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A History of the County of Shropshire
… and western boundaries followed no natural features or roads for any significant distance. On the south it was … Street. The northern boundary was that part of the ancient Wellington-Newport road known by 1288 as Trench Way (later … were erected, to which some terraces, like Diamond Row, were added in the 19th century. At the Moss and around …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had begun, and it may … in 1982. Clay industries. In 1764 Richard Jones, a Wellington brick and tile maker, took the lease of a clay … of the canal. It later became the rectory. Glasshouse Row adjacent to the works was built c. 1800, perhaps by the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… building condemned, closed in 1961; pupils transferred to St. George's C.E. junior and infant schools. 40 Wrockwardine … council school in Wombridge. 48 Wrockwardine Wood Junior (or Standard I) Boys' Board School, built on the National … List of Sch. Boards, 1902 [Cd. 1038], p. 75 (1902), lxxix; Wellington Jnl. 16 Jan. 1875 (p. 5). Wenlock and Ludlow …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to relieve the poor. The township, later parish, was in Wellington poor-law union 1836- 1930. 17 Wrockwardine Wood C.P. was formed in 1884, as part of Wellington rural sanitary district, becoming a ward of … to the new consolidated chapelry later known as St. George's. 28 The incumbent of Wrockwardine Wood enjoyed a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was said to average 180. 51 In 1863 the Wesleyans moved to St. George's and the Nabb chapel closed. 52 In 1824 St. … Methodists also met in 1861 at a house in Bunter's Row, south of the Shrewsbury Canal on the western boundary of … HO 129/365, no. 77. S.R.O. 1861/19, 79. S.R.O. 2123/632; Wellington Jnl. 1 Oct. 1904; Wesley Hist. Soc., Salop. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… added, the whole being paid out in tickets redeemable by a Wellington tailor. 1 Sir W. S. R. Cockburn (d. 1858) 2 left a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… dairy products, bees, gardens, fishponds, and mills (built or to be built); 'pennies of charity'; tithes of hay, apart … church and probably lived in Shrewsbury where he served St. Peter's chapel. He was presumably given Wrockwardine in … a curate in 1730. 3 Stephen Panting, 1765-82, resided at Wellington; he conducted two Sunday services with one sermon. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a share in the ploughteams probably implies the recent or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's … the greatest part of the great area of woodland east of Wellington. It also had rights of common on the Wrekin and … esp. /M 10. S.R.O. 112, box 90, ct. r. 1584-6; above, Wellington, Local Govt. Field-name evidence: S.R.O. 14/1/4-5. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Education EDUCATION. John Poole (or Pole) and Henry Bynnell were schoolmasters in the late … in the boys' school in 1852. 68 The following year a new St. Peter's Girls' School (with 100 places in schoolroom and … and 97 in 1913. 70 From 1931 girls aged 12-14 attended Wellington cookery centre. 71 There were 90 places and 73 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SERVICES. In 1255 Hamon le Strange did no suit to shire or hundred court, and c. 1285 John le Strange held a court … for £10. 53 Between 1836 and 1930 Wrockwardine was part of Wellington poor-law union, which rented the Wrockwardine … of Wrekin highway district in 1863, 55 and was part of Wellington rural district from its formation until 1974 when …