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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Miss Losh. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, 86; patrons and appropriators, the Dean aud Chapter of …
A Dictionary of London
… brasineo" called the "Wrastelars" in Aldrichegate street in parishof St. Botolph Without Aldrichegate, I Ed. … business purposes. Wrestlers' Court South out of Camomile Street at No.2 (P.O Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Within. … (S. 152, 172), from which this Court took its name. Wright Street See Lancaster Place. Wright's Buildings North out of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the western boundary is mostly with Wroxeter parish … the river Tern, and the road from Allscott to Watling Street at Norton. The western boundary of the parish and of … southwards around Cluddley, probably by the Saxon period. 86 Bullocks brook, so called by 1580, 87 largely forms the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a Roman station: the military way from Oldborough to Stane-street passed through it. The parish comprises 8878 acres, of … supposed to have been a bridge. The Roman Watling-street passed through the centre of the station, and crossed … flows into the Thames below Marlow. It has one principal street, on the road from London to Oxford, from which some …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… distance. On the south it was bounded by Watling Street. The northern boundary was that part of the ancient … back from it in the early Middle Ages. 10 From Watling Street the ground falls sharply, giving extensive views north … In 1650 there were 12 cottagers at Pain's Lane on Watling Street. In 1836 the place was said to have risen in eminence; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… group, possibly distinct, was known as the 'little pits'. 86 By the 1750s colliers who had earlier worked farther south …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… three-year term beyond preparing proposals and plans, 86 although it was aware that c. 400 children had no … boys' council schools closed, 7 and the C.E. and Gower Street Council schools became junior mixed and infant … 26 Wrockwardine Wood Girls' and Infant Board School, Gower Street, opened in 1879 to accommodate 99 girls and 136 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… part of Oakengates C.P. 19 The Granville hospital, Gower Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It … 1873 but by 1879 a smaller, eight-bed building in Albion Street had been provided. An ambulance service was added to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… built of red brick in 1860 on the north side of Church Street, St. George's, seated 400; half the seats were free. … township. 74 The Wesleyan Reformers' Ebenezer chapel, New Street, was built in 1855. It seated 230. It closed in 1963 … had moved from Oakengates to a Gospel Hall in West Street, which they still used in 1983. 77 Jehovah's Witnesses …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and outbuildings. 85 By 1537 there was also a tithe barn. 86 In the early 17th century the 14th-century vicarage was in …