1 Evaluation of a cropmark site in advance of quarrying was unable to clarify the status of trackways associated with a known Roman settlement, (SAM 162). Open area excavation revealed ...
Evidence of Iron Age/ Romano British settlement uncovered during a series of evaluations and excavations. The site is located 600m to the east of Marsh Farm, Salford Priors.
This almshouse was founded in 1529 by William Ford, a wool merchant, for five men and their wives. The Hospital came under threat after the Reformation, with the crown claiming ...
The Almshouses at Shustoke were founded in 1699 by Thomas Huntbach the younger of Shustoke Hall, who died in 1712. They form a handsome row of stone cottages and are ...
There are two sets of almshouses in Mancetter.
Cramer’s Almshouses
These were founded by James Cramer, a local man who made his fortune in London as a goldsmith. The building was erected ...
The almshouses were founded in the 1570s by Thomas Oken, who has been called ‘Warwick’s most famous son’. He was a silk merchant – a self-made man without children who ...
Nicholas Chamberlaine, rector of Bedworth, founded this almshouse in 1715. He declared in his will: ‘I, having no child, do dispose of my estate to the charitable uses following’. His ...
A small private lunatic asylum was founded in Knowle in 1866 by Miss Ann Darke; in 1867 it was licensed for 20 female private patients.1 The asylum was located in ...
