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Elizabethan (1558-1603)

1558-1603

The Wills and Inventories of:

Number 2 High Street, Ledbury, has been a baker's shop for at least 130 years.

Number 1 High Street, Ledbury, is a 16th century timber-framed building that occupies the corner site at the meeting of High St with Church Lane.

The settlement which developed into Ledbury grew up in the Anglo-Saxon period at an important crossroads where the road from Hereford to Worcester

Although No. 3 High Street, with its 18th century brick front like others in the row, probably contains timber framing, it is well hidden.

When it was recorded in 1930 by the RCHM, the now exposed timber framing on the front of 9 High Street was hidden behind stucco, probably applied w

Few local court records survive for Sunderland in the medieval and early modern periods.

There is evidence of some small scale salt production in Sunderland during the later middle ages.

Whilst there is some evidence of small scale coal exporting in medieval Sunderland it was not until the closing decades of the 16th century that th

The most prominent secular tenants within the Sunderland area  were the Hiltons, who held the castle and lordship of Hylton (See the Hilton Family 

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