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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Few roads are likely to have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was presumably a way leading north from Watling Street to Wombridge priory, … to Shifnal, first mentioned in 1335. 70 Watling Street and the road via Priorslee to Shifnal were turnpiked in 1726. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in … 8 d. 49 Whether the priory's ironworks was linked in any way to the Foleys' mill and furnace at Wombridge, working by …
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 … 269 in 1981. 44 Queenswood County Primary School, Yates Way, opened in 1965 with 329 places, to replace Ketley Bank …
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 … (Educ.) 1959-60, 199. i.e. 147 dwellings 1973-9 in Briggs Way, Cappoquin Drive, etc., off Moss Rd.: Wrekin District …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one … RUG was almost by definition made of WOOL, being a useful way of using up the hairy coarse wools like IRISH WOOL and …
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, … Inns of Court Reg. Wye, William of Corpus, 1520. See Way. Wyer, "Dositheus" (Wier) of co. Gloucester, pleb. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … intrusion of Newmarket, is a former line of the Icknield way just south of and parallel to the modern Cambridge road. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… parish, formerly part of Blakesley, contains the site and lands of the deserted village of Kirby (1) as well as the existing settlements of Woodend and Woodend Green, and covers some 700 hectares (Fig. 28). It … The main feature of the site is a broad hollow-way, presumably once the main street, which crosses the area …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… parish, covering 880 hectares, lies between the R. Nene and Cranford Brook, on land rising S.W. from 100 ft. to 280 … but along the valley sides bands of clays, limestones and sands outcrop. Prehistoric and Roman b(1) Enclosures (SP … N.E. end of Woodford village, alongside an old hollow-way or road leading to Thrapston, on the top of and on the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 55 SE) Fig. 149 Woodford-Cum-Membris Medieval settlements and estates The parish covers about 1100 hectares and is bisected by the R. Cherwell, here flowing in a narrow … N.W. of the hamlet this road survives as a shallow hollow-way only 0.5 m. deep curving up the hillside towards Byfield …