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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… small parish 6 m. E. of Beaminster. The church and Wraxall Manor are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical (1) Parish … remains of two scratch-dials, reused. Secular (2) Wraxall Manor House, 1,050 yards N.W. of the church, is of two …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Scarisbrick. His son Charles, on succeeding to this estate, assumed the name of Dicconson, while his other son, Thomas, to whom the Scarisbrick estate fell, assumed the name of Scarisbrick; on the demise … Dicconson, Esq., became possessed of the Scarisbrick estate also, and adopted the name and arms of Scarisbrick. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… c. 660. 6 In 1066 it was the centre of a royal multiple estate, probably containing the 7½ berewicks mentioned in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on elevated ground in a fine park, and surrounded by an estate of 2319 acres. Wroughton (St. John the Baptist and St. … Hall, belonging to Sir Clifford Constable, lord of the manor, and now occupied by George Clifford, Esq., uncle to … of considerable importance. It was the head of a royal manor having extensive jurisdiction, and formed part of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. … and Quam Pool township made presentments at Wrockwardine manor courts between 1397 and 1457. 15 A moat in the north … groups of houses have the style of a freehold land society estate. More cramped terraces were erected east of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 79 Sir George Saville, one of the lords of Wrockwardine manor, sold his third interest in the Wrockwardine Wood mines … Reynolds of Ketley began to work the mines on the Charlton estate, including those in Wrockwardine Wood, on his own … Trinder, op. cit. 33. J. R. Wordie, 'A Great Landed Estate in the 18th Cent.' (Reading Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1967), …
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. In …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Wood Manor MANOR. Wrockwardine Wood originally formed part of Wrockwardine manor 60 but the lord of the manor's mineral rights in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Norah Shoebotham subsequently left the residue of her estate to the hall, and part of the income was put towards … known as the Pemberton chapel. Fowler had a freehold estate in Wrockwardine that had belonged in 1650 to Eleanor, …