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Final Concords for Lancashire
… Deulacres, formerly (1637) in the possession of Benjamin Rudyard, gent. (present whereabouts unknown), contained …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Endon, Heaton, Leek, Leek-Frith, Longsdon, Onecote, Rudyard, Rushton-James, Rushton-Spencer, Stanley, and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… ford. There was a bridge there by 1752. 71 A feeder for Rudyard Lake was constructed c. 1811, leaving the Dane … was held as part of the earl of Macclesfield's Rudyard estate. 86 That estate was broken up in 1919, and … D. 1109/2, burial of 17 Mar. 1752. Above, Horton, intro. (Rudyard Lake). S.R.O., D. 3359/Cruso, draft agreement with …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Bradnop, Endon, Heaton, Leekfrith, Longsdon, Onecote, Rudyard, Rushton James, Rushton Spencer, Stanley, and … centre of the area in the 10th century may have been at Rudyard, but by the 11th century Leek was the centre, with a … belonged to the earl of Mercia, while thegns held Endon, Rudyard, and Rushton. All were held by the Crown in 1086, but …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Leek the Earl's Way followed the Macclesfield road through Rudyard as far as Rushton Spencer, where it turned west … road south via Cheddleton and the road to Macclesfield via Rudyard, which were turnpiked in 1762 as part of the road … to a share of the tolls when a gate was erected at Rudyard in 1764. 50 In 1763 the trustees ordered a gate or …
A History of the County of Stafford
… granting the monks what was described as 'the land of Rudyard' on which to build their abbey. 85 The estate, … brook' and may refer originally to the boundary of Rudyard manor. 86 Abbey Green west of Abbey Farm probably … site of Dieulacres abbey, was the home in 1614 of Thomas Rudyard, lord of Leek manor. 58 His younger son Anthony lived …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1801. It also linked the canal with a feeder from Rudyard Lake, in Horton. The Longsdon stretch of the branch …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Leek Rudyard RUDYARD Rudyard was formerly a township in Leek parish and later a … 52 It extends from a hill called Gun on its east side to Rudyard Lake, a reservoir formed in 1799 by damming the brook …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the centre of the township. It was dammed in 1799 to form Rudyard Lake, whose north end lies in the township. 20 The … of the township. A station was opened at the north end of Rudyard Lake in 1905, chiefly to give access to the company's … golf course at Cliffe Park in Horton. At first called Rudyard Lake station, the name was changed to Cliffe Park c. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1826. 45 The road formerly entered Rushton Spencer from Rudyard in the southeast. It was realigned in 1808 46 and … W. F. Hutchings, Map of County of Stafford (1832). Above, Rudyard, intro. Staffs. Advertiser, 26 Oct. 1878, p. 8; …