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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 568 per annum, and now yields about 3000: new and handsome houses have been erected. There are, besides, different …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… grant. There were three departments and two adjoining houses for the master and the girls' and infants' mistresses. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the parish by the later 18th century. Most of its houses were probably built by the occupiers and were detached … 1850 Oakengates developed from a group of a dozen detached houses and public houses, some thatched, which were surrounded by a quagmire in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… washing. Ketley Bank was as ill-supplied as Oakengates. Houses belonging to the Lilleshall Co. tended to be better … generally discharged into open ditches that passed other houses before draining into settling tanks below the town. Most houses, many with shared closets, had cess pits, many of them …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 52 In the earlier 19th century the number of public houses grew as the town expanded, and in 1846 the Methodists … frequently crowded. 53 In 1856 there were sixteen public houses and eight beer sellers in Oakengates, those figures … sellers began to be closed. There were fourteen public houses in 1941. There were two public houses in Priorslee by …