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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 718; patrons and impropriators, the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. The great tithes have been commuted for …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… taxed, and the sizes of writing paper were set out in new schedules [Acts (1784)]. The following sizes and types …
A Dictionary of London
… of Wine. Four companies of them in 1301 "The Newemeyne" (New Household). The King's Society and The Society of Shipup …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… 1863 9 Jan. Smith, W. 1863 9 Jan. Pickard, J. J. Order in council 9 Jan. 1863 (PC 2/257 pp. 213-14). …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish and to the east lies the northern part of Telford new town. The main part of the ancient parish, dealt with … was included within the designated area of Telford new town in 1968. 92 Crossing the parish from south-west to … 1960s and continued after Admaston's inclusion in Telford new town in 1968. 14 Bratton, the 'newly cultivated tun', was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Moors. 11 In 1898 the civil parish was included in the new urban district of Oakengates. 12 Wrockwardine Wood was … estates were built there by the Oakengates urban district council and, from the 1960s, speculative builders and Wrekin district council. In 1650 there were 12 cottagers at Pain's Lane on …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… further reduced those totals, and building by the district council and private developers in the 1970s took most of the … had a lease of the Charlton mining interests, and new pits were being sunk in Wrockwardine Wood. In 1736-7 the … Wood Old Yard works and soon became known as the New Yard. 4 Engineering rapidly became as important to the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… least 1914. 5 From 1961 evening classes were held at the new Trench Modern School. 6 All the 19th-century schools were … in 1933 when Wrockwardine Wood Senior (Mixed) Council School opened, the boys' and junior boys' council schools closed, 7 and the C.E. and Gower Street …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… part of the Nabb and Pain's Lane was transferred to the new consolidated chapelry later known as St. George's. 28 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… closed, being replaced by the Methodist church hall, New Donnington. 55 The first Primitive Methodist society in … J. McC. McCarthy, a Conservative candidate in the county council elections, contrary to connexional policy over the … schoolroom were sold in 1965, having been replaced by a new chapel on the opposite side of the road. 69 Bethesda …