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A Dictionary of London
… Wollewharf See Wool Quay. Wolsies Gate A water gate in the roparie, in parish of All Hallows the Less, of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of use (S. 42). "Wolsieslane "lay between …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Introduction WOLVERCOTE, an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ … Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th century. The south-eastern part of the … Abingdon and their family; other travellers had to take a lane north-west through the meadows to cross the Thames at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wombleton - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of … There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. John Stockton, in 1839, left 10 per annum for the instruction of children. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was presumably a way leading … of a road running south-west from Watling Street at Pain's Lane to join it at Snedshill, the limit of the improvement of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 … the south (or Shifnal) side of Watling Street near Pain's Lane. Like so many developments around Oakengates at that …
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 … opened at Snedshill Coppice in 1818, 51 served the Pain's Lane (in Lilleshall) and Priorslee districts. Run on Dr. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have … and, evidently, the lord of Shifnal all had claims in 'the common wood of Wombridge'. About 1220 Thomas Tuchet, … George's, greatly expanded from the old hamlet of Pain's Lane (in Lilleshall parish) by new streets laid out at the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a papist or sympathizer with papists. 22 Samuel Campion, the minister ejected from Hodnet in 1660, held Sunday conventicles at Wombridge in 1669. 23 In … in 1882, with week-night meetings in a mission in Quob Lane (later Station Road) and open-air gatherings on the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present … races and athletic competitions were held south of Pain's Lane in the mid to late 19th century during the wakes, 58 …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged … for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., … 16, B.A. 1665, M.A. 1668; rector of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, London, 1673, and of Monk Risborough, Bucks, 1675. See …