COMPRISING A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY, WITH A VARIETY OF HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, COMMERCIAL, AND AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION: SHEWING THE SITUATION, EXTENT, AND POPULATION OF ALL THE TOWNS , PARISHES , CHAPELRIES , TOWNSHIPS , VILLAGES , HAMLETS , AND EXTRA-PAROCHIAL LIBERTIES ; THEIR AGRICULTURAL AND MINERAL PRODUCTIONS; THE LORDS OF THE MANORS AND OWNERS OF THE SOIL; THEIR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CHARITIES, ANTIQUITIES, & HISTORICAL EVENTS; WITH A LIST OF MAGISTRATES, PUB

SHROPSHIRE is an inland county on the borders of Wales, bounded on the north by Denbighshire, Cheshire, and a detached part of Flintshire: on the east by Staffordshire: on the south by Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and Radnorshire: and on the west by Montgomery and Denbighshire.  In length, from north to south, it is about forty-five miles, and its extreme breadth thirty-five.  Its circumference is computed at 200 miles; and it comprises an area of 1,343 square statute miles, and, consequently,

* * * To avoid increasing this List , the Villa Residences in the suburbs of the Towns are not inserted , but will be found in the Directories of the respective Parishes in which they are situated . THOSE WITH * AFFIXED ARE ACTING MAGISTRATES. Abertannat Hall, 1½ mile S.E. of Blodwell, John Edwards, Esq. Acton Burnell Hall, 8 miles N.E. of Shrewsbury, * Sir Edward Joseph Smythe, Bart. Acton Reynald, 7 miles N.E. by N. of Shrewsbury, * Sir Andrew Vincent Corbet, Bart. Adderley Hall, 4 miles N.W.

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SHREWSBURY is a market town, and borough corporate and parliamentary, situate 153 miles N.W. of London, 40 miles S. from Chester, 40 miles W. from Lichfield, 44 miles W.N.W. from Birmingham, 53 miles N. from Hereford, 58 miles S. from Liverpool, 109 miles N. from Bristol, and 108 miles S.E. from Holyhead.  The town stands nearly in the centre of the county of which it is the capital, and occupies two hills of gentle ascent, which gradually rise from the bed of the river Severn, whose stream grac

The Albrighton division was formed into a separate jurisdiction for magisterial purposes under the authority of an Act of parliament, passed in the 4th of William IV.  It comprises the following places:—The parishes of Battlefield, Broughton, Fitz, Grinshill, Preston Gubballs, and Uffington; the chapelries of Albrighton, Astley, Clive, and Hadnal; and the township of Acton Reynold, Albrightlee, Harlscott, Hencott, Longner, Berwick, Leaton, Merrington, Newton and Wollascot; and the extra-parochia

The Oswestry hundred is bounded on the east by the hundred of Pimhill, on the north and west by Denbighshire, and on the south-west by Montgomeryshire.  The river Ceiriog bounds the hundred at the northern extremity, and the Vernieu and the Severn form the southern boundary.  The population of this hundred in 1821 was 17,189; and in 1841, 19,858, of whom 3,956 were in the lower division of the hundred, and 15,902 in the upper division.  Of the total number of inhabitants at the latter period, 9,

The Hundred Pimhill is bounded on the north by Flintshire, on the west by the Oswestry Hundred, on the east by the Albrighton division and the Bradford Hundred, and on the south by the Hundred of Ford and the Albrighton division.  The population of this hundred in 1801 was 11,874; the number of inhabited houses 2,112.  In 1841 there was a population of 11,857 souls, of whom 5,900 were males., and 5,857 females.  At the same period there were 2,297 inhabited houses, 48 uninhabited, and 10 houses

The hundred of North Bradford is bounded on the north by Cheshire, on the east by Staffordshire, on the west by the hundred of Pimhill and the Albrighton division, and on the south by the hundred of South Bradford.  There is a considerable extent of land in this hundred which is highly fertile, and the cheese, which is extensively made, is said to be quite equal in quality to the celebrated Cheshire cheese in the adjoining county.  The soils are various.  The meadow lands in general produce a ri

The South Bradford Hundred is bounded on the north by North Bradford Hundred, on the east by the county of Stafford, on the south by the Brimstree and Condover Hundreds and the Wenlock Franchise, and on the west by Albrighton Division and the Shrewsbury Liberty.  The hundred is divided into the Newport and Wellington Divisions.  The Newport Division, in 1841, contained 2,111 inhabited houses, 61 uninhabited, and five building.  At the same period there were 10,929 inhabitants; of whom 5,446 were

The Hundred of Brimstree is divided into the Bridgnorth and the Shiffnal divisions.  Hales Owen, formerly a third division of this hundred, being a detached part of the county surrounded by Worcestershire, has recently, by act of parliament, been annexed to the county of Worcester.  This hundred is bounded on the north by the county of Stafford and the South Bradford Hundred, on the west by the Wenlock Franchise and South Bradford Hundred, on the east by Staffordshire, and on the south by the St

The Condover hundred is bounded on the north by the liberties of Shrewsbury, on the east by the South Bradford hundred and the Wenlock franchise, on the west by the Ford hundred, and on the south by the hundred of Munslow.  The land presents a considerable inequality of surface; the soil is various; in some places there is a good deal of gravelly loam and sand, and in other places a clayey soil prevails, lying upon the red sand stone.  The Lyth hill stands within the bounds of this hundred, and

The Wenlock Franchise is bounded on the east by the Brimstree Hundred, on the south by the Stottesden Hundred, on the west by the Condover and Munslow Hundreds, and on the north by that of South Bradford.  The borough and franchise of Wenlock were formerly co-extensive with the Hundred of Patintern, mentioned in Doomsday Book, which comprised the following parishes, viz.:—Much Wenlock, Little Wenlock, Broseley, Madeley, Benthall, Barrow, Tinley, Badger, Beckbury, Priors Ditton, Stoke St. Milboro

The hundred of Stottesden is bounded on the north by the Wenlock franchise, on the south by the hundred of Overs and the county of Worcestershire, on the east by the liberty of Bridgnorth and the county of Staffordshire, and on the west by the Wenlock franchise and the hundreds of Munslow and Overs.  Farlow is a detached part of the hundred of Herefordshire, bounded by this hundred and an isolated part of Overs.  The minerals found in this hundred are coal, ironstone, and limestone.  On the west

Is bounded on the west and north by Stottesden, and on the east and south by Worcestershire.  A detached part of it is bounded on the west by Munslow, and on the east and south by Stottesden.  It contains the parishes of Bitterley, Burford, Greet, Milson, Neen Solars, and Silvington; and at the census of 1841 had a population of 2.637 souls. an extensive parish in the hundred of Overs, comprises the chapelry of Middleton, and the townships or Cleeton, Henley, Hill-upon-Cot, and Snitton, which to

is bounded on the north by the hundred of Ford, on the south and west by Montgomeryshire, and on the east by the hundred of Ford and Purslow.  It is divided into the upper and lower divisions; the former containing 1,783 inhabitants, and the latter 2,956, at the census of 1841.  The upper division contains the parish of Chirbury, and part of Church Stoke; and the lower division the parishes of Shelve, Worthen, and part of Hyssington. is an extensive parish and considerable village in the upper d

is divided into the Bishop’s Castle and Stow divisions; the former of which contains the parishes of Bishop’s Castle, Lydbury North, Lydham (part of), Mindtown, More, Norbury, Ratlinghope, and Wentnor; and the latter, Bedstone, Bucknell (part of), Clunbury, Clungunford, Edgton, Hopesay, Hopton Castle, Sibdon Carwood, Stowe, and Wistanstow.  At the census of 1841 the two divisions of the hundred contained a population of 9,016 persons. is a parish and township, situated six miles north-east of Kn

lies on the south-western verge of the county, and is bounded by Radnorshire on the west and Montgomery on the north; by the hundred of Purslow on the east and Radnorshire on the south.  It is divided into the Clun and Mainstone divisions, the former having in 1841 a population of 2,077, and the latter 1,331 inhabitants.  The Clun division contains the parish of Clun, and the Mainstone division the parish of Llanvair-Waterdine, part of Mainstone, and part of Bettwys-y-Crwyn. is an extensive pari