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A History of the County of Stafford
… waste for inclosure in parcels of up to 40 a. in Bescot, Bloxwich, and Birchills. 76 By the later Middle Ages a mixed … the centres of settlement at Walsall, Great and Little Bloxwich, and Harden. The Walsall fields lay on the north, … Long field near Birchills is mentioned in 1733. 2 At Great Bloxwich there were eight common fields. Chapel field is …
A History of the County of Stafford
… established in the town by royal charter in 1554. 47 At Bloxwich the minister kept a school in his house in the mid … 48 It was succeeded by an endowed English school for Bloxwich and the surrounding hamlets, established in 1617. … Several Sunday schools had been established in Walsall and Bloxwich by 1813, the first in 1789 in connexion with Dudley …
A History of the County of Stafford
… at Broadway West and rises to 539 ft. to the north of Bloxwich. 8 The limestone hill in the centre of the town, on … mainly boulder clay, but there is sand and gravel east of Bloxwich and in the south-west of the parish. 10 Several … 19 The other main settlement in the parish was at Bloxwich, a name suggesting a pre-Conquest origin. 20 Most of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… early 19th century two pinners were being appointed, for Bloxwich and for Walsall Wood and Shelfield. 7 By 1839 the … in 1617 of a pasture called Gallows Leasow probably in the Bloxwich area gives some indication of the site of a gallows. … were made for the foreign in 1487-8; they were probably at Bloxwich, where there were stocks in 1567 apparently near the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and a rent-charge to Dorothy, wife of Nicholas Parker of Bloxwich. On Elizabeth's death Dorothy entered the estate, … block of 204 a. at Bescot, houses, gardens, and a croft at Bloxwich, and 3 a. of meadow at Shelfield. 45 In 1852 … at the rear of the house. In 1922 there were 35 rooms. 62 BLOXWICH was originally part of the manor of Walsall. 63 In …
A History of the County of Stafford
… on the same site in 1971-2. Designed by G. Wright of Bloxwich, the new temple is of brick with concrete dressings. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… William Skeffington (d. 1635) sold to John Cowley land in Bloxwich which apparently included the site of the Hills in Bealey's Lane. 53 Cowley lived in Bloxwich between at least 1636 and 1642. 54 In 1682 the … Hills farm in 1766, had passed by 1781 to John Bealey of Bloxwich. 58 A John Bealey was living in Bloxwich in 1829, 59 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… reopened the former Bethel Gospel Church in Stokes Street, Bloxwich, as Bethel Pentecostal Church. 38 In 1970 the former … Church. The Bethel Gospel Church began to hold services in Bloxwich in 1930, using the drill hall and then various … the Independent minister at Cannock, registered a house in Bloxwich. He registered another house there in 1820. 96 The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… foreign was to appoint two warders, one to act at Great Bloxwich and the other wherever the constable directed. … only the central part of the town, however, leaving Bloxwich and the other outlying districts without sewers. 46 … build outside the borough with the extension of the Little Bloxwich estate into Pelsall. 57 By 1966 the council owned …
A History of the County of Stafford
… bought a house and shop in Harden Lane (now Harden Road), Bloxwich. The shop was lengthened and converted into a … 6 miles away. 14 The church was replaced by St. Peter's in Bloxwich in 1869, but the building still stood in 1974 when … Road in 1927. 29 St. Peter's Church in High Street, Bloxwich, was opened in 1869 on land given by Charles Beech. …