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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… box [wrytinge box; writing desks and box; wrighting box] A small BOX for containing WRITING PAPER and other writing … were obviously simple items worth very little like the 'small writing Desk' valued at only 1s 6d [Inventories … with BRASS, with LOCKs, PLAIN, School, with secrets, SMALL, travelling Found made of DEAL, OAK, WAINSCOT, WOOD See …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… farmhouses and cottages grouped around the church and small green. After c. 1920 the village extended south and … from Shrewsbury to Wellington opened in 1849. 48 Walcot station and Admaston halt were open by 1851 49 and closed in … and 1654; S.R.O. 1011, box 233, plot and descr. of Marsh Heath, 1672. S. Bagshaw, Dir. Salop. (1851), 447; S.R.O. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… visiters. The upper spring contains muriate of soda, and a small portion of muriate of lime, and is also slightly … Two schools are supported by endowment; and the rents of a small close let out in cottage gardens, amounting to 5. 10., … lead to the conclusion that it was afterwards a Roman station: the military way from Oldborough to Stane-street …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the lower, northern half of the township boulder clay and small outcrops of sandstone from the Hadley and Coalport … were relatively spacious and well built, and in New Street small groups of houses have the style of a freehold land … dwellings in Wrockwardine Wood; most buildings were small and poorly constructed. They were, however, usually …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… all engaged in mixed farming, and there was also some small-scale textile production. 72 In 1847 about half the … good mine 22 yards deep. 83 The industry was still small in scale: Richard Vickers of Wrockwardine Wood (d. … cranes. The entire plant was powered by its own generating station. About 1912 the works reached a peak in the range of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… opened boys' and girls' and infant schools in 1879. A small Standard I boys' school was built in 1890 93 and school … to the cost of alterations; Betton's charity also made a small grant. A new junior mixed and infant school with 320 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1834. G. L. Yate, vicar of Wrockwardine, had given up the small tithes, other offerings, and pew rents from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1910 and 1920, and 80 in 1930. 54 In 1948 membership was small and the chapel closed, being replaced by the Methodist …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the society, numbering 57 in 1853 and 68 in 1875, paid in small sums over the year. To their savings a sum from the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Charlton (which were reserved to the abbey); and all other small tithes. 73 About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. … and 1½ d. for every cow and calf. 75 In 1655 the small tithes were worth £28 a year and the glebe £2. 76 … owned most of the hay, clover, and rye-grass tithes, all small tithes, and agistment of unprofitable cattle. His …