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A History of the County of Stafford
Branston Manor Manor In 942 King Edmund granted an estate at Branston to Wulfsige the Black, possibly an ancestor of Wulfric Spot, the founder of Burton abbey. 11 Branston seems to have been one of the estates which the …
A History of the County of Stafford
Branston Nonconformity Nonconformity Thomas Snow was returned … another man and a woman. 6 Snow was one of three people in Branston presented in 1668 for not coming to church. 7 Thomas … at the Congregational chapel in Burton, held services in Branston apparently from 1804, having gathered a meeting to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… along with a further 840 a. from Horninglow, 25 a. from Branston, and parts of Stapenhill (769 a.) and Winshill (607 … to 4,739 a. (1,917 ha.), the additions being chiefly from Branston and Stretton civil parishes (in 1985) and from …
A History of the County of Stafford
… s. a year from a property in London to the poor of Burton, Branston, and Stretton. The money was not at first paid by … week, and £1 10 s. annually to each of the townships of Branston, Horninglow, and Stretton; any remaining money was … of the parish, and £1 10 s. to each of the townships of Branston, Stretton, and Horninglow to be distributed to the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Peel dug a cut from the west bank of the river near the Branston boundary to power a cotton mill he had opened at … Stapenhill side of the river. 22 There were also fords in Branston: Salters ford was mentioned in the earlier 13th … of Burton, its line marked by the present Clays Lane (in Branston), Wellington Street, and Derby Street. It crossed …
A History of the County of Stafford
… called Over meadow by the mid 16th century stretched into Branston township. It comprised 72 a. in the mid 18th … of the present Guild Street; Moor Mill Dam meadow along Branston brook on the west side of town; Goose moor beyond … identifiable as the later Broadway field straddling the Branston road on the south side of the town. 18 There was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were opened in the 1840s: a second one in Burton (1843), Branston (1844), Stapenhill (by 1846), Horninglow (1846), and … school district comprising Burtonupon-Trent, Burton Extra, Branston, Horninglow, Stapenhill, Stretton, and Winshill, and … committee opened new schools outside its boundary in Branston and Stretton. 11 Although Burton county borough was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… when William 'de Gildhus' was recorded as holding land in Branston; he is probably the William 'atte Gyldehus' … by the guild, was assigned a part of the parish: Branston, Shobnall, and Sinai; Horninglow and Wetmore; … the 'town' (Burton and Burton Extra) and the 'country' (Branston, Horninglow, Stapenhill, Stretton, and Winshill), an …
A History of the County of Stafford
… for which Burton is the centre, has enabled expansion into Branston and Stretton which are now suburbs of Burton with … a woman on an elevated platform beside the river Trent in Branston may also be Mesolithic. 4 To the south of Burton a … 9 The suggestion that there was a camp south of Burton at Branston 10 is derived from the supposed existence of a Roman …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in that area and on the south side of the town towards Branston was terraced and not especially good quality, … more recently large private estates have been laid out in Branston and Stretton. Much of the town centre was filled … and a bridge was constructed to take the road over Branston brook. By the early 14th century, however, burgage …
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