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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… On the summit of Leith Hill, which is the highest in the county, Richard Hull, Esq., in 1766 erected a tower, … of the hundred of Berkeley, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 19 miles (S. S. W.) from Gloucester, and 108 (W. by N.) from London; containing, with …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… ( Kingscote (1), p. 71). C.U.A.P., OAP AZN 51. In Gloucester City Museum. TBGAS, 67 (19468), 398. The object is …
A History of the County of Rutland
… the southern portion of the Wapentake of Wiceslea in the county of Northampton of the Domesday Survey of 1086. 1 The … 1129 and probably some years earlier (see account of the County), but the earliest reference to the hundred under the … Earl of Warwick. Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, who held the county, apparently claimed the hundred as an escheat, and in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of Carlisle, Cumberland ward, E. division of the county of Cumberland, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Carlisle; … Gateshead, N. division of Chester ward, N. division of the county of Durham, 3 miles (S.) from Gateshead. This place … in the union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester; containing, with the townships of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1909. 67 A coal and clothing club operated in 1925. 68 County library book centres were opened at Wrockwardine in … cricket club and one of the grounds used by the Shropshire county side; in 1979 they played the Indian touring side …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. division of the wapentake of Manley, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 8 miles (N. E. by N.) from Bawtry; … Seisdon, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of Stafford, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Wolverhampton; … to the introduction of Sunday schools by Mr. Raikes, of Gloucester, to whom some attribute their origin. The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… workers were immigrants from the more rural parts of the county: 90 per cent of the township's population was native …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… condemned in 1926. 18 In the reorganization of 1933 the county council let an adjoining building (the former Junior … a junior school. 23 In 1961 Wrockwardine Wood (Temporary) County Primary School merged with it but continued to use its … 55 The infants transferred to the new Wrockwardine Wood County Infant School in 1953. 56 In 1961 the school became …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 55 The first Primitive Methodist society in the county was established at Oakengates in 1821. In 1823 it … Dr. J. McC. McCarthy, a Conservative candidate in the county council elections, contrary to connexional policy over …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… 87 (1968), 205, No. 16. TBGAS, VII (18823), 72. Now in Gloucester City Museum. JRS, XII (1922), 262. …