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A History of the County of Stafford
… lies on the west side of the river Trent, its long High Street running northwards from a market place next to the … centuries streets were laid out off the west side of High Street, the earliest being New Street which stretched from the abbey gates towards the line …
A History of the County of Stafford
… being culverted it turned northwards near the end of Moor Street and flowed along the west side of the town, joining … arm of the river Trent at Wetmore. 1 It is met near Moor Street by a stream which flows north from Branston and whose … Black pool in the 13th century gave its name to a modern street. 3 Census, 1871. Below, established church. Below, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Sunni, was opened in 1975 in a converted house in Byrkley Street. 18 It was replaced in 1977 by a mosque in Princess Street, the fifth purposebuilt mosque in the country. That … with minaret and dome. The former board school in Uxbridge Street was converted into a mosque in 1994, and is also …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Melburne the right to extend the borough in Horninglow Street. 11 The burgesses were to hold by burgage tenure at 12 … was replaced in 1839 by one on the east side of Horninglow Street beyond Hawkins Lane, built to a design of Henry … day (21 December) in a house on the west side of High Street, known by 1631 as the Town House. 13 The feoffees …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1635 by Ellen Parker, the founder of an almshouse in High Street. 11 The grounds were let in the early 18th century to … from south-east in 1790s By 1888 the tenant was a New Street brewer, John Allen Bindley, whose initials and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… at Burton mills in 1789 and registered a house in New Street for Particular Baptists in 1790. By 1792 the church … opened a chapel on the south side of Cat (later Station) Street in 1803; enlarged by the addition of a Grecian portico … it had 23 members. They opened an iron chapel in Guild Street in 1874, 1 and moved in 1887 to a new tabernacle in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… along the western edge of the town, across the end of Cat Street. 9 It was being used as a drain by the mid 16th … of the abbey church along the back of tenements in High Street to Burton bridge. 11 When Abbot William Mathew paved High Street in 1429, he also laid a gutter. 12 The first action of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… first an old malthouse at the back of the Crown inn, High Street, and then a cottage at the back of the Old White Lion inn at the corner of Lichfield Street and Fleet Street. 15 Most of Jeffries's congregation apparently were …
A History of the County of Stafford
… baiting in 1792. Baiting apparently last took place in New Street in the earlier 19th century. 12 Fighting cocks were … took place in a cockpit behind the Vine inn in Horninglow Street. 15 Horse Racing Horses were raced over Outwood common … in the newly-built Congregational chapel in High Street. 3 Bowling There were three bowling alleys in the town …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish is situated on the line of the Roman Watling-street, and intersected by the Ashby-de-laZouch canal. It …