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A History of the County of Lancaster
… by Lord Derby, and the latter by the tenant of a farm at Townend in Cronton. The sums are distributed in bread every … to the poor of Cronton; this is paid from an estate at Townend in Cronton. To it was formerly added 1 from the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 6 This was sold in 1608, 7 and in 1617 was held by James Townend and Edmund Hankinson. 8 There were immediate tenants … is not named; ibid. bdle. 76, no. 31. In Aug. 1608 James Townend and Edmund Hankinson paid 5 for licence to agree with … a windmill, &c.; Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 301, m. 9d. James Townend of Weeton ( Ducatus Lanc, iii, 407) died in 1618 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… which belongs to that worthy person and purchaser of the Townend, the ancient estate formerly belonging to the family … Rigby, Paternoster Row in London'; Hardwick, Preston, 210. Townend stood near the present St. Peter's Church; ibid. 211. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Glaswright in July 1351 claimed a messuage against John de Townend and Cecily his wife. It appeared that a John the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… church. George Hawe by will proved in 1558 left land at Townend; annuities were afterwards given to the inmates by … of the borough. He also left 10 s. rent, from a cottage at Townend which he held on a 99-year lease, to be paid yearly …
A History of the County of Stafford
… an Act of 1794. It ended at a wharf in Marsh Lane near Townend Bank. 15 A tramway between the wharf and John … 'Street Names of Walsall', 177, mentions a toll-gate at Townend at the junction of Wolverhampton St. and Green Lane. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Short Heath is mentioned in 1576, 55 and on the waste at Townend, Great Bloxwich, and Little Bloxwich in 1617. 56 The … A survey of 1805 lists some 300 encroachments, mostly at Townend, on the Bloxwich commons, and along the roads from … and in the Arboretum area and is close to the surface at Townend Bank. Further west the Upper and Lower Limestones …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1849 or 1850 it was moved to a newly erected building at Townend Bank. It was closed in 1850 because, Holden … These included infants' schools in Church Street and at Townend Bank in 1834; 12 another infants' school which had …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were three for the foreign—the area covered by Wood End, Townend, and Caldmore, the Bloxwich area, and the Walsall … In 1612 the mayor accounted for the making of a pound at Townend, presumably on the east side of Stafford Street where …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Methodists moved into the former Ragged School at Townend Bank. The average Sunday morning congregation was 50 …