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A History of the County of Shropshire
… HISTORY. Wrockwardine Wood was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in … within the royal forest of Mount Gilbert or the Wrekin. By c. 1290 assarting had begun, and it may have increased … in 1754. 69 The woodland then remaining, at the Nabb and on Cockshutt Piece, was coppiced 70 but by 1847 virtually no …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 326. 79 In 1828 Thomas Davies kept school in his house at the Nabb. 80 In 1826 there was Anglican concern because in … chairman. 83 At first a most disorderly board 84 torn by sectarian strife, 85 it achieved nothing in its first … many illiterates 91 voted, produced an Anglican majority on the board, 92 which, under pressure from the Education …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES. Wrockwardine Wood was part of the manor, and until 1884 the civil parish, of Wrockwardine. … district, becoming a ward of Oakengates urban district on its creation in 1898. 18 Wrockwardine Wood C.P. was … hospital, Gower Street, was built for its employees by the Lilleshall Co. It opened in 1873 but by 1879 a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wesleyan Methodist society associated with John Fletcher, the Evangelical vicar of Madeley, apparently met at Trench in … 1765. 49 Wesleyans were meeting at the Nabb in 1813, and by 1815 there was a chapel there. 50 On Census Sunday 1851 afternoon service was attended by 130 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine Charities for the poor CHARITIES FOR THE POOR. Various benefactions made … Edward Pemberton improved the land's value in 1670 by building a house and barn on it. The parish workhouse was built on the site c. 1801 but …
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 … him £20 a year for life, which was afterwards settled on the vicarage. 77 Steventon further endowed the vicarage … 1708 the living was worth £49 and in 1799 £120 a year. 80 By 1792 tithes were paid in cash, although Wrockwardine moor, …
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 … A 'schoolhouse' at Allscott was mentioned in 1732. 60 By 1799 the parish had a Sunday school and a day school 'by … built and supported separate boys' and girls' schools on their property; 63 both were closely associated with the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1285 John le Strange held a court with pleas of bloodshed, the hue and cry, and a gallows. 25 Two courts a year were … agricultural matters, and the transfer of copyholds. 29 By 1797, whence there are continuous records until 1936, the … Thereafter Charlton was a member of the manor of Eyton on Severn. 37 Three overseers of the poor were appointed in …
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 … in 1066. Roger of Montgomery, created earl of Shrewsbury by 1074, was tenant in chief by 1086, and the manor contained … granted it to his younger brother Robert before they left on Crusade in 1271. Early in 1273, when Hamon's death …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. In 1676 one papist lived in the parish and in 1767 David Clifford, a farmer, was listed … Methodist meetings, but there was no dissenters' meeting house. 48 'Very few' parishioners were dissenters in 1799. 49 … after 1945. 54 In 1873 a building in Admaston was used by Wesleyan Methodists. It was apparently replaced by a …