Clunton, Shropshire
Historical Description
Clunton, a township in Clunbury parish, Salop, on the river Clun, 2 miles E by N of Clun. It has a post office "under Aston-on-Clun (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Clun. There is a chapel of ease to the parish church of Clunbury, and a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Salop | |
Civil parish | Clunbury | |
Hundred | Purslow | |
Poor Law union | Clun |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary
The church of St. Mary, built in 1871 as a chapel of ease to St. Swithun's, Clunbury, in place of a former church, which existed here up to the time of the Reformation, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a western turret containing one bell: there are 80 sittings.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1870, at a cost of £300, on a site given by Edward Williams, of this village.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Clunton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Clunton, with Kempton)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Clunton 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.