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A History of the County of Shropshire
… and western boundaries followed no natural features or roads for any significant distance. On the south it was … Some sand and gravel lies along Trench Road. 14 There was little settlement in the township in the Middle Ages. Part of … in various styles, largely for workers at the Lilleshall Co.'s Priorslee blast furnaces and, from 1861, at the New …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had begun, and it may … A great deal of timber was sold to the Coalbrookdale Co. for the building of the Horsehay ironworks in 1754. 69 … Moss; a third group, possibly distinct, was known as the 'little pits'. 86 By the 1750s colliers who had earlier worked …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… council school in Wombridge. 48 Wrockwardine Wood Junior (or Standard I) Boys' Board School, built on the National … of the bd.'s vicechmn. from his post with the Lilleshall Co.: ibid. /19, pp. 10-12, 38-9, 70-2, 95-8, 101-2, 158-60. … Ketley Bank Girls' Council Sch. log bk. (at Queenswood Co. Primary Sch.) 27 Jan. 1911. S.R.O. 2699/58, p. 104. Ibid. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It opened in 1873 but by 1879 a smaller, eight-bed … the Nabb mission was built on land given by the Lilleshall Co., the building costs being raised through subscriptions. … Cartlidge, Usc-con, 111. Gale and Nicholls, Lilleshall Co. 74; G. M. James, 'Here be Dragons': Brief Glimpse into …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… dairy products, bees, gardens, fishponds, and mills (built or to be built); 'pennies of charity'; tithes of hay, apart … tithes were basically those of 1612, but owners of 5 or 6 calves paid 2 s. every two years, and owners of 10 paid … 3916/1/1, no. 25. C. Hulbert, Hist. and Descr. of Co. of Salop. ii (1837), 158; J. Benson, Life of Rev. J. W. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a share in the ploughteams probably implies the recent or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's … of great importance, for in 1341 there was alleged to be little pasture for sheep. 72 Some specialization may … common pasture in the parish on Rushmoor, Marsh heath, and Little moor 76 and rights were claimed all over the Weald …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SERVICES. In 1255 Hamon le Strange did no suit to shire or hundred court, and c. 1285 John le Strange held a court … crier was abolished in the mid 19th century. 33 A lock-up or crib, then apparently disused, was mentioned in 1842; 34 … Vast Burthen of the Poor's Rate, by a member of the Salop. Co. Cttee. for the employment of the poor (Holborn, 1817), 6 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… 16th-century, painted with scenes of the Passion; German or Flemish workmanship. Monuments: in the nave, painted … the shell of a late medival building, of which little detail remains. The cellars are built of early … main block; the central porch was added late in the 17th or early in the 18th century, and has columns with Ionic …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is Wylam Hall, an ancient building, formerly a peel, or strong house. Wyldecourt WYLDECOURT, a tything, in the … Portsmouth and Langston harbours. Great, and part of Little, Horsea island, at the upper end of the former … of Trinity College, Cambridge. The tithes of Great and Little Wymondley were commuted for land and corn-rents in …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Denton; Grendon; Hardingstone; Horton; Great Houghton; Little Houghton; Milton Malzor; Piddington with Hackleton; … probably Wootton) constituted the hundred of 'Colentreu' or 'Coltrewestan'. 2 This subordinate hundred is not … was probably at a field called Wymersley Bush in Little Houghton, 6 apparently belonged in 1086 to the …