Search
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Chilvers-Coton, Nuneaton common, Hunts-hall, and Oldbury, lying to the north of the first-mentioned place; and … of Bidford and Wilnecote. There is ironstone at Oldbury and Merevale, near the former of which that mineral …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… on the property. 46 Edmund Skynner of Wishingford (Worcs.) in 1717 sold the manor to Francis Edwards (d. 1729), …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Elizabeth 22 and her husband William Sheldon of Beoley (Worcs.). 23 They held it in 1579 24 but Sir Walter Leveson …
A History of the County of Stafford
… a road from the church to Greet mill, continuing thence to Oldbury. It must have followed approximately what are now … or along Swan Lane, Phoenix Street, Ryders Green Road, Oldbury Road, and West Bromwich Street. 62 The road from … vi, C 4005; Court Rolls of the Manor of Hales, 1270-1307 (Worcs. Hist. Soc.), ii. 428; W.S.L., S. D. Pearson 1459; …
A History of the County of Stafford
… as lord. 21 Mills. The mill at Bromford stood on the Oldbury bank of the Tame, but in the mid 19th century at … within West Bromwich. 22 The mill is probably the same as Oldbury mill, mentioned in 1306. 23 There was certainly a … a slitting-mill by 1633 when Richard Foley of Stourbridge (Worcs.) undertook to supply it with six tons of iron a week. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… entitled to send two boys to Old Swinford Hospital School (Worcs.), established in 1670. 73 By the later 18th century … girls and boys. See p. 83. T. R. Nash, Colls. for Hist. of Worcs. ii (1782), 210-11; V.C.H. Worcs. iii. 202-3, 213-14; iv. 536. Reeves, West Bromwich, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Handsworth and from Oldbury, Warley Salop, and Warley Wigorn in Halesowen (Worcs.). 87 The parish workhouses at West Bromwich and … Tipton and Wednesbury with parts of Birmingham, Smethwick, Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Coseley, Bilston, Walsall, and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… then descended with Weoley Castle in Northfield (Worcs.) until at least 1560, when it was held by Thomas … below p. 16. For the descent of Weoley Castle see V.C.H. Worcs. iii. 194-6. V.C.H. Staffs. iii. 216. Ibid. 218; L. & … (Rec. Com.), iv. 139; Cal. Fine R. 1430-7, 132-3. V.C.H. Worcs. iii. 92. V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 34, 59. See p. 50. His …
A History of the County of Stafford
… to his father's property, came to West Bromwich from Oldbury; 8 he worked a mill on the estate and lived in a … He was succeeded in 1681 by his brother Richard Turton of Oldbury (Worcs.), who was living at the Mill in 1682. 84 Richard died …