Cardeston or Cardiston, Shropshire
Historical Description
Cardeston or Cardiston, a township and a parish in Salop, on a tributary of the river Severn, 1½ mile N of Yockleton station on the Shrewsbury and Welshpool joint (L. & N.W. and G.W.) railway, and 6½ miles W of Shrewsbury. The parish includes Wattlesborough township, and its post town is Shrewsbury; money order office, Ford; telegraph office, Westbury. Acreage, with Alberbury, 7908; population, 832; of the ecclesiastical parish, 272. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £202 with residence. The church is small, rebuilt in 1749, and restored in 1844, when the octagonal western tower was erected.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Salop | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Cardeston St. Michael | |
Hundred | Ford | |
Poor Law union | Atcham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1700, and also contains entries of burials from Alberbury up to 1747.
Churches
Church of England
St. Michael (parish church)
The church of St. Michael, re-erected in 1749, is a small building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave and an octagonal embattled western tower with pyramidal roof containing one bell: the tower was erected and the windows restored in 1844: there is a stained window to the Rev. J. O. Evans M.A. rector 1904-1910: the church was further restored, at a cost of £1,000, in 1905: there is also a lych gate, erected in memory of the late Lewis Johns by his widow.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cardeston or Cardiston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cardeston (St. Michael))
History
By a Local Government Order, dated March 25, 1886, this parish was for civil purposes amalgamated with Alberbury, and the parish so altered to be known, as Alberbury and Cardeston; ecclesiastically they remain, distinct.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Cardeston or Cardiston 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.