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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chief employment of the inhabitants arises from the lead-mines, but some of them are engaged in the cotton … passes a few miles on the southeast of the town. The mines and miners of the neighbourhood are governed by ancient … springs, but they have been destroyed by draining the mines. Wirswall WIRSWALL, a township, in the parish of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The substratum contains leadore, of which some mines are in operation, and there are quarries of good … two-thirds are pasture, and the remainder arable. Coal-mines have been wrought from time immemorial; conveyance is … is situated on an eminence, in a district abounding with mines of coal, iron, and limestone; and consists of several …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… tramways communicating with the extensive coal and iron mines at Ketley and in the neighbourhood, which have been …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1983. 76 A network of canals and railways linked mines and ironworks in the Oakengates area with each other … the 2½-km. Ketley Canal linking Ketley ironworks with mines near Oakengates, and c. 1788 he built the 3-km. Wombridge Canal connecting mines near Wombridge church with the Donnington Wood furnaces …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… filled in. 21 Coal and ironstone. In 1535-6 there were two mines on the Wombridge priory demesne, worth £5 a year. 22 It … alternate bands, were raised. James Leveson acquired the mines with the priory demesnes 23 and reserved them when he … or Wombridge. 25 Both Leland and Camden mentioned the mines, by then firmly associated with Oakengates. 26 By the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the 16th and 19th centuries, hamlets developing alongside mines and ironworks, notably at Ketley Bank. There was little … 292-3; O.S. Map 1/2,500, Salop, 15 (1882 edn.). Brown, Mines of Salop. 62. O.S. Map 6", Salop. XXXVI. SE. (1889 …