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A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Wood Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. … waste land at Shelfield apparently as part of the manor of Walsall. 54 In 1300 the vill was still held by the lords of Walsall. 55 A separate manor of SHELFIELD is first mentioned …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Wood Religious life CHURCH. The church of ST. JOHN, Walsall Wood, originated in a mission established by the … raised by subscription and augmented by £20 yearly out of Walsall vicarage. 30 In 1845 a new parish of St. John was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. … to Lyle and a William Magot by Thomas Mollesley of Walsall the same year. The monks were to distribute 8 marks at Walsall on Mollesley's obit day for his soul and that of his …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Churches CHURCHES. There was a church at Walsall by 1200. It had dependent chapels at Wednesbury and … that further new churches were built within the parish. Walsall church was recorded in 1200 when the Crown gave it to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Communications COMMUNICATIONS. Roads. Walsall early became the meeting point of several roads—from … national traffic routes avoided the area. By the 1740s Walsall's importance as a manufacturing centre, the fact that …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. By at least the later 12th century most of Walsall parish lay within Cannock forest. Only the area south … by assarting. Herbert was evidently making assarts at Walsall in 1160. 73 In the earlier 13th century William le …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Education EDUCATION. There was a school at Walsall by 1377, when Robert the schoolmaster was admitted as a burgess. 45 In the 1490s a Walsall chantry priest, John Staple, kept a school where he …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Introduction WALSALL The Growth of the Town, p. 146; Communications, p. … 254; Charities for the Poor, p. 266. The Ancient parish of Walsall 1 consisted of a borough and a foreign. The two parts …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The division of Walsall manor between two lords from 1247 until 1338 seems to … a single steward. In the late 14th and the 15th centuries Walsall was under the steward responsible for overseeing the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Manors MANORS. WALSALL may be the 'Walesho' which Wulfric Spot left to … the civil war, after some eight years of married life at Walsall, she was abducted by John de Lay. Richard fled and for long did not return to Walsall. 57 He was still living in 1289, but in the earlier …