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A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish and to the east lies the northern part of Telford new town. The main part of the ancient parish, dealt with … in 1909. 67 A coal and clothing club operated in 1925. 68 County library book centres were opened at Wrockwardine in … cricket club and one of the grounds used by the Shropshire county side; in 1979 they played the Indian touring side …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. division of the wapentake of Manley, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 8 miles (N. E. by N.) from Bawtry; … Seisdon, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Wolverhampton; … division of the hundred of Barlichway, S. division of the county of Warwick, 6 miles (N. W. by N.) from Warwick; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Moors. 11 In 1898 the civil parish was included in the new urban district of Oakengates. 12 Wrockwardine Wood was included within the designated area of Telford new town in 1968. 13 The Middle Coal Measures, lying close to … workers were immigrants from the more rural parts of the county: 90 per cent of the township's population was native …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… had a lease of the Charlton mining interests, and new pits were being sunk in Wrockwardine Wood. In 1736-7 the … Wood Old Yard works and soon became known as the New Yard. 4 Engineering rapidly became as important to the … company began to modernize blast furnaces and construct new ones for other firms. Those, like most of the company's …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… least 1914. 5 From 1961 evening classes were held at the new Trench Modern School. 6 All the 19th-century schools were … condemned in 1926. 18 In the reorganization of 1933 the county council let an adjoining building (the former Junior … a junior school. 23 In 1961 Wrockwardine Wood (Temporary) County Primary School merged with it but continued to use its …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… part of the Nabb and Pain's Lane was transferred to the new consolidated chapelry later known as St. George's. 28 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… closed, being replaced by the Methodist church hall, New Donnington. 55 The first Primitive Methodist society in the county was established at Oakengates in 1821. In 1823 it … Dr. J. McC. McCarthy, a Conservative candidate in the county council elections, contrary to connexional policy over …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the vicarage, Shrewsbury abbey undertook to build a new vicarage house opposite the existing rectory in Allscott … with a central stack. 87 That house was sold in 1806 and a new one bought opposite the church, 88 to which the house next door was added by the patron in 1832. 89 A new vicarage house was built south-east of the village in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Extraction continued on a small scale until c. 1960 when new plant was introduced and larger-scale quarrying began …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the boys' school in 1852. 68 The following year a new St. Peter's Girls' School (with 100 places in schoolroom and classroom) and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss …