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A History of the County of Shropshire
… the inhabitants received poor relief, 33 and in 1931 the old-fashioned New Yard works closed with the loss of 1,000 … Nabb. 40 In 1851 the Lilleshall Co. began to replace the old railways with a private standard-gauge network, which … Bowling Club was formed in the same year, when part of an old pit mound was levelled and grassed. 56 The Trench and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… down in 1826, about the time that the Donnington Wood Old Lodge furnaces were blown in. 3 In 1861 the Lilleshall … an engineering works that replaced the Donnington Wood Old Yard works and soon became known as the New Yard. 4 … a period of unprofitability began; the plant was old, and there were difficulties in getting, and then …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… it was £35 a year, from the four cottages 93 to which the old workhouse had been converted. 94 By her will of 1675 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1548 the service of Our Lady was suppressed. The 70-year-old stipendiary Thomas Fryer 94 had been receiving an annuity … gallery; and the replacement of the pews by benches, some old pew panelling being used as wainscot. The pulpit, rebuilt …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 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
… was supported by Anna Maria Cludde. 67 It was held in an old cottage until temporarily accommodated in the boys' …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1688, sold his interest in Wrockwardine to Richard Hill of Hawkstone, the statesman and diplomat, in 1715. 92 In … staircase, apparently in situ, in the centre of the old range. A map of 1742 depicts the hall, probably … with a main front of nine bays and three storeys. 23 The old hall was remodelled c. 1830 and fronted by a stone …
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 …
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, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the soil, is a neat mansion, standing in a finelywooded park about a mile south of the village. The living is a … church has a tower, and is very ancient, about 700 years old; the eastern window is of stained glass, with the arms of … by some avenues of stately box-trees, and there is an old well, to the water of which tradition ascribes …