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A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Education EDUCATION. The first schools in Worthing were apparently for visitors' children, and by 1811 there were one academy … there were four day schools and three boarding schools for a total of 161 boys and 71 girls who were taught at their …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing manor's court baron survive from 1544 to 1925. 91 The court's jurisdiction was presumably over that part of … were held not more than once a year, and sometimes not for three or four years. Thereafter they were held more … bathing and of boats and huts on the beach. The successive raising of the limit of the commissioners' borrowing powers …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wothersome - Wrayton Wothersome WOTHERSOME, a township, in the parish of Bardsey, Lower division of the wapentake of … Esq., of Wotton House: the tithes have been commuted for 525, and there are 140 acres of glebe. The church, a … built, and of neat appearance. It has long been celebrated for the manufacture of fine broad-cloth, which affords …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WREA, Lancashire.See Ribby. Wreay WREAY, a chapelry, in the parish of St. Mary, union of Carlisle, Cumberland ward, … has been erected, which is driven by steam. Statute-fairs for hiring servants, established in 1832, are held in April … quantities are produced in the neighbourhood, for the supply of the clothiers in the adjoining districts, and those …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is a large parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and Aubyns are the principal monuments. … of the chancel has a boarded ceiling, all modern except for eighteen bosses of the 15th century, carved with foliated … hatchway to the upper storey. A main beam has mortices for former curved braces. The 15th-century low-pitched roof …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the western … and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. South of Bratton is a … a gothic tower, set in 48 a. of grounds, was built in 1882 for Joseph Beattie, a Birmingham banker. 30 H. H. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred … celebrity, where a commodious hotel has been built for visiters. The upper spring contains muriate of soda, and … of the Crown. The great tithes have been commuted for 208. 6., the vicarial for 310. 19., and the glebe …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in … A great deal of timber was sold to the Coalbrookdale Co. for the building of the Horsehay ironworks in 1754. 69 The … coke-iron industry. In 1757 the township's mines began to supply ironstone to the Coalbrookdale partners' works at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES. Wrockwardine Wood was part of the manor, and until 1884 the civil parish, of Wrockwardine. … C.P. 19 The Granville hospital, Gower Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It opened in 1873 but … initially given by Matthew Wishton and R. W. Kyle, curate for Wrockwardine Wood, in a cottage in Furnace Lane. 23 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made between 1616 and 1657 …