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A History of the County of Stafford
… Uxbridge (180 a.), Victoria (250 a.), and Winshill and Wetmore (1,011 a.). 11 At the time of local government … was enlarged to 796 a. (322 ha.) by the acquisition of the Wetmore area from Winshill and Wetmore ward, and a new ward was created for Winshill alone …
A History of the County of Stafford
… which necessitated a long bridge. 2 The west arm, known as Wetmore brook in the late 16th century and as Back water or Wetmore water in the later 18th century, 3 rejoined the main … 9 When Anderstaff Lane, leading off Horninglow Street to Wetmore, was laid out with burgage plots in 1273, it was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… century holding land in Branston, Stapenhill, Stretton, Wetmore, and Winshill, and they presumably officiated at … Salmon were paid as rent for land in Winshill and Wetmore in the later 12th century, and by the early 14th … monastic precinct), and in the west arm of the river at Wetmore. 7 In 1627 the fishing rights between the upper mills …
A History of the County of Stafford
… former board school) and moved to the latter's premises in Wetmore Road, where it remained in 2000 as Holy Trinity … the name changed again to Victoria community school. 16 Wetmore Road (Anderstaff) School A board school was opened in 1876 on the west side of Anderstaff Lane (Wetmore Road from 1878), with accommodation for 214 girls and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the parish: Branston, Shobnall, and Sinai; Horninglow and Wetmore; Winshill and Stapenhill; and Stretton. 18 In the … abolished in 1902. 12 A monthly service in what is called Wetmore Hall, a former Primitive Methodist chapel at the north end of Wetmore Road, began in the mid 1980s, after the transfer in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… created in the outlying settlements (Branston, Stretton, Wetmore, and Winshill) and in Burton itself. 8 The abbey also … development, notably the sidings between Hawkins Lane and Wetmore Road, which have been replaced by the district …
A History of the County of Stafford
… (modern Lichfield Street) and in Anderstaff Lane (modern Wetmore Road), running north off Horninglow Street. Cat … plots there lay on either side of a path leading to Wetmore, which Abbot John widened and made a route to Derby. … Lane was in use by 1592 and remained so until changed to Wetmore Road in the late 19th century. 5 In the later 1540s …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the town, joining the west arm of the river Trent at Wetmore. 1 It is met near Moor Street by a stream which flows …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill, and one for those of Branston, Horninglow (and Wetmore), and Stretton. There were by then two frankpledges … convert a barn on the west side of Anderstaff Lane (later Wetmore Road) into a workhouse 24 and in 1730 to the … wards to the west, Stapenhill ward, and a combined Wetmore and Winshill ward. 4 The first woman councillor was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… with similarly assessed estates at Branston, Stretton, and Wetmore (including Hornin- glow); it also had 4 carucates and … to Burton, Branston, Horninglow, Stapenhill, Stretton, Wetmore, and Winshill. 14 The college was dissolved in 1545, …