Cleeton St Mary, Shropshire
Historical Description
Cleeton St Mary, a township in Bitterley parish, and an ecclesiastical parish in Bitterley, Cleobury Mortimer, and Stottesdon parishes, Salop, 10 miles NE of Ludlow. The latter was constituted in 1879. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Cleobury Mortimer. Population, 298. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £150. The church was built in 1878. There are almshouses for aged persons.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Shropshire Archives have the Baptisms, Banns, Marriages, and Burials online for Cleeton St Mary
The register dates from the year 1878.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary (parish church)
The church of St. Mary, built and endowed in 1878 at the sole expense of George Pardoe esq. of Nash Court, is an edifice of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower with spire, containing 8 tubular bells: there are some stained windows.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Cleeton St Mary 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.