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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are supported by endowment; and the rents of a small close let out in cottage gardens, amounting to 5. 10., are … Wroxhall Abbey, founded by Hugh de Hatton, about the close of the reign of Henry I., for Benedictine nuns, whose … Earl of Shelburne, is a commodious and neat structure of brick, supported on stone pillars. The living is a discharged …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… new town in 1968. 13 The Middle Coal Measures, lying close to the surface across most of the southern half of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to mill, bake, and deal in grain, and a four-storeyed brick steam mill was built in 1818 on the north bank of the … became as important to the company as its coal, iron, and brick production, and it was well enough established by 1862 … and tile maker, took the lease of a clay mine in Brick Kiln field in order to make bricks and tiles. John Jones made …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1831: 92 pupils (including infants) occupied the single, brick-floored room. Attendance averaged 79 in 1853. Income in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… it consisted of a west tower, nave, and chancel, of red brick with some stone dressing. Of plain Georgian design with …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… free. 57 In 1864 it was rebuilt in diapered red and blue brick to seat 700, and in 1869 there were said to be 204 … 67 The Primitive Methodist Jubilee chapel, built of red brick in 1860 on the north side of Church Street, St. … Church roads, was built in 1866 in diapered red and blue brick. It seated 200, half the seats being free; 150 attended …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… transepts; a straight joint in the north wall of the nave, close to the north-west pier, may echo the intention. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Bullocks brook, was mentioned in 1586-7. 16 At Cluddley a brick windmill, probably of the late 18th century, had a … limited. In 1712 Thomas Binnell dug clay on Rushmoor for brick and tile making. 18 A brick kiln east of the Wrockwardine-Admaston road in 1827 19 had …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… ruinous. It was said in 1650 formerly to have stood in the close called the Hall yard, 98 south-west of the church. A … c. 1807 that house, or a successor, was replaced by one in brick on the site of the former barns, overlooking Watling … of chimney stacks, the underpinning of the jetties with brick, and the removal of the original ground-floor outer …