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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… town is situated near the foot of the chalk hills, on the road from Maidstone to London, and consists principally of … are some remains of a British encampment called Barbary Castle. Wroxeter (St. Andrew) WROXETER ( St. Andrew), a … remains of a strong double intrenchmeut called Desborough Castle, which was probably thrown up by that people to check …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… boundary was that part of the ancient Wellington-Newport road known by 1288 as Trench Way (later Trench Road), 9 a name suggesting that the wood was cleared back … formations occur. Some sand and gravel lies along Trench Road. 14 There was little settlement in the township in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… After the First World War house building south of Trench Road further reduced those totals, and building by the … furnaces on the west side of what was later known as Moss Road. In 1802 he took them into the newly formed Lilleshall … by the 1850s. In 1882 a brickworks stood between Lincoln Road and Cockshutt Piece and there was also a kiln at the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Junior School, with 320 places, was erected in Church Road, Trench. 25 Numbers rose and the school was extended in … 57 Wrockwardine Wood County Infant School, Church Road, opened in 1953 with 200 places. 58 It was extended in … 200 pupils by 1981. 60 Trench Boys' Modern School, Gibbons Road, opened in 1955 with 360 places. 61 It had 553 pupils in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… closed. 52 In 1824 St. John's Wesleyan chapel, Trench Road, opened. Society membership grew from 8 in 1821 to 71 in … been replaced by a new chapel on the opposite side of the road. 69 Bethesda chapel, Trench, on the corner of Trench and … averaged 20 in 1982. 71 In 1870 a brick mission in Lincoln Road opened, reputedly for poor people reluctant to attend …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… B/V/6, Wrockwardine, 1701; SA 15504; Barnard MSS., Raby Castle, box 12, bdle. 25, lease, 20 Oct. 1597, for descr. of … Com.), iii. 191. L.J.R.O., B/V/1/8, 11; Barnard MSS., Raby Castle, box 12, bdle. 24, lease, 16 Nov. 1585; [L. Marshall], … Hobson, Wellington Dir. (1898), 58. Barnard MSS., Raby Castle, box 1, bdle. 27, no. 45. Acct. based on Cranage, vii. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… making. 18 A brick kiln east of the Wrockwardine-Admaston road in 1827 19 had closed by 1838. Field names suggest the … (copies in S.P.L.). Eyton, ix. 32, 36; Barnard MSS., Raby Castle, box 1, bdle. 27, no. 32 and passim; ridge and furrow …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 999/33.4. T.S.A.S. 4th ser. viii. 156. Barnard MSS., Raby Castle, box 1, bdle. 27, no. 46. Ibid. box 12, bdle. 17, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there. 39 The defended manor house, known as Charlton Castle, was apparently still used as a residence of the lords … m. 4; C 138/59, no. 53, m. 4; E 364/78. Barnard MSS., Raby Castle, box 1, bdle. 27, nos. 62a, 62b. T.S.A.S. 4th ser. xi. … 83, 318; cf. V.C.H. Salop. viii. 88; Barnard MSS., Raby Castle, box 12, bdle. 17, leases; S.R.O., q. sess. rec. box …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Earl of Warwick, the elder was hanged in chains on Norwich castle, and the younger upon the lofty steeple of the church … fury among the inhabitants. The town is situated on the road from Norwich, through Thetford, to London. It is of … nuns themselves, who had suffered great annoyance from a castle in the neighbourhood. Wytche WYTCHE, a hamlet, in the …