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A History of the County of Shropshire
… In 1693 Robert Bromhall, LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 girls were attending two private day schools, 30 boys … the vicar, still wanted a church school. 57 The Education Department, however, approved the Ketley Bank site 58 and the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of Hadley and their son Alan gave land bounded on the east by a stream … wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, and on the south by Watling Street. 90 Eastward and northward …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, and 1747, the matters dealt with being mainly agricultural. … until 1857. 13 Priorslee was part of Shifnal manor and parish 14 and Ketley Bank part of Leegomery manor. 15 A … union 1836-1930, and in 1838 the appointment of an assistant overseer was authorized. 20 Priorslee was in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no … be demolished in advance of the Wellington-Wolverhampton railway c. 1846. It was replaced by a chapel opened in 1847 … SA 14438; inf. from Mr. Lenton; Meth. Church Bldgs.: Statistical Returns (1940), 267. Cartlidge, op. cit. 78, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Social and cultural activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the … until the construction of the Wellington-Wolverhampton railway across it c. 1849, and thereafter at the other end of …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … May, 1678, aged 17; his father governor of Windsor Castle, and knighted 20 May, 1660; brother of Edward. Woodcock, … 16 March, 1637-8, aged 15, created B.D. 12 Sept., 1661; assistant to Dr. Jeremy Taylor when he taught school in …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… from West Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the long barrow … S.V. Minchinhampton. (1) Roman Villa (SO 83970311), under and adjacent to a former church, now in ruins (map, p. 81, … is limited, but exploratory excavations conducted for the Department of the Environment by Mr. Giles Clarke in 1973 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the antiquities that have been found are, foundations and ruins of buildings, fragments of statues, stags' horns, … of the Lower Empire, a coin of Adrian, one of Lucilla, and a noble tessellated pavement, of which an engraving was … population is employed in making shoes. The Peterborough railway, and the road from Thrapston to Wellingborough and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… CHURCH. A priest was recorded at Woodchester in 896 51 and architectural evidence shows that there was a church … the 12th century. 52 The living was a rectory in 1320 53 and has remained one. The advowson descended with the manor … until 1858 the rector was John Williams, D.D., 83 formerly assistant curate at Stroud. 84 The ancient parish church of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… stream, on which several cloth-mills were built, and the southern boundary is formed by the Inch brook and ornamental ponds built on the brook by the late 18th … running from east to west through North Woodchester. 6 A railway was built in 1867 linking Nailsworth with the main …