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A History of the County of Sussex
… was demolished in 1970 after being used as a warehouse for many years. 35 Pony races were held on the sands in 1805, … in South Street, both of which served as meeting-places for local government business and survived until the mid 20th … efforts of the minister of the chapel. Besides a library for the use of fishermen and other workmen, it had a hall 52 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and Aubyns are the principal monuments. … of the chancel has a boarded ceiling, all modern except for eighteen bosses of the 15th century, carved with foliated … about 100 yards N.E. of (22), has traces of an encircling ditch. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. South of Bratton is a … a gothic tower, set in 48 a. of grounds, was built in 1882 for Joseph Beattie, a Birmingham banker. 30 H. H. … in the 18th and 19th centuries Admaston Spa was a centre for local genteel society, and in 1851 the locality was known …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… celebrity, where a commodious hotel has been built for visiters. The upper spring contains muriate of soda, and … of the Crown. The great tithes have been commuted for 208. 6., the vicarial for 310. 19., and the glebe comprises one acre; the great …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… western boundaries followed no natural features or roads for any significant distance. On the south it was bounded by … mining in the 18th and 19th centuries may have accounted for the scatters of squatters' cottages south-west of … 1850s when terraces were built in various styles, largely for workers at the Lilleshall Co.'s Priorslee blast furnaces …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the lord chancellor exchanged it with the earl of Powis for the patronage of Holy Cross, Shrewsbury. 69 In 1889 Powis … from Allscott and Charlton; Easter offerings; and 1½ d. for every cow and calf. 75 In 1655 the small tithes were … 80 By 1792 tithes were paid in cash, although Wrockwardine moor, when mowed, was tithable in kind in 1829. 81 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. In 1086 the 7½ berewicks of Wrockwardine, for which geld was paid on 5 hides, contained 17 ploughteams and there was land for another in Charlton. The four ploughteams in demesne were … pasture in the parish on Rushmoor, Marsh heath, and Little moor 76 and rights were claimed all over the Weald Moors. 77 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the manor was granted in fee to his son John (III) for £8 a year. 82 By 1255 John (III) who lived until 1269, 83 … granted 4½ a. in Charlton to Haughmond abbey after 1274 for the maintenance of lights at St. Mary's altar in the … of the manorial demesne tithes and had probably done so for two centuries or more. 48 The annual value of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… coal and ironstone; the mines are let on lease to the Low-Moor Iron Company by Miss Currer, and T. Carvick, Esq., to … and the Church Commissioners, the Incorporated Society for Building Churches, and the Ripon Diocesan Society made … alternately; net income, 150. There are places of worship for Independents and Moravians, the latter of whom have a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1288. 6 The half-hundred was not divided into vills for the subsidy of 1296, 7 and in 1316 Wyndham and Ewhurst … Ewhurst, 11 and that duality was presumably responsible for the use of both names for the half-hundred from the mid 17th century onwards. 12 …