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Title: Location of The Common, Madeley, Shropshire
Post by: frankie-d on Friday 09 June 17 19:36 BST (UK)

My 5G grandad Peter Danks of Madeley was fined 1d & 3d in 1716 and 1717 for keeping sheep on the common.

I've looked at a couple of modern maps but the green spaces don't seem to be annotated. Does anyone know where the common was and if it's still there?

Title: Re: Location of The Common, Madeley, Shropshire
Post by: chempat on Saturday 10 June 17 08:06 BST (UK)

Any help?

https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/377500/344500/12/100599

http://maps.nls.uk/view/121150835

http://maps.nls.uk/view/121150868

Title: Re: Location of The Common, Madeley, Shropshire
Post by: frankie-d on Monday 12 June 17 18:17 BST (UK)

Thanks for the links chempat.

The maps are interesting in themselves but I can't find the common on them, maybe it had gone by then.

A number of cousins are having a family reunion in Madeley next weekend, I'll enquire locally.

Title: Re: Location of The Common, Madeley, Shropshire
Post by: chempat on Monday 12 June 17 20:16 BST (UK)

?
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol11/pp40-56

you might find a contact here:
http://madeleylocalhistory.org/history.html