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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred of South Bradford, N. division of Salop, 2 … above the town, affords one of the finest prospects in England. Some paper is manufactured at Basted. The market has …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood WROCKWARDINE WOOD Wrockwardine Wood, north-east of Oakengates town centre, was originally a detached piece of … a private standard-gauge network, which linked most of the company's interests by 1855. The network reached its peak … excluded Lilleshall Co. employees as they were fed by the company at the New Yard. 51 A dining room provided in 1900 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… List of illustrations ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was … New Yard. 4 Engineering rapidly became as important to the company as its coal, iron, and brick production, and it was well enough established by 1862 to allow the company to exhibit and win prizes at the London International …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and … 63 Shrewsbury abbey claimed the church itself as a gift of Roger, earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1094). 64 Dependent chapels, … with Lord Barnard, the Martyrs' Memorial and Church of England Trust, and the bishop of Lichfield, then became a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of Devon; … ironstone; the mines are let on lease to the Low-Moor Iron Company by Miss Currer, and T. Carvick, Esq., to whom the … manor is held by the service of cup-bearer to the kings of England, at their coronation. The living is a vicarage, with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yazor Y Yaddlethorpe YADDLETHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of Bottesford, union of Glandford-Brigg, E. division of the wapentake of Manley, … by steam-vessels is kept up with London and the north of England. But the principal source of trade by which the town …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Yapton YAPTON The parish of Yapton 93 lies on the coastal plain south-west of Arundel … Four cottages near the railway were built by the railway company. 36 More houses were put up there in the 20th century … 92 There was street lighting by 1965. 93 The Bognor water company supplied parts of the parish in 1928. 94 Some Yapton …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the most important in the Dictionary Archive being a unit of linear measure that largely replaced the ELL. This old … 3 FOOT long, though sometimes by custom for some TEXTILEs of 37 inches. The term appears in all sections of the … the mainland, wool and spinning were, so western parts of England could obtain wool and yarn relatively cheaply, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of Dorchester, later bishop of Lincoln, who eventually returned the abbey's other estates … of the long gallery fireplace, one of the few in England to retain its original colouring, and the painted …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, with the village of Ettrick-Bridge and part of Yarrowford, 1264 inhabitants. … given by James IV. to his queen, the Lady Margaret, of England, and James V. frequently resorted to this place to …