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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 … for any significant distance. On the south it was bounded by Watling Street. The northern boundary was that part of the … by the Lilleshall Co. for its employees. A soup kitchen, opened in 1878, excluded Lilleshall Co. employees as they …
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 … within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had begun, and it may have increased … Circle, Nov. 1964, 3; I.G.M.T., Lilleshall Co. colln., Mr. Ashdown's [glassho.] valuation. S.R.O. 1172/13. The block …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept school in his house at the Nabb. 80 In 1826 there was Anglican concern because in … without instruction, 81 and in 1831 a National school opened, albeit with only 109 places, for day and Sunday … chairman. 83 At first a most disorderly board 84 torn by sectarian strife, 85 it achieved nothing in its first …
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. … hospital, Gower Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It opened in 1873 but by 1879 a smaller, eight-bed building in …
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 Census Sunday 1851 … 52 In 1824 St. John's Wesleyan chapel, Trench Road, opened. Society membership grew from 8 in 1821 to 71 in 1824, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made … Edward Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was … 10 s. distributed as a hundred 6 d. loaves. 96 A £3 rent charge was left by Edward Pemberton (d. 1680) for …
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 … orthodox minister'. Edward Pemberton (d. 1680) left a rent charge of £6 13 s. 4 d. for similar purposes; it was … 1708 the living was worth £49 and in 1799 £120 a year. 80 By 1792 tithes were paid in cash, although Wrockwardine moor, …
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 … The four ploughteams in demesne were probably worked by the eight oxherds mentioned. Twelve teams belonged to 13 … more important and, after the Allscott sugar factory opened in 1927, sugar beet became the preponderant root crop. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Poole (or Pole) and Henry Bynnell were schoolmasters in the late 17th century 58 and Richard Poyner from 1702. 59 … A 'schoolhouse' at Allscott was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had a Sunday school and a day school 'by … Hall from 1950 to 1980. 90 In 1981 Overley Hall School opened as a private boarding school for mentally and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1285 John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a year were … agricultural matters, and the transfer of copyholds. 29 By 1797, whence there are continuous records until 1936, the … 59 The Rushmoor sewage works serving northern Telford opened in 1975; several smaller works, including Admaston's, …