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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Ribby. Wreay WREAY, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Mary, union of Carlisle, Cumberland ward, E. division of the county … about the communiontable, and other parts of the chapel. A school, erected by subscription in 1760, was endowed by John … comprises 44 acres. The church is a neat structure in the later English style, with an embattled tower: that of Little …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Found described as banded with BRASS, with LOCKs, PLAIN, School, with secrets, SMALL, travelling Found made of DEAL, …
A Dictionary of London
… Aldrichegate, I Ed. VI. 1547 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 100). No later record. Wrestler's Court South out of London Wall, west …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… village is a loose agglomeration of 17th-century and later timber-framed and brick farmhouses and cottages grouped … in 1890. It was a hotel from c. 1928 to c. 1933 but later a chicken farm, then a lodging house. Telford … Telford (1978 edn.). Diary of Marches of Royal Army (Camd. Soc. [1st ser.], lxxiv), 278. Inst. Geol. Sciences Map …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred of … a mixture of the various styles from the Norman to the later English, and contains sixteen stalls. An additional … present worth more than 20 a year, for the endowment of a school. In the parish are some remains of a British …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… town centre, was originally a detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of … to meet at the White Horse inn. 47 In 1843 there was a school clothing society and a missionary society, in 1844 a … 11 Oct. 1650, p. 15; Hearth Tax 1672 (Salop. Arch. Soc.), 98. Trinder, Ind. Rev. Salop. (1981), 137. V.C.H. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 70 but by 1847 virtually no woodland remained. In the later 19th century, with the decline of mining, woodland … 2 built two blast furnaces on the west side of what was later known as Moss Road. In 1802 he took them into the newly … 1790s a manager's house was built south of the canal. It later became the rectory. Glasshouse Row adjacent to the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… EDUCATION. In 1833 a Primitive Methodist Sunday school, started in 1823, had 177 pupils, and a Wesleyan one … 2 From 1891 there were cookery and drawing classes; later geometry, physics, shorthand, mining, arithmetic, and … H.C. 62, p. 787 (1835), xlii. S.R.O. 303/79-80. Nat. Soc. file 173. P.R.O., ED 7/102, f. 492. List of Sch. Boards, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… journeys had to be made to relieve the poor. The township, later parish, was in Wellington poor-law union 1836- 1930. 17 Wrockwardine Wood C.P. was formed in … Wood, in a cottage in Furnace Lane. 23 The National school, built near the glassworks and opened in 1831, was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Reprimanded by the circuit, Stones resigned office and later defied the circuit by accepting the trustees' … 'double decker' schoolroom was added and in 1886 a Sunday school. 68 The chapel and schoolroom were sold in 1965, … S.R.O. 2123/632; Wellington Jnl. 1 Oct. 1904; Wesley Hist. Soc., Salop. Branch, Bulletin, i (7) (1976; copy in S.R.O. …