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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Moors. 11 In 1898 the civil parish was included in the new urban district of Oakengates. 12 Wrockwardine Wood was included within the designated area of Telford new town in 1968. 13 The Middle Coal Measures, lying close to … north part of the township around the glassworks and the new church. In the later 19th century, however, much more …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… had a lease of the Charlton mining interests, and new pits were being sunk in Wrockwardine Wood. In 1736-7 the … Wood Old Yard works and soon became known as the New Yard. 4 Engineering rapidly became as important to the … company began to modernize blast furnaces and construct new ones for other firms. Those, like most of the company's …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… least 1914. 5 From 1961 evening classes were held at the new Trench Modern School. 6 All the 19th-century schools were … school opened in 1943; the church school was rebuilt on a new site. Between 1953 and 1977 a new infant school, a new (Roman Catholic) primary school, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… part of the Nabb and Pain's Lane was transferred to the new consolidated chapelry later known as St. George's. 28 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… closed, being replaced by the Methodist church hall, New Donnington. 55 The first Primitive Methodist society in … schoolroom were sold in 1965, having been replaced by a new chapel on the opposite side of the road. 69 Bethesda … the township. 74 The Wesleyan Reformers' Ebenezer chapel, New Street, was built in 1855. It seated 230. It closed in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the vicarage, Shrewsbury abbey undertook to build a new vicarage house opposite the existing rectory in Allscott … with a central stack. 87 That house was sold in 1806 and a new one bought opposite the church, 88 to which the house next door was added by the patron in 1832. 89 A new vicarage house was built south-east of the village in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Extraction continued on a small scale until c. 1960 when new plant was introduced and larger-scale quarrying began …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the boys' school in 1852. 68 The following year a new St. Peter's Girls' School (with 100 places in schoolroom and classroom) and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… poor were farmed for £50, to John Hollis. About 1801 a new workhouse had been erected 1 km. west of Wrockwardine on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… building of the house in 1628 and his own completion of a new wing in 1750. 99 The limits of the 17th-century house … the house to the west and to the south (where there was a new front of seven bays) and added new kitchens on the north and east. 2 Several interior …