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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … The substratum contains leadore, of which some mines are in operation, and there are quarries of good … whereof two-thirds are pasture, and the remainder arable. Coal-mines have been wrought from time immemorial; conveyance …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … but at 60s. The Soc extended into Totteshale, Brauncote, and Sudtune. [Pedigree] The family of Mortein were the next … Wollaton. This lordship, which is small, abounds in pit-coal; it is owned by Lord Middleton, and is old enclosure.The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … installed the first steam-driven machinery and by 1811 coal was being brought weekly by barge via the Oxford canal …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … by several tramways communicating with the extensive coal and iron mines at Ketley and in the neighbourhood, which have been …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Few roads are likely to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was … to Shifnal, first mentioned in 1335. 70 Watling Street and the road via Priorslee to Shifnal were turnpiked in 1726. … in 1983. 76 A network of canals and railways linked mines and ironworks in the Oakengates area with each other …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 1882 and 1902, when the mill pond was filled in. 21 Coal and ironstone. In 1535-6 there were two mines on the Wombridge priory demesne, worth £5 a year. 22 It …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In 1693 Robert Bromhall, LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 girls were attending two private day schools, 30 boys and 80 girls a church Sunday school, and 300 boys and 250 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of Hadley and their son Alan gave land bounded on … earlier 16th century the priory was exploiting the local coal and ironstone reserves. 94 Early lay settlement in the … the 16th and 19th centuries, hamlets developing alongside mines and ironworks, notably at Ketley Bank. There was little …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… p. 284. Growth of Settlement, p. 285. Social and Cultural Activities, p. 289. Manor and Other Estates, p. 290. Economic History, p. 291. Local … of boulder clay and sand and gravel overlying the Middle Coal Measures. The coal measures outcrop either side of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no … established in his parish during his time. In the 1840s and 1850s, however, Primitive Methodist, Congregational, and New Connexion Methodist chapels opened on the southern …