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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 … probably by the Saxon period. 86 Bullocks brook, so called by 1580, 87 largely forms the eastern parish boundary, … of Long Lane and Rushmoor. 28 There was already a hamlet called Lea at Overley Hill in 1817. 29 Overley Hall, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred … In the parish are some remains of a British encampment called Barbary Castle. Wroxeter (St. Andrew) WROXETER ( St. … from its situation near the Wrekin mountain. It was called by the Saxons Wrekinceastre, from which its modern …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made between 1616 and 1657 totalling £60 were used to buy a field called Tiddicross, of which the rent was distributed …
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 Shrewsbury abbey claimed the church itself as a gift of Roger, earl of Shrewsbury (d. … s. 4 d. from the abbot of Shrewsbury in 1534, when he was called dean of the church of Wrockwardine. 95 He was perhaps …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Poole (or Pole) and Henry Bynnell were schoolmasters in the late 17th century 58 and Richard Poyner from 1702. 59 … at Allscott was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had a Sunday school and a day school 'by … 37. The schs. were not National Schs. though called so in Kelly's Dir. Salop (1885), 999; (1900), 295. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the 'king's boundary' 74 and the king retained the … It was said in 1650 formerly to have stood in the close called the Hall yard, 98 south-west of the church. A fishpond …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and … name of Wucha, and at an early period was held by a family called De Wyke. It is detached from the rest of the parish, … was thoroughly repaired in 1839. The well-known apple called the Wyken pippin was first planted here; the parent …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Wymersley hundred THE HUNDRED OF WYMERSLEY containing the parishes of Blisworth; Brafield-On-The-Green; Castle … which the original meeting-place was probably at a field called Wymersley Bush in Little Houghton, 6 apparently …
A History of the County of Sussex
… separately recorded in 1086, when it lay divided between the rapes of William de Warenne and William de Braose, taking its name from the place, called Wineham in 1984, at which its meetings may be presumed … were part of Warenne's land, forming two estates both called Benefield (later in Twineham parish); though Wyndham …
A Dictionary of London
… Wyremongers - Wyvenelane Wyremongers Founded 1479 by the union of Chapemakers and Wyredrawers. No one to work on November 25th, the day of St. Clement the Pope (N. and Q. 11th S. IV. 147). … 56 H. III. (Anc. Deeds, A. 1783). House of John de Ia Tour called "Wyvelattestone "in parish of St. Dunstan towards the …