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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Churches CHURCHES. During the Middle Ages St. Leonard's priory presumably served the … 1656. 55 Before 1693 a minister built a house on the waste at Oakengates and lived there, but within a few years Francis … Bounty, that of £200 in 1841 meeting a benefaction of St. John C. Charlton. 60 The living, worth £82 in 1856, 61 was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… have been made before industry and settlement expanded in the 17th century, though there was presumably a way leading … part of the new road, built c. 1817, left Watling Street at Pottersbank, Ketley, and rejoined the existing Shifnal … inclined plane closed in 1921, effectively marking the end of the Shrewsbury Canal; latterly the only regular …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. By the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and … for tradesmen's horses. 17 Mills. There was an iron mill at Wombridge at the Dissolution, probably near the priory on … Charltons' Wombridge mines were let to Robert Brooks and John Lummas for £250 a year. By 1728, however, they owed the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… LL. D., was licensed as deacon and schoolmaster in the parish. 49 By 1833 20 boys and 21 girls were attending … 52 tried in vain to raise money for a new church school at Ketley Bank where 250 children lacked school places in … was increased to 290 places when a new classroom at each end of the school was built at Sir Thomas Meyrick's expense. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wombridge Growth of settlement GROWTH OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have … wood. The king's grant was confirmed c. 1220 by John le Strange (II). South of Watling Street the lords of … In the 13th century there may have been some settlement at a place called Staniford, on Watling Street where it was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… William Abbot for 21 years. In 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought more of the priory lands at Oakengates in 1543, and in 1547, the year he died, he sold … Farm until its demolition in 1965-6. 97 In 1695 Sir John Leveson-Gower owned property in Ketley, Coalpit Bank, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. As almost everywhere in the coalfield the alehouse was an integral and ever present part of the community. There was an alehouse at Ketley Bank in 1613, and three at Oakengates in 1618- 19. … railway across it c. 1849, and thereafter at the other end of Oakengates in Owen's field. There were four fairs in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Paul, in the village, has walls re-faced with modern flint; the … Chapel was added, and the Chancel was probably re-built at the same time. The West Tower was built in 1442. The North … vicar of the parish, 1614, inscription in Latin; (5) of John Godwyn, 1488, and Pernell his wife, 'first founders of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… wood ashes] Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of … served. Wooden combs were the cheapest available, valued at as little as 6½d DOZEN. Not found in the OED online Found … use is found in one diary entry. White recorded that 'John Hale brings home a waggon-load of woollen-rags, which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Walton is a parish and village, 6 m. N.N.W. of Huntingdon. The church and Castle Hill are the principal monuments. … work. Some old stones have also been re-used in the end windows in the S. wall; the 14th-century S. doorway, … is of triangular form. There are traces of a rampart at the S.E. angle of the island, and there is a small …