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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (S. W. by S.) from Farnham; containing 991 inhabitants. A district church was erected on a site given by W. P. Paine, … the river. The village is of respectable appearance. The district church here, formerly a chapel of ease, erected in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardinew WROCKWARDINE Wrockwardine, a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north … 'Eadmund's tun', 10 grew in the mid 18th century from a rural village into a small spa. 11 Similar geological …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… boundary-line of the town of Rochdale. The ecclesiastical district of Smallbridge ( which see) comprises the greater … stands on the bank of the river, and has a pleasingly rural aspect. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's … to the introduction of Sunday schools by Mr. Raikes, of Gloucester, to whom some attribute their origin. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 11 In 1898 the civil parish was included in the new urban district of Oakengates. 12 Wrockwardine Wood was included … when new estates were built there by the Oakengates urban district council and, from the 1960s, speculative builders … 128. Many of the new workers were immigrants from the more rural parts of the county: 90 per cent of the township's …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Road further reduced those totals, and building by the district council and private developers in the 1970s took …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood C.P. was formed in 1884, as part of Wellington rural sanitary district, becoming a ward of Oakengates urban district on its creation in 1898. 18 Wrockwardine Wood C.P. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Settlement, ed. P. H. Sawyer (1976), 197-9; R. Lennard, Rural Eng. 1086-1135 (1959), 356; below, Wrockwardine Wood. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… they were earning drawing grants. Exceptionally for small rural schools, they regularly trained pupil teachers, even …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and 1841. 54 Wrockwardine became part of Wrekin highway district in 1863, 55 and was part of Wellington rural district from its formation until 1974 when it became part of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and became the official residence of G.O.C. West Midland District (Commander Western District from 1980). 4 From the later 12th century or earlier …