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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred … of Ptolemy, an important Roman station on the north-east bank of the Severn, in the bed of which, at low water, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood WROCKWARDINE WOOD Wrockwardine Wood, north-east of Oakengates town centre, was originally a detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 … The township, the area here treated, contained 515 a. in 1882. 8 Its eastern and western boundaries followed no …
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 Domesday. 64 Referred to as the king's wood c. 1130, it … 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
… List of illustrations EDUCATION. In 1833 a Primitive Methodist Sunday school, started in 1823, … 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept school in his house at the Nabb. 80 In 1826 there was Anglican concern because in … in 1895 there were 140 girls' places and 185 infants'. 29 The girls' school was full from 1885 until 1909, when …
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. In spite of its isolation it seems to have been treated … and pew rents from Wrockwardine Wood to endow the living. 29 By 1856 the value of the living had risen to c. £140, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wesleyan Methodist society associated with John Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in 1765. 49 Wesleyans were meeting at the Nabb in 1813, and … Wrockwardine Wood, 20; S.R.O. 1861/22. S.R.O. 1861/29, 79, 96, 107, 146. Williams, op. cit. 20. Jubilee …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and there was a priest in 1086. 63 Shrewsbury abbey claimed the church itself as a … patron in 1832. 89 A new vicarage house was built south-east of the village in 1963. 90 At Domesday and until c. 1095 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 the 7½ berewicks of Wrockwardine, for which geld was paid on … to the church. Wrockwardine's woodland lay 7 km. to the east in a detached block, which later became a township. 56 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… John Poole (or Pole) and Henry Bynnell were schoolmasters in the late 17th century 58 and Richard Poyner from 1702. 59 … by the Revd. A. A. Turreff (1937). S.R.O. 4472/Sch/1/1-29, 37. The schs. were not National Schs. though called so in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES. In 1255 Hamon le Strange did no suit to shire or hundred … 1285 John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a year were … ale, agricultural matters, and the transfer of copyholds. 29 By 1797, whence there are continuous records until 1936, …