), York, dukes of, see Edward IV; Plantagenet York, abp., Yorkshire, n, East Riding, see Beverley North Riding, see Bedale; North York Moors; Stittenham Young: Art., John, Thos., abp. of York, fam., Young Farmers' Clubs (Y.F.C.s),