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A History of the County of Shropshire
… original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley Hill by 975, and southwards around Cluddley, probably by the … houses of the 18th and 19th century, such as Admaston Hall, Oaklands, and Donnerville, bear witness to that phase …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … where was formerly a public well, now filled up. Wrotham-hill, immediately above the town, affords one of the finest … have possessed it since the 1st of Henry III., 1216. The Hall is a magnificent structure, erected in 1696, standing on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… south-west of Cockshutt Piece and north-east of Ball's coppice. In the earlier 19th century there was some … district council. In 1650 there were 12 cottagers at Pain's Lane on Watling Street. In 1836 the place was said to have … was open in 1917, in the building known as Trench Billiard Hall in 1937 and 1941. 57 The Regent cinema, Wrockwardine …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… average 180. 51 In 1863 the Wesleyans moved to St. George's and the Nabb chapel closed. 52 In 1824 St. John's Wesleyan chapel, Trench Road, opened. Society membership … the chapel closed, being replaced by the Methodist church hall, New Donnington. 55 The first Primitive Methodist …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. 74 The vicar's income in 1612 consisted of tithes of wool, lambs, flax, … Edward Pemberton (d. 1680) left a rent charge of £6 13 s. 4 d. for similar purposes; it was discharged for £200 in … rectory in Allscott within two years. It was to have a hall, two chambers, a kitchen, stable, and outbuildings. 85 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's value had risen from £6 13 s. 8 d. T.R.E. to £12 10 s. in … in 1324. 12 It may have lain c. 400 metres north of the hall. 13 At Wrockwardine a windmill was noted as destroyed in … Basalt and granite were quarried around Leaton and Overley Hill during the 19th century. Extraction continued on a small …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… school in 1852. 68 The following year a new St. Peter's Girls' School (with 100 places in schoolroom and classroom) and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss Cludde's … ran a Sunshine Home for retarded blind babies at Overley Hall from 1950 to 1980. 90 In 1981 Overley Hall School opened …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's boundary' 74 and the king retained the manor of … centre, and was perhaps the site of Cynddylan's hall of Pengwern, burnt by the Mercians c. 660. 77 The manor … 1688, sold his interest in Wrockwardine to Richard Hill of Hawkstone, the statesman and diplomat, in 1715. 92 In …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1851. United Free Methodists had a chapel at Overley Hill from 1862. It was de-registered in 1935 and demolished … Methodists also maintained connexions with St. Christopher's Hall. 57 T.S.A.S. 2nd ser. i. 83; L.J.R.O., B/A/12(i), f. 94. …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… a. Several Roman coins 1 were found in the garden of Heath Hill House (SP 18472278), mile E. of the Chessels settlement, … N. of Wyckhill House (around SP 196225); see map, p. 66, s.v. Icomb. (1) Settlement (SP 193208), Romano-British, is …