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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells fee of a Mannor which defore the … in Carleton, &c. his wife was the daughter of Sir Richard Pole of Suffolk, by whom he had a son of his own name Edmund, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodbury Wombleton WOMBLETON, a township, in the parish of Kirkdale, union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles … of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Wolverhampton; containing, with the liberties of Orton and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Francis Charlton still owed the Crown the 'king's rent' of £2 6 s. 8 d. for the maintenance of a minister, 51 but before his death in 1642 he may have … 1869. 77 Additions of 1869, designed by George Bidlake of Wolverhampton, included a chancel with south transept, an …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Watling Street to Wombridge priory, perhaps on the line of the later Hadley Road. Priorslee probably grew up beside … turn was replaced by a new road to the south-west as part of the Holyhead road improvements. The first part of the new … to have broken through into the underlying Wellington- Wolverhampton railway in 1855, draining the summit level and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the … coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By 1847 only 6 a. of wood remained in Wombridge and none in Priorslee. 10 … and 1940. 47 Iron and steel. About 1414 Thomas Ferrour, a Wolverhampton ironmonger, was robbed near Oakengates of six …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 58 and the school opened in 1878. A continuing shortage of school places was relieved by enlargements of the board and National schools in the 1880s and 1890s and … Development Centre was located there from 1968 80 and Wolverhampton Day Teachers' College had an outpost there for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Wombridge. William Charlton of Wombridge (d. 1567) was reputed a papist or sympathizer … expanding population. 24 C. R. Cameron, perpetual curate of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, … 1845, only to be demolished in advance of the Wellington-Wolverhampton railway c. 1846. It was replaced by a chapel …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in … in Oakengates. 52 In the earlier 19th century the number of public houses grew as the town expanded, and in 1846 the … on the Green until the construction of the Wellington-Wolverhampton railway across it c. 1849, and thereafter at …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged 18. [ 5] Woodbridge, Benjamin of Wilts, sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Nov., 1638, aged … the order of the garter 1634, dean of collegiate church of Wolverhampton, and rector of Haseley, Oxon, 1639; died at …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Manors MANORS. The manor of WOODFORD HALL, which comprised the greater part of the parish, is first mentioned in the charter of doubtful … Q/RPl 74, 75. E.R.O., D/DMe T5/1; D.N.B.: Sir Ch. M. Pole. Gent. Mag. 1814 (i), 96. Ibid. 1820 (ii), 563. V.C.H. …