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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… paper Wreath [wrathe; rathe] A metal ring forming a holder for a spindle or AXLE. In a quotation dated 1733, the OED shows how it … Thomas Turner in Sussex was buying writing paper for his village shop in the 1750s and 1760s [Diaries (Turner)], while …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (d)li. S.E. (e)lii. S.W.) Writtle is a large parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and … a four-centred head with a moulded label, all of late 15th or early 16th-century date, set in 14th-century splays.and … of the chancel has a boarded ceiling, all modern except for eighteen bosses of the 15th century, carved with foliated …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and west of Wrockwardine, and tuff, on which Wrockwardine village lies. 93 From those high outcrops the ground falls … 94 Most of the rest of the parish lies on boulder clay or sand and gravel, while some terrace gravel is associated … and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. South of Bratton is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… an isolated township five miles distant from the village, comprises 4627 a. 11 p. of arable and pasture land … celebrity, where a commodious hotel has been built for visiters. The upper spring contains muriate of soda, and … comprises 8878 acres, of which 1704 are in wood. Woodland, or Week, now only a hamlet, was formerly a parish of itself. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 … and western boundaries followed no natural features or roads for any significant distance. On the south it was bounded by …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wesleyan Methodist society associated with John Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in … In 1870 a brick mission in Lincoln Road opened, reputedly for poor people reluctant to attend the main Primitive chapel …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made … 1975. 4 A pair of almshouses was erected in Wrockwardine village in 1841 as a memorial to Edward Cludde (d. 1840) of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… dairy products, bees, gardens, fishponds, and mills (built or to be built); 'pennies of charity'; tithes of hay, apart … 1832. 89 A new vicarage house was built south-east of the village in 1963. 90 At Domesday and until c. 1095 Odelerius … 8 He was an admirer of Fletcher of Madeley, an Arminian Evangelical and Methodist of liberal opinions. 9 His works …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. In 1086 the 7½ berewicks of Wrockwardine, for which geld was paid on 5 hides, contained 17 ploughteams … a share in the ploughteams probably implies the recent or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's … 66 Bratton field or fields (or Town field) adjoined the village. 67 A three-course rotation was practised on the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SERVICES. In 1255 Hamon le Strange did no suit to shire or hundred court, and c. 1285 John le Strange held a court … dealing mainly with agricultural regulation, survive for 1397-8, 1411-14, and 1456-7, and there are many later … 1814 and 1818. 57 Admaston sewage works serving that village was built 1911-12. 58 About 1933 piped water was …