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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood WROCKWARDINE WOOD Wrockwardine Wood, north-east of Oakengates town centre, was originally a detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. to the west. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… List of illustrations ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was … with oaks and underwood. 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had … Charlton mines were leased to, or operated by, the Pitts family, whose rights were challenged in 1696 when several …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… totalling £60 were used to buy a field called Tiddicross, of which the rent was distributed annually. Edward Pemberton … workhouse was built on the site c. 1801 but the rent of £4 10 s. was not increased; it was paid out annually as … which the old workhouse had been converted. 94 By her will of 1675 Margaret Langley of Burcot left £10. It was probably …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and … married or widowed priest; he was probably related to the family who owned Charlton. 92 One pre-Reformation vicar is … 1600-1900 the parish clerk was a member of the Houlston family. 26 The church of ST. PETER, so named by 1435, 27 is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… fees being paid by richer neighbours. 62 The Cludde family built and supported separate boys' and girls' schools … amounting in 1853 to £45 including the mistress's salary of £35. 69 In 1885 an infant department (60 places) was added … her husband provided the site. 79 Income in 1848 consisted of £32 17 s. 6 d. in subscriptions and collections, £24 11 s. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's boundary' 74 and the … in 1494 and 1504. 29 In the 12th century the Charlton family presumably held the manor of the abbey by … Moors, and the two manors descended together in the Eyton family. 45 Mention of the chapel yard in 1784, and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… S.E. (b)ix. S.W.) Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Giles, stands about 1 miles N.E. of Buntingford. It is built partly of flint rubble with stone … C. C. (Charles Crouch) and the date 1681; the Crouch family owned the manor of Corney Bury from about the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of Devon; … the name of Wucha, and at an early period was held by a family called De Wyke. It is detached from the rest of the … king's books at 14, and in the patronage of the Ferrand family: there is no church. Wykeham, West WYKEHAM, WEST, a …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Wymersley hundred THE HUNDRED OF WYMERSLEY containing the parishes of Blisworth; Brafield-On-The-Green; Castle Ashby; Cogenhoe; … Judith and was certainly held by her representatives, the family of Hastings and their successors, with the manor of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… N.W. (c)XXXIX, N.E.) Wynford Eagle is a parish 7 m. E.N.E. of Bridport. The Manor Farm is the principal monument. Roman c(1) Tesselated Pavement, immediately S.W. of Manor Farm, must have been discovered before 1864, when … freestone; the roofs are tiled. The house belonged to the family of Sydenham in the 16th and 17th centuries and was …