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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … gardens, amounting to 5. 10., are distributed among the poor. Wrotham (St. George) WROTHAM ( St. George), a parish, … amounting to a considerable sum annually. The poor-law union comprises 33 parishes or places, containing a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… south-west of Cockshutt Piece and north-east of Ball's coppice. In the earlier 19th century there was some … township had 1,938 inhabitants; 703 of them were receiving poor relief. 29 By 1841 population had fallen to 1,698, but … depression, 36 per cent of the inhabitants received poor relief, 33 and in 1931 the old-fashioned New Yard works …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Wood Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Wrockwardine Wood was entitled to a share in the … Wrockwardine parish charities. 70 Review of Local Chars. (S.C.C. 1975), 69. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… although special journeys had to be made to relieve the poor. The township, later parish, was in Wellington poor-law … provided. An ambulance service was added to the hospital's facilities in 1917. 20 CHURCH. The inhabitants of … M. Grier, John Allen (1889), 172-3; above, Wrockwardine, Man. and Other Est. E. Cassey & Co. Dir. Salop. (1871), 410; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… part of Wrockwardine manor 60 but the lord of the manor's mineral rights in the township were gradually separated … the rest of the manor. Most of the rights formerly Saville's were owned by the Charltons of Apley from 1673. In 1813 and … 63 Wrockwardine Wood 1882 Above. Above, Wrockwardine, Man. and Other Est.; Staffs. R.O., D. 593/B/2/5/18, deeds of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… average 180. 51 In 1863 the Wesleyans moved to St. George's and the Nabb chapel closed. 52 In 1824 St. John's Wesleyan chapel, Trench Road, opened. Society membership … 1870 a brick mission in Lincoln Road opened, reputedly for poor people reluctant to attend the main Primitive chapel at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made between 1616 and 1657 … distributed annually. Edward Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… About 1490 the vicarage was worth £8 a year. 74 The vicar's income in 1612 consisted of tithes of wool, lambs, flax, … Edward Pemberton (d. 1680) left a rent charge of £6 13 s. 4 d. for similar purposes; it was discharged for £200 in … sums were paid out of the sacrament money to the parish poor from the mid 18th century or earlier: £1 18 s. 6 d. in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's value had risen from £6 13 s. 8 d. T.R.E. to £12 10 s. in … in 1324 69 and much of Charlton's land was considered of poor quality in 1354. 70 So many tenants died in 1349 that … 1267/3. S.R.O. 3651, box 193, customs of Wrockwardine man.; T.S.A.S. 4th ser. i. 228-31. S.R.O. 665/1/234. 2nd Rep. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… two well conducted schools for c. 63 cottagers' children, poor pupils' fees being paid by richer neighbours. 62 The … school in 1852. 68 The following year a new St. Peter's Girls' School (with 100 places in schoolroom and classroom) … whether either sch. was in Wrockwardine Wood. Digest Educ. Poor, H.C. 224, p. 764 (1819), ix (2). Marshall, St. Peter's …