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A History of the County of Stafford
… being culverted it turned northwards near the end of Moor Street and flowed along the west side of the town, joining … arm of the river Trent at Wetmore. 1 It is met near Moor Street by a stream which flows north from Branston and whose … Black pool in the 13th century gave its name to a modern street. 3 Census, 1871. Below, established church. Below, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Sunni, was opened in 1975 in a converted house in Byrkley Street. 18 It was replaced in 1977 by a mosque in Princess Street, the fifth purposebuilt mosque in the country. That … with minaret and dome. The former board school in Uxbridge Street was converted into a mosque in 1994, and is also …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Saturdays, also the day for the twice-yearly great court or view of frankpledge in the earlier 14th century. 8 There … courts probably became social affairs. Two great courts or leets, evidently for the combined manor and borough, were … Melburne the right to extend the borough in Horninglow Street. 11 The burgesses were to hold by burgage tenure at 12 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… he stipulated that he was to be buried at either Burton or West Drayton (Mdx.), depending on where he died. 4 Indeed … as an internal courtyard, and his visit to Burton in 1561 or 1562 was probably connected with the building work. The … 1635 by Ellen Parker, the founder of an almshouse in High Street. 11 The grounds were let in the early 18th century to …
A History of the County of Stafford
… for nonconformists, with five excluded clergy active or resident in the town: Thomas Bakewell, ejected from … meant that the poor were driven either to 'heathenism, or to Dissent which is very active'. 5 On Census Sunday 1851 … at Burton mills in 1789 and registered a house in New Street for Particular Baptists in 1790. By 1792 the church …
A History of the County of Stafford
… as a witness in a Burton charter, was possibly a maker or supervisor of a conduit. 10 There was probably a conduit … 8 SEWERAGE AND WASTE DISPOSAL Sewers The common ditch or gutter mentioned in the 1330s ran along the western edge of the town, across the end of Cat Street. 9 It was being used as a drain by the mid 16th …
A History of the County of Stafford
… fined as recusants in 1595-6, including Gabriel Royle (or Royley), an alabasterer; 9 five were presented as … first an old malthouse at the back of the Crown inn, High Street, and then a cottage at the back of the Old White Lion inn at the corner of Lichfield Street and Fleet Street. 15 Most of Jeffries's congregation …
A History of the County of Stafford
… baiting in 1792. Baiting apparently last took place in New Street in the earlier 19th century. 12 Fighting cocks were … formed in 1827, apparently under the influence of Abraham (or Abram) Bass, 13 known as 'the father of Midland cricket' … Leander once more. 6 Burton Rowing Club was disbanded in or shortly before 1920 and its boathouse taken over by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the limits of the sanctuary of Beverley. Burton, Black, or Burton-in-Lonsdale BURTON, BLACK, or Burton-in-Lonsdale, a chapelry, in the parish of Thornton, … The parish is situated on the line of the Roman Watling-street, and intersected by the Ashby-de-laZouch canal. It …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… on the axis of the early settlement along part of High Street, N. of St. Mary's church; the former church of St. … of Burwell, 1806). North Street has a number of late 16th- or early 17th-century houses of high quality, probably … size. In the 14th century a S. aisle was built or partly built; only the W. section of the present aisle …