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A History of the County of Stafford
… London, Chester, and Shrewsbury, and it was the road's importance which caused the county to contribute towards … lime. 41 The road which forks from the main road at Carter's Green and runs to Wednesbury and Wolverhampton was also an … area. 45 By the 1720s the road from Wednesbury to Carter's Green was in a dangerous state because of the great …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and 3 bordars and a fourth team in demesne. The value, 40 s., was the same as it had been in 1066. 40 During the Middle … being grown in 1776. Some farms were being let at from 15 s. to 25 s. an acre. Pasture in the fields, in the meadows by the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… End. The estate was then divided: the house passed to Lowe's sister Sarah on condition that she continued to live there, … went to his brother Alexander. 82 In 1772, after Alexander's death, the farms also passed to Sarah. 83 She died in 1774, … and between at least 1833 and 1841 it was let. 89 Dawes's son Henry was living at Charlemont by 1845, and father and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Main Drainage Authority in 1966. 27 In 1958 the council's first smoke control order came into force. 28 Progress in … and over the next ten years some 15 per cent of the town's population was rehoused. 33 The corporation has built … dwellings, including multi-storey flats and old people's flatlets. 36 Of the springs which supplied West Bromwich …
A History of the County of Stafford
… wake, called the Gooseberry Wake and held at Cutler's End on the first Sunday in August, existed in the early … were usually on the outskirts of the parish. 98 Martin's Act of 1822, 99 intended to suppress the pastime, was … dealer, established the first public hall, St. George's Hall in Paradise Street, in 1859 in a building which had …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the present Lyndon Street and extended southeast to Mayer's Green. 63 East of the village there was a road running from the church to Mayer's Green via the present Church Vale (formerly Sot's Hole) and Dagger Lane. 64 At the north end of Dagger Lane …
The Environs of London
… west by the river Lea, which separates it from St. Leonard's Bromley, Stratford-Bow, and Hackney, in Middlesex; and on … Henry VIII. granted the conventual church, with Richard's chapel, the site of the monastery, and its appurtenances, … for, in 1446, Thomas. Bernwell obtained the King's licence to give it to the abbot and convent of Stratford, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… begun before 1086, for by then William Scudet, the king's cook, held an estate of 4 hides which was to form later the … the manor of Westbury Priory. 46 The rest of Defuble's land was regranted by Henry II to Joce de Dinan, and by … sold his share in the manor to Alexander Staples of Yate (Glos.), 73 who died seised of it the same year having …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Cottesloe, county of Buckingham, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Stony- Stratford; containing, with the hamlet … Buckinghamshire progress: Spenser the poet, his lordship's secretary, was frequently here. It was purchased and … chapelry of Church, including Huncoat, Oswaldtwistle, and Yate cum Pickup-Bank3 the parochial chapelry of Colne, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to be a confirmation by King Athelstan c. 939 to St. Paul's monastery in London of estates including ten mansae at … generally thought to be spurious. 39 Nevertheless St. Paul's certainly had estates there before the Conquest. A list … Fortune in Harlesden. 40 In 1086 the canons of St. Paul's held Willesden, assessed at 15 hides, the manor of …