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A History of the County of Shropshire
… was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as … it amounted to some 2,000, 5,000, and 4,300 dozens of 'black' and 'bald' ironstone. In 1761 Richard Reynolds of … edn.). S. R. Broadridge, 'Jos. Banks and W. Midlands Ind.' Staffs. Industrial Arch. Jnl. ii. 6. S.P.L., MS. 4072, p. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Methodist Sunday school, started in 1823, had 177 pupils, and a Wesleyan one had 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept … 280 children aged 7-13 were still without instruction, 81 and in 1831 a National school opened, albeit with only 109 … premises. 24 That year the C.E. school building was again black-listed, and in 1964 the new Wrockwardine Wood C.E. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… were owned by the Charltons of Apley from 1673. In 1813 and 1822 respectively Lord Berwick and the earl of Shrewsbury retained the mining rights when … Wood 1882 Above. Above, Wrockwardine, Man. and Other Est.; Staffs. R.O., D. 593/B/2/5/18, deeds of 1839 (copies); S.R.O. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… which geld was paid on 5 hides, contained 17 ploughteams and there was land for another in Charlton. The four … of arable and livestock farming in the parish before the Black Death, sheep farming seems not to have been of great … lay at the southern extremity of the Cheshire cheese country, and cheese for market as well as domestic …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the … Barbour, who took the name Hill. He lived at Shenstone (Staffs.) and died in 1758, when his cousin Thomas Hill, of … D.N.B. D.N.B. T.S.A.S. lv. 148; cf. D.N.B. S. Shaw, Hist. Staffs. ii (1801), 37, 44-5. Halifax, the 'trimmer': D.N.B. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of … for its importance to the foundation of a priory of Black monks, at first a cell to the abbey of St. Alban's, by … church contains some very ancient gravestones. A priory of Black canons in honour of St. Lawrence, was founded here in …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… pearl of knowledge, which shows him the way to live well and happily, and by the preciousness thereof makes the man of learning far … of the commonwealth, and indwellers and inhabitants of the country subject to him, but also the other parts neighboring …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Brackets, &c. w th. all sorts of Picture Frames, either Black or Carv'd & Gilt, Likewise Looking Glasses of all … [Heal] Yardley, Samuel, St James's Sq., Wolverhampton, Staffs., cm and joiner (1833). [D] Yarnall, Richard, Barton … St. Trade card states: Merchants, Captains of Ships, country chapmen &c. may be supply'd on reasonable Terms with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It is situated on an acclivity above Bottesford beck, and comprises 733 a. 3 r. 6 p. The common lands were inclosed … to Mr. Meynell, occupies the site of a convent for Black friars, founded by Peter de Brus, who died in 1240. It … the priory of Gorleston, two lazar-houses, and houses of Black, Grey, and White friars, many fragments of which …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel and c. 2 miles (3 km.) from the sea. In 1881 it had 1,740 a. … c. 1832, when the publican was also a wheelwright. 76 The Black Dog, also in Main Road, and two outlying inns, the … earlier 14th century, but all the latter died during the Black Death, their lands remaining unoccupied in 1349. 80 …