Boraston, Shropshire
Historical Description
Boraston, a township in Burford parish, Salop, at the verge of the county, on the river Teme, and the Kington Canal, 1 mile W of Tenbury, which is the post town. Acreage, 1455; population, 255. There is a chapel-of-ease to Burford parish church.
Churches
Church of England
Boraston Chapel
Here is an ancient chapel of the 13th century, restored and enlarged in 1885 at a cost of £2,000, under the direction of Mr. Henry Curzon, architect, late of Caldwell, Tenbury: it is a building of local stone, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and a western tower with shingled spire containing 2 bells, one of which is dated 1570, and recast in 1888: there are traces of two Norman doorways and a Decorated window, and the church affords 150 sittings.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Boraston 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.