GREAT BRITAIN
Spread of towns
Wroxeter 4th largest town in the country.
Roman roads – Watling Street
HARLEY
Yarchester Villa
GREAT BRITAIN
Spread of Christianity
Founding of Westminster Abbey
Invasions – Angles, Saxons, Jutes & Danes
GREAT BRITAIN
Building of castles, cathedrals & monasteries.
Domesday Survey
The Monarchy
HARLEY
Harley mentioned in Domesday Survey
GREAT BRITAIN
The Plague, Magna Carta
World Exploration
Wars of the Roses
Wenlock Abbey founded
Renaissance began
HARLEY
Church first recorded 1291, had a small tower
Rectory first recorded 1291
Robert de Harley marries Margaret Brampton, he inherits Harley Manor in 1316
GREAT BRITAIN
Slave Trade
Break with Rome & establishment
Of English Church
Dissolution of Monasteries –
Wenlock Abbey
HARLEY
Church rebuilt with taller tower
Inventory made by Crown of Church plate, jewels etc.
First service in English
GREAT BRITAIN
Enclosures
Act of Union
1 King killed (Civil)
1 King exiled (War)
GREAT BRITAIN
Loss of American colonies
Agrarian Revolution
Beginning of Industrial Revolution –
Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge
Canals & roads Turnpiked
HARLEY
Harley Windmill built c.1780
Longest serving Rector –
Benjamin Jenks 1688 – 1724
Road between Cressage & Harley Turnpiked 1752
GREAT BRITAIN
Huge expansion of towns
Education Acts
Improvements to Health & Medicine
Spread of Railways
HARLEY
Harley National School
founded 1859
Church largely rebuilt 1845/6
Slate bridge over Harley Brook constructed 1843
Thomas Telford’s suspension bridges constructed
GREAT BRITAIN
World War One
World War Two
Cold War
COVID – World epidemic
HARLEY
Water Mill closes 1905
Evacuees
Colin Preece – died POW
School closes1961
Bypass opened 1967
Thankful Village
Village Hall improved 2010
Harley Village History
Harley The Pound
John Colin Preece
1921-1945
