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A History of the County of Rutland
… as Cornwall died in 1300 seised of Martinsley, Alstoe and East Hundreds, but from Wrandike he received nothing because …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 118 acres. The church is an ancient structure. Wretham, East (St. Ethelbert) WRETHAM, EAST ( St. Ethelbert), a parish, in the union of Thetford, … Thetford; containing 194 inhabitants. It is bounded on the east by a Roman road, near which is a large tumulus; and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… recipes which followed practices learnt from the Far East. They are probably reflected in the patent for a 'Powder …
A Dictionary of London
… side of Thames Street in the parish of St. Dunstan in the east, in Tower Ward. Devised by will of Sir Wm. Herriott, 1506, to the Drapers' Company, by the name of "Vernon's quay." It seems to be on or …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine, a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the … western boundary is mostly with Wroxeter parish and to the east lies the northern part of Telford new town. The main … of the ancient parish, Wrockwardine Wood, lay 7 km. to the east; its history is treated separately below. 85 To the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Ptolemy, an important Roman station on the north-east bank of the Severn, in the bed of which, at low water, … sculpture and figures of six of the Apostles. At the north-east angle of the chancel is a splendid altar-tomb, with the … Liverpool and Birmingham railway skirts the parish on the east. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood WROCKWARDINE WOOD Wrockwardine Wood, north-east of Oakengates town centre, was originally a detached … cottages south-west of Cockshutt Piece and north-east of Ball's coppice. In the earlier 19th century there was … a private standard-gauge network, which linked most of the company's interests by 1855. The network reached its peak …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… New Yard. 4 Engineering rapidly became as important to the company as its coal, iron, and brick production, and it was well enough established by 1862 to allow the company to exhibit and win prizes at the London International … of Biddle, Mountford, & Co. The glassworks, like the whole east Shropshire coalfield, was badly affected by the post-war …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… patron in 1832. 89 A new vicarage house was built south-east of the village in 1963. 90 At Domesday and until c. 1095 … 1854. No indications remain of the early Norman church's east end or fenestration. Probably in the later 12th century … a central tower. The chancel was lit by three round-headed east windows and a north and a south one. Only the south …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to the church. Wrockwardine's woodland lay 7 km. to the east in a detached block, which later became a township. 56 … much the greatest part of the great area of woodland east of Wellington. It also had rights of common on the … open field. 60 There were other areas of open-field land east of Allscott, north of Admaston, 61 and between Burcot, …