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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 … traffic from its situation on a public thoroughfare. An act was passed in 1846, for a railway from the Great Western … since which time it has continued to return two members to parliament; the right of election was extended in 1832 to the …
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 … families cleared from slums under the 1930 Housing Act. 24 By 1946 the remainder of the Woodhouse Crescent …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… List of illustrations ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was … Mountford's death, as a consequence of the Glass Duties Act, 1838. 11 Only eight glassworkers then lived in … 137. I.G.M.T., Lilleshall Co. colln. 473b; Glass Duties Act, 1838, 1 & 2 Vic. c. 44. Census, 1841. S.R.O., dep. plan …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… List of illustrations EDUCATION. In 1833 a Primitive Methodist … 1826 there was Anglican concern because in that 'nursery of sectarianism' upwards of 280 children aged 7-13 were still without instruction, 81 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… associated with John Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in 1765. 49 Wesleyans … apparently average numbers. The chapel had 500 seats, 300 of them free. 57 In 1864 it was rebuilt in diapered red and … contrary to connexional policy over the 1902 Education Act. Reprimanded by the circuit, Stones resigned office and …
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, referred to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 the 7½ berewicks of Wrockwardine, for which geld was paid on 5 hides, … developed there. 78 At the time of the Wildmoors Inclosure Act, 1801, Wrockwardine retained some vestiges of common … Wood, Econ. Hist. Wildmoors Inclosure and Drainage Act, 1801, 41 Geo. III, c. 77 (Local and Personal); S.R.O. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… court, and c. 1285 John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a year were said to be held in 1292. 26 Court rolls of Wrockwardine manor, dealing mainly with agricultural … the abolition of copyhold, following the Law of Property Act, 1922. 30 In 1650 the customary bailiff was a copyholder …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of Devon; … an ecclesiastical district in May 1844, under the act 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37; and became a parish, conformably with the provisions of that act, on the consecration of the church in November 1847. The …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… XC Draft of Act of Parliament, granting liberty of election of magistrates (1606) XC. Draft of an Act of Parliament, superscribed by King James VI., for …