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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and types were available (largest first): Imperial, Super ROYAL, ROYAL, Medium, DEMY PAPER, Thick post, Thin post, Small post, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… head with a moulded label. The North Porch has old walls, but the outer archway and the windows are entirely … date 1640, etc. The roof of the N. nave chapel has plain old timbers, one re-used. The 15th-century roof of the S. … date, but painted, and perhaps modern. The W. tower has old timbers re-used in the first floor. The N. porch has a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… by the Mercians c. 660. 6 In 1066 it was the centre of a royal multiple estate, probably containing the 7½ berewicks … known as the Falcon inn c. 1829 and was also known as the Royal Oak. A leading coaching inn from the late 18th century … Map 1/25,000, Telford (1978 edn.). Diary of Marches of Royal Army (Camd. Soc. [1st ser.], lxxiv), 278. Inst. Geol. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was once of considerable importance. It was the head of a royal manor having extensive jurisdiction, and formed part of … Conquest, when, with all its appendages, liberties, and royal customs, it was granted to the abbey of Battle, in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the inhabitants received poor relief, 33 and in 1931 the old-fashioned New Yard works closed with the loss of 1,000 … Nabb. 40 In 1851 the Lilleshall Co. began to replace the old railways with a private standard-gauge network, which … Bowling Club was formed in the same year, when part of an old pit mound was levelled and grassed. 56 The Trench and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… well stocked with oaks and underwood. 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 … down in 1826, about the time that the Donnington Wood Old Lodge furnaces were blown in. 3 In 1861 the Lilleshall … an engineering works that replaced the Donnington Wood Old Yard works and soon became known as the New Yard. 4 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… it was £35 a year, from the four cottages 93 to which the old workhouse had been converted. 94 By her will of 1675 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1548 the service of Our Lady was suppressed. The 70-year-old stipendiary Thomas Fryer 94 had been receiving an annuity … gallery; and the replacement of the pews by benches, some old pew panelling being used as wainscot. The pulpit, rebuilt …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… administrative status of this comparatively populous royal manor and hundred meeting place - leaving aside …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was supported by Anna Maria Cludde. 67 It was held in an old cottage until temporarily accommodated in the boys' … girls for domestic service in the colonies. 89 The Royal National Institute for the Blind ran a Sunshine Home …