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A History of the County of Chester
… (later Weaver Street), and in the time of Abbot Thomas Birchills (12911323) the precinct extended to Pierpoint Lane. …
A History of the County of Chester
… of Robert Pierrepont was in being by the time of Abbot Birchills (1291-1323) and probably by the 1290s; it is to be …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the neighbourhood abounds, have lately been opened at the Birchills and near Bloxwich, causing the population to … It comprises the hamlets of Great and Little Bloxwich, Birchills, Coldmore, Horden, WalsallWood, and the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… The following missions have been opened from St. Peter's: Birchills in 1855; 1 John Street Mission Room, opened c. … bell-turret containing a bell. The church of ST. ANDREW, Birchills Street, originated in a mission established from St. Peter's in 1855 in the newly built Birchills National school in Hollyhedge Lane to counteract …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 65 Green Lane forms an alternative route to Bloxwich via Birchills; Somerfield Road, which forms the direct route into … 1794. 17 It loops through the Bloxwich area. A branch to Birchills was built about the same time. It was little used … local works and the Wyrley and Essington Canal in the Birchills area. 20 From 1825 there were various schemes for a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in parcels of up to 40 a. in Bescot, Bloxwich, and Birchills. 76 By the later Middle Ages a mixed pattern of … of the town mill. 99 There were also common fields in the Birchills area. Synderhulleffeld, which is mentioned in 1333, … from 1565. 1 A common field called Long field near Birchills is mentioned in 1733. 2 At Great Bloxwich there …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Church of England Junior and Infants' School, formerly Birchills National School or St. Peter's (Birchills) School. In 1855 the managers of St. Peter's … schools opened a branch school in Hollyhedge Lane, Birchills. The school and a teacher's house stood on a site …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Harry Smith Parkes (1828-85), diplomatist, who was born at Birchills Hall; and Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927), …
A History of the County of Stafford
… The three wards were replaced by eight (Bridge, Birchills, Bloxwich, Caldmore, Hatherton, Leamore, Paddock, …