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A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1066. About 1280 Thomas Lyart was vicar of Wellington and rector of Preston chapel. 18 By 1336, whence institutions … the right of presentation was held by Preston hospital and the Charltons. The Charlton family presented for one turn … the rectory was united with the benefices of Kynnersley and Tibberton in 1978, patronage of the united benefice was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1086 the manor of Preston contained a demesne ploughteam and two oxherds, and three villeins with a ploughteam; it was assessed at 1 … Its value had fallen from 40 s. in 1066 to 20 s. in 1086, and there was land available for two more ploughteams. 73 In …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… fee of Hodnet, under which it was listed in 1284 (or 1285) and 1292. 40 The Ludlow family acquired Hodnet in the early 14th century, and in 1381 and 1391 Preston was listed as one of their manors. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Methodist mission at Kinley, connected with Leegomery and included in the Wrockwardine Wood circuit; 74 it was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… which are the townships of Oldham, Chadderton, Crompton, and Royton), and the townships of Alkrington, Great and Little Heaton, Pilkington, and Tonge; the whole …
A Dictionary of London
… out of the south-west corner of Salisbury Square at No.17 and west to Whitefriars Street (P.O. Directory). In … mention: Rocque, 1746. Former names: " Primrose Alley" (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1720). In 1562 the site consisted of a great messuage and 22 gardens formerly belonging to Sir Martin Bowes and …
Old and New London
… Primrose Hill and Chalk Farm CHAPTER XXII. PRIMROSE HILL AND CHALK FARM. "templa serena, Despicere unde queas alios." Lucretius, ii. Situation of Primrose Hill, and its Appearance in Bygone TimesBarrow Hill and the West …
Survey of London
… Terrace is a development of twenty-two houses laid out and built between 1862 and 1865 upon the site of an early-nineteenth-century villa, … here had belonged to Gerard Noel Noel (see page 56), and in the second half of the eighteenth century it had …
Survey of London
… lying at the northern end of the parish between Broadwall and the site of Waterloo Road, inside the Narrow Wall. The … beencampsheathed, i.e., protected by a wall of timber and the sloping ground of the foreshore inside it made level. Several houses and a crane are shown near the parish boundary, while the …
Survey of London
… Princes Gate and Ennismore Gardens: The Kingston House Estate Development … and business, he offered terms to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests and the roads commissioners for removing the …