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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Alvington and Lancaut consolidated, valued in the king's books at 13. 11. 5., and in the gift of the Duke of … N. division of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Wellingborough; containing 1120 inhabitants. … Armada; also a monument to the memory of Colonel John Lane, the protector of Charles II. after the battle of …
A Dictionary of London
… of All Hallows the Less, of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of use (S. 42). "Wolsieslane "lay between the tenement of Sir John de … part stopped up and built on by the Chamberlain of London (S. 42). First mention: "Wolsiesgate," 1300 (Lib. Horn. fol. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial areas of Godstow, Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th … and North Oxford. The extra-parochial areas of King's Weir (0.09 a.) and Pixey Mead (51 a.), which was then … Abingdon and their family; other travellers had to take a lane north-west through the meadows to cross the Thames at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of a road running south-west from Watling Street at Pain's Lane to join it at Snedshill, the limit of the improvement of … Street to bypass Oakengates to the south. 73 At Teague's Bridge a sectional iron bridge was erected where the road …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … the south (or Shifnal) side of Watling Street near Pain's Lane. Like so many developments around Oakengates at that …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was soon withdrawn. 56 Controversy raged over the board's intended school site at Ketley Bank, some ratepayers … 68 who served for thirty years, as did the committee's first secretary, R. L. Corbett. 69 The enrolment of 222 … opened at Snedshill Coppice in 1818, 51 served the Pain's Lane (in Lilleshall) and Priorslee districts. Run on Dr. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what … on the east by a stream dividing Hadley wood from the king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, … George's, greatly expanded from the old hamlet of Pain's Lane (in Lilleshall parish) by new streets laid out at the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge, C. R. Cameron, apparently resisting the chapel's siting in his parish. 29 A chapel for the Primitives was … and three other rooms. In 1981, on the eve of the chapel's closure and the congregation's move to the United Reformed … in 1882, with week-night meetings in a mission in Quob Lane (later Station Road) and open-air gatherings on the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… among the more notorious entertainments, and the county's last baiting was reputedly at the 1833 wake. 56 As late as … races and athletic competitions were held south of Pain's Lane in the mid to late 19th century during the wakes, 58 …