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A History of the County of Stafford
… later 12th century, and the wood of Walsall was mentioned in 1199-1200. 72 The woodland was still extensive in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. 73 By 1843, … p. 34. W.S.L., S. MS. 417/Walsall, nos. 2617, 2667. V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 38, no. 7. B.M. Harl. MS. 2131, f. 13 (a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… grammar school paid two schoolmistresses to teach children in Walsall Wood to read. Both taught in Walsall Wood village until 1806, when one of them … Wood National School, plans dated 1857; P.O. Dir. Staffs. (1860). Nat. Soc. files. Ibid.; Lich. Dioc. Mag. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… detached part of the foreign of Walsall. 1 It was 1,551 a. in extent 2 and lay on either side of the Walsall-Lichfield road to the north-east of the main area. In 1894 it became a civil parish within the urban district of … 53 This article was written mainly in 1973-4. O.S. Map 6", Staffs. LVII. SE. (1903 edn.). Census, 1901. Shelfield and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… manor was holding two courts a year by 1317, 14 and in 1632 he was said to possess view of frankpledge. 15 … Walsall Wood and Shelfield as part of Walsall manor. 16 In the earlier 19th century pinners for Walsall Wood and … S. MS. 417/Walsall, map. S.R.O., Q/RDc 106; O.S. Map 6", Staffs. LVII. SE. (1903 edn., revised 1901). See p. 212. 11 & …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Wood Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 the king held a hide of waste land at Shelfield apparently as part of the manor of Walsall. 54 In 1300 the vill was still held by the lords of Walsall. 55 A … houses had been built over most of the farm-land. V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 38, no. 7; Homeshaw, Walsall, 7. S.H.C. v (1), …
A History of the County of Stafford
… CHURCH. The church of ST. JOHN, Walsall Wood, originated in a mission established by the earlier 1820s. Services were at first held in cottages, but in 1825 the vicar of St. Matthew's was … p. 89. Lich. Dioc. Regy., B/A/2(i)/K, pp. 549-51, 556-60; Staffs. Advertiser, 26 Aug. 1837. Lich. Dioc. Regy., …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Alms-houses. By deed of 1451 William Lyle of Moxhull in Wishaw (Warws.) gave Halesowen abbey (Worcs.) a rent-charge of 9 marks from the manor of Bascote in Long Itchington (Warws.), which had been conveyed to Lyle … 10. W.T.C. 1/67. Charter of Corp. of Walsall, 41-2; Plot, Staffs. 314-15; 9th Rep. Com. Char. 573-5; above p. 214. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Ages, 81 and a third was founded at Bloxwich apparently in the early 15th century. It was not until the 19th century, … were built within the parish. Walsall church was recorded in 1200 when the Crown gave it to the bishop and his … a hall, opened in 1971. 91 Ede, Wednesbury, 54 sqq.; Shaw, Staffs. ii. 67-8; Cal. Papal L. xii. 493-9. Rot. Chart. (Rec. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was making local roads ruinous and dangerous, and the rise in the cost of carriage of goods all led to a demand for improved roads. In 1748, in response to a petition from Wolverhampton 'and … closed in the late 1940s. Homeshaw, Walsall, 100; V.C.H. Staffs. ii. 281. Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1869, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the Conquest: some former arable at Bescot was waste in 1086. 71 Presumably there was arable farming by the time the manor was granted to Herbert le Rous in 1159, 72 and the area of cultivation was gradually … mouldings. 59 S.H.C. v (1), 166-7, 172, 175, 178; V.C.H. Staffs. ii. 336, 338. V.C.H. Staffs. iv. 38, no. 6. See p. …