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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… visiters. The upper spring contains muriate of soda, and a small portion of muriate of lime, and is also slightly … Two schools are supported by endowment; and the rents of a small close let out in cottage gardens, amounting to 5. 10., … comprises 8878 acres, of which 1704 are in wood. Woodland, or Week, now only a hamlet, was formerly a parish of itself. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and western boundaries followed no natural features or roads for any significant distance. On the south it was … the lower, northern half of the township boulder clay and small outcrops of sandstone from the Hadley and Coalport … were relatively spacious and well built, and in New Street small groups of houses have the style of a freehold land …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had begun, and it may … all engaged in mixed farming, and there was also some small-scale textile production. 72 In 1847 about half the … good mine 22 yards deep. 83 The industry was still small in scale: Richard Vickers of Wrockwardine Wood (d. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… opened boys' and girls' and infant schools in 1879. A small Standard I boys' school was built in 1890 93 and school … to the cost of alterations; Betton's charity also made a small grant. A new junior mixed and infant school with 320 … council school in Wombridge. 48 Wrockwardine Wood Junior (or Standard I) Boys' Board School, built on the National …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1834. G. L. Yate, vicar of Wrockwardine, had given up the small tithes, other offerings, and pew rents from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1910 and 1920, and 80 in 1930. 54 In 1948 membership was small and the chapel closed, being replaced by the Methodist …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the society, numbering 57 in 1853 and 68 in 1875, paid in small sums over the year. To their savings a sum from the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… dairy products, bees, gardens, fishponds, and mills (built or to be built); 'pennies of charity'; tithes of hay, apart … Charlton (which were reserved to the abbey); and all other small tithes. 73 About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. … and 1½ d. for every cow and calf. 75 In 1655 the small tithes were worth £28 a year and the glebe £2. 76 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a share in the ploughteams probably implies the recent or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's … was mentioned in 1321, 64 and there may have been other small areas of open-field land elsewhere in the township. 65 … income seem to have recovered fully. 71 Whatever the balance of arable and livestock farming in the parish before …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Education EDUCATION. John Poole (or Pole) and Henry Bynnell were schoolmasters in the late … 1883 they were earning drawing grants. Exceptionally for small rural schools, they regularly trained pupil teachers, …