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A History of the County of Oxford
… late 15th-century, building survived in 1984. Anthony Wood identified it as the chapel of St. Leonard and recorded … Intro. Bodl. MS. Rawl. B 408, before f. 1: reproduced in Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), facing p. 346; ibid. MS. Gough … between pp. 64 & 65; ibid. MS. Top. Oxon. b 123, f. 66; Wood's Life, i. 338-9, 344-6; Hearne's Colln. ii (O.H.S. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… passes for four miles and a half through the parish. The Wood House, a noble mansion in the Elizabethan style, … 4388 acres, of which 2495 are arable, 585 meadow, 507 wood, and the rest common. The surface is hilly towards the … Church estate, is principally distributed among the poor. Wood, or Woodchurch WOOD, or Woodchurch, a ville, and member …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the old one c 1982. The earliest known ministers, Richard Wood (fl. 1609-16) and one Holmes (before 1693), lived in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… connecting mines near Wombridge church with the Donnington Wood furnaces and the Donnington Wood Canal. About 1790 the Shropshire Canal opened; it ran south from the junction of the Donnington Wood and Wombridge canals and linked up with the Ketley Canal …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices … later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in Wombridge, managed by a keeper, and Snedshill coppice (82 a.) in Priorslee. 9 By 1847 only 6 a. of wood remained in Wombridge and none in Priorslee. 10 Atcham …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… service as managers or correspondents. 25 Wrockwardine Wood Senior (Mixed) Council School, New Road, opened on a … in 1955, the boys transferred to the new Wrockwardine Wood Boys' Modern School. 29 Extensions to the Wrockwardine Wood Girls' Modern School (as it became) produced 600 places …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… gave land bounded on the east by a stream dividing Hadley wood from the king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, and on the south by …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of St. Leonard, founded c. 1135 in a clearing in Hadley wood. The area was the centre of one of the two bailiwicks of … district of Oakengates, which also comprised Wrockwardine Wood C.P. (914 a.) and the new C.P.s of St. George's (129 a.) …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Wombridge, Priorslee, St. George's, and Wrockwardine Wood. 23 Nevertheless Oakengates remained under four … 16 June 1894, 1-10. Above, intro. Wombridge and Wrockw. Wood sch. bds., Newport and Wellington sch. attendance … (Priorslee C.P.), and Wellington (Wombridge and Wrockw. Wood C.P.s): Kelly's Dir. Salop. (1929), 4. Ibid. (1900), …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… when W. Saunders preached at Ketley Bank and Wrockwardine Wood. In 1822 James Bonser preached at Oakengates to almost … regularly used for open-air preaching until Wrockwardine Wood chapel opened in 1823, the incumbent of Wombridge, C. R. … they had moved to premises in West Street, Wrockwardine Wood. 41 They may be identifiable with the Brotherhood that …