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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.

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

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:


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.

CountyShropshire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtDY14
Post TownKidderminster

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