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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Ketley township, and had small parts (mostly detached) in Bratton, 42 Eyton upon the Weald Moors, and Preston upon the … the whole ancient parish except for the small parts in Bratton, Eyton, and Preston townships; 57 within it, however, … Apley and Hadley townships, the former Wellington part of Bratton township, and almost all the former Wellington parts …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine parish. Northbound travellers then skirted Bratton village and turned into a road from Admaston to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… where it flowed untreated into a watercourse that fed Bratton brook. From 1892 or 1893 some was also piped from the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… subdivisions, of Wilts; containing, with the chaperies of Bratton and Dilton, and the township of Leigh, 7588 … are several handsome monuments. Besides the chapels at Bratton and Dilton, there is a church at Dilton-Marsh, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the demesne on William Scudet's estate of 4½ hides in Bratton and Dilton 10 in 1086 is not known, but attached to … small inclosed fields. 22 On Richard Dauntsey's manor in Bratton and Dilton in 1348 150 a. could be sown every year, … A wood of 12 a. was also cultivated in severalty. 23 At Bratton, as on the manor of Westbury, there was some arable …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… then recently built along three sides of a square in Bratton Road. The 7 houses at the south-east end of the … admission to an almshouse. 66 CHARITIES FOR THE POOR OF BRATTON. Among the bequests of Jeffery Whitaker, in his will dated 1775, 67 £50 were assigned for the poor of Bratton and £50 for the education of poor children there. In …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… at this date. Throughout the Middle Ages the churches of Bratton and Dilton were dependent chapels of Westbury church and remained so, in the case of Bratton, until 1845 when a separate parish was assigned to … of Grimstead. To endow this William gave land in Westbury, Bratton, Westbury Leigh, and Heywood for the support of a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the end of the 19th century there was also a sheep fair on Bratton Down. Some 20,000 sheep were brought to this fair in … 215. Ibid. p. 214. Ibid. p. 215. Min. Bk. Westbury U.D.C. Bratton, W.I. Scrap Bk. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 59 His sons and grandson were mill owners in Westbury and Bratton. 60 Thenceforth the family continued to acquire land, mostly in Bratton, and gradually it exchanged its occupation with the … in the 17th century. William Axford, a weaver of Bratton, was indicted in 1602 for taking an apprentice when …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… within its bounds were the later civil parishes of Bratton, Dilton Marsh, Heywood, and part of Chapmanslade. It … eleven vills or tithings liable for taxation. These were Bratton, Melbourne, and Stoke in the east, Hawkeridge and … corner. 3 Of these Melbourne and Stoke became merged in Bratton; 4 Bremeridge was coupled with Dilton Marsh in 1377 …