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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a Roman station: the military way from Oldborough to Stane-street passed through it. The parish comprises 8878 acres, of … supposed to have been a bridge. The Roman Watling-street passed through the centre of the station, and crossed … flows into the Thames below Marlow. It has one principal street, on the road from London to Oxford, from which some …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… distance. On the south it was bounded by Watling Street. The northern boundary was that part of the ancient … back from it in the early Middle Ages. 10 From Watling Street the ground falls sharply, giving extensive views north … In 1650 there were 12 cottagers at Pain's Lane on Watling Street. In 1836 the place was said to have risen in eminence; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as the king's wood … S.R.O. 999/Uu 4 (evid. of J. Mountford, J. ap Richard, R. Ward); T.S.A.S. 4th ser. i. 214; v. 282. S.P.L., MS. 110, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… boys' council schools closed, 7 and the C.E. and Gower Street Council schools became junior mixed and infant … 26 Wrockwardine Wood Girls' and Infant Board School, Gower Street, opened in 1879 to accommodate 99 girls and 136 … incompetence. 32 In 1927 the schools were renamed Gower Street Girls' and Infants' Council Schools. 33 By then …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… as part of Wellington rural sanitary district, becoming a ward of Oakengates urban district on its creation in 1898. 18 … part of Oakengates C.P. 19 The Granville hospital, Gower Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It … 1873 but by 1879 a smaller, eight-bed building in Albion Street had been provided. An ambulance service was added to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… built of red brick in 1860 on the north side of Church Street, St. George's, seated 400; half the seats were free. … township. 74 The Wesleyan Reformers' Ebenezer chapel, New Street, was built in 1855. It seated 230. It closed in 1963 … had moved from Oakengates to a Gospel Hall in West Street, which they still used in 1983. 77 Jehovah's Witnesses …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… brick on the site of the former barns, overlooking Watling Street. 12 Earthwork terraces to the north-east, traceable in … Oct. 1650, p. 10. TS. (n.d.) supplied by Maj.-Gen. J. A. Ward-Booth. In 1982 the tablet was illegible. S.R.O. 999, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Ovingham, union of Hexham, E. division of Tindale ward, S. division of Northumberland, 9 miles (W.) from … forms the in-soken, and the divisions of Downham, Market-street, Silfield, Sutton, Towngreen, and Wattlefield, which … the parish of Crosthwaite, union of Cockermouth, Allerdale ward below Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 8 miles (S. E. …
A Dictionary of London
… Bridge. Wytecruchestrate, Wytecroychstrate See White Cross Street. Wyvelastone In the street towards the Tower over against "Wyvelastone," 56 H. … Watergate. Wyvenelane In parish of St. Mary Somerset, in ward of Queenhithe, 1329-30 (Ct. H.W. I. 356). John de …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649