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A History of the County of Stafford
… Elkstone, and Upper Elkstone were formerly a township in Alstonefield parish and later a civil parish called Warslow and Elkstones 3,597 a. (1,456 ha.) in area. 32 The land is mostly pasture. Warslow village on … later descent is unknown until 1605, when Henry Offley of Madeley settled the manor of Elkstone on his son John. It was …
Survey of London
… Manor of Cantlowes but has been enfranchised and is now in the ownership and occupation of Lord Rochdale. General … its eastern neighbour, No. 16, South Grove, was occupied in the middle of the 16th century by a house belonging to the … visited Highgate, when he knighted Sir Basil Brook of Madeley, Salop. The royal guests were entertained by the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… rural parish on the Shropshire-Staffordshire boundary. In the Middle Ages (perhaps from the 12th century) and until … is bounded by the meandering river Worfe, 3 also known in the 19th century as Cosford brook; 4 on the east and south … sold pension and rent to Robert Brooke, the purchaser of Madeley manor (the former priory's nearest demesne manor, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The heavily wooded rural parish of Barrow, as it was in the mid 20th century, centred on the small hamlet of … place from 1655 or 1656. 98 By the early 18th century two Coalbrookdale farms also did suit to the court. Presentments … house), presumably as a poor house. 17 Barrow was in Madeley poor-law union 1836- 1930 18 and in Madeley rural …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Bartholomew) BARROW ( St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Great Boughton, Second division of the … de Swinerton, an heiress of whose family brought them, in marriage, to Sir John Savage, who was knighted by Henry V. … (St. Giles) BARROW ( St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Madeley, liberties of the borough of Wenlock, S. division of …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 30 Dec., 1751, his father a physician at Oxford, after in London. See Rawlinson, v. 198; Munk's Roll, ii. 61; & … son of David, Lord Barrymore, 1581-1617, though not named in the peerage. Barry, James B.A. Trinity Coll., Dublin, … & Bloxam, v. 220. Bayley, Weston s. James, of Madeley, co. Stafford, gent. St. Alban Hall, matric. 4 March, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bempton (St. Michael) BEMPTON ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Bridlington, wapentake of Dickering, E. … being some of the richest grazing and feeding pastures in the East riding. The village is pleasantly situated near … BENTHALL ( St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union of Madeley, liberties of the borough of Wenlock, S. division of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Ironbridge. 77 The former parish is largely rural, but in earlier centuries its extensive reserves of coal, … quickened in the neighbouring parishes of Broseley and Madeley. Benthall, however, never rivalled Broseley as an … watermen in the parish. 96 Along the Severn bank ran the Coalbrookdale-Bewdley tow path, made c. 1800. 97 River use …
A History of the County of Hertford
… on the top of the hill, made into an ecclesiastical parish in 1894 and served by the church of Holy Trinity, built in 1860), comprising an inn, the large nursery gardens of … It was afterwards the residence of Mr. Robinson of the Coalbrookdale Ironworks, and is now occupied by Canon Alfred …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… is a list of bibliographic references to all works used in addition to the material provided by the Dictionary … new imp. 1970), Dynasty of Iron Founders: the Darbys and Coalbrookdale, first published 1953, Longmans, Green & Co., … Inventories for Benthall, Broseley, Little Wenlock and Madeley, 1660-1764, Phillimore, Chichester Trowbridge Museum …