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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is a large parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and Aubyns are the principal monuments. … of the chancel has a boarded ceiling, all modern except for eighteen bosses of the 15th century, carved with foliated … hatchway to the upper storey. A main beam has mortices for former curved braces. The 15th-century low-pitched roof …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the western … and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. South of Bratton is a … a gothic tower, set in 48 a. of grounds, was built in 1882 for Joseph Beattie, a Birmingham banker. 30 H. H. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred … celebrity, where a commodious hotel has been built for visiters. The upper spring contains muriate of soda, and … of the Crown. The great tithes have been commuted for 208. 6., the vicarial for 310. 19., and the glebe …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in … A great deal of timber was sold to the Coalbrookdale Co. for the building of the Horsehay ironworks in 1754. 69 The … coke-iron industry. In 1757 the township's mines began to supply ironstone to the Coalbrookdale partners' works at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES. Wrockwardine Wood was part of the manor, and until 1884 the civil parish, of Wrockwardine. … C.P. 19 The Granville hospital, Gower Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It opened in 1873 but … initially given by Matthew Wishton and R. W. Kyle, curate for Wrockwardine Wood, in a cottage in Furnace Lane. 23 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made between 1616 and 1657 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1285 John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a year were … dealing mainly with agricultural regulation, survive for 1397-8, 1411-14, and 1456-7, and there are many later … the later 16th and in the 17th and 18th centuries courts for Wrockwardine dealt with the assize of bread and of ale, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's … the manor was granted in fee to his son John (III) for £8 a year. 82 By 1255 John (III) who lived until 1269, 83 … granted 4½ a. in Charlton to Haughmond abbey after 1274 for the maintenance of lights at St. Mary's altar in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and … and the Church Commissioners, the Incorporated Society for Building Churches, and the Ripon Diocesan Society made … of the chancel, which has been formed out of the nave, to supply the place of the ancient choir, is a splendid monument …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Wymersley hundred THE HUNDRED OF WYMERSLEY containing the parishes of Blisworth; Brafield-On-The-Green; Castle Ashby; Cogenhoe; Collingtree; Courteenhall; …