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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of Carlisle, Cumberland ward, E. division of the county of Cumberland, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Carlisle; … Gateshead, N. division of Chester ward, N. division of the county of Durham, 3 miles (S.) from Gateshead. This place … old turnpike-road from Newcastle to Durham. Wreckington Hall is a handsome mansion of stone. The village forms the …
A Dictionary of London
… Court South out of London Wall, west of Carpenters' Hall (O. and M 1677-Boyle, 1799). Called "Wrestley's Court … side, the eastern side being the back side of Carpenters' Hall. Site rebuilt for business purposes. Wrestlers' Court …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and Aubyns are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … Farm, 1,500 yards S.W. of the church. b(8). Moor Hall, house and moat, 1 m. W. of the church. The House is of … are tiled. It was built in the 15th century with a central Hall and cross-wings at the E. and W. ends. In the 16th …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… houses of the 18th and 19th century, such as Admaston Hall, Oaklands, and Donnerville, bear witness to that phase … in 1909. 67 A coal and clothing club operated in 1925. 68 County library book centres were opened at Wrockwardine in … cricket club and one of the grounds used by the Shropshire county side; in 1979 they played the Indian touring side …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. division of the wapentake of Manley, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 8 miles (N. E. by N.) from Bawtry; … Seisdon, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Wolverhampton; … have possessed it since the 1st of Henry III., 1216. The Hall is a magnificent structure, erected in 1696, standing on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… workers were immigrants from the more rural parts of the county: 90 per cent of the township's population was native … was open in 1917, in the building known as Trench Billiard Hall in 1937 and 1941. 57 The Regent cinema, Wrockwardine … of Mr. Brown), 3. S.R.O., DA 34 (S.R.O. 3279/I), Town Hall (Wellington) file, memo. 20 Sept. 1958; Brown, op. cit. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… condemned in 1926. 18 In the reorganization of 1933 the county council let an adjoining building (the former Junior … a junior school. 23 In 1961 Wrockwardine Wood (Temporary) County Primary School merged with it but continued to use its … 55 The infants transferred to the new Wrockwardine Wood County Infant School in 1953. 56 In 1961 the school became …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the chapel closed, being replaced by the Methodist church hall, New Donnington. 55 The first Primitive Methodist society in the county was established at Oakengates in 1821. In 1823 it … Dr. J. McC. McCarthy, a Conservative candidate in the county council elections, contrary to connexional policy over …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… rectory in Allscott within two years. It was to have a hall, two chambers, a kitchen, stable, and outbuildings. 85 … in Admaston, and in 1957 she devised St. Christopher's Hall there for Christian work. She had built the hall c. 1947 as a centre for women's devotional work. 24 Her …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1324. 12 It may have lain c. 400 metres north of the hall. 13 At Wrockwardine a windmill was noted as destroyed in …