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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by Sir William Blackett, for the religious duties of the miners, who at that time attended prayers every morning at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… antiquity, several charters having been granted to the miners of "Alderston" in the 13th century. In 1282 the manor …
A History of the County of Stafford
… it was stated that copper had been mined there. 67 Miners, some of them lead miners, were living in the Archford moor area in the mid and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… existed in 1869, when it was offered for lease. 44 Four miners lived in the Blue Hills area in 1871, but only one in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… which Slack had recently set up. 47 There were 20 coal miners and colliers in the township in 1841 and 32 in 1851; …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the church. 43 They served a village enlarged by 1784 by miners who worked the duke of Devonshire's copper mines at … Ecton. 44 As mining at Ecton declined in the 1820s, some miners presumably transferred to work in mines already opened … of Warslow village. By 1842 the company employed 20 miners, the number rising to 50 by 1849. 25 In 1858 a …