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Harley Timeline

ROMANS 43AD – 410AD

ANGLO-SAXONS 410 – 1066

NORMANS 1066 – 1154

PLANTAGENETS 1154 – 1485

TUDORS 1485 – 1601

STUARTS 1601 – 1714

HANOVARIANS 1714 – 1837

VICTORIANS 1837 – 1901

WINDSOR 1901 – Present

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 History

Harley Village History
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Harley Village History

• A Shropshire Village of Yesteryear. Monograph by Hilda Preece
  

• Case for the poor in Harley. Ref Ann Wall
  

• Frances Pitt (naturalist & early wildlife photographer)
  

• Harley from Victoria County History. Vol 8
  

• The balmy days of of old recalled’ Newspaper cutting about Hilda Preece
  

• Event in Harley 1970’s (from Merle James)
  

• Newspaper cuttings various topics (Sept 1989)
  

• HHG Files Catalogue (to 2023)
  

Church

• 1301-2006 Rectors and Priests in Charge of Harley
  

• 1553 August. Church Inventory
  

• Church Wardens of Harley 1700 – 1720 typed. 1721 – 1864 handwritten
  

• 1701 Memorandum by Rector concerning drunkenness amongst bellringers
  

• 1846 Article by Rev. W. A. Leighton
  

• 1891 History of Harley Church and Rectors
  

• 1898 Parish Register Harley
  

• 1990 Harley Church Booklet by Pursloe including map of graves and cross referenced alphabetically
  

• 2003 Harley Church Structural Drawings & Plans for Disabled Access
  

• The Church Bells of Harley
  

Doomsday

• Doomsday Book (W. I. Project 1981)
  

• Doomsday Map of Shropshire
  

• Harley Area (from Doomsday Map)
  

Farming

• Letter from Dots Cataldo (former German POW) to the Munslows at Rowley Farm
  

• History of Shropshire Sheep
  

School

• Harley Schoolteacher’s Log
  

• Closure of Village School (Zillah Hughes)
  

• Harley School Reunion Event (15th Sept 2019)
  

Yarchester

• Yarchester Romano-British Settlement
  

• Yarchester Romano-British Villa
  

Harley The Pound
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Harley The Pound

• 1969 -2005 Harley History
  

• 2004 Harley Pound
  

• Dr. Trevor Hill The Historical Landscapes of Harley
  

• Harley Pound Leaflet
  

• The Harley Pound by Trevor & Margaret Hill
  

• When the boat went down
  

John Colin Preece
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John Colin Preece
1921-1945

• 1921 J. C. Preece Birth Certificate
  

• 1933 J. C. Preece Boy Scouts Enrolment Card
  

• 1942 July Royal Air Force Record Office Letter
  

• 1943 and 1945 Telegrams from J. C. Preece
  

• 1943 April Air Ministry, London Letter. J. C. Preece regarded as missing
  

• 1944 July Postcards which were sent via the Prisoner of War Post
  

• 1946 February Air Ministry Letter notifying of John Colin Preece’s death
  

• 1947 November Air Ministry Letter. Notification of J. C. Preece reburied in Palembang Military Cemetary
  

• 1949 August Air Ministry Letter. Notification of J. C. Preece reburied in the Dutch Field of Honour, Palembang
  

• 1950 February Imperial War Graves Commission Letter. J. C. Preece inscription on headstone
  

• 1961 April Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Notification of war graves being transferred to Djakarta
  

• Condolences from Buckingham Palace & Newspaper
  

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  

• Panorama of the Field of Honour Wargraves
  

• Index Recording for John Colin Preece
  

• Church Memorial to J. C. Preece
  

Harley Airfield
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Memorial Bench
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Harley Coronation
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Harley The Shop
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