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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Co. built four blast furnaces at Priorslee. Unlike the Donnington Wood and Old Lodge furnaces 61 they usually worked … of the main local suppliers of iron to C. & W. Walker of Donnington. The Eagle Iron Co. was later taken over by the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to serve an area extending from Priorslee and Wombridge to Donnington and Trench. 26 Its 400 places were not filled even … waiting. 36 The school served an area stretching as far as Donnington Wood. 37 It was replaced by a new twoclass … 1818. S.R.O. 3916/1/3, no. 11; /1/8, no. 11; /1/20, s.v. Donnington Wood; Nat. Soc. file 169; Digest Educ. Poor, H.C. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… funfair visited Oakengates until c. 1980 when it moved to Donnington. 60 Neither cock fighting nor bull baiting was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… structure. A free grammar school was established at Donnington, in the parish, in 1627, by Thomas Alcock, who …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… More cramped terraces were erected east of the Priorslee-Donnington road north of Granville Street. Albion Street was … no concentrations of barrack dwellings similar to those in Donnington Wood. 22 Lincoln Road and New Road, like St. … 36 An underground level, perhaps navigable, ran between Donnington Wood furnaces and the area north-west of the Nabb …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… bank of the Shrewsbury Canal. The mill, generally known as Donnington Wood mill, closed in the 1970s. 75 Coal and … 84 In 1715, however, large stocks of coal lay unsold at Donnington Wood and Wrockwardine Wood. 85 In 1731 Richard … Rathbone and Reynolds sent the ore to be smelted in their Donnington Wood furnaces, blown in in 1785. 93 During the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… only 111 pupils; 36 by 1941, owing to house building at Donnington Wood, it was full. 37 In 1943 a nursery class was … school. 53 It admitted 27 pupils from the overcrowded Donnington Wood C.E. School. 54 In 1944 there were 36 pupils. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… closed, being replaced by the Methodist church hall, New Donnington. 55 The first Primitive Methodist society in the … to establish the Wrockwardine Wood Central Hall in Donnington Wood. 59 Between 1903 and 1905 the congregation of …