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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 parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. to the west. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… List of illustrations ECONOMIC HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was … 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
… List of illustrations LOCAL GOVERNMENT 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 …
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 … were said to be 204 society members and a congregation of 550. A schoolroom was built next to the chapel in 1879. 58 …
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, … 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
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 the 7½ berewicks of Wrockwardine, for which geld was paid on 5 hides, … 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. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's boundary' 74 and the … 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
… S.E. (b)ix. S.W.) Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Giles, stands about 1 miles N.E. of Buntingford. It is … 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 WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of Devon; … 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 Ashby; Cogenhoe; … 9 whose present representative is Lord Hesketh; but Sir William Compton died seised of the hundreds of Hamfordshoe …