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A History of the County of Shropshire
… totalling £60 were used to buy a field called Tiddicross, of which the rent was distributed annually. Edward Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the site c. 1801 but the rent of £4 10 s. was not increased; it was paid out annually as …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and … Shrewsbury abbey undertook to build a new vicarage house opposite the existing rectory in Allscott within two … two-bayed and two-storeyed, with a central stack. 87 That house was sold in 1806 and a new one bought opposite the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… places in schoolroom and classroom) and a new teacher's house were built opposite the church at Miss Cludde's … amounting in 1853 to £45 including the mistress's salary of £35. 69 In 1885 an infant department (60 places) was added … demountable classrooms had been added and the teacher's house was being used as an extension; by then, however, there …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… court, and c. 1285 John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a year were said to be held in 1292. 26 Court rolls of Wrockwardine manor, dealing mainly with agricultural … appointed in 1669 and disbursed £31 3 s. 3 d. on pensions, house repairs, paupers' burials, and the like. 38 Between …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's boundary' 74 and the … estate and possibly any manorial rights. In 1324 the manor house was ruinous. It was said in 1650 formerly to have stood … by Edward Pemberton to commemorate the building of the house in 1628 and his own completion of a new wing in 1750. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Methodist meetings, but there was no dissenters' meeting house. 48 'Very few' parishioners were dissenters in 1799. 49 … L.J.R.O., B/A/12(i), f. 94. L.J.R.O., B/V/5, visit. return of 1772. S.R.O. 3916/1, p. 25. P.R.O., RG 31/7, Salop. no. 365; Orders of Q. Sess. iii. 209. Lich. Dioc. Regy., bps.' reg. G, p. …
Survey of London
… IRON GATE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE. This gate, which is of good 18th-century wrought-iron work, was placed here by Lady Gilbert Kennedy, the last tenant of St. Margaret's Lodge, which stood at the south end of the Square. The house was pulled down when the site was recently bought for …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Wyck Rissington WYCK RISSINGTON (16 miles N.E. of Cirencester) As well as the evidence for Romano-British … Roman coins 1 were found in the garden of Heath Hill House (SP 18472278), mile E. of the Chessels settlement, … mediaeval and later pottery 2 were found under a house extension at the N.W. end of the village (SP 18782181). …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… S.E. (b)ix. S.W.) Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Giles, stands about 1 miles N.E. of Buntingford. It is … building of plastered brick; the roof is tiled. The house is of 18th-century design, but incorporates the shell … of the 17th century to 1690. On the N.W. front of the house are three curvilinear gables, one at the end of each …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and Southern divisions of Devon; … now the property of Christopher Blackett, Esq., of Wylam House. The river Tyne, over which is a wooden bridge, erected … on juries at assizes and sessions. The Wymondham house of correction for females contains three wards, with day-rooms, …