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A History of the County of Shropshire
… By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Education EDUCATION. Wombridge. 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 … by voluntary contributions. 50 A National school opened in 1846 and a short-lived British school in 1860. 51 George …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and, evidently, the lord of Shifnal all had claims in 'the common wood of Wombridge'. About 1220 Thomas Tuchet, lord of Leegomery, gave the canons his rights in the wood, and boundary disputes with Shifnal manor were … so including the north-eastern part of Ketley township. 92 In 1318 the Crown confirmed 30 a. of assarts to the priory. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 22 Samuel Campion, the minister ejected from Hodnet in 1660, held Sunday conventicles at Wombridge in 1669. 23 In 1691 the Presbyterians or Congregationalists considered …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever … of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in 1613, and three at Oakengates in 1618- 19. 51 Four were licensed in Wombridge parish in …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one diarist found to his cost when mixed in PLASTER [Diaries (White)]. OED earliest date of use: 1748 Found in units of BUSHEL Found rated by the HUNDREDWEIGHT of 112 …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged … 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for … died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., 1684, buried 4th in Newbury church. See Ath. iv. 158; & Calamy, i. 290. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. In 1729 Richard Cambridge gave £20, the interest to be used at the discretion of the overseers. In 1828 the capital sum was said to have been lost 29 but it … by the overseers to buy five almshouses for the parish in 1763. 30 The alms-houses, in Bospin Lane, were sold by the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the Nailsworth valley two miles south of Stroud town. In 1972 the parish, a triangular unit comprising 1,206 a., … late 18th century. 2 The north-western boundary is formed in part by the Stroud-Dursley road, turnpiked as far as Buckholt wood in Frocester in 1780. 3 The western slopes of the Nailsworth …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… even when held by the same incumbent as Woodditton; 12 in 1747 it became formally a distinct ecclesiastical parish. … cut Wood Ditton into a thousand shreds and patches'. 14 In 1815 the inclosure commissioners added the detached parts … area called Shagbag within Woodditton but placed part in Newmarket. 16 As defined in 1815 Woodditton covered 5,071 …