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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… towards Church-Stretton. The city was inclosed with walls three yards in thickness, extending for three miles in circumference, and surrounded by a rampart and … Elizabeth his wife; Francis, Earl of Guilford, and his three wives; Lord North, prime minister; and the lady of Lord …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… cent of the township was let to 16 tenants in 14 holdings; three were of 60 a., 50 a., and 30 a., the rest varying between 14 a. and 4 a. Thirty-two cottages (three of them divided) were occupied by 35 cottagers, 12 of … shops, all equipped with overhead electric travelling cranes. The entire plant was powered by its own generating …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wood school board, formed in 1875, consisted of three nonconformists, the rector, and another Anglican; the … by sectarian strife, 85 it achieved nothing in its first three-year term beyond preparing proposals and plans, 86 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Orderic Vitalis, was priest. Odelerius, one of the three learned clerks who accompanied Roger of Montgomery to … vicar 1906-45, 20 increased the Sunday services from three to four and there was monthly communion. 21 The church … plan with a central tower. The chancel was lit by three round-headed east windows and a north and a south one. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… between Burcot, Orleton, and Cluddley. 62 In Charlton the three main fields surrounded the hamlet and c. 1300 were … field or fields (or Town field) adjoined the village. 67 A three-course rotation was practised on the Wrockwardine … London speculators 5 and in 1650 Richard Steventon owned three water corn mills, probably three wheels in one mill, at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was immediately improved. In 1950 there were 115 pupils in three classes. 75 Numbers were higher in the 1970s 76 owing … girls' and infant school. 85 In the 1850s there were three boarding schools: a boys' school at Admaston (still …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Charlton was a member of the manor of Eyton on Severn. 37 Three overseers of the poor were appointed in 1669 and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 8th earl of Shrewsbury, in 1618 the manor was divided into three, and so it remained until the early 19th century. One … of windows, central entrance, two chimney stacks, and three attic gables. 1 The mid 18th-century work greatly … building with a central gable on the cross wing and three chimneys. To the south lay two long barns. 10 By c. …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… below, isolated finds of Roman material are recorded at three points, none of them apparently associated with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… external label, all of brick. On the N. are two windows of three lights, with moulded brick jambs, heads and labels. … Nave (39 ft. by 19 ft.) has, on the N., a brick arcade of three bays, with two-centred arches of three chamfered orders; the columns, also of brick, consist …