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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The great … canal passes through the township. The church was erected at an expense of 1600, by subscription, aided by grants from … in 1638. The houses are neatly built, principally round a green, and in two parallel and two cross streets: a little …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Moors. 11 In 1898 the civil parish was included in the new urban district of Oakengates. 12 Wrockwardine Wood was … in the township in the Middle Ages. Part of the settlement at Quam Pool apparently lay in Wrockwardine Wood, and Quam … Wrockwardine Wood Bowling Club was formed in 1922 with a green on the White Horse field. The Nabb Bowling Club was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… ironworks in 1754. 69 The woodland then remaining, at the Nabb and on Cockshutt Piece, was coppiced 70 but by … had a lease of the Charlton mining interests, and new pits were being sunk in Wrockwardine Wood. In 1736-7 the … 15 The principal products were crown glass and dark green bottles for the French wine trade. Some table ware was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… had 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept school in his house at the Nabb. 80 In 1826 there was Anglican concern because in … the Primitive Methodist minister became chairman. 83 At first a most disorderly board 84 torn by sectarian strife, … least 1914. 5 From 1961 evening classes were held at the new Trench Modern School. 6 All the 19th-century schools were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 20 CHURCH. The inhabitants of Wrockwardine Wood appear at times to have used churches and chapels of ease nearer … part of the Nabb and Pain's Lane was transferred to the new consolidated chapelry later known as St. George's. 28 The … By 1900 the living's value had fallen to £180; it remained at that level in 1917. By 1932 it had risen to £360. 34 In …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in 1765. 49 Wesleyans were meeting at the Nabb in 1813, and by 1815 there was a chapel there. 50 … closed, being replaced by the Methodist church hall, New Donnington. 55 The first Primitive Methodist society in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 65 were not mentioned thereafter. The church, valued at £10 in 1291, 66 was appropriated to Shrewsbury abbey in … The vicar's net income 1828-31 averaged £376. 82 In 1838, at commutation, the vicar owned most of the hay, clover, and … the vicarage, Shrewsbury abbey undertook to build a new vicarage house opposite the existing rectory in Allscott …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… areas of open-field land elsewhere in the township. 65 At Bratton, worth 24 s. T.R.E., 1½ hide paid geld in 1086. … Extraction continued on a small scale until c. 1960 when new plant was introduced and larger-scale quarrying began … and Cox, op. cit. for 17thand 18th-cent. examples. H. Green, 'The Linen Ind. of Salop.' Ind. Arch. Rev. v. 114-18; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (d. 1705) kept schools in their houses. A 'schoolhouse' at Allscott was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had … in the boys' school in 1852. 68 The following year a new St. Peter's Girls' School (with 100 places in schoolroom … and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss Cludde's expense. She, from 1854 as Mrs. R. C. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Bratton was a member of Eyton manor and made presentments at courts there in the 16th century and answered with Eyton and Horton at Hinstock court leet from the 14th to the 19th centuries. … poor were farmed for £50, to John Hollis. About 1801 a new workhouse had been erected 1 km. west of Wrockwardine on …