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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wrockwardine (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of … by N.) from Wellington; containing 2731 inhabitants. This parish, including Wrockwardine-Wood, an isolated township … there is a corn-mill on the river Tern, which bounds the parish on the north. In the township of Admaston is a mineral …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. to the … across the township. In 1884 the township became a civil parish and was enlarged to 914 a. by the transfer of Hortonwood and part of Trench from the parish of Eyton upon the Weald Moors, and of an adjoining …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood was entitled to a share in the Wrockwardine parish charities. 70 Review of Local Chars. (S.C.C. 1975), 69. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… In 1900 there was still some commercial mining in the parish, but it had ceased by 1908. 1 Iron and steel. In 1801 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood was part of the manor, and until 1884 the civil parish, of Wrockwardine. In spite of its isolation it seems … had to be made to relieve the poor. The township, later parish, was in Wellington poor-law union 1836- 1930. 17 … to have used churches and chapels of ease nearer than the parish church 7 km. away. 21 In the early 19th century the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the site c. 1801 but the rent … a 40 s. rent charge. The vicar was to have £1 1 s. and the parish clerk 1 s. for administering it. By 1821, and still in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Holmes. 97 James Smyth, instituted 1635, 'deserted' the parish in the First Civil War. 98 Jonathan Gellibrand, … 4 Small sums were paid out of the sacrament money to the parish poor from the mid 18th century or earlier: £1 18 s. 6 … being added. 12 Between 1788, or earlier, and 1823 a parish orchestra was maintained, with violins, viola, bass …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the balance of arable and livestock farming in the parish before the Black Death, sheep farming seems not to … grazing rights on the Wrekin. 74 The northern side of the parish also provided extensive areas of common pasture on low … townships. 75 There was further common pasture in the parish on Rushmoor, Marsh heath, and Little moor 76 and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… at Allscott was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had a Sunday school and a day school 'by subscription' …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to Thomas Hazlehurst for £50 a year. 40 By 1782, when the parish apparently resumed direct responsibility for the poor, … spent and there were up to thirty in the workhouse. The parish owed £1,980, 44 and 703 of the population of 1,938 were receiving parish relief, including 200 men completely unemployed. As …