Astley, Shropshire
Historical Description
Astley, formerly a chapelry in the parish of St Mary, Shrewsbury, Salop, is 1 mile S of Hadnall station on the L. & N.W.R., and 4½ miles NNE of Shrewsbury, under which it has a post office; Hadnall is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1204; population, 244. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; value, £150, in the gift of Trustees. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1883. Astley House is the chief residence.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Salop | |
County Court district | Shrewsbury | |
Diocese | Lichfield | |
Liberty | Borough of Shrewsbury | |
Petty-Sessional Division | Albrighton | |
Poor Law union | Atcham | |
Registration district | Atcham | 1837 - 1935 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Shropshire Archives have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Astley
The register dates from the year 1665.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary is a building of stone in the Norman style, consisting of a chancel, nave and an embattled western tower containing a clock, erected in 1837, and one bell: in the south wall is a Norman arch, now blocked, a window with the date 1568 over it, and a locker: the church was restored in 1883, when it was new-roofed and reseated, at a cost of £350.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Astley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Astley are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Shropshire newspapers online:
- Shrewsbury Chronicle
- Wellington Journal
- Eddowes's Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales
- Ludlow Advertiser
- Salopian Journal
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.