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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… discovered on the spot where the victims were interred. George Coughran, the celebrated youthful mathematician, was … to be a seat of the family till the reign of Charles I., when it was dismantled by order of the parliament. The … places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans. In 1704 George Legg devised nine acres of land, now producing 20 per …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to 5. 10., are distributed among the poor. Wrotham (St. George) WROTHAM ( St. George), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union … by Hugh de Hatton, about the close of the reign of Henry I., for Benedictine nuns, whose revenue at the Dissolution …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… from the 1860s, when Pain's Lane began to be known as St. George's. 18 Trench, like Pain's Lane, was only partly in … into 10 dwellings in 1856. 21 Until the growth of St. George's in the 1850s there were few good quality artisans' … (1979), 53. Above, Lilleshall, Growth of Settlement; I.G.M.T., Lilleshall Co. colln. 846. W. Howard Williams, A …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… or shale known as 'crows' or 'hatter's blocks'. 79 Sir George Saville, one of the lords of Wrockwardine manor, sold … class housing known as Glassworks Square. 16 V.C.H. Salop. i. 315. The township measured c. 1½ mile N.-S. by c. ½ mile … B.L. Add. MS. 50121, p. 105; Eyton, ix. 145. V.C.H. Salop. i. 486; Cartulary of Shrews. Abbey, ed. U. Rees (1975), ii, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and girls' and infant schools in 1879. A small Standard I boys' school was built in 1890 93 and school accommodation … condemned, closed in 1961; pupils transferred to St. George's C.E. junior and infant schools. 40 Wrockwardine Wood … rejected plans to extend it, and in 1890 Standard I boys transferred to the new Wrockwardine Wood Junior Boys' …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to the new consolidated chapelry later known as St. George's. 28 The incumbent of Wrockwardine Wood enjoyed a … op. cit. 12. Below, Educ.; Lich. Dioc. Regy., bps.' reg. I, pp. 687-91, 695, 702-6; S.R.O. 3916/1/2, no. 61; ibid. … Bldg. Soc. and Eccl. Com.: Lich. Dioc. Regy., bps.' reg. I, pp. 702-6. Ibid. Q, pp. 296-301; Lich. Dioc. Dir. (1982), …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… gradually separated from the other manorial rights. Sir George Saville began the process in 1660 by conveying his …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… said to average 180. 51 In 1863 the Wesleyans moved to St. George's and the Nabb chapel closed. 52 In 1824 St. John's … red brick in 1860 on the north side of Church Street, St. George's, seated 400; half the seats were free. The principal … no. 78. S.R.O. 1861/107, 137, 153. S.R.O. 3767/XXIII/A, H. I. Powell to Mr. Mason, 28 July 1943; inf. from Mr. Lenton; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… seized by the sheriff as an unlicensed alienation. Edward I regranted it to Robert in 1275 as 1/20 knight's fee. 85 … of Orleton. Another third apparently passed in 1618 to George Saville (2nd bt. 1622) of Thornhill (Yorks. W.R.), … by his brother Sir William (d. 1644), whose son Sir George 94 sold his third of the manor to Edward Revell in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… eight daughters, arms and inscription, indent of sons: to George Gyll, 1568, and his two wives, inscription and broken … of figure brass, with indent of inscription said to be of George Canon, 1534: brass inscription (now kept at the Rectory) to George Canon, recording that he built the aisle in 1532, died …