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A History of the County of Shropshire
… It was a hotel from c. 1928 to c. 1933 but later a chicken farm, then a lodging house. Telford development corporation … opened in 1797. A wharf at Long Lane originally supplied coal and lime to the Shawbury area; in 1898 the Lilleshall Co. used it as a coal wharf and brick yard. 46 Traffic ceased on the canal in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… meadow and pasture; the substratum abounds both with coal and ironstone, and some mines are in operation. A branch … the surface is undulated, and the substratum contains coal, which is partially wrought. The living is a discharged …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… designated area of Telford new town in 1968. 13 The Middle Coal Measures, lying close to the surface across most of the … north part of the township probably marked the site of the farm or lodge of a medieval assart. 16 By the mid 17th … the township to north and south. The development of coal and ironstone mining in the 18th and 19th centuries may …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… known as Donnington Wood mill, closed in the 1970s. 75 Coal and ironstone. The township's mineral resources were … probably began in the early 17th century. 76 In 1650 a coal delf was noted; 77 it was probably an opencast mine extracting coal, and almost certainly ironstone too, from the Middle …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1650, when some engrossment had already occurred, average farm size was 17-32 a. 83 A variety of cereals was grown, … 218 a. In addition there were 31 holdings of 5-25 a. 95 Farm sizes remained roughly the same in 1838 when, apart from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… along the north-east side of the house and beyond them farm buildings and stables, including a stable and … messuage, perhaps on the site of the modern Bratton Farm. In 1784 the capital messuage was Bratton House, … who had acquired it from the Crown shortly before; a fee farm of £18 was due to the Crown. In 1655 the rectorial …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… been improved by cultivation. The substratum abounds in coal and ironstone; the mines are let on lease to the … half per cent, consols., are given to them in clothing and coal. Wymington (St. Lawrence) WYMINGTON ( St. Lawrence), a … road. Several persons are employed in the Brownhill coal-mine; the shaft is 90 yards in depth, and the strata …
A History of the County of Sussex
… identified with Woolfly in Henfield, and Morley was Morley farm in Woodmancote rather than Morleys in Shermanbury. Woolfly and Morley farm were later treated as parts of Tipnoak hundred. 4 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Eagle is a parish 7 m. E.N.E. of Bridport. The Manor Farm is the principal monument. Roman c(1) Tesselated Pavement, immediately S.W. of Manor Farm, must have been discovered before 1864, when reference … probably 12th-century pillar-piscina. Secular c(3) Manor Farm, house 150 yards E.N.E. of the church, is of two storeys …