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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… township and its vicinity abound with rich and extensive mines of coal, ironore, &c., and various establishments, on a … on upon a still larger scale, consisting of an extensive colliery, and iron-mines, two blast furnaces, foundries, &c. The opening of a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Burwardesley, derived its importance from the numerous mines of coal and ironstone in the neighbourhood, which made … operations; but, from the exhausted state of the mines, this branch of trade, as well as that in coal, has … observed, into the river Eden. Coal is abundant; several mines are in operation for the supply of the neighbouring …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was a Broseley surgeon, published Belisarius, Buildwas Abbey, Ludlow Castle, and Other Poems in 1844. 27 … where cottages and alehouses stood among ironstone mines, ironworks, brickworks, pottery kilns, clay-pipe … as Upper Riddings Farm, with an extension to Turnersyard colliery in Caughley, but it closed before 1925. 12 Other …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Soon afterwards the services were transferred to the Colliery school there. 33 A church of St. Anne east of the … by J. R. McClean, managing director of the Cannock Chase Colliery Co.; all the sittings were free. In 1876 his widow … courses were held there regularly. 149 The 1911 Coal Mines Act, by requiring firemen in most collieries to pass an …
A History of the County of Stafford
… He died in 1504 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. 19 His son and heir John, who also lived at Pipe, died … autumn caused extensive absenteeism among the boys at the Colliery school in Chasetown from its early days in the … reps. 1842, 1844; D. 603/M/6/4, conditions for letting mines 1847; V.C.H. Staffs. ii. 6970, 779. The following …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 151 (N. E.) from London; containing, with the lordship of Hulton-Abbey, the hamlet of Sneyd, and the vill of Rushton-Grange or … acres; the soil is a light sandy clay. At Denwall is a colliery, opened about the year 1750, and still in operation; …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 166 acres of the Sneyd Green portion of the lordship of Hulton, which were added to the borough in 1891. 2 This area … represents the western end of a road connecting Hulton Abbey with Rushton Grange. 8 Burslem village grew up around … moiety included Cobridge Gate House, cottages, lands, coal mines, and the Bull's Head Inn at Sneyd Green. 324 In 1790 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… new parish was tithe-free, since it had once belonged to Hulton Abbey. This exempt area lay at Abbey Hulton and Rushton Grange and thus included Cobridge. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… manorially were part of Tunstall manor. 2 The lordship of Abbey Hulton, a distinct manor, 3 was part of Burslem parish for … for the lords of Tunstall manor to lease out their Burslem mines. 350 By the later 15th century these included mines in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were separately valued. In the early 12th century the abbey had two demesne ploughteams and some livestock, notably … the 13th century the meadow was fenced off and used by the abbey for grazing its oxen. 20 Although crops were being … Burton at Hanbury and Tutbury, where there were gypsum mines, 2 but the earliest evidence for alabaster carving in …