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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … a mixture of the various styles from the Norman to the later English, and contains sixteen stalls. An additional … a sinecure, is valued at 31. 4. 4.: patron of both, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is an ancient structure, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… town centre, was originally a detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of … ancient Wellington-Newport road known by 1288 as Trench Way (later Trench Road), 9 a name suggesting that the wood … south-west of Cockshutt Piece and north-east of Ball's coppice. In the earlier 19th century there was some …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as the king's wood c. 1130, it was claimed in 1235 to be well stocked … in 1397-8 and 1413-14. 67 The area was still known as King's wood c. 1577. 68 Much of the surviving woodland was … 70 but by 1847 virtually no woodland remained. In the later 19th century, with the decline of mining, woodland …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 2 From 1891 there were cookery and drawing classes; later geometry, physics, shorthand, mining, arithmetic, and … That year £50 was spent on repairs, a deficit of £47 4 s. 3½ d. being met by the rector, who owned the master's house; his salary was £27 2 s. 10 d. The first master …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… journeys had to be made to relieve the poor. The township, later parish, was in Wellington poor-law union 1836- 1930. 17 … provided. An ambulance service was added to the hospital's facilities in 1917. 20 CHURCH. The inhabitants of … was the Crown's until 1887 when it was conveyed to the bishop of Lichfield, the patron in 1982. 26 The living …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… average 180. 51 In 1863 the Wesleyans moved to St. George's and the Nabb chapel closed. 52 In 1824 St. John's Wesleyan chapel, Trench Road, opened. Society membership … Reprimanded by the circuit, Stones resigned office and later defied the circuit by accepting the trustees' …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… distributed annually. Edward Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The … was built on the site c. 1801 but the rent of £4 10 s. was not increased; it was paid out annually as the … widow personally supervised the distribution. In the later 19th century beneficiaries received between 3 s. 9 d. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the Martyrs' Memorial and Church of England Trust, and the bishop of Lichfield, then became a joint patron of the united … About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. 74 The vicar's income in 1612 consisted of tithes of wool, lambs, flax, … related to John Fryer, vicar from c. 1550 to 1573 or later, and Richard Freer, curate in 1579 and 1585. 96 In 1620 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's value had risen from £6 13 s. 8 d. T.R.E. to £12 10 s. in 1086. Charlton, which had one … woodland lay 7 km. to the east in a detached block, which later became a township. 56 The 11th-century administrative …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for 1397-8, 1411-14, and 1456-7, and there are many later records. 27 In 1413-14 the townships of Wrockwardine, … of land; he received a tree from the demesne for each year's service. 31 T. F. Dukes, the Shropshire antiquary, was … of the poor were appointed in 1669 and disbursed £31 3 s. 3 d. on pensions, house repairs, paupers' burials, and the …