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A History of the County of Shropshire
… entrance and clock tower; the facilities included a bath house. The spa's profitability declined from the 1860s and it … 1928 to c. 1933 but later a chicken farm, then a lodging house. Telford development corporation bought it in 1975 and … Hill in 1817. 29 Overley Hall, a 14-bedroomed red-brick house with 'Tudor' features and a gothic tower, set in 48 a. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ancient stained glass. The pleasure-grounds adjoining the house are laid out with great taste. The living is a vicarage … altogether comprises 283 acres, valued at 730, with the house, which commands a fine view of Boston church. Wyboston … neat structure. William Cawthorne, in 1683, gave a school-house, with a messuage, some land, and a rent-charge of 15, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the same time the company bought the Bird in Hand public house at the Nabb 'to safeguard the workers' beer'. 52 In … cinema, Wrockwardine Wood, popularly known as the 'Ranch House', opened in 1946 and closed c. 1958. 58 With the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a further 330 a. under grass. 74 After the First World War house building south of Trench Road further reduced those … blown at the works was reputedly displayed at Reynolds's house. In the 1790s a manager's house was built south of the canal. It later became the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… one had 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept school in his house at the Nabb. 80 In 1826 there was Anglican concern … 4 s. 3½ d. being met by the rector, who owned the master's house; his salary was £27 2 s. 10 d. The first master served … had 256 places but only 111 pupils; 36 by 1941, owing to house building at Donnington Wood, it was full. 37 In 1943 a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Yate acquired a third interest in the glassworks manager's house, the rest being bought in 1843 after the works had … Sermons Doctrinal and Practical (1837) were devoted to the house fund. 36 Until the purchase of the house the incumbents had apparently not resided near the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1954. 73 Primitive Methodists also met in 1861 at a house in Bunter's Row, south of the Shrewsbury Canal on the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Shrewsbury abbey undertook to build a new vicarage house opposite the existing rectory in Allscott within two … two-bayed and two-storeyed, 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 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… places in schoolroom and classroom) and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss Cludde's … demountable classrooms had been added and the teacher's house was being used as an extension; by then, however, there … had a cottage of hers rent-free. 80 By 1856 a teacher's house had been built. 81 In 1878 the efficient master was …