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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… In the township are the hamlets of Gee-Cross and Compstall-Bridge, the former of which takes its name from the ancient …
A History of the County of Essex
… Colchester road crosses St. Botolph's brook at Botolph's bridge, a corruption of Godulf's bridge first recorded in the 13th century. 28 Newbridge, … Abbotts in Stanway were responsible for maintaining the bridge which was constructed in three sections to facilitate …
A History of the County of Essex
… orders to scour ditches, ring pigs, and to repair Joyers bridge. 49 Attendance at the leet declined from the later …
Old and New London
… in motion, extending over an entrance by a covered way or bridge, so that this section was kept entirely separate from …
A History of the County of Stafford
… corner of the parish across the Heath and on to Great Bridge where it crossed the Tame. 37 In the late 17th century … by 1675. 39 In 1699, however, the road through Great Bridge was described as the great road between London, … caused the county to contribute towards rebuilding the bridge in that year. 40 By the 1720s it formed part of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 47 It may have stood on the Tame to the south of Great Bridge where the priory owned a meadow on either side of the … 18th century there was a mill at Sheepwash south of Great Bridge but on the Tipton side of the Tame. 51 The pair of … 1809 his son, another Edward, had built a foundry at Great Bridge. 63 In 1782 Izon & Whitehurst, of Aston (Warws.), …
A History of the County of Stafford
… former Technical High School at the Cronehills. 7 Great Bridge Wesleyan Methodist School, later Fisher Street Council School. A day school was built in 1826 at Great Bridge for the near-by Wesleyan Methodist chapel, which … to the St. John Bosco Roman Catholic School. 16 Great Bridge Congregational School. In 1835 an infants' school was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… gave part of the estate for the maintenance of Tame Bridge. 27 Halesowen abbey was suppressed in 1538, and its …
A History of the County of Stafford
… former Primitive Methodist churches at the Lyng, in Great Bridge Street, and at Hall End. The thirteenth church was the … Road built about 1876 by Annie Lloyd, 3 a chapel in Great Bridge Street opened in 1883 4 and presumably replacing the … chapels, those at the Lyng, in Hall Green Road, in Great Bridge Street, and at Hall End, were part of the West …