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A History of the County of Shropshire
… detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. to the west. The township, the area here treated, contained 515 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in … mining probably began about then. Lord Gower's agent William Cartwright had apparently worked the mines on his own … in the 1780s Joseph Rathbone and Richard Reynolds's son William took an under-lease of ironstone mines from Earl …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES. Wrockwardine Wood was part of the manor, and until 1884 the civil parish, of Wrockwardine. In spite of its isolation it seems to have been treated exactly as the other constituent townships, although special journeys …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wesleyan Methodist society associated with John Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in 1765. 49 Wesleyans were meeting at the Nabb in 1813, and by 1815 there was a chapel there. 50 On … afternoon attendance was said to average 180. 51 In 1863 the Wesleyans moved to St. George's and the Nabb chapel …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and there was a priest in 1086. 63 Shrewsbury abbey claimed the church itself as a gift of Roger, earl of Shrewsbury (d. … Duckworth, M.A., was not resident but there was a curate, William Holmes. 97 James Smyth, instituted 1635, 'deserted' …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 the 7½ berewicks of Wrockwardine, for which geld was paid on … Flocks, generally small, averaged c. 30 sheep, although William Binnell of Cluddley had 160 in 1740. 87 Small numbers … lordship. 92 Certainly enfranchisement proceeded after William Cludde's reunion of the manorial shares 1811-22. 93 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's … of Shrewsbury, 90 who was succeeded by her younger son Sir William Howard, Viscount Stafford, impeached and executed … manor, apart from the Wrockwardine Wood mining rights, to William Cludde of Orleton. Another third apparently passed in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… of flint rubble with stone dressings, and partly of brick. The Nave is probably of earlier date than the Chancel, which … of Sir Robert Southwell, Master of the Rolls, and wife of William Plumbe, half-figure, arms and inscription: in the … monument with broken pediment on twisted columns, to Sir William Goulston, 1687, with marble busts of Sir William and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and … monks, at first a cell to the abbey of St. Alban's, by William d'Albini or Daubeny, in 1130. Henry I. endowed the … chapel dedicated to St. Thomas Becket. The late Rev. William Papillon, in 1834, built schoolrooms for 200 children …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Wymersley hundred THE HUNDRED OF WYMERSLEY containing the parishes of Blisworth; Brafield-On-The-Green; Castle … 9 whose present representative is Lord Hesketh; but Sir William Compton died seised of the hundreds of Hamfordshoe …