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A History of the County of Shropshire
… c. 660. 6 In 1066 it was the centre of a royal multiple estate, probably containing the 7½ berewicks mentioned in … bear witness to that phase of prosperity. Speculative housing development began south-west of the village in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on elevated ground in a fine park, and surrounded by an estate of 2319 acres. Wroughton (St. John the Baptist and St. … in descent from Sir Christopher Wren, who purchased the estate from the family of Burgoyne, about the year 1713. It …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… groups of houses have the style of a freehold land society estate. More cramped terraces were erected east of the … of the Wombridge Canal. 20 As elsewhere in the coalfield housing demand occasionally caused the conversion of … century, short terraces again being the dominant form of housing. After the First World War Oakengates urban district …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… either end of the township. 73 Agricultural land shrank as housing expanded in the 1860s and 1870s. In 1891, however, c. … Reynolds of Ketley began to work the mines on the Charlton estate, including those in Wrockwardine Wood, on his own … glass furnaces themselves were converted to working class housing known as Glassworks Square. 16 V.C.H. Salop. i. 315. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the 'bulge', and to take more children from new housing; in 1974 the modern school became comprehensive, for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Norah Shoebotham subsequently left the residue of her estate to the hall, and part of the income was put towards … known as the Pemberton chapel. Fowler had a freehold estate in Wrockwardine that had belonged in 1650 to Eleanor, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… classes. 75 Numbers were higher in the 1970s 76 owing to housing development at Admaston, and by 1981 two demountable …