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A History of the County of Shropshire
… In 1900 there was still some commercial mining in the parish, but it had ceased by 1908. 1 Iron and steel. In 1801 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood was part of the manor, and until 1884 the civil parish, of Wrockwardine. In spite of its isolation it seems … had to be made to relieve the poor. The township, later parish, was in Wellington poor-law union 1836- 1930. 17 … to have used churches and chapels of ease nearer than the parish church 7 km. away. 21 In the early 19th century the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the site c. 1801 but the rent … a 40 s. rent charge. The vicar was to have £1 1 s. and the parish clerk 1 s. for administering it. By 1821, and still in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Holmes. 97 James Smyth, instituted 1635, 'deserted' the parish in the First Civil War. 98 Jonathan Gellibrand, … 4 Small sums were paid out of the sacrament money to the parish poor from the mid 18th century or earlier: £1 18 s. 6 … being added. 12 Between 1788, or earlier, and 1823 a parish orchestra was maintained, with violins, viola, bass …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the balance of arable and livestock farming in the parish before the Black Death, sheep farming seems not to … grazing rights on the Wrekin. 74 The northern side of the parish also provided extensive areas of common pasture on low … townships. 75 There was further common pasture in the parish on Rushmoor, Marsh heath, and Little moor 76 and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… at Allscott was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had a Sunday school and a day school 'by subscription' …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to Thomas Hazlehurst for £50 a year. 40 By 1782, when the parish apparently resumed direct responsibility for the poor, … spent and there were up to thirty in the workhouse. The parish owed £1,980, 44 and 703 of the population of 1,938 were receiving parish relief, including 200 men completely unemployed. As …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… allowed to have a private oratory in their house in the parish in 1409. 26 The rector of Wrockwardine, Odelerius of … merged almost two thirds of the rectorial tithes in the parish (excluding Charlton township) with the land that they …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… NONCONFORMITY. In 1676 one papist lived in the parish and in 1767 David Clifford, a farmer, was listed as a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… 6 in. (a)viii. S.E. (b)ix. S.W.) Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Giles, stands about 1 miles N.E. of …