Cardington, Shropshire
Historical Description
Cardington, a village and a parish in Salop. The village stands on a pleasant spot under the Caradoc and Cardington Hill, 4 miles ENE of Church Stretton. It has a post and money order office under Church Stretton (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Church Stretton (R.S.O.) Acreage of parish, 6685; population, 565. The parish includes also the townships of Broome Chatwall, Comley, Enchmarsh, Holt-Preen, Lydley-Heys, Plaish, Willstone, and part of Gretton. Fine clay and quartz for the potteries are found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; net value, £210 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1867; it has an embattled tower, and contains an ancient monument and some brasses. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, and a partially endowed school.
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 | Cardington St. James | |
Hundred | Munslow | |
Poor Law union | Church-Stretton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Cemeteries
A cemetery of three-quarters of an acre was formed in 1876, at a cost, including laying out, building wall round &c. of £400.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Shropshire Archives have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Cardington
The register dates from the year 1598.
Churches
Church of England
St. James (parish church)
The church of St. James is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock, started on Easter Monday, 1889, and 4 bells, one of which is inscribed "Thomas Corfield. 1626;" 2 were recast in 1877: the porch was restored and new font erected in 1868, as a memorial to the Rev. William Jones Hughes M.A. 46 years vicar, who died in 1865: the church was restored in 1867, and an organ set up in 1884: the dossal was presented by the late Edward Sayer esq. of Plaish Hall, in December, 1884: on the south side of the chancel is a monument to "William Leyghton, of Plashe esq. Chief Justice of North Wales and one of the Councell in the Marches of Wales, 1607," with shield of arms, figures of two sons and four daughters, all kneeling: there are brasses to Thomas Norris, of the Holt, 1753; and to Mrs. Ann Tipton, of Gretton, 1788: the vault of the family of Corfield, 1390-1793, once owners of estates in the parish, is under the chancel, and their arms are still to be seen on flat stones within the church, and the initials R.C. 1648, of Richard Corfield, are on an oak door in the porch: a screen of wood and glass was placed in the tower arch in 1893.
St. James (parish church)
The church of St. James is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock, started on Easter Monday, 1889, and 4 bells, one of which is inscribed "Thomas Corfield. 1626;" 2 were recast in 1877: the porch was restored and new font erected in 1868, as a memorial to the Rev. William Jones Hughes M.A. 46 years vicar, who died in 1865: the church was restored in 1867, and an organ set up in 1884: the dossal was presented by the late Edward Sayer esq. of Plaish Hall, in December, 1884: on the south side of the chancel is a monument to "William Leyghton, of Plashe esq. Chief Justice of North Wales and one of the Councell in the Marches of Wales, 1607," with shield of arms, figures of two sons and four daughters, all kneeling: there are brasses to Thomas Norris, of the Holt, 1753; and to Mrs. Ann Tipton, of Gretton, 1788: the vault of the family of Corfield, 1390-1793, once owners of estates in the parish, is under the chancel, and their arms are still to be seen on flat stones within the church, and the initials R.C. 1648, of Richard Corfield, are on an oak door in the porch: a screen of wood and glass was placed in the tower arch in 1893.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1869.
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 Cardington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cardington (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Cardington 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.