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Place-Name Form: Almoore

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Modern Name
TypeFarm or estate
Grid ReferenceSJ 98987 07171
ParishCannock
CountyStaffordshire
Source593/J/6/1/1
Source Full TitleGreat Wyrley manor court rolls
Source LocationStaffordshire Record Office
Source Catalogue ReferenceD593/J/6/1/1
Source URL
Date 1596-1625
Notes Context: description of the metes and bounds of the manor of Great Wyrley - circuit starts at the furthest part of the farm/estate ('fundi') called Campions Wood, extending from there to Barkenhurst and through part of the farm/estate ('fundi') called Almoore and from there to the bank ('ripam') calld 'a Scinder bancke' in a wood called Esington wood, and thus to a lane ('venella') leading towards Stafford called Staff' Lane and from there to the further limits ('inferiors limites') of Esington Wood following a watercourse as far as a meadow called Abley Meadowe and then from the meadow to a brook ('rivulus') called Norton brooke and from there to a river ('amnis') or watercourse to a bridge called Church bridge and there through the middle of the same brook called Church brooke to common land ('coia') called Chustlane Hay excluding that common land and thus to a meadow called le Moore End and along the border ('per finem anglice the border') of the same common land called Chustlane Hay to the aforesaid wood ('silvam') called Campions Wood

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