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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge court baron survive from 1697, 1708, 1711, 1717, and 1747, the matters dealt with being mainly agricultural. … until 1857. 13 Priorslee was part of Shifnal manor and parish 14 and Ketley Bank part of Leegomery manor. 15 A lock-up built …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (d. 1863). 32 It was sold in 1864 to the Oakengates and St. George's Gas and Water Co. Ltd., 33 which was in turn bought by the … Gas Works stood on the south-western edge of Trench Pool, and in 1912 the Hadley, Trench, and Wrockwardine Wood …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It … OED earliest date of use: 1399 Sources: Acts. Woollen cloth [woollen-cloth; woollen cloath; wollen clothe; wollen … used for making tough, warm outer garments. The woollen industry was regarded traditionally as the most important of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the antiquities that have been found are, foundations and ruins of buildings, fragments of statues, stags' horns, … of the Lower Empire, a coin of Adrian, one of Lucilla, and a noble tessellated pavement, of which an engraving was … forming part of a range of hills which inclose a beautiful and fertile vale. Spring Park, in the parish, is a splendid …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in Bospin Lane, were sold by the parish in 1955 and later demolished. The capital sum raised, amounting to £108 was invested and a Scheme of 1957 provided a yearly income of £3 which was … and organ fund; any residue was to be used for a coal and blanket charity. In 1972 the small income accruing for …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the … of woodland and plantation in the parish. 24 Mills and the Cloth Industry. A mill was recorded at Woodchester in 1086. 25 The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… boundary follows the Nailsworth stream, on which several cloth-mills were built, and the southern boundary is formed by the Inch brook and ornamental ponds built on the brook by the late 18th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … the town; 11 by the 18th century it levied its own rates and was treated as a separate cure even when held by the same …
The Environs of London
… hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by Chigwell, Chingford, Walthamstow, Wanstead, and Barking. It contains about 2000 acres of land, of which the greater part is meadow and pasture. A considerable part of the forest of Waltham …
A History of the County of Essex
… the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while restricting the amount of arable … was densely wooded. 1 Monkhams was originally all wood, and there also pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had … 42 During the past forty years a small amount of light industry has grown up in what is essentially a dormitory …