Wrockwardine Wood

is a populous township, four miles and a half S.W. from Newport, and four miles and three quarters N.E. from Wellington. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the collieries and iron works in the immediate vicinity. The township contains 502a. 0r. 8p. of land, and in 1841 had 342 houses and 1,698 inhabitants. Rateable value, £2,836. 4s. The collieries are the property of the Duke of Sutherland, and held in lease by the Lilleshall company. The Church is a brick structure, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was built in 1833, and contains 610 sittings, of which 420 are free and unappropriated in consequence of a grant from the Incorporated Society for Building Churches. It is endowed with the small tithes of Wrockwardine Wood, and the living has been augmented with grants from Queen Anne’s Bounty. There is a neat font, which was the gift of Mr. Thomas Webb, late churchwarden. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Wrockwardine, and incumbency of the Rev. Reginald Yonge, B.C.L. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel, built in 1832, which will hold about 500 persons. The structure and fittings have cost altogether £498. The National School was built in 1830, partly by subscription and partly by the National Society. It stands a little north from the church, and has an attendance of about sixty boys and forty girls;

Trench Lake is a straggling district on the Wellington and Newport turnpike road, three miles from the former place and five miles from the latter. The houses are chiefly in the township of Wrockwardine Wood, but also extend into the township of Eyton-on-the-Wild-Moors. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel here, built in 1823. The Earl of Bradford is the principal landowner; Mr. Webb is also a proprietor.

Wrockwardine Wood and Trench Lake Directories.

Marked * are in Wrockwardine Woody and the rest in Trench Lane.

Barker Richard, tailor

Beech William, shoemaker

Bennett John, Esq., Coal Works (Proprietor)

Bourne Mary, beerhouse

* Bowen Rebecca, schoolmistress

* Bowen William, schoolmaster

* Bullock John, manager to Donington Wood Mill Company

Chilton Thomas, butcher

* Chilton William, blacksmith

Davies George, hat maker

Deakin George, farmer

Downing Mary, milliner and dressmaker

Downing Thomas, saddler

Farmer Henry, beerhouse

* Fenn William, shoemaker

* Getley Henry, butcher

* Getley Elizabeth, shopkeeper

Green James, victualler, Old Shaw Birch

* Grieves Rev. Joseph, Primitive Methodist

Hill Richard, shopkeeper and beerhouse

Jeffs Richard, shopkeeper

Johnson James, farmer

Johnston Thomas, shopkeeper

Jones Edward, farm bailiff

* Jones Thomas, victualler, Queen’s Head

* Kite Jane, shopkeeper & victualler, White Horse

Latham James, farmer

* Leese Mary Ann, milliner and dressmaker

Lockley Samuel, blacksmith

Lowe Thomas, shoemaker and beerhouse

Mainwaring Mary and Son, shopkeepers

Manwaring Richard, victualler, The Crown

* Martin John, victualler, The Lamb, and shopkeeper

* Millward Mary, shopkeeper

Paice William, railway gate keeper

Palmer Thomas, tailor

Parton John, saddler

Pickering James Richard, vict., Dun Cow

Reynolds Evan, shoemaker

* Simpson William, shoemaker, and vict., Bull’s Head

Slaney Henry, confectioner

Taylor William, farmer

Wakely Dorothy, victualler, Duke of York

Webb Catherine, maltster and victualler, King’s Arms

* Yonge Rev. Reginald, B.C.L., incumbent, The Parsonage