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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exceedingly picturesque, vale of the Wear, on the north bank of the river, and near the point where it receives the … The village is large, and pleasantly seated on the south bank of the Avon. Wolstan House is an extensive brick … II. to the Carthusian priory at Coventry. On the southern bank of the Avon are vestiges of a Roman encampment. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were built, besides a canal keeper's house on the west bank of the canal. 6 Most of the older houses in both …
A History of the County of Oxford
… site of the church. Finds of tiles in the modern river bank east of the site of the tower suggest that the buildings …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of which embraces sand, loam, and clay. On the southern bank of the river Went, are some quarries of fine limestone, … is navigable for vessels of 120 tons to the town: on its bank are two excellent quays. The market is on Wednesday, for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… interchange in 1971, to the Greyhound interchange, Ketley Bank, in 1975-6, and to the Wombridge interchange north of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… century mining was established at Coalpit (later Ketley) Bank and probably at Snedshill. 27 By the early 1720s the … enterprise began in 1818 when James Foster, the eminent Midland ironmaster, leased mines at Wombridge with an … lviii. 241; N. Mutton, 'The Foster Fam.: a Study of a Midland Ind. Dynasty 1786-1899' (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children lacked school places in 1875, 53 when … raged over the board's intended school site at Ketley Bank, some ratepayers demanding a more central position. … 57 The Education Department, however, approved the Ketley Bank site 58 and the school opened in 1878. A continuing …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the lord of Shifnal granted the canons the whole of his bank of the stream dividing Snedshill wood from the canons' … alongside mines and ironworks, notably at Ketley Bank. There was little cohesion, and only in the mid 19th … householders in Oakengates and three in Wombridge; Ketley Bank householders may have been taxed with Ketley township. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… C.P.s of Hadley (at Trench), Wellington Rural (at Ketley Bank), and Shifnal (between Woodhouse colliery and Priorslee … a shallow valley, flanked by the higher ground of Ketley Bank to the south and St. George's to the east, both over 150 … of the band: to the south-west between Hartshill, Ketley Bank, and Hollinswood, and to the north-east between Newfield …