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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a holder for a spindle or AXLE. In a quotation dated 1733, the OED shows how it operated; 'The Spindle is kept from moving end-ways, by Wreaths, in the same Manner as the Axis of a Wheel-Barrow … that of Sarah Fell illustrate availability from the other side of the counter; one entry in 1677 recorded 'A Reame of …
A Dictionary of London
… Wrestlers (The) - Wynwharf Wrestlers (The) "Mesuagio brasineo" called … Ward Without (Horwood, 1799-Elmes, 1831). Site now covered by Charterhouse Street. Wright's Rents See Lancaster Place. … See Wood Street. Wycherley's Yard On the south side of Thames Street in the parish of St. Dunstan in the east, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… is a large parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and Aubyns are the principal monuments. … the nave are of interest; among the fittings the monument by Nicholas Stone and the late 15th-century seating are … and a chamfered label on the corresponding face of the S. side; the second, third and fourth arches, and E. part of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the western … below. 85 To the north the parish is bounded partly by Long Lane, the river Tern, and the road from Allscott to … on Bratton Farm in 1839. 15 Houses were built on the west side of Bratton Road, half way from Bratton Farm to Admaston, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred … of South Bradford, N. division of Salop, 2 miles (W. by N.) from Wellington; containing 2731 inhabitants. This … winding through the adjoining meadows, flows into the Thames below Marlow. It has one principal street, on the road …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 … for any significant distance. On the south it was bounded by Watling Street. The northern boundary was that part of the … 1847 Two sprawling industrial settlements developed either side of Cockshutt Piece, apparently in the 18th century. At …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in … within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had begun, and it may have increased … Wood ironworks, 2 built two blast furnaces on the west side of what was later known as Moss Road. In 1802 he took …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES. Wrockwardine Wood was part of the manor, and until 1884 the civil parish, of Wrockwardine. … hospital, Gower Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It opened in 1873 but by 1879 a … pinnacles. 46 In 1936 a choir vestry was built on the west side of the tower. In 1970-1 extensive repairs to the church …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wesleyan Methodist society associated with John Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in … 1765. 49 Wesleyans were meeting at the Nabb in 1813, and by 1815 there was a chapel there. 50 On Census Sunday 1851 … Jubilee chapel, built of red brick in 1860 on the north side of Church Street, St. George's, seated 400; half the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Church CHURCH. Parts of Wrockwardine church predate the mid 12th century 62 and there was a priest in 1086. 63 … 1708 the living was worth £49 and in 1799 £120 a year. 80 By 1792 tithes were paid in cash, although Wrockwardine moor, … 29 An east window, with image brackets below to either side, replaced the three 12thcentury windows in the chancel, …