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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySalop 
Ecclesiastical parishCardeston St. Michael 
HundredFord 
Poor Law unionAtcham 

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Shropshire newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.